page_title: Liberal Republican Party (United States)
section_title: History of the party
hierarchical_section_title: Liberal Republican Party (United States) / History of the party
caption_attribution_description: Collection: Cornell University Collection of Political Americana, Cornell University Library Repository: Susan H. Douglas Political Americana Collection, #2214 Rare &amp; Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Cornell University Title: Ohio - The Cincinnati Convention of Liberal Republicans Political Party: Republican Election Year: 1872 Date Made: 1872 Measurement: Sheet: 16 x 21.75 in.; 40.64 x 55.245 cm Classification: Publications Persistent URI: &lt;a href="http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5zqd" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5zqd&lt;/a&gt; There are no known U.S. copyright restrictions on this image. The digital file is owned by the Cornell University Library which is making it freely available with the request that, when possible, the Library be credited as its source.
context_page_description: The Liberal Republican Party of the United States was an American political party that was organized in May 1872 to oppose the reelection of President Ulysses S. Grant and his Radical Republican supporters in the presidential election of 1872. The party emerged in Missouri under the leadership of Senator Carl Schurz and soon attracted other opponents of Grant. The party opposed Grant's Reconstruction policies and sought civil service reform. It lost in a landslide and disappeared after the 1872 election.
  The Republican Party had emerged as the dominant party in the aftermath of the Civil War, but many original Republicans became dissatisfied with the leadership of President Grant. Prominent liberal leaders like Schurz, Charles Sumner and Lyman Trumbull had been leaders in the fight against slavery and for the first stages of Reconstruction. They considered the job done and thought continued radical policies oppressive. By 1872 they demanded an end to Reconstruction and a restoration of self-government to the South. Liberal Republicans decried the scandals of the Grant administration and sought civil service reform.
caption: Interior of the convention hall during the announcement of Horace Greeley as the party's nominee for President in 1872
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