Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-05-24
Greeley Accepts.

IN 1Vi uANA hOtAuSAOAOh VI
nomination for the Presidency by
the Libral convention, was conveyed
to Mr.. Greeley by the officers of
the convention May Sd, 1872. His
reply published this week, is as
follows:
Gentlemen:-I have chosen not to
acknowledge your letter of the Sd
inst. until 1 could learn how the
work of your convention was re-
ceived in all parts of the country,
und Judge whether that work was
approved and ratified by the mass
OF our fellow citizens. Their re-
spouse has from day to day reach
ed me through kilograms, letters
and comments of journalists, in
dependent of official patronage, and
indifferent to the smiles or frowns
ofpower,and the number and charac-
ter Of these unconstrained, unpur-
chased, unsolicited utteranccs, sat
isty me that the movement which
found expression at Cincinnati has
received the stamp Of public appro-
val, and has been hailed by a ma
jority Of our countrymen as the har-
binger Ola better day for the Re-
public. | did not misinterpret this
approval as especially compliment
tary to myself nor even to the chivalr-
GUS and justly esteemed gentlemen
with whose namo your Con-
vcntion associated mine. receive
and welcome it as spontaneous and
deserved tribute to that admirable
platform of principles wherein your
Convention so tersely, SO lucidly,
SO forcibly set forth the conviction
which impelled, and purposes which
guided its course, a platform which
casting behind it, the wreck and
rubbish of worn out contentious and
bygone feuds, embodies in fit and
few words the aspirations of to-day.
Though thousands stand ready to
condemn your every act, hardly
syllable of criticism has been aimed
at your platform Of which the SUBJ
stance may be fairly cpitomized as
follows:
ALI political rights and fran.
chise which have been acquired
trough our late bloody CONFUSION
must and shall be guaranteed,
maintained amp respected evermorc.
2-All political rights and fran
chises which have been lost through
our late bloody convulsian should
and must be promptly restored and
re-established, SO that there shall be
henceforth no prescribed class and
disfranchised caste within our Union
whose long estranged people shall
unite and fraternize on the broad
basis otuniversal amnesty with i'm
partial suffrage.
3-Tha:, subject to the solemn
constitutional obligation to main
tain equal rights to all citizens, our
policy should aim at local selfgov-
eminent, and not at Capitalization;
that civil authority should be sup
rene over military; that the writ Of
habeas corpus should be zealously
upheld as safeguard Of personal
freedom; that individual citizens
should enjoy the largest liberty con-
sistent with public order; that there
shall be no Federal supervision of
the internal policy Of the several
States and municipalities, but that
each shall be left free to enforce the
rights and promote the. well-being
of it's inhabitants by such means as
the Judgment of its own people shall
prescribe.
4-Thcrc shall be real and not
merely a simulated reform in the
Civil Service Of the Republic to
which end it is Indispensable that
the chief dispenser Of its vast official
patronage shall be shielded from the
main temptation to use his power
sclfishly by rule inexorably for
bidding and prccluding his re.ele.-
ton.
5-That the raising Of Revenue
whether by tariff or otherwise shall
be recognized and 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 override by
his vote or attempt to dictate, nor
presume to punish by bestowing
office only on those who agree with
him, or withdraw it from those who
do not.
6-That public lands must be
sacredly reserved for occupation
and acquisition by cultivators, and
not recklcssly squandered on pro-
jects of railroads, for which our
people have no present need, and
which are annually plunging us in
to deeper aud deeper abysscs offor-
eign indebtedness.
That the achievement fthese
grand purposes Of universal bene-
iicience Is to be expected and sought |
At tho hands az al Who approve Of |
then ire peotiye q psst a lilia; i