The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-06-06

ccDIancS OIL tne Clncln0aIl
NOminati0p.
In reply TO The notiication of his
nomination as yice President by tht
Cincinnati Couveption. Governor B
Gratz Brown makes the following
response:
EXECUTIVE OFFICE.
JEFFERSON CrTY, May 81, 1872.
GExTLEMEN-YOuf letter advising
me of the actien OF the Liberal Repub-
flican Convention at Cincinnati has
been received, and | return, through
! you, my. acknowledgement OF the favor
!! which has been conferred on me. |
accept the nomination as candidate
] foriVice President and indorse most
lieordially the resolutions setting forth
! 4he principles on which this appeal is
{made to the whole people of the Uni
ted States. svi guesa = ie2
bniA century is closing upon our ex-
pefience OF Republican government,
and while that lapse of time has wit
messed great expanse of our free insti-
tutions, yet it has not been without
illustrations slso3 Of grave dangers to
the stabilityrofi sneh q system. OF
those successfully encountered it is
needless 90 speak. Those which re.
| main to Inenace and are most threat
enifg are provided against, as firmly
believe. in the wise and pacific meas
ures proposed by your platform. 1t
has come TO be the practice of national
authority TO regard the public service
not az public trust, but only as q
| means to retain power. This results
| In substituting q party organization
for the government itself, constituting
q control amenable to no laws or
moralities, impairsT all Independent
| thought, enables the few to rule the
many, and makes personal allegiance
the road ete fayoritism. It requires
little forecast to perceive that this will
wreck our liberties unless there be
| interposed timely reform of the ad-
iministration from its highest to its
lowest station, which will not only
forbid abuses, but. like wise men, take
away the incentives to their practice.
/ Wearied with contentious that are
carried on in the avarice of spoils, the
country demands crepose, rcsents the
/ effort of officials to dragoon it again
/ into hosfilities, ahd will zealously
] stisfain any movement promising a
/ sure deiiveranee from the evils which
have been connected with the war.
1t is safe TO say that only those are
/ now TO be feared which come of an
! abuse sof victory into permanent es-
i trangelnent.e The Union is fortified
] by more power than ever before, and
LIT, remains as an imperative duty to
cement our nationality by q perfect
| reconciliation Atfthe North y wide
/ spread sy ympathy is aroused in behalf
! Of those States of the South which,
I long after the termination of resist
4 ance to rightflIl federal authority, are
/ still Nlnndered under the guise of loy-
4 alty and ltyranized over in the name
4 of freedom. Along with this feeling
Els present. loo, the recognition that in
complete amnesty alone can be found
the hope set any return to consfitu-
! tional government as of old, or any
! l,development OF a more enduring unity
! and broader national life in the future.
! Amnesty, however, to be efficacious
must be real, not nominal. genuine,
/ not evasiEe.l lie must carry along with
4 it equal right as well as equal protec-
ton to all, for removal of disabilities
as TO some with enforcement as to
/ others, leaves room for the suspicion
/ that pardon is measured by political
4 gain. Especially will such proffered
! Iclensency be futile in the presence of
renewed attempts at tprolonging sus-
I pension of the habe0S corpus in the
persistent resort 10 martial rather than
/ civil law, iiEopheltlihg those agencies
used to ALLEVIATE races where concord
Lis most essential, aud in preparing
another elaborate campaign on basis
OF, dead issues sud arbitrary interven-
btions. All will rightly credit such
kconduct as but . mockery of amnesty,
and . demand an administration which
can give better warrantsof honesty in
the great work of reconstruction and
reform. In the array of sectional in
terests, o republic So widespread as
ours is never entirely safe from seri-
Gus conflicts. These become still more
dangerous when complicated with the
question of taxation, where unequal
burdens are believed to be imposed
on. one part At the expense of another
part -aeaaoo ffsad gs7s 9's E..;'i -. 3
It was q bold as we'll as admirable
policy, in the interest of present as
well ae future tranquility, to withdraw
the decision of industrial and revenue
fmatters from the virtual arbitration
of an electoral college, chosen with a
single animating purpose of party
ascendancy, and refer them for more
direct popular expressions to each Con-
| gressional district. Instead of being
mlzzled by some evasive declaration,
the country 10 thereby invited to its
frankest utterance, and sections which
would revolt at being denied O voice,
out, of Difference to other seetions,
would be content to acquiescc in the
general Judgment, honestly expressed.
II local government be, as it undoubt-
edly is, the most vital principle of our
| institutions, much advance will be
made toward re-establishing it by
enabling the people to pass upon
| questions, SO nearly affecting their
we'll being, dispassionately, through
their, local Representatives The pre-
cipitancy which would force q con-
Etroliing declaration on the tax or
tariff. through o Presidential candi-
dacy, is lOnly n disguised form of
/ centralization,l involving hazsrdoas
reaches of executive influence. "A
kconcllsien will be much more impair
italy determined, and with less dis.
IuEbance to trade and finance, by ap-
pealing ito 1.-THE most truthfnl and tii-
Yersifed local expression. Industrial
issues can be thus likewise emanci-
pated from the power of great mo-
nopolies. each canvass made to deter
mine its own specific instruction, and
each Representative held to fidelity
howard hisn immediate constituents.
These are the most prominent fea-
Etufes of that general concert of action
which proposes to replace the present
administration by one more in SYM
lPathy.. with othe aspirations of the
masses of ofourcouhtrymen. Of course
such concert cannot be attained by
thriIsting every matter of vast differ
De forothe people, therefore, to deter
mime whether these objects are of
such magnitude and present urgency
ias to justify them in 1deferring other
adjustments until the country shall
I be first restored TO free suffrage, un-
/ influenced by Official dietations and