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into a false creed and a false leadership by the con- 

 vention, we repudiate both, and appeal to the people 

 to approve our platform and to rally to the polls aud 

 support the true platform and the candidates who 

 embody it. 



Mr. Charles O'Conor, of New York, was 

 nominated for the presidency, and Mr. John 

 Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts, for the vice- 

 presidency. Mr. O'Oonor persistently refused 

 to be a candidate, and Mr. Adams consented 

 only on the condition that Mr. O'Conor should 

 withdraw his declination. This was not done. 

 A small number of votes was given to the 

 ticket throughout the country. 

 . A colored Liberal Republican Convention 

 assembled at Louisville, Ky., on September 

 25th. Every State and Territory was repre- 

 sented. "W. N. Saunders, of Maryland, was 

 appointed permanent chairman, and the fol- 

 lowing resolutions were adopted : 



Whereas, In the political history of our country, 

 by common consent of all, equal human rights have 

 ceased to be a question at issue between the con- 

 tending political parties, and all citizens are assured 

 of equal rights, equal privileges, and equal protec- 

 tion ; and whereas the nomination at Cincinnati of 

 the most devoted Republican ever nominated, and 

 the adoption of the most comprehensive and liberal 

 platform ever adopted by the most exemplary Re- 

 publicans ever assembled together in this country, is 

 a fitting climax to the self-sacrificing labors of the 

 best men in the land for more than a quarter of a 

 century, and augurs a brighter and more peaceful 

 future to our common country; and whereas it be- 

 comes the sacred duty of all citizens, of whatever 

 race, origin, or condition, to contribute toward that 

 grand consummation which is the end and aim of 

 the progressive Liberal Republican Democratic par- 

 ty, under the leadership of the Hon. Horace Greeley 

 and the Hon. B. Gratz Brown, tending inevitably 

 toward the unity of the republic, with equal rights 

 to all and reconciliation: therefore 



Resolved, by the colored Liberal Republicans of the 

 United States, in National Convention assembled at 

 Louisville, Ky. : 



1. That, as citizens of the republic, we hail with 

 joy the prospect of the burial of all caste, class, and 

 sectional prejudices, and forgetfulness, and forgive- 

 ness, and oblivion of the past. 



2. That our thanks and gratitude are alike due to 

 the Cincinnati and Baltimore Conventions ; to the 

 first for adoption of a platform which opens the 

 channel to the grand future in which all men will be 

 known hereafter a.s American citizens and by no 

 other designation ; and to the latter for magnani- 

 mously and patriotically accepting the result of our 

 late internal convulsion, and for making the grandest 

 stride in the interest of civilization and good gov- 

 ernment yet made by a political party actuated by 

 motives high above any selfish aggrandizement or 

 mere political advantage. 



3. We join our political fortunes with those of the 

 party having for its standard-bearer that great and 

 good man who has devoted his busy life to attending 

 to the sufferings of humanity, and who, while a spe- 

 cial friend of the American slave, has not forgotten 

 the requirements and wants of others, who, in the 

 providence of God, have need of helpful hands ; of 

 those who, as instruments of the Divine Power, arc 

 permitted to be with us in that struggle upward 

 which makes a civilized and God-fearing people, in 

 the full faith and sanguine hope that all men's rights 

 will thus be assured, and that we as a people will 

 have more cause to rejoice that we can forget and 

 forgive the past than any other class of American 

 citizens. 



4. We deprecate the bitterness of the conduct of 

 the canvass by the Grant people, and counsel our 

 people everywhere, no matter what their political 

 preferences, to use moderation, kindness, and Chris- 

 tian charity toward those who differ from them, and 

 give more attention to their material interest and 

 tangible advantages of education than to transitory 

 and bootless political frenzy, which at best has no 

 result but to a few riot of their race or blood. 



5. We deplore the tendency of the present Admin- 

 istration toward despotic centralization, and demand 

 that some defining fine be ineradicably fixed where 

 the power of the General Government shall cease 

 and the functions of the local governments begin ; 

 and that there shall be equality of the States in the 

 Union as well as equality of men ; that a Government 

 like ours, administered by a single will, controlling 

 the policy and vast patronage of the States, when the 

 temptation of self-perpetuation remains, cannot con- 

 tinue a republic except in name, and must, in the 

 eternal fitness of things, culminate in an empire or 

 oligarchy of office-holders. 



6. That civil service reform must begin at the 

 source of all power of abuse official patronage and 

 that a firm system of reform is impossible in the ab- 

 sence of the one-term principle for President. 



7. We tender our gratitude to the pioneers of the 

 greatest Christian accomplishment on human affairs 

 now on the threshold of final fruition, and give our 

 assurance of unswerving fidelity and unbounded ad- 

 miration to and for those grand men who have led tl.e 

 way under the inspired and superhuman monition 

 of Sumner, Greeley, Trumbull ? Banks, Tappan, Ju- 

 lian, Farnsworth, Clay, Austin, Blair, and other 

 bright spirits, pure men and peerless and incompar- 

 able statesmen, to whom we pledge our best efforts 

 in this grand labor of reform and redemption. 



8. That we denounce as unrepublican and un- 

 American the villany of rulers who have foisted 

 themselves upon some of the Southern States, and 

 who, by the most unblushing cupidity, have reduced 

 the people of those States, of both races,, to a condi- 

 tion of poverty which half a century of prosperity 

 cannot redeem them from, and call upon the colored 

 people of those States to rise in their might > and rid 

 their States of these vampires, whose combined ra- 

 pacity will doom the whole people to perpetual pov- 

 erty and misery. 



9. That we speak only for the colored Liberal Re- 

 publican voters of the country and those within 

 whose hearts a sentiment of a common gratitude is 

 not dead, when we pledge our efforts to secure the 

 salvation of all the American people and the best 

 good of the whole country by the election of Horace 

 Greeley and B. Gratz Brown in November next. 



10. That the first National Liberal Convention of 

 colored men, assembled in Weissiger Hall, in Louis- 

 ville, September 26, 1872, do unanimously nominate 

 Horace Greeley, of New York, and B. Gratz Brown, 

 of Missouri, for President and Vice-President of the 

 United States of America, and accept the Cincinnati 

 platform as the tenets of our political faith. 



A convention of soldiers and sailors of the 

 late civil war assembled in Pittsburg on Sep- 

 tember 17th. General J. E. Hawley, of Con- 

 necticut, was appointed permanent chairman, 

 and resolutions were adopted reaffirming those 

 of the Philadelphia Convention by which Presi- 

 dent Grant was renominated. 



A convention of the colored citizens of New 

 England, in favor of Grant and Wilson, was 

 held in Boston on September 6th, at which 

 Charles L. Redmond was appointed chairman. 

 The proceedings of the Philadelphia Conven- 

 tion were endorsed. 



The National Women's Suffrage Association 



