The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1872-12-04
LIBERAL REPUBLICANIsM.
An Address from the New York State Com
mittee
UpoRa Ttg'L REPr-BttcAN STATE Con,
NrW TouK Nov tgT2


U'poaa Tty't REpt-HucAN STATE Con-. .
NEw IoHK, Nov 1871. |
To THE Liberal REPUBLICANS or TIE /
STArT or NEw YoRK We have emery
ed from an exciting political campaign. II
is ~ be regretted that Us issues should
have been 40 frequently discussed by our
adversaries with personal bitterness, and
sometimes have been degraded by personal
ohloquy Now, at a time when It may be
fairly thought that the spirit Of contention
will not interfere with sober reason, we in
vitc you IN adispassiouate view Of the stu
alton.
II Is true we have failed 10 advance our
opinions on the line of success-tTue that
our candidates are defeated But our prin-
cipes remain We continue, as before TO
believe
In the equality Of all men before the
law
In q constitutional union Of the States,
cemented by emancipation and entran
Chsement
In universal amnesty beuefciently lad
ened with oblivion of the past, and ma
tioual pacihcation in the present and flu
ture
In national institutions founded and Sc
cured by local self government and impair
tial suffrage;
In the supremacy Of the civil over the
military power, and the protection Of per
sOnal freedom by habeas corpus;
In the inviolability Of the public domain
against railroad corporations, and its
sacredness % tue actual settler
In maintaining the public credit, and in
preventing Reputation;
In a civil service that shall strip from
the officer his servility, and restore 10 him
his manhood and lastly,
In the ineligibilty Of a president to an
other term Of office.
For we believe that scrupulous disinter-
estedness is better in the conduct of affairs
than the devices Of selfshness that gov
eminent il better upheld by the nobler
qualities OF human nature than by base
and immoral acts, and that pure public
opinion is more reliable support than the
interested clamor Of a myriad of Office
holders. These constitute an impregna-
bic fortress, q continuing security in every
political vicissitude. More than 5000, 900
Of our fellow citiZens have sanctioned
them, and cast their ballots for the candi-
dates who represented them They we're
the true work of the Cincinnati Conven-
ton; not a temporary expedient for the
election Of men 10 Offices, but permanent
basis of action.
An ancient party of near a century
duration ssluted the majesty Of these
truths and at once passed 10 them with
its anterior record. Such q spontaneous
union OF homogeneous masses upon a
platform Of common principles was never
before seen in the politics of this country.
IL bears a truth that will sink deep into
the hearts Of men--the truth that corrup-
tons generated by time and the long pos
session Of power, inevitably, at last, COM
press the disinterested and patriotic into
combination against them. There is no
retreat from our position. 1t would be a
conclusion al illogical variance with its
premises lmmutable principle forbids
It Besides, our numbers render II unde-
sirable Though thousands. of Democratic
antecedents when assimilating the doc
trines, rejected the candidates Of Cinein-
natl. yet more suspicious future will
swell the hosts Of reform. The Democrat
ic party has accomplished its transition
period. From exhausted issues and ira.
uluonary dogmas it has passed into the
sFeat held Of controversy with the error
VI us9ay Under the lead of no othe,
.anulaate than Horace Greeley could thi
An'i' nave been made; hence the part