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Hsroce 0reeleyh Letter q Acceptance.
Now Yosk, Nay 3A-The following b tie reply 70
b ~ Lbaal Rspahlican Coavsatioa q Cincinnati:
NEW Yosk, Nay 90 1871.
0sxfIsxu- - havs chosen not to acknowledge
yosr lstsr q Tie "a inst, until could learn how the
work of yoar Cosvsatoa was received in III parts Of
or great country, snd jsdgs whether that work was
approved and safiAsd b. The masses Of our fellow
ciseaA Their rsspenss has from day 70 day reached
Nc through tsesans, letters and comments Il Jour-
nalists iodspendsot It oAcial patronage and ipder
cat to the smilss q frowns Of power. Tho number
and caasaeter q these unooustrained unpurchased,
unso,ctsd uttsrances, satsfy ne that the movement
which found expsessioo 1t Cincinnati has received the
stamp 1t pablic approval, and has bee. hailed BY
majority Of oar countrymen - the harbinger OF .
better day tor TIE Republic. do lot misintsrprct
this approval . especially complimentary to myself,
nor even to the chivalous and justly esteemed gentle
man with whose name thank your Convention for
associating mine. receive and welcome % spon.
taneous and deserved tribute 70 that admirable plat
form Of principles wherein your Convention 20 easily
impslled and the purposes which guided ito course;
. platform which, casting behind il the wreck and
rubbish q work out Of the coatentions and byeons
feuds, smbodies in At and few wsrds the needs and
aspirations q today. Though Thousands stand ready
TO condemn your every st. hardly syllable Of criti-
cdsm Or cavil has been aimed 1t your platform, OF
which the substance may b entirely epitomissd q
follows:
First-An political rights and franchises which
have becn acquired through late bloody convul-
son, must and shall be guaranteed, maintained. en-
joycd and respected ever moro.
Socond-Au political rights and franchises which
have been lost through that convulsou, should and
must be promptly restored and rSstabshed, 20 that
there shsl be henceforth prescribed Glass; and NO
dtsfranchised caste, within the limits Of our Union
whose long ssanged people shall reunite and fraterp
ize upon the broad basis Of universal amnesty with
impartial suffrage
1hird-That subject to our solemn Constitutional
OBLIGATION to maintain equal rights to all citizens our
policy should aim at local sefgovernment and not At
Capitalization that civil authority should be su-
peeme ov@ the military; that the writ Of ha0eas
corpus should be jealousy upheld - the safeguard Of
personal freedom that the individual citizen should
enjoy the largest liberty consistent with public order
and thar there shall be federal snbversion Of the
internal policy Of the several States and municipali
ties but that each shall be left free to enforce the
rights and promote the welbeing Of its inhabitants
by such means - the judgments Of it, own people
shall prescribe.
Fourth-There shall be real, and not merely q
simulated reform in the civil service Of the Republic
to which end It b indispensable that the chief dis
penser OF it, vast o6cial patronage shall be shielded
from main temptation to use his power sslashly by
. rule memorable. forbidding and precluding his
reelection.
Fkth-That raising revenue whether BY tariff or
otherwise, eha Be recognised and treated - the poo
pies Immediate business to b shaped and directed by
them through their Representatives in Congress,
whose action thereon the President must neither
override BY bis vet0 attempt to dictate nor pre-
sumo to punish BY bestowing ONCE only those who
agree with him o. Withdrawing 1t from those who do
not
Sixth-That the public lands must be sacreily re-
served for occupation and acquisition by cuivators
and not recklessy sQuandsred on the projectors Of
railroads for which our people have present need
and tho premature construction Of which ia annually
pungng 10 into deeper and deeper ab Of foreign
Indebtedness
Seventh, The schisvement Of these grand purposes
Of universal beiedts 10 expected and sought At the
hands Ut al who approve them irrespective Of alia
irons.
Eighth-That the public faith must at al hazards
be maintained and the national credit preserved
Ninth-That the patriotic devotednees and inesti-
mahe services Of fellow citizens who - soldiers
upheld the Dag and maintained the unity Of the
Republic shall ever b gratefully remembered and
honorably rcquited.
These propositions ably and Sorcbly presented In
the platform Of your Convention, have already fixed
the attention end commanded the aesent Of q large
majority Of our country men, who joyfully adopt them
~ do ~ the basis Of true and beneAcent national
reconstruction 0f . new departure from the Jealous
sres and hatcs which nave longer adequate cause
o. even plausible psetext into an atmosphere Of
pesoe. fraternity and mutual good will In vain do
drill sesgeants oe decaying organizations flourish
menacingiy their truncheons and angly insist that
Ales shall b closed and Strengthened: in vain do
whippen Of parties once vital protest against stray
Ing and boiling. denounce men nowise their inferior
% traitsss and rene9ades and threaten them with
ruin. am confident that the American people have
already made your cause their own, fully resolved
that their brave hearts and strong arms shall bear It
% 70 triumph in THE faith and with the distinct I'm.
dcsstauding that II elected shall b the President
not Of party bat 4 the whole people. sccept your
nomination in confident trust that the masses Of our
countrynen, North and South, are eager to clasp
hands across the bloody chasm which has too long
divided them forgetting that they hsve been enemies
in Joyful Consciousness that they are and must hence
forth remaln bToehes.
Yours, Gratefully.
HORACE GREELEY,
10 The Hon. Carl schurx, Prss't; Hon. W. Julian,
Vice Prsst; WIN. :. ncLain. Jno. q. Davidson. J.
b. Rhodes, sec,ys National Convention Of Liberal
Republicans a the United States.
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