New-York tribune., 1872-05-22
upon the broad basis of Universal Amnesty

upon the broad OASIS Oh uniNoio"' ''
with Impartial Suffrage
iii. That, subject to our solemn constitutional
obligation to maintain the equal rights Oh HI
citizens, our policy should aim az iocai sell
Government. and not at centralizauon; that
the civil authority should be supreme over
the military that the writ of habeas corpus
should be ealousy upheld as the safeguard
of nersonal freedom that the individual ciu-
zen should enjoy the largest liberty consistent
n,ith nubIic order and that there shall be no
Federal subyersion of the internal polity OF
4bo several States and municipalities, but that
each shall be left free to enforce the rlghts
and promote the well-being OF its inhabitants
Inv such means as the judgment or Its own
people shall prescribe.
Nv. There shall be real and not merely
simulated Reform in the Civil Service OF the
Republic to which end it is indispensable that
the chief dispenser of its vast official patron
age shall be shielded from the main temptation
to use his power selfishly by rule inexorably
forbdding and precluding his reelection.
V. That the raising of Revenue, whether by
Tariff or otherwise shall be recognized ana
treated as the Peoples immediate business, to
be shaped and directed by them through their
Representatives in Congress, whose action
thereon the President must neither overrule by
his veto, attempt to dictate, nor presume to
punish, by bestowing Office only on those VINO
agree with him or Withdrawing it from those
who do not.
vi. That the Public Lands must DO sacredly
reserved for occupation and acquisition by
cultvators, and not TeGkessly squandered on
the projectors of Railroads for which our peo-
pie have no present need, and the premature
| construction of which is annually plunging us
into deeper and deeper abysses OF foreign IN
| debtedness.
VII. That the achievement of these grand
purposes of universal benefcence is expected
and sought at the hands of all who approve
them. irrespective of past affiliations.
VIII That the public faith must at all haz-
ards he maintained, and the National credit
preserved
TX. That the patriotic devotedness and in
estimable services of our fellow citizens who,
as soldiers or sailors upheld the flag ana
maintained the unity of the Republic shall
ever be gratefully remembered and honoraoiy
requited.
These propositions so ably and forcibly pre-
sented in the Platform of your Convention,
| have already fixed the attention ana COM
manded the assent of a large majority OF our
countrymen. who joyfully adopt them, as do, as
the bases of a true, beneficent National Re
coDstruction-Of New Departure from jeal-
ousies strifes, and hates, which have no longer
odeouate motive or even plausible pretext,
into an atmosphere of Peace, Fraternity, and
Mutual Good VIII. In vain do the drill-ser-
| geants of decaying organizations flourish men,
| acingly their truncheons and angrily insist
that the files shall DO closed and Strengthened;
in vain do the whippers-in of parties
once vital because rooted in the vital
needs of the hour protest against stray
| ing and bOlting denounce men nowlse
their interiors as traitors and renegades, and
threaten them with infamy and ruin. / am
confident that the American People have
already made your cause their own, fully re-
solved that their brave hearts and strong arms
shall bear it on to triumph. In this faith, and
with the distinct understanding that, if elected,
| shall be the President not of party, but OF
the whole People, accept your nomination,
in the confident trust that the masses of our
| countrymen, North and South, are eager to
| clasp hands across the bloody chasm which
has too long divided them, forgetting that
they have been enemies in the joyful con-
sciousness that they are and must henceforth
remain brethren.
| Yours gratefully. HORACE GREELEY.
To ScnuRL Presidents Hen GEoRGR w. JULiAN Vice
Presidents and Messrs witLiAN T. hoLEN JoHS pAyIpsoS
Republicans Of the United States