The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-05-23

| Cincinnati, an official communication has
been sent to Mr.. Greeley notifying him OF
his nomination. The following is the
Philosophers reply:
New York, May 90, 1872.
Gentlemen Il have chosen not to &C
knowledge your letter Of the Sd inst,
until | could learn how your convention
was received in all parts of our great
country, and judge whether that work
was approved and ratified by the mass of
our fellow citizens Their response has
from day to day reached me through tel
sgrams, letters and comments of our press.
independent of official patronage, and
indifferent to the smiles or irowns of
power, the number and character Of these
unconstrained, unpurchassd, unsolicited
utterances satisfy ms that the movement
which has found expression at Cincn natl
has received the stamp Of public approx
al, and has been hailed by a majority of
our countrymen as the harbinger of a
better day for the Republic l do not
mislnterprst this approval as especially
complimentary to myself, nor even to the
chivalrous and justly esteemed gentle
man with whose name thank your Con.
ventlon for associating mine. I receive
and welcome it as spontaneous and de
served tribute to that admirable platform
of principles, wherein your Convention so
tersely and SO Justify set forth the con
victions which impe!led, and the purpos
es which guided it's course; platform
which, casting behind it the wreck and
rubbish of worn out conteutiOns and by
gone feuds, embOdies, in fit and few
words, the needs and aspirations Of to-
day. Though thousands stand ready to
condemn your every act, hardly syllable
OF criticism or cavil has been aimed at
your platform, which may be fairly epit-
omized as follows:
1st. That all the political rights and
franchises which have been ACC ired
through our late bloody CONFUSION, must
and shall be guaranteed, maintained and
enjoyed evermore.
I'd. All the political rights and fran
chises which have been lost during that
CONFUSION should and must be promptly
restored and re-established, so that there
shall be hencefOrth no prescribed class
and no observation-disclosures within the
limits of our union when long estrang.
ed people shall reunite and fraternlze up
on the broad basis of universal amnesty
and impartial suffrage
Sd. That subject to our solemn cnnsti-
tut!Onal obligations to maintain equal
rights under all conditions, our policy
should aim at local self government that
civil authority should be supreme over
that the writ Of habeas corpus
should be jealousy upheld as the safe.
guard of personal freedom that individ-
ua's should enjoy the largest liberty con-
slstent with public order, and that there
shall be no submission of The internal
policy Of the several states and munici-
paities, but that each shall be left free to
enforce the rights and promote the we'll
being of it's Inhabitants by such means as
the judgment of its own people shall pre-
scribe.
4th. There shall be real and not a
stimulation of reform ia the civil service
of the republic.
5. That the raising of the revenue
whether by tariff or otherwise, shall be
recognized and treated as the peoples
immediate business
6. That the public lands must be sal
credly reserved for occupation and cult
walton, and not needlessly squandered
upon projectors of railroads, for which
our people have 10 present need.
Z. That the achievement Of the grand
purposes of universal beneicence is ex--
nd 4l1 L,a,, IL co1
approve them, irrespective of past affil-
iatlons.
8. That the public faith must at all
hazards be maintained, and the national
credit preserved.
3. That patriotic devotedness and ip-
estlmable services of our fellow citizens
who as soldiers or sailors upheld the flag
and maintained the unity of the republic,
shall ever be gratefully remembered and
honorably regretted
These propositions, so ably and forcibly
presented in the platform of your conven
ton, have already fixed the attention and
commanded the assent of o large majority
or our countrymen who ioyfully ADOPT
them as l do as the basis Of q true benef-
cent national reconstruction Of new de-
parture from the jealousies, strifes and
hates, which have no longer an adequate
motive Or even plausible pretext, into an
atmosphere Of peace, fraternity and mu.
tual good will.
In vain Go the drill sergeants Of the de-
caying organizations flourish menacingIy
their truncheons and angrjly insist that
the lies shall be closed and Strengthened.
In vain do the whippers in of parties,
once vital because rooted in the vital
needs of the hour, protest against the
straylng and boiling, denounce men now
Use their Interiors as traitors and reneoades