Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1879 — Bob Ingersoll’s Convention. [ARTICLE]

Bob Ingersoll’s Convention.

The “National Liberal League,” organized at the instance of Col. Bob Ingersoll and other nonbelievers, met at Cincinnati, last week, about 200 delegates being in attendance. A preliminary declaration and platform was adopted. It is very long, and resolves that the general motive of the National Liberal party is to realize more fully than has ever yet been done the main object of a government by the people as expressed in the declaration of independence and the preamble to the constitution of tho United States; that to secure these purposes a new party is necessary to administer and reform the whole national and State governments. The principles onunoiff.tocl are: Equal and exact justice to all men of whatever State or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliance with none; the support of the Stato governments in all their rights as the most competent administrators of our domestic concerns, and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor; freedom of religion, of tho press, or persons •under the protection of habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected; labor reforms of various kinds are asked for; legislation against tramps condemned; reforms in the currency; in the use and occupation of land; female emancipation; universal compulsory secular education; condemning creating corporations except [for the public good, and present methods of legislation, advocating the election of all public officers directly by the people, and favoring the repeal of all Sabbath, sumptuary and temperance laws.