The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-10-12
Co1oRED CONVENTION at LOUISVILLE
The Liberal Movement Sustaincd---Mr.
Greeley Endorsed.

The ColOred Convention at Louisville,
KY, last week was quite success, be-
ing we'll attended by colored planters
and business men. The following
platform was adopted:
Whereas, In the political history of
our country, by common consent Of all,
equal human rights has ceased
to be a question at issue between the
citizens assured of equal rights, equal
privileges and equal protection; and
Whereas, The nomination at Cincin-
natl of the most devoted Republican
ever nominated, and tho adoption of
the most comprehensive and liberal
platform ever adopted by the most eX-
emplary Republicans ever assembled
together in this country is a fitting eli
max to the self-sacrificing labors of the
best men in the land for more than a
quarter ola century, and augurs a
brighter and more peaceful future to
our common country; and
| Whereas, 1t becomes tho sacred duty
of all citizens, of whatever race, origin
or condition to contribute toward that
grand contamination which is the end
and aim Of the progressive Liberal Re-
publican and Democratic party under
the leadership of Hon. Horace Greeley
and Hon. Il. Gratz Brown, tending in
evitably toward the unity of the rcpub-
lie, with equal rights to all, and re-
conciliation; therefore,
Resolved, BY the colored Liberal
Republicans of the United States in
National Convention assembled ut LOU
isville, Ky:
l. That as citizens of the republic
we hail with joy the prospect Of the btu
rial of all caste, class and sectional pref
udices and forgetfulness and forgive
ness and oblivion of the past.
,. That our thanks and gratitude
are alike due the Cincinnati and Balti-
more Conventions, to the first for the
adoption of Il platform which opens up
the channel to that grand future in
which all men will be known hereafter
as American citizens and by no other
designation; and to the latter for mag
unanimously and periodically accepting
the results of our late internal convul-
sion, and for making the greateststri
in the interest of civilization and good
government yet made by political
party actuated by motives high above
any selfish ACKNOWLEDGEMENT or mere po-
litical advantage.
3. We join our political fortunes with
those of the party having for its STAN
dard bearer that great and good man
who has devoted his busy life to allie
WAITING the suffering of humanity, and
who while the special friend of the
American slave has not forgotten the
requirements and wants of others, who
in the providence of God have ncctl of
the helpful hand of those who as the
instruments Of divine power are per-
mltted to be with us in that struggle
upward, which makes civilized and
God-fearing people, in the full faith and
hope that all mems rights be
thus assured, and that we as Il people
Will have more cause to rejoice that we
forget and forgive the past moro than
any other class of American citizens.
4. We deprecate the bitterness OF
the conduct OF the canvass by the Grant
people, and counsel our people every
where, no matter what their political
preferences, to use moderation, kind
ness and Christian charity toward
those who differ from them, and give
more attention to their material inter-
ests and the tangible advantage of cd
ucation, than to transitory and boot
less, political frenzy, which at best has
no result but to q few no. Of their race
or color.
.. We deplorc the tendency Of the
present administration toward despot-
ic Capitalization, and demand that
some defining line be theoretically fixed
where the powers of tho general gov
eminent shall cease and the functions
of local government begin, and that
there shall be equality Of States in the
Union as well as equality of men; that
government like ours, administered
by single man, with the controlling
policy, and the vast patronage of State,
when the temptation of sclf-perpetua-
ton remains, cannot continue Re
public except in name, and must, in the
eternal fitness Of things, Culninate into
an empire or oligarchy of office holders.
&. That the civil service reform must
begin at the same source Of all power
tho abuse of official patronage, and a
firm system of reform il impossible in
the absence of the ono term urincipic
for President.
I. We tender Our gratitude to the
pioneers of the greatest Christian ac-
complishmcnt of human affairs Oh the
threshold Of final fruition and give our
assurance of answering fidelity and
unbOunded admiration for those great
mon who have led the way under i'll
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