The Negro Liberals

T.nrisYii.i.i:, Cv., Bept. 20. - Tho National Colored Liberal Convention 'o-day adopted the following platform : WHEEEA8, In tho politioal history o: our Oüuntry, by comuaon eens. nt of all equal humiui rights has oeased to bc; u question at issiu; botween the oontending politioal parties, and all oitizeni are bssurudofequal rights, equal privileges, and equal proteotion ; and Wiii'kkas, Tho notnination at Cinoinnafi of the most devoted Republican ever nominated, and the adoption of tho mos! nomprehengivo and libara! platform ovei odopted by the loost oxoraplary Ropublieaus over assem bied together in this country, is a fitting climax tu tho self aacriíicing labora of the bost men in t'.ie land for more tlmn a quarter of a century, run] uuguvs ii brighter and more peaoeful futuro to our coninion couutry ; and Wiiereas, It beoomes the sacred dv.ty of all citizens, of whatever race, origin, or condition, to coutribnto towurd the grand consuiumation, whioh is the i"i! and aim of the jprogressive Liboral Bi publican und Democi iiii1 party ander tho l"üilorship of Horaoti Groeloy and B. (rr;itz Brown, fcending inevitably tovraid tho unity of tho republio, with equal rights to all and rvuoucüiutiuu ; therefore, . Ry tho colorod Libornl Eopublicans of the United States in N.úional Convuution assem bied at Louisville, Ky., 1. That as citizons of tho Kopublio we huil with joy tho prospect of the buriul ot all caste, class, andscotional prejudioea nd forsrotfulness and forgiveness and oblivion of the past. 'J. That our thanks and gratitudo are alikc duc to the Cincinnati and Baltiïuoro Conventions ; to tho first for tho adoption of a platform which opens tho channel to tho graud future in whioh all men will bo known hereaftor as American eitizens and by no other designation, and to tho lattor for tnagnanimuusly and patriotically accepting the results of our inte internal convulsión and for making the grandust strido in the interest of civilization and good goverumtmt yet made by a political party aotuated hy motives ligh abovo any solfish aggrandizement or mere politieal advantage. 'J. We join our political fortunes with ;hoso of tho party having for its .standard bearer that great and good man who las dovoted his busy life to attending to ;ho sufferings of bumanity, and who, while a special friend of tho American slave, has not forgottcn the wants and quircnieuts of othors who, in tho providcncü of God, havo needof helpful hands; of thoso who, as instrumenta of tho diviuo power, aro pormitted to bo with us in that strugglo upward which inakcs a civilizad and Gcd fearing people, in the full faith and sanguine hopo that all men's rights will thus bo assured, and that we, as a people, will have more cause to rejoico that wo can forget and forgive the past than any othor clasa of American citizens. 4. We doprecate the bitterness of the conduct of the Grant poople, and counsel our poople everywhere, na matter what their political preforenco, to use modcration, kindness and Christian charity towards those who diiïer fro'm thern, and givo more attention to their material interest and tangiblo advantages of educatiun than to transitory and bootless frenzy, which at best hus no result but to a few not of their race or blood. 5. We deploro tho tendency of the present Adininistration towards despotic centralization, and demand that some deflning lino be ineradicaily fixed whero the powers of tho General Goveniment shull cease a:id the functions of the local governmeuts begin, and that thoro shall be equality of tlio States in the Union as wt'll as equality of men ; that a governnent like ours, administored by a singlo will, controlling the poliey and vast patronage of tho States, when tlio teniptaion of solf-perpetuation remaius, cannot ontinue a republic except in name, and nust, in tho eternal fitness of things, fulmiiiate in uu empire or oligarchy of ofice-h olders. 0. That civil-servieo reform must begin at tho source of all power of abuso - official patronage - and that iirm System )i reform is impossible in the absence of lie ons-term principie for tlio President. 7. We tender our gra'itude to the pioleers of the greatest Christian accom)lishmcnt in human affairs, uow on the .hii'.sholdoi' Knal fruition, and givo our issuranco of unswerving fidelity and unbounded adiuiration to and for all those grand men who luwe led tho way ánder the inspired and superhuman monition of Sumner, Greeley, Trumbull, Banks, Tappan, Julien, Farnsworth, Clay, Austin Blair, aud other bright spirits, pure men, and peerless and incomparable statosmon, to whom wo pledge our best efforts in this grand labor of refarin and rodomption. 8. We donounee ns unropiblican and un-Amerioan the viilainv of rulers who bave foistt'd themsolves vipon somo ox the iSouthorn State?, und who, by the most unl)lu3hing oupidity, havo reduced tho poople of thoso States, of both races, to a (ond'lion of poverty which half a century of prosperity cannot redeem them froin, and cali upon tho colored people of those States to rise in their nüglit and rid their States of these vampiros, whoso continued rapacity will doom the wholo pnoplo to perpetual poverty and misory. !). That we apeak unly for tho colored Liberal Kopublican voters of the country, and those within whose heartfl a sentimfntofa common gratitudo is not dead, whci we pledgo our efforts to seeuro the salvation of all tho American people, and the best good of tho wholo country by tho eloetion of Horace Greeley and B. Gratz Brown in Novomber noxt. 10. ThaMhe First National Liberal Convention of colon d men assembled in Vi'i i siger Hall, in Louisville, Septembei 20. 17'-', do üiüiaimously nomínate Horaco Greelry. of New York, and B. Gratz Brown, of Missouri, for President and Vioe-President of tho United States of America, and accept tho Gincinnati platform as the renets of our political faith. Tho Convention also adopted tho following resolution: Wiiereas, Wendoll Phillips, who. owing to his personal ill-wiU against Hor■ ; cclcy, oounsels the colored pooplo of tlio Ututcil States to vote against that noblo representativo of constitutional liberty, and advisea us to arm immediatelyin oase ür Grepley 13 electtd ; fcberefore, be it 'Voed, That we, the Xational Liberal Colored Convention assembled da do nounco such counsel as injudieious and unpatriotio, calculatod, if heeded, to huil us to doxtruotion and annibilation, und is only the outgiowtb of envy and personal differeuces and uttex ijisregard for tho ïilit and welfare ol' Ihe bolored man, and peaco and prosperity of the great repu blic. It thtjxdered down in Georgia on Honday, ind tho report comes echoing all over and through tho North inspiring tho Democrnts and Liberal Republicana, and giving the Radicáis warning that the crack of doom is at hand. Suffice it to say that tho Georgia olcetion was held on Tuesday, and that a complete Domo cratio or Conservativa victory is reported. Tho majority for Smitji, present Governor and candidato for ro-election, is estimated at from 30,000 to 00,000. Good enough for ono duy. Mr. Greeley is sad at hcart becauso some tuembers of the Cabinet aremaking spoeehes for the Republican party, and thinks it highly impropcr that they ghould advocate the re-election of President Grant. But it doos not seein to strike hira as at all out of the way that he should inake speeches in behalf of his own election. - Detroit Tribune. üur Tribune friend is unusually dull or he would be able to discover a slight differenco between Mr. Gukki.kv and the inembers of the Cabinet. Mr. Greeley ia "his own man ,"' and does not mark a daily score against the tax-ridden people of $22 or thereabouts, at which figures BOUT"WELI,, CltESWELT,, DELANO, and the other Cabinet officeis are retained by the people to discharge certain duties supposed to be imposed upon them at Washington. If any such dutios do dovolvo upon them, as faithful and honest laborersthey should stay in Washington, attend to them, and permit the discharge of deputies and clerks that raust be doing the work of thoir absent chiefs. If there really is nothing for thoso Cabinet officcra to do week after week and month after month, it is' timo tho public were advised and tho official excrescences lopped off. Does the Tribune see it? Probably "all tho world and the rest of mankind," and certainly every Aitct s reader, has heard of the fabled Irishmau's famous hunting exploit. As told by himself it was something Hko this : "Tho first feathored fowl ever I killed in Ameriky was forcuntine. I traed him up a hay-stack and shot him wid a piteh-fork. Tha iirst tiiue I shot him I inissed bim, and the second time I shot him I hit him where I misscd him before." But a distinguished American citizen has of late eelipsed the Irishraan on his own grnund, not in killing a " feathcrod fowl," but in rclatiug his own exploits. Witness the following recent speech (reported terititlm) of Gen. Grant, at Newark, New Jersey : Ladies and OsstüBHES - I cwild not but feel grateful for tho reception I have received at tho hands of the citizens of Newark and of New Jersey to-day. I had the pleasuro of visiting the State Fair near Elizabeth, where I saw little elso but puoplo. I was at your Expositiou to-night, and again saw people, but little of what they had there to see. I Hupe lu f,ee lo-morrvw tchat 1 went to-night to vee. Patrick's "hitting him where he missed him before" palos büforo tho President's "seeing" at tho Fairs. In a speech ma,de at a recent Bourbon mass meeting- Ú0 persons - at Jackson " Jtidge " Bukt is reported by tho Detroit 'Tribune as drawing a " humorous picture of Mr. Fidt:s Livkkmoiik, of Jaekson, p;oing to Washington after Guekley's olcction and requestingan ofiico, when ÖEEEr.KY would inquire what his antecedent politics had been and, on being told that ho had been a Domocrat would exelaim, ' Dou't you know, sir, that I have ropeatodly expressed my opinión of men of your politica! affiliatLoa. Xhey are liars, villains and horse thievcs, and the offices at my diHposal will be given to Liberal üipnblicans, who are my personal friends and tho men of my choico.' " Buur evidently thought that Grejci.u v had his portrait and took it for that of tho Democratie party. A very natural conclusión. - In one of tho New Jersey districts llev. Oscar Cluto, formerly of this State, is tho DetnocratioLibcral for Congres.