The Fairfield Herald

Effect of the Liberal Movement.

Whether or not the Liberal Republicans succeed in the Presidential campaign, the effect of the movement instituted by them, at Cincinnati is already seen and felt all over the country. The general result up to the present time is summed up in an article given below, which we copy from the New York Tribune, the able organ of the Greeley party:

"Till the Cincinnati Convention met, no entreaties could induce the Administration majority in Congress to think of any measure of Amnesty and Reconciliation for the South. But already startled by the strength Cincinnati develops, Congress has hastened to accord in a fortnight what for seven years it has persistently, defiantly, most needlessly and wickedly denied. At last we have Amnesty—not generously complete, but immeasurably better than none.

"Till the Cincinnati Convention met, it was generally understood that the President meant to have the advantage, in his canvass for reelection, of the legal power to suspend the habeas corpus, and muster the bayonet to his support. Even after Cincinnati, the Senate (now, by reason of its Pomeroy's and Caldwells and Conklings, the real lower House) persisted in renewing the Ku Klux bill for his benefit; but the House has clearly shown its unwillingness to take another step in that direction. Cincinnati has prevented Presidential elections under martial law in the hands of a Presidential candidate.

Till Cincinnati, Gen. Schurz was a German renegade and mercenary, who ought to have his leg tied to a chair. Now the Administration organs think him an accomplished and conscientious statesman. Till Cincinnati, the bailing of Jefferson Davis after he had been for two years refused the right of the commonest felon, that of a trial, was a monstrous crime. Now the Renomination State Convention hastens to select one of the bondsmen as a delegate to Philadelphia. Till Cincinnati, the political support of men who had once been Rebels, was held a sure sign of infamy. Now we see men like Mosby welcomed to the White House. And so, till Cincinnati, Democrats were still hesitating as to whether they should not fight over the old hopeless fight for issues that ceased to be vital or possible after Appomattox. Now we have them, as at Rochester, manfully planting themselves on the highest and foremost Republican ground as in Connecticut, uniting with Liberal Republicans in the most practical, common-sense fashion, to get, not the man of their choice; but only a man who had resisted some of the Administration measures which Liberal Republicans and Democrats alike disapproved.

Administration temper, Democratic principles and policy,—all are alike improved by Cincinnati."