The National Banner, Volume 1, Number 2, Ligonier, Noble County, 8 May 1872 — Page 2

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oy L L Ry Wi o ~ J.B.STOLL, EDITOR. WEDNESDAY, MAY Sth, 1872,

' GREELEY AND BROWN. We this week surrender most of our space to the publication ot the proceed-. ings of the Liberal Republican Convention which assembled in the city of Cincinnati on the first of May,and invite the close attention of ‘our reagdls to the sentiments expressed in speeches of Messrs, Schurz, Matthews, and Grosvenor, and in the resolutions adopted as the platform of that organization. The nomipation of Mr. Greeley for the Presidency created the utmost surprise and -astonishment, It came so entirely unexpected that comparatively few were: ready to admit the correctness of the re port as it flashed over the wires. No such result was anticipated ; hence the disap~ pointment, it not chagrin, of those who felt confident that either Lyman Trumbull or Charles Francis Adams would be selected as the standard bearer of the young party called into existence by the Cincinnati movement, &

Mr. Greeley'’s ‘nomination has evoked the most varied and singular comment ever heard ot in American politics. Veterans in the ranks of the old republican party rejoice over the assignment of their honored leader to so high and honorable a position, whijlst others of the same faith, in the past, bitterly assail the farmer of Chappaqua. Democratsfind themselvesin: the same predicament—=some shouting for Greeley, others declaring a decided un- | willingness to throw up their hats for ove whom they were taught to hate from | earlyyouth, : Gl

So far as we are concerned, we occupy the same . position maintained by us before the convention. The Cincinnati Convention was composed exclusively of Republicans; not a single Democtat participabed in its deliberations. . Hence, Democrats can in no wise be he!d ac: countable for the nomination of 'Greeley and Brown, be the selection judicious or otherwise. The great body of the Demacracy declared that' the Liberal Republi: cans should be permitied to mmke their nominations without democratic interfer. ence, and if the uominations should proje satisfactory, the chosen delegates ot the democratic party, in national conventidn agsembled, would in all probability adopt a policy by which all elements of opposition to Mr. Grant could be united inia

solid phalanx. This was our understanding before the nssembling of the Cincin. nati Convention, and we adhere to it now. The National Convention of the Dempcracy will probably be held on the Fourth of July, land between this and that time we will Have ample opportunity for convassing the merits of the candidates already in the field. Oar advice to Democrats is: Be calm and deliberative. Let the rank and file of the party express their views freely, but without prejudice. The guiding s‘ar of our action should be a patriotic devotion to the best interests of our common country, ‘the attainment of an honest administration, and the restoration lof fraternal feeling' thrbugljout the width and breadth of the. American Republic. Purely partisan considerations must pass out of sight—personal preferences should be ignored. Conciliation, Peace, Justice, and Honesty of Purpose is the motto ingeribed upon our barner. The man who is best fitted to carrythat banger jaloft ; he whose conduct in. the past gives the strongest guarantee of a bold, vigorous and unfaltering stand in tavor of reform—shall .leceive our aid and support in the great contest of 1872,

The Revolt in Pénnlylvanln, We notiee from our Pennsylvanid exchanges that great dissatisfaction prevails among the Republicans of the *oOld Keystone” with regard to the nomination of Gen. Hartranft for Governor, A number | of influential republican papers are| quite severe in their denunciations of the ticket nominated, and plainly indicate & Qispo~’ sition to give it the cold shoulder unless Hartranft is withdrawn from its head. Even Forney repudiates the nominecs, and is 'said to hold himself in readiness to unite with Col, McClure, leader of the Liberal Republicans, in inaugurating a movement for the complete overthrow of the dominant clique—first, because Hartranft is not believed to be fit for the place, and, second, because he is but"the instrument of the desperate Cameron ring that is trying to gain complete control of the State. The programme is said to be to hold ia convention of the indei)endenttj reform Republicans, and eominate Co ¢ McClure for ‘Governor. It is stated that there is a tacit understanding between the Democrats and the reform Republicans that McClure is-to- be the! nominee of both parties, or of all the elements opposed to Cameron and Grant. ‘McClure will take the stump as the reform candidate. In a contest like this it is the opinion of the leading politicians ‘of ‘both’ parties in the State there would be no question as to the success of Mgcmré. It | is believed that he would be elected by a il of 20,000 or 80,000, | Hartranft mincspgbie of making a speech, while"McClure 18 one of the |best stump orators in the country and w?‘:mfmk‘e 8 splendid canvass. If this programme is mfr,iedd‘%b\i:u admitted that Pennsylvama will go ageinst Grast, and his benchmen are considerably ’lie'm.oml ized j Fod y TR LT ' Date of National Conveéntions, ' During tt:lput twenty-eight years the | Democrats held their conventions for the nomination of candidates for President «ad Vi Presdent on e fispe semed B ';[(;1( B agmery : }.‘ ~:pﬁ?’“ i 008. s o i s e ‘e deen.doDo 3 186¢ m,m o 5 1 Jute 3 e 4*’% gl PR R sl e P OIRE ) 8 il b S iy by T au&gmﬁ ; m%ﬂw« by Py e St S SR Lit o £ R e e f’ggr*xsﬁww’v;;‘%% e e L R T

INCINNATI CONVENTION. .f | i Liberal Republicans in Couneil, An Immense Gathering. Hon. Carl Schurz President of g the Convention. T A Sound Platform. s ; ' : I‘Eimﬂia.tion of Horace Gn'-eeley! | for President, and B. Gratz { Brown for Vice-Pres’t. |

| 44 TEMPORARY ORGANIZATION. j | "At half past eleven on Wednesday forenoon Col. Grosvenor, of Missouri, called the convention to order. In a brief and etogent speech he claimed the great importance of this convention, “the largest in the number of delegates, and the truest é‘epreeentatives of publicsentiment# which always does, always shall, rule the country, The wisdom of this convention and the wisdom and will of the people at the next fall electicn will.make it more suc ficessful. We need not gake the usual apipesl for barmony to men who abandoned their connection with & successful party ito stake their political future upon this movement for retorm.” He nominated for temporary chairman, Judge Stanley ‘Matthews, of Ohio. Carried unanimously.

‘ SPEECH OF JUDGE MATTHEWS. ‘Upon . being introduced by Col. Grosvenor, Judge Matthews was greeted with entbusiastic cheers. | His rema#ks were in substance as follows: el ; It is no'idle affectation wien I say it is impossible to express the deep sensibility with which I receive and accept the unexpected honor conferred upon me. lam unprepared to prefagce t‘l’? assumption of the duties of chairman with such remarks a 8 are appropriate to the occasion. No one could get people tc say as to the re: sult of this conye‘E}ion, but the main thing, and that which he set above ‘all else, was that the time bas come when it is the voice of a large and influential portion of the people that they no longer be dogs to wear the collar- of a party. ECheer’s.] We heretofore have been n:emers' of the republican party. He was not ashamed to have worn that name. ‘The past 6%he party was commendable in its work of sustaining the ~Union against secession. Its work had become part of the fundamental law, and with it the principle of equality of all before the law had been established. He considered this convention in their rebellion against the republican party the highest eulogy of the principles of that party, for it shows that party has high courage to set about the work of reforming itself. Parties cannot live on past reputation. It was because those who control the repub. lican machinery and principles. have diverted them from their true purpose that this movement is instituted. The war has ended, and peace has come out of military rule. FCheers.] Everything keeps-alive and fans the embers of the dying (and ought to be dead) past. It is said “let us have peace,” but we have.not had peace. He referred to the condition of affairs in the South, where the government was: used, not for the people, but corruptly to enrich the few who find in office only a means of personal aggrandizement, and charfed corruption in the national government from head to foot. Republicans feel that they can no longer afford a partnership in such wrongs, and hence we lead out in th€ movement for reform, to secure a good, sound, honest government. - He referred to the difficulties before the convention, Its first duty was to thoroughly organize, and to that work he urged them, concluding by suggesting. the appointment of a Secretary. [Applause ] o i Gen. G. W. Palmer, of New York, and Joseph Pulitzer, of Missouri, were appointed Secrctaries, ' ' !

~ Col. Grosvenor offered a regolution that when the convention adjourned it be )ta ten o'clock, Thursday morning, and that in the meantime delegations from ‘the several States shall elect delegates | DY : : to this convention equal in number to ‘ double the ‘vote to which each State respectively is entitled in the electoral col‘lege. Adopted. ' } ‘ Before the adjournment loud calls were made for Carl Schurz, who came forward ‘amid loud applause and expressed his gratitude for the cordial manner in which be had been called out. He feared he would bave to disappoint them, as the convention meant business. The first of May was moving day, [laughter and ap: plause] and it.was proposed to take the first steps to remove that which was obnoxious to the American people, and put something better in its place. He did} not want to make a speech, but would take another occasion to say some things which he had to say. [Loud calls of “go on.”] He politely refused to accede to the request, and asked them to bear with him if he concluded by seconding the motion'to adjourn. 8 ; - The chairman . then declared the con. ‘vention, adjourned till 10 o’clock, Thursday morning. THURSDAY'S PROCEEDINGS. The convention was called to order at 10:20-A. m. by the temporary chairman, . The entire foremoon session was devoted to the appointment of committees: on ‘credentials, organization, rules, and the reading of telegrams, protests, &c. A recess was then ordered until 8 o'clock.

AFTERNOON SESSION. The- convention reassembled’ at three o'clock, Judge Matthews in the chair. The Jarge hall was densely crowded with people in every portion. There was a large number of ladies, lending interest to the scéne by their presence, in the galleries. i ke 'The report of the Committee' on Permanent Organization was presented by Judge Spaulding, of Ohio, the name of Benator Schurz, as permanent President, being' received with a storm of cheers and applause. -The report was upani. ‘mously adopted as follows : : ‘ " ‘Permanén’ Presidenit Senator Carl Beburz, of Missouri, 1 v ? Vice Presidents— One from each State, the most prominent among the number “being Geo.. 'W. Julian of .gndigna, John Wentworth cf Illinois, Gov. Crawford of Kansae, and M, B. Lowry « f Pennsylvania. i o > ' Lain of Maryland, John X. Davidson of Minn "fz.,:-wrwwum.»w J. N. Rhodos of Obio, - ' .. [ platform, bis sppesrance there being el e 2 i e gl ) w?@mﬁh%ﬁ * il i

tion. He was presented to the convention by Judge Matthews. He spoke as fol. lows, frequently interrupted by outbursts of:spplaule?. .~ " o Do B - FELLOW-CrrlzENs—Nobody can, survey this vast and enthusisstic assembly, gatbered from all parts of the republic, without an emotion of astonishment and bope ; astonishment, considering the spon- ‘ {aneity of the impulse which has brought | 1t togetber; and hope, considering the | great purpose for which it his met. The | republic may well congratulate itself upon the tact that such a meeting was possible. Look at the circumstances from which it has sprung. We saw the American peoPple just issued from a great and successful struggle, and in the full pride of national strength, threatened with new evils, and - demragogues of an insiduous pature, and che masses of the population are apparently not aware of them. We siw jobbery and corruption stimulated to unusu. al audacity by the oppoftunities of a protracted civil war, invading the public service of the government, as well as almost all movements of the social body, and we saw a public opinion most de plorably lenient in its judgment of public and private dishonesty. We saw the government indulging in wanton disre. gard of the laws of the land, resorting to aring assumption of unconstitutional power ; and we saw the people apparently, at least, acquiescing with reckless levity in transgressions threatening the very life of our free institutions. We saw those in authority, with tyrannical inso. lence, thrust-the hand of power through the vast machinery of the public service (into local and private affairs, and we saw the innumerable mass of their adberents ‘accept those encroachments upon their independence without protest or resent ‘ment. We saw. men in the bighest places ~of the republic employ their pawer and ~opportunities for selfish advantage, thus stimulating the demeralization of our political life-by their conspicuous example, - and the loud chorus of partisan sycophancy drown the voice of honest criticism. We saw part of our common conntry, which had been convulsed by a disastrous rebellion, most grievously suffering from the consequences of the civil war, and we saw the haughty spirit of power refusing to lift up those who had gone astray and were now suffering, by a policy of generoug conciliation and the statesmanship of common sense. We observed this, and at the same time a reckless and greedy party spirit, in the name of a great organiza‘tion, crowned with the laurels of glorious achievements, striving to palliate or justify these wrongs and abuses, to stifle the moral sénse of the people and to drive them by a tyrannical party discipline not ' only to submit to this for the present, but . to perpetuate, and that the political pow er of the country be preservdd in the _bhands of those who possessed it He - who calmly and impartially surveyed this’ spectacle could not fail to be deeply alarmed, not only at the wrongs that had been apd were being perpetrated, but at the subjugation of the popular spirit, which did not rise up against them. The question might well have been asked : “ Have the American people become so utterly indifferent to their live interests, to their national harmony, to the purity of their political life, to the integrity of their free institutions,: to the very honor -of the American name that they should permit themselves to be driven like ia flock of sheep by those who assume to lord it over them?” That question has now found an answer: “No.” The virtue, the spirit of Independence, the love of liberty, the republican pride of ‘the American people are not dead yet—nor do they mean to die; and that answer is given in thunder tones by the convention of American freemen here assembled. In deed, those who months ago first raised their voices did so with an abiding faith that their appeals could not remain without response, but the volume of that response has now far exceeded their antici_pations. The crust of narrow prejudice, ot selfish partisanship which but yesterday seemed to stop every free pulsation | of the popular heart is.suddenly burst asunder. The patriotic citizen rises above the partisan. - We begin to breathe again | as free men, we choose again to call things by their right names, We have once more the courage to break through the deceptions with which the popular mind has -been befogged. 'We feel once more ‘that our convictions of right and wrong “are our own, and that our votes belong to the country, and thus we defiantly set our tsense of duty against the. arrogance of power. Like the bugle blast of dooms I day the summons is resounding North and South, East and West, till the conscience of the people, which seemed dead, has arisen from every point of the com ‘pass. Hosts are flocking together, and here we are, let me hope, aye, I do hope, with fearless determination to do our whole duty to our country. It would seem to-day as if nothing could witli] stand the movement so irresistible an inspiring. Indeed the breath of victory is in the very air which surrounds us, and that victory will not escape from our grasp if we are true to. our mission; but you must bear with me if, in this hour of en~ thusiasm, when our bearts are big with ‘proud presentments, T address to you a word of soberness. We have a grand opportunity before us—grand and full of promise. We can :crush “corruption in our public concerns. We can give the republic pure and honest government, We can revive the authority of the laws. We can restore to full vigor the constitutional safegusrd of our liberties. We can infuse & higher moral spirit into our political life. We can inculcate into the hearts of ‘the whole people in everysection of the land a fraternal and proud national feeling. We can do this, but we can do it only by throwing behind us the selfi-h spirit of the political trash, We obey the purest and loftiest inspirations of the popular uprising, which gives us here a great oppottupity. It isas great | as the noblest ambition might desire; but equally great, nay, to my mind, fearful is the responsibility it brings with it, This is a momentous period in the history of a pation. An uprising of the people, such as we bebold, will not occur every | day, nor every year, for it must spring’ from the spontaneous inipulse of the popular wind. You dlsap%;)int the high expectations brought forth by that spontaneous impulse, and you have not only lost a great opportunity, but you have struck a blow atthe confidence the peeple ‘have in themselves, and for a long time pepular reform movements will not rise ?gin,‘ under the weight of the discredit bich you will have brought upon the&. Is it possible that such' should be the re . sult of our doings? It ‘is! poserble if we donot rise to a full height of our duty.It is ({)oesiﬁle if, instead of following the grand impulse of the povnli; heart, we attenipt to control and use this movement by tlfe old tricks of the political trade, or fritter'away our zeal in small bickerings and mean, selfish aspirations, We have ‘come together to give shape, point and practical - productive- force to this great upheaval of the popular conscience. It is | ~our business to lay. down certain principles :and propusitions of policy, w&m bave to.present to tie suffrage ;«;@, ople ’ﬁi“ﬂfﬂt ected, are to carry those ‘principles and propositions into living ‘Teality. - As to our platform, we sh Ml:be ately in need of. The very fact of our PR N o B TR ARG, OR JQUT ¢ ‘having cot {g""%%m?v ﬁf | waat we promjse ta i%g,_ wh* D€ hones § Ay or Sy gl Bt o ;ﬁwé oty e v e sinlibdeonid b et B oo o YR e e e égwﬂ'}mm »*;:r %w%:,»;f S A y ~*A‘ o b L

&x:hed by mere promises and declarations, _but require the wise and energetic action of statesmen. If this is to be truly a re—form movemnt, and if it be not merely on paper, it must be embodied in the men we entrust with the power to infuse ‘the spirit of reform into practical action, If you waat to know how reforms are not. executed, look at those now in power. You will hardly excel them in the profusion of bigh-sounding professions, and you will never excel them in the art of ‘how not to do it. Reform must becomea farce in the hands of those who either do not understand it or do not. eare for it. If you mean reform, intrust the work to none but those who do anderstand and honestly do care, and care more for it than their own personal ends. Pardon me if I express myself on this point with freedom and frankness. I have not, I assure you, come here for the purpose of urging the clainis or advancing the interests of any one man against all others. I have come here with a sincere and ardent devotion to the cause, and to use my best _efforts to have that cause put under the care of men who are devoted to it with equal sincerity, and possess those qualities’ ‘of mind and heart which will make it gafe 1n their keeping. 1 earnestly deprecite the cry we have heard so frequently, “Anybody but Grant!” There is something more wanted than to beat Grant. Not anybody who might, by cheap popu larity, or by astute bargains and combinations, or by all the tricks of_ political wire pulling, manage to scrape together votes enough to be etected President. We don’t merely want another, but we want & better President than we have. We want the overthrow ot a pernicious system. We want the eradication of flagrant abuses; we want the intusion of a loftier moral spirit into our political organism; we want a government which the best pe(igle | of this courtry will e proud of. Not anybody can accomplish that, and therefore, away with the cry, “Anybody but Grant!"—a cry too paltry, too unworthy of the great enterprise in which: we have eogaged. Ido not struggle for the mere punishment of an opponent or a tempo rary lease of power. There is a thing noless, nay more important even, than onr success in this campaign, and that is' that the American people shall not be disappointed in the fruits which our vic tory is to bear. If we should fail to select men who will carry out the beneficent reforms we contemplate, ‘then let' me say boldly that it would be better had this movement never been undertaken, for the continuance of those'in power who possess it now would mean only a reformatory movement deferred, and opportunity still coming, while our failure now would mean a great reform movemeént sunk to the level of a farce—-a great opportunity lost and the hope of thé people turned. into discouragement and disgust. Let us discard at least, the fatal error into which many seem to have fallen : that no states‘manship is required to conduct the affairs of a great government. I candidly believe the people are waking up to the truth, for unless I greatly mistake the | spirit of the day, what the people now most-earnestly demand is not that mere gond intentions, but that superior in telligence, coupled with superior vir tue, should . guide our’ affairs; not thut merely an honest and popular man, but that a statesman be put at the head of our government. In selecting candidates for office, politicians are accustomed to discuss the question of availability, What docs availability mean in our case ? Let us look for the best men we have, and among the very best let us select the strongest. The people earnestly desire a thorough: reform of our government. They want not only a change, but a change for the better. They want algo, therefore, to be assured that it will be for the better, and that the best can didate is likely to be the most a7ailable. It we present men to the suffrage of the people whose character and namesappeal to the loftiest instincts and aspirations of patriotic citizens, we shall have cn our side‘that which- ought to be, and now I trust will be, the ruling arbitrator of pelitical contest, the conscience of the nation. If that be done then success will be certain; thea we can appeal to the minds’ and bearts, to the loftiest ambition of the people with these arguments and entreaties which can spring ‘only from clear convictions of right. Then we shall noti appeal in vain for their support te those of our fellow-citizens who hitberto were separated from us by party. divisions, who desire honestly to work for the best interests of the country in this crisis, and whom we shall welcome with fraternal greeting in this struggle fora great cause, whether they are themselves Democrats or Republicans. Then we shall successfully overcome those prejudices which now confront us, and the insidious accusation that this great convention is a mere gathering of disappointed and greedy politicians will fall harmless at our feet, for we shall have demonstrated by - our action that we were guided by the purest and most patriotic of motives, and this can be done. Let us despise as unworthy of our cause the tricky mani})ulations by which, to the detriment of the republie, political bodies have so frequently been controlled. Let us, in the lace of the great things to be accomplish ! ed, rise above all petty considerations; personal friendship and State pride are noble sentiments; bdt what is personal friendship, what is State pride, compared with the great duty we owe to our common country, and the awful responsibility resting upon our action as sensible men? ‘We know that not every one of us can be gratified by-the choice of his favorite.— Manpy of us will have to be disappointed, but in thjs solemn hour our hearts should know but one favorite, and that is the American Republic. Pardon me for these words of warning and entreaty. I trust nobody will consider them misplaced. I fervently hope the result of our deliberations will show that they were not spoken in vain. ‘T know- that they have sprung trom the most'anxious desire to do what is best for our country, and thus I'appeal to you with all the fervor of anxious earnestness. - We stand on the threshold of a great victory, and victory will surely be ours if we truly deserve it. e . The remainder of -the day was spent in adopting rules for the government of the ¢onvention, the discussion of resolutions, listening to speeches, &c., &c. ! . FRIDAY'S PROCEEDINGS., - The convention was called to order at 10 “minutes past 10 o'clock. -Mr. Gil-’ more; of Missouri, offered a ‘resolution that when' the convention reaches the point of balloting for eandidates there | shall be no formal presentation of cardi- | dates, but the convention will proceed to | vote. The resolution was carried. Horace White, from the Platform Committee, reported the following resolutions, which were: unanimously and enthusiastically |

. PREAMBLE: , ' ' The Administration now in power has | rendered itgelf guilty of & wanton disregard of the laws of the land, and of pow: | ers not. granted by 'theconstitution, It has acted as if laws had binding force only for thosc: who are governed and not for those who govern, e has thus struck a blow at the fundamental principles of Constitutional Government and the liberties of the citizens. The President of the 'United("l Btstes has *openl{‘:aa@ h.th: owers and opportunitivs ot his hi offcs for the prom personal ealgt He has kept notoriously corrupt and une licin . He has useq the publiceervyic of t' yment 85 & umhi&fy ﬁf palities, Ho has rewarded with influen

tial and lucrative offices men who had acquired his favor by valusble presents, ‘thus _stim;ilfaﬁ:g %: demoralization of our ’ mﬁw&hmﬂf m}m‘, ot ‘to the tasks imposed upon him by the necessities of the country, and culpably careless of thé"‘mqmmggi_\ vonsibilities of his high office. The partisans of the Administra tion, assuming to be the Republican party, and controlling its organization, have ‘attempted 'to justify such wrongs, and palliate such abuses. = To the end of ~maintaining partisan ascendency, they bave stood in the way of necessary inves‘tigations and indispensable reform, that no serious fault could be found with theé present administration of public affairs. Thus seeking to blind the eyes of the - people, they have kept alive the passions and resentments of the late civil war, to use them for their own advantage. They have resorted to arbitrary measures in direct conflict with the organic-law, in stead of appealing to the better instincts, talent, and patriotism of the Southern people by restoring to them those rights, the enjoyment of which is indispensable. for a successful administration ofitheir local affairs, and would tend to move a patriotic and hopefal national feeling. They have degraded themselves and the name of their party as justly entitled to the confidence of the nation by a base sycophaney tc the dispenser of Executive power and patronage, unworthy of Republican freemgn. They have sought to silence the voice of just criticism, to stifle the moral sense of the people, and to gubjugate public opinion by tyrannical party discipline- They are striving to maintain themselves in authority for selfish ends, by unscrupulous use :of the power which rightfully belongs to the people, and should be employed only in {z service of the country. Relieving fWat an organization thus led and controlled cannot, longer be of service to the ‘best interests ot the Republic, we have resolved to make an independent appeal to the sober judgment, conscience, and patriotism ot the American people; therefore, . : Resolved, That we, the Liberal Republi. | cgns of the United States, in National Convention assembled ‘at Cincinpati, proclaim the following principles as essential to just government: .

. First. We rccognize -the equality of men before the ‘law, -and hold that it is the duty of the government in its dealings with the peo: ple to mete out equal and exact justice to all, of whatever nativity, race, color or persuasion, religious or political. L - Second. We pledge ourselves to main. tain the law, the union of these States, emancipatfon and enfranchisement, and to oppose. any recg;;ﬁn_g of the questions - settled by the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments of the Constitution. o / Third. We demand the immediate and absolute removal of all disabilities imposed on account of the rebellion whica was finally subdued seven years ago, believing that universal amnesty will result in complete pacification in all sections of the country. : : Fourth.| Local self-government with .impartial suffrage will guard the rights of all citizens more securely than any centralized power. Tke public welfare requires the supremacy of the civil over the military authority, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus. We demand for the individual the largest’ liberty | consistent ' with public order, for the . State self government, and for the Nation to return 'to the ethods of peace and the constitu‘filonsl limitations of power. Fifth. The civil service of the government has become a mereinstrument of pa? tisan tyranny and personal ambition, an an object of selfish greed. It is a scandal and a reproach upon free institutions, and breeds a denioralization dangerous to the perpetuity of a Republican Government. Sixth. We therefore regard a thorough reform of the civil gervice as one of the ‘most pressing necessities of the -hour; ‘that- honesty, capacity and fidelity con--stitute the only valid claims to public employment ; that the offices of the government cease to be a matter of arbitrary favoritism and patronage, and that publig ‘station become again a post of honor. To this end it is imperatively requirad that no President shall be a candidate for re. election. g e

Seventh. We demand a system of Federal taxation which shall not unnecéssarily interfere with the industry of the people, and' which, shall provide the means necessary fo pay the expensesof the Government, economically administered,—the pensions, the interest on- the public debt, and a moderate annual reduction of the principal thereof; and recogniz. ing that there are in our midet Lonest but irreconcilable différences of . opinion with regard to the respective systems of Protection and Free Trade, we remit the, discussion of the subject to the people in their Congressional Districts, and the discussion of Congress thereon, wholly free of executive interference or dictation. g i :

Eighth, The public credit must be sacredly maintained, and we denounce repudiation in every form and guise. Ninth. A speedy return to specie payments is demanded -alike by the highest considerations of commercial morality and honest government. i Tenth, We remember with gratitude the heroism and sacrifices of the soldiers and sailors of the Republic, and ‘no act: of ours shall ever detract from their justly earned fame or the full rewards of their patriotism. : . Eleventh, We ate opposed to all further grants of lands to railroads or other corporations. - The public domain should be held sacred to actual settlers.-. =~ Twelfth. We hold thaf it is the duty of the Goyernment in its i}iterﬁlrse with foreign nations, to cultivate the friendships of peace by treating with all on fair and équal terms, regarding it alike dishonorable either to demand what is not right, or to submit to what is wrong. - Thirteenth. For the promotion and success of these vital principles and support of the candidates nominated by this Convention, we invite and cordially welcome’ the co-operation of ‘all patriotic citizens, without regard®to previous political® affiliafiong. (i ol biagon el

; BALLOTING FOR PRESIDENT. | Charles Francis Adams. ... ......208 Lyman Trumbull. ... 0000 00000..108 David Davis. iuo oo o o 9814 Horace (Greeley ':.. .0 didvosaddl B. Gtz Brown:. s % aiis apir s 98 Andrew. Q. Curbing ... o dey, B 8 Salmon P. Cha5e......... 3.0, 23 Charles 5umner..;........‘..;....'5. 1 *“Before the vote wes announced, Grafy ‘Brown,’by unanimous cousent, took the’ stand and thanked his friends for their support, ''but withdrew his- name, and asked his triends to ‘support Grecley. [Great cheers,with many persistent hisses.] . SUBSEQUENT BALLOTS. = 3y AN 3% ""i‘z"ui § E B 3 £Eeg Names of Candidates. - & ’3-‘[ ?‘!..l 4-135,-{;‘-G%e&osy - shilodi ceraaai PR YT E&‘E 258329 Brambais] 2o i e e e on) 21 DAVIB. s e.n. - ivbisomssennnirns] 75| 44| 41| 30} 6 B‘rown.,,-,‘.g.,.»-,.ﬂ-‘;.-‘..),“..,....- R 'l2 ; 2 . 2 valer Chage. & viiiddviiiniive s e Wiz . E el 94

Befor\; ”the result of tﬁe sixth baﬁ;was announc+ €d, a number of States changed their votes. The vote was then annonnced as follows: Greeley 482, Adams 187. Homce Greeléy was therenpon de: clared duly nominated for President of the United States, ek g A : . WHE VICE PRESIDENCY, ‘g e, firet ballot for Viee-Prosidenh e B e - - B faaienin £ s e e B Grateßown; .\ o 0 cl A 8 | lein'l‘mmﬂ‘ S dvdmiive LailoB FW'%J“”#@“‘».‘ 1 wedele o - v"l“’% G M&&f%fw= Dimaviaviln, 84 Qassing M. Clag,, .5 o pp iisnene 84 Jambes M. Scoville. ..., .......0. 13"

clared the use of that gentleman’s name in this connection wholly unauthorized. _ Thesecond ballot resulted n the nom. ination of Gov. B. Gratz Brown, of Missouri, to-wit : S B Grat58r0wn......... ..., ....435 George W.Ju1ian................ 175 Gilbert . Wa1ker............. ... %5 sohn W Palmer. ... .. ... ... .8 Thomas M. Tipton... ....... ... 8 Gov. Brown was declared the nominee, * The convention sopn after adjourned sine die. : T

: . STATE ITEMS. | { ~ The wells of Huntington connty are dryingup. ' b ek . Terre Haute expects an immense local peach crop. Ty e . It costs boys one dollar to whip their fathers at Vernon. et _ The Tobacco firm ot Ewing, Smith & Co of F't. Wayne, is going into bankruptey. - - iRy One hundred and fifty pupils of the Martinsville high school are wrestling ‘with the measles. o 0 Vast quantities of lumber are being shipped from this state to aid in rebuildin?c}ifgcago. e Spotted fever is disappearing trom Lafayette and . vicinity, where it has raged with fatality. S s Complaints of violation of the law relative to the seining of fish are quite general throughout the state. . Farmers of Indiana are busy plowing for corn, except thosze along the ‘Ohio river, who are planting. ' __Fort Wayne calls for servant girls: The Sentinel says three hundred families stand in need of their services. Laborers are wanted at the north end of the Grand Rapids & Indiana railroad, and good wages will be paid them. e

Trains on the White Water Valley railroad stop anywhere on the road to tuke on or let off passengers—like street cars, you know. oy + The saloons of Greencastle, which had been .closed for several months; have been opened and are now in full blast, aud things begin to look natural agame. e i Mrs. Thompson,living near Fillmore, Patnam county, fell in the fire in: an epliptic fit last week, and burned to death. Her head was literally burned from her body. - . ‘ . ‘On Monday of last week, Ira Stanley, a prominent citizen of Wabagh, while conversing with a friend (on the street, was stricken with paralysis, and died almost instantly, : : . The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railroad company are now introl ducing coal-burning ~engines on. all their passenger trains, as fast as the alterations in- the machines can be made.

Clinton county'is considerably excited over the suspected murder of an old citizen, Basil Baily, by poisoning. The body has ‘been exhumed and the stomach sent to Cineinnati to be analyzed. e - Bill Smith, a 'young man nineteen years o'd, is under $1,500 bail to answer at the next term of the Warsaw Circuit Court on a charge of attempting to rape two girls aged respectively four and five years, o A Reports come from Albion that the citizens of that town are not by any means confident that the Baltimore & Ohio railroad will build the extension on that route. Some think that it will vet be located on a line further south: —Lagrangs Standard. i New Albany people are excited over. a snake twelve or fourteen feet in length and fully ten inches in diameter, which recently carried off a three weeks old pig. Sixteen smaller ones were recently killed in the city cemetery in one day, with thirteen thousand yet to hear from. - L It is probable that the management of the Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad, will be ‘able to purchase that portion of the Peninsular railroad ranning from the Brady crossing to Chicago. Through “trains would then run without change from the northern terminus of the Grand Rapids and Indiana zoad to Chicago. ' b ;

The people along the line of the ‘northern survey of the Baltimore ex~ tension, via Bryan, Angola and ILaGrange, seem to be making an effort to secure the proposed New York and Chicago Air Line road. Notwithstand~ ing this, we incline to the opinion that should the road ever be built, the managers will find it necessary to get thro’ ‘ eKalb county.—Waterloo Press. - | At the State Prison South there are 401 male and 20 female convicts con~ fined at the present time. There are about 350 confined at the State Prison (orth. making a total of 770 for the atge The firm of Hall, Semple and Co.; will vacats the prison about the firgt of June. The whole force ot the prison labor will then be employed by the Southwestern Car works company. On Baturday night, April 27, Jos. O'Donald, who had been about town in an intoxicated condition during the ‘day attempted to get on the Atlantic Express, when he slipped under the train. the wheels running over his foot crushing it terribly. The injured man’s limb was amputated by Dr. Chamber-lain‘.-*_‘asaibted’%; Dr. Ford of Auburn. The wounded man iz a cooper, without family and about ;ﬁfty-‘tgree years old.He has a brother and sister at Cambridge, Mass.—Waterloo Press.

4, T'he funeral of the Rev. Father Mc~ Aahon, so well known and so highly reciated by his countrymen and coreligionists, was celebrated at St. Mary’s Church, Lafayette, Tuesday morning . of last week. A large number of priests had asgembled from abroad, ang all the impressive and peculiar ceremonies of the Roman Catholic Church were performed over the corpse of the distinguished and beloved priest. The procession was then formed and proceeded to the Catholic Cemetery,. where the remains of the lamented, if ‘not martyred priest, now repose. Tt seems that some of the ¢itizens of Jeffersonville are opposed to the action of the council of tgaft city in donating $20,000 to the Ohio Falls and Locomotive Works, They contend, and. ‘withe the law on their ‘side, that the city has no authority, to make such a donation -of :money; and accordingly have had a mﬁ:}nﬁmg order issued by This order was served upon the Mayor,

. NEWBOF THE WEER. = . _ One hundred guns were fired at Syracuse, New York, in honor of Greeley and Brown. e L . Albany, New York, burned one hun~ dred ch%zﬁpqwdenp%r the Cincinpati nominations. T ~“The Governor of New York has signed -the jury bill, which allows ‘newspaper-reading people to ‘sit' on ries, .o AR L ~ Niblo’s theater; New York, was totally destroyed by fire last Monday. The building was oé:’.éd, by A.''T. Stewart. = - s L The business portion of Hudson, Wis., was devoured by the firey element last, Saturday. Loss $125,000 ; Insurance $20,000. Shapn i A committee of the National Irish American Reform League, in session at Cincinnati, have issued an address rat- j ‘ifying the nomination of Greeley and Brown. S e e

_ On Friday night of last week, ten frame dwelling houses, a stone gtore and dwelling, a church and many barns and other out houses were burned at Grand Rapids. Five horses perished in the flames. Ower one hindred families were rendered homeless. Loss $40,000; insurance $lO,OOO. The eruptions of Vesuvius hasentirely ceased. The villages in the surrounding country, however. have. snffered severely from a fresh misfortune in the form of a hnrricane of terrible violence, which has swept ovaer their farms, completely destroying the hous: es and crops that the lava had spared to them. £ Jial :

‘The crop prospect for the current year are much less discouraging than the reports of the 'Agﬁcul_tﬁ&l‘])ei partment at Washington bave indicats ed. 'Wheat, although a failure in the Atlantic states, is above the average in the south and west. ‘Other grain is doing well, and the yield of cotton and tobacco promises to befair at least, The whole gonth-gast part of Marshalltown, lowa, was laid in ashes last Saturday. The lgss foots up about $200,000. . Five elevatorsy with a vast -amount of grain in store, a woolen mill, two hotels, four lumber yards, the Northwestern depot, tanks and pump building, five stores and shops, and three dwellinghouses were consumed. . Quantrell, the famous guerrilla chief, who was the terror.of Eastern Kansas during the boarder ruffian epoch,and who,. directed the Lawrence, Kan,, butchery 'during the war. was.turned up at Los Angelos, Cal, His deeds have caused him to be declared an' outldw by the Government, so that his recoguition in any place is usually followed by a speedy departure, = 1 A terriffic eyclone has -caused great loss of life and pecuniary - damage in the vicinity of Madras and to the :ci:iy itself. The storm approached so.suddenly that many vessels ‘Lx the roadstead were unable to put to sea and were: wrecked, most o’g their crews being lost. . A portion of the immense pier leadinginto the harbor was carried away, and many of the houses in the city and ‘its suburbs ntterly des~ teoyed. Sorimi e L

A destructive conflagration.occurred at Delphos, Ohio, last Friday. About fifty buildings, chiefly business houses, were completely destroyed. ' The fire originated in the drug hounse of Schenck & Lang ; cause anknown. The wind blew a fearful gale. The losses are estimated at $150,000. Insurance only about $32,000. | Delphos is situated on the line of the Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne and Chicago railroad, and also on the Miami and Erie ¢canal, about 44 miles east of F't. Wayne, and has a population of 1.700. . Sl Lo T

Decoration Day. 3 It is but a few weeks now until Decoration Day, the 30th of May=being the day designated for that purpose. We hope that the preparations for observing'the day will be carried out in the impressive manner that has characterized it here. - The care and honor extended to the resting placé of the dead soldiers are exerting their ‘influence, and nearly all the graves in the cemetery show that friends are still keeping the departed heroes in remembrance. = This is the true method to make the final resting place of the departed ones a pleasant place to- visit rather than a spot to be avoided, For this reason, if for no other, there is a fitting propriety in-setting apart one day iu the year to the memory of those who have gone a step in advance to the other world.—[South Bend Tribune. TR e e e o o

| . Heon. M. C, Kerrs sy The Democratic Convention of this county proposed this candidate for the nomination for Congressman at Large. Certainly, . if eminent ' and political ability, connected with industrious and arduous labor for the good of the masses.-of the entire country, as” well as for the success of the” democratic party, together with a clear and comprehensive ;g:}iﬁghb “of the public measures ands necessities consequent thereupon, with an ungullied personal, public or private character, and an ardent devotion to'general public interests as connected with his present position, are entitled to weight and . eon~ sideration in the selection of a eandidate, the express wishes of the eﬁmy in this county’ will*be a forerunner of his enthusiastic nomination by the State convention. — Jasper -(Dabois CojyConrler, =~ oo 4

Rev. O. M. Todd has been suing the trusiees of the Presbyterian Chureh of Muncie for breach of contract. He claims that they agreed to pay him $l,OOO salarg per year, while they claim the understanding was that he was to have $BOO, and $2OO additional if they could raise it. They couldn’t raise it, hence “the difficulty.,” The suit was decided in favor of the trusteés, after ‘which the Court, "Judge Mellette, read all partief®a good lec~ tare. which it is hoped will do them Bood. - - . o _ Father ' MacMahon, the Catholic [priest who accompanied the first Fe:. nian raid into Canada, and was eap tured and_ confiued for two yeare in a Oanadian’ prigon, dieﬁ‘uﬁaynald'a Station, near Lafayette, on Smﬁa{ :f last \g% eﬂéﬁwhn&a&&?t&%h& ! he was subject dn% iis long m 8. Muy's Oburoh, Tafayeite. - | AR w G cna b Haietiace ol 3y :';:i'f L 8 «Q;gn?w\q?@(?

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