Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1872 — Democratic Address. [ARTICLE]

Democratic Address.

The following Is the address issued by the Straight Democratic Executive Committee ofNew York: To the Democracy of the State of New York: The failure of the Baltimore Convention to nominate candidates of the Democratic party as representatives of Its principles for the two highest offices of the Government, made It necessary for the Louisville Convention to supply the omission such fallnre occasioned. This they have done by presenting the names of Charles O’Conor, of New York, for President, and John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts, for Vice-President. The have been influenced in so doing by no sectional considerations, but by the motive to present to the Democratic party, for the support of Its members, the names of those of a national reputation, whose great abilities and acquirements, allied with their virtues and purity of character, eminently fit them for the high offices of the Government for which they are now presented. The Baltimore Convention saw proper to nominate Horace Greeley for President and B. Gratz Brown for Vice-President —both Republicans and candidates of afactionof the the Republican party. . , , It is not the purpose here to inquire into the motive which actuated and influenced that Convention in their choice. It is enough that it was a departure from the established usage of the Democratic party, and the selection of candidates outside the Democratic party could not by any bargain secure a support. It must be obvious to every intelligent and reflective mind that party lines once destroyed by a transfer of a party to the support of known political opponents, must Inevitably result in the disintegration of that party. To preserve, therefore, the integrity of the Democratic party hy bringing before them the names of those distinguished alike for their virtues and abilities, for whom every Democrat can conscientiously cast his suffrage, statesmen eminently qualified to fill the highest offices of government for which they are named —has been the aim of the Louisville Convention. To the intelligent, honest, and patriotic members of the Democratic party, who,' eschewing political knavery, uninfluenced by the gambler’s feeling of success, or inflammatory appeals of demagogues, or faith for paper platforms, an opportunity will be afforded them to testify their patriotism by giving their support to the ticket nominated by the Louisville Convention. In doing so we feel an assurance that they will support those pre-eminently qualified to fill the high offices of President and VicePresident, and by whose election an economical administration of the Government will be secured, a reform and retrenchment of its abuses be effected, and all the great interest of the Government and its citizens at home and abroad promoted, while personal liberty and Constitutional rights in every portion of our country would be respected and protected, and. obedience to the laws enforced. The names of those presented are those of no time servers nor office-seekers. Their roputation rests on solid merit. Will the Democratic party accept of the mere form of suffrage without its substance; of the privilege of voting without the right of choice for whom to vote; oy. will they assert their rights and maintain them ? It remains with them. •_ _ The undersigned, as the Democratic Executive Committee of the State of New York, have called a convention at Albany for the 3d of October next, for the purpose of putting before the people an Electoral ticket, and making other arrangements in furtherance of the object of affording every Democrat ih the State opportunity of casting his vote on the approaching Presidential election for Charles O’Conor and John Quincy Adams, for President and Vice-President.