Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-01-26
THE MISSOURI LIBERALS.
Views Of a Democratic Editor.
What the Cincinnati Meeting
Will Do.

JEFFEKsoT CRY, No, Jan. 25.-At the
Convention of last night several letters
were read from gentlemen who could not
be present at the Convention. The follow.
ing dispatch was also read
Cincinnati, Jan. 20, 1S72-Wm. W.
Grosvenor, Chairman: The Ggrman-Amer-
ican Reunion and Reform Association send
their greeting to your Convention. We are
in perfect harmony with your platform and
S-omise you to cooperate heartily with
your movement. We will and shall do our
duty.
For the Executive Committee.
CARL STRABEL.
"PassiveisF1i Sick 0nIO Death"
ST. LOUIS, Jan, 25.-The Times has a
special from Jefferson City, written by its
editor, StilsOn Hutchins, which says:
"The Liberal Stale COny ention settles
all doubts concerning the success or failure
Ct the passive policy, by killing it. In three
months from nov l tredict that YOU wont
hear passiveism mentioned eT6n IN Missou-
ri, where the unclean thing was hatChed,
and as for It's tenure in the Eastern, Middle
and Southern States, there is no need to
waste word upon q prospect so abjectly
hopeless. The Liberals are to De the assas-
sinators. They see as clearly now as most
men who keep their eyes open, that the best
way to succeed in the nomination Of can
didate who shall be able to make head
against Grant, and concentrate all the ele-
ments of opposition, there must be two ma
tional conventions, the straight Democratic
and the Liberal. 1t is probable that both
will be arranged for the same time and
place, and that their action will be similar.
The Liberals will have the candidate, as the
feeling is universal among Democrats that
If it is necessary TO defeat Grant,
they will fight under any decent leader, bat
under no other flag than that of the
time-honored Democracy. Its folds have
faunted at the head of brave and deter-
mined host which ten years of disaster
could not dismay, and it will not be laid
aside. The Liberals have discovered that
Gratz Brown has enough sagacity to see
that Missouri is not the United States, and
has advised that the Liberal movement be
organized on a firm and broad basis, 80 that
it can treat as body with the Democracy,
and have something more than empty
words and measureless promises to Offer. in
exchange for the suffrages Of three million
Of Democrats. Teere Is no doubt but that
the National Convention called to be held
at Cincinnati in May, viii be held, and that
it will be respectable in numbers, character
and infueIce. The assurances received
by leaders here are from all sections Of the
country. It is true no very prominent
names are promised, although large num-
Der are looking that way, but how large,
and how influential, will depend entirely
upon the developments Of the next three
months. That convention, if at all ponder
able, will provide for another to meet on the
same day, and at the same place, with the
then viii be who viii nominate first and who
Democratic convention. The conundrum
will ratify. At any rate, set this down as
a fact: Passivism is sick unto death in
the house of its friends. 1t will die as it de-
serves to die, lamented by nobody" -
ghe Register Ofthe Hotels.
The Democrat and Times have specials
from Jefferson City giving the names Of the
number of persons who registered as mem
bers of the liberal Republican Mass Cou-
yention at only one hundred and thirty
one from this State and three or four from
others.