Year: 1872

them II there 5000 Office 10 be filed tCheers
What rest Il has boeu for the people OF Mlssoa P
one day the silent oxactions have been suspended Tot
day the mails must have ceased TO Distribute; f4r
one day enforcement OF search and seizure has neo


expected four years added In their iuxnr
ous livngs Let me say therefore. that when iroin n


List OF the you take out the henchmen and the mar
shals tho ex,mnisters and expectants, the Custom
house aud the surveys Office the Internal Revenue scr
vice. the Post-Ofice the Inspectors and mailcarers
the contractors when subtract the respect
members of the General Assembly who were appointed
delegates mileage, perhaps eheersl and those
have before named, as yainy coming with hope TOE
better things when all these are deducted the Convex
show but a beggary account OF empty benches. And
THIS what "a coeenaed 70 ns as % neat & OuI nos @
that Civil Service Reform met with sneer rom tne
President, and kicked out OF countenance ny the
Senatorial Ringi And we Liberals are abused and
traduced because do not choose TO take part and
parcel with them In such desecraton-diab0lcsl
Grafton OF all true Repubicanism IL against Just
such OF false profession and infamous practice
that they dared us 10 try with them one year


All this controversy which excited such attention here
from the pronounced in which the issues were
developed has gone forth into the OF the nation at
large The evils OF Executive domination nave Do
apparent as to evoke large protest from
necessary TO subdue This had led toeXtended organza
ton on the part OF Liberal Republicans, and call TO
meet in National Convention at Cincinnati on May l.
There Is alarm in high quarters az that call ana rhe
result varied and persistent attempt 10 mislead the
public purpose and meeting OF that convention
The press the Telegraph, private announcement and all
the arts OF political strategy are used to give out i'm
preston that has been dourned, that 1t will take no
action that will attend Now desire to put the
minds OF Radical friends, many OF whom see here
tonight. at rest this subject OF their daily schemng
and lnghtly dreaming | desire furthermore by this
statement my voice reach elsewhere 10 re-
the Liberalism Of other States that they need not
be misled by any such reports.


The Liberal Republican Convention will meet IN tho
CITY Of Cincinnati, the first day OF May, and rest
assured that it will then and there take full account OF
this attempted prostitution OF the Republican party 10
the corrupt service Of From extended cor.
respOndence by the Committee in charge, assured
that it will be largely attended and will have to assist
its deliberations many OF the first statesmen OF tho
natOn-tried heroes of long AntSavery controversy
and equally heroes to-day In the conflict 10 sustain the
freedom OF all against despotio system OF centra
authority. You will have every state outside OF new
England several from there, largely represented Dy
weiiaccredited Republicans earnest In their faith OF
reform And when they gather there, my friends ven
ture Nhe prediotiOn they will give good account OF
Themselves and shape out work that will give tho ohce
holders double duty until November next. lCheers,
There will be faltcring no qualllnS, no hating
between opinions, but only manifest the stern pu
pOse OF who know what duty demands Of them and
who mean to do who realize how much stronger DO
fore the unoorrupted people is patriotism than any
power Of patronage and who have developed enough OF
manhood in the grave conflicts OF the past score OF years
not fear nOw when the very liberties for when they
fought are 80 MUNICH endangered. Loud cheers