New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-09-17
MASSACHUSETTS, POLITICS.

NO REASON WHY LIBERALS SHOULD RETURN 10 THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY-THE DEMOCRATIC PARTYS
REFORM MEASURES.
,yRox An OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRrBUSE.l
BosroN Sept. 15.-The State Committee of the
Liberal Republican party in this State issued to-day
an interesting address to the People OF Massachu-
setts" The following is the address:
The state Committee representing the Liberal Repub-
can voters OF the Commonwealth. who organized three
years ago opposition to the abuses Of the Republican
party and the INSTRUMENTATION Of the National and
State governments desire to address their fellow citizens
In regard the political issues now pending, and those
which be expected TO enter into the national cleo
ton OF 1876. sought for this address it
could found in the appeals lately made TO u.s. and to
those who act with Us, by VicePresident Wilson ana
other leaders OF the Republican party that we should re-
the ranks OF that party fearful OF defeat ana
anxious 20 retrieve its mperiled fortunes.
We desire then first Of ALL TO these party lead
ers and 20 the people whom they have too long msgov
erned and deuded that there is more reason why the
independent voters Of Massachusetts, who left the Re
publican organization in 1872 because that party had
been false trust should return than there was
three years why should continue under the party
yoke On the contrary there many changes of situa
lion and circumstance which make our independent posi-
agreeable to ourselves than 1t was in 1872.
Let us consider for momen upon what grounds r tne
their former party, when that party, T 'hG t p
5 ,Ss po Gl Of hStrea to the south and With
corruption and personal government in all parts Of the
country We desired national administration which
would reconcile the sections of the nation. so long
estrancei aud for years begercn which would MIRO
and capacity in the Civil Service dignity and true ma
tOnsl spirit in the higher administration OF affairs In
stead Of all this, the Republican party gave us Grant
aud Richardson; Butler and The san6orn c39tracts;d
the Credit Mobier disgrace IL Massachusetts II re-
qued with malignant censure Charles summers twenty
,.ned bI force government Of fraud in south Carolina
piaged the people, white and black, until they turned
was the Immediate response made by the partSans OF
Grant to the appeals Of Charles sumner ana Horace
Greeley OF Carl Schurz Lyman Trmbull and the other
noble men, leaders in the Republican party whom
we followed when others forsOOk them: Now IN their
hour OF defeat these parisans mplore us
return and them from the imagined dangers OF
Vice-President Wilson urges other
grounds and with stronger claims upon considera-
tunes he hrs followed through and victory he has
boon insensble in these later years to the changes
aud incompetent leaders in its purpose and character
However much he has sometimes mistaken Its duty ana
purify H. To lis voice we can listen because he offers
and ssaStes s Of STa no6eE wiser policy But to him.
also. reply must be the same in substance although
give to the Invertebrates and prstorans OF the Admlns-
traon who trouble at the thought Of political defeat
which that defeat involves. 1t is beyond his powers and
will be beyond his hopes, TO turn back his party
Nothing hut the discipline OF disaster severe ana long
can purge the an ~, ana enable them
IL may be said and indeed we are told every day with
that neither is the democratic party Worthy Of conf
dence We are pointed to the former record of the
Democrats to their defense of slavery and state rights
to their corruption in New-York and elsewhere; to
their supposed willingness TO continue and make even
worse the wretched financial policy OF their opponents
by which irrcdeemable paper currency has been al
lowed TO stimulate and paIayze by turns me business OF
Of civil war, should have ended when that ceased;
ionged, sometimes by partisan legislation, some
tmes by the decisions OF . partisan Sata cS SUI
away Yet we assured that the spear that in
S VIII ps
1879 and that the Democrats. should they come
take measures to repudate the national debt 1t is
our task to defend the past errors OF the Democratic
party nor any into which they may hereafter fall but
may properly direct your attention to the actual atti
,%GS Of the ha. Of he wSe
may be assumed to represent tho opinions OF the Rcpub
Leans.
ATTITUDE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
No doubt the Democrats did, before the and many
Of them during since the uphold the evil insttu-
ton of Slavery and the social and political inequalities
thence resulting; did Gen. Grant and many OF the
present the Republicans but how is it now
The Democrats have everywhere recognized the results
of great political revolution, and at last acquiesced
completely therein. Slavery is forever abolished equal
iy suffrage and Of other civil rights has been obtained
for the freedmen, and only depends on their own
wisdom and good conduct to secure those rights.
Since 1872 the condition Of the cOOred race at the
south has been more imperiled by the misgovern-
ment of Republicans than by the hostility OF Dem
ocrats In Georgia and other Democratic States they
he4 nt Rs S%te as much as in onsana MISS
sppi and oihlr ststes under Republican domination.
eaeT sids, the Democrats have shown themselves as
worthy OF trust by the colored people as have the Grant
Republican, Under neither party will they be IN dan
ger OF Acknowledgement ntoerable oppression 50 long
they show themselves worthy OF the rights OF 1ree
men Under either party certain har0ships and evils are
inevitable but these will gradually dmin with good
government at Washington and local selfgovernment In
he hey
policy OF hatred toward the South were ~ Dc continued
Happily country however this foolish and fatal
policy AGAINST which We made our protest IN H. has
This result brought about To be sure by minority
OF the party AGAINST e en3rt Sd ce and b @
pension Of the great writ Of habeas corpus until pubic
tie party yielded, unxingy as the Democrats gave
ny slavery and caste The blacks OF me souIn were
finally ben enanclated from degrading dependence
the Can't Government for which the civil war was
In this centennial year OF the nations fe the mystic
chords Of memory" touched as Abraham Lincoln proIh'
esed they would the better feelings OF nature,
h The demons Of dsTust and enmty a. the
harp OF David dspeled the demons Of lsraeps king.
We trust and We believe that they VIII not return,
and that tn Sas nS ES%S 0 and
before the poison of Slavery infected Constitution
viii again resume its supremacy when warned
sganA he Democrats the ground that they main;
the rights of the states our reply Is 80 90 We ana
fsth Of the Republican party The antislavery men,
before the war; State rights men, opposing IN MAS
aachuscfs in Pennsylvania, in Ohio, and in Kansas the
centrazng force of tie Administration at Washington
controlled as il then was, by proSlavery Democrats
Tue Independent voters today are Sta'e rights MEL OF
posng in Massachusetts, in louisiana and III Arkansas
The equally ccntrazing force OF the Admins
tratop al Washington controlled by men calling them
seIyes Republicans II these voters who last year
intcted upon present Administration that stlnglng
reInke al The polls which the elections OF 1879 have thus
far confirmed deopened and 1t Will be ny The ballots
OF these same independent voters that the same Admin
isrson unable profit BY the lesson, will be hurled
fIou power III 1876.
RRFORx MEASURES OF DEMOCRATS
The connection az cr nin members OF the Democratic