The two platforms, so far as concerns especially the colored race,
are alike in substance; but that of Cincinnati is expressed in terms
more worthy of the equal rights it states and claims: “We recognize
the equality of all men before the law, and hold that it is the duty
of Government, in its dealings with the people, to mete out equal
and exact justice to all, of whatever nativity, race, color, or
persuasion, religious or political.” In other respects the platform
of Cincinnati is the more republican, inasmuch as it sets itself
against those unrepublican abuses which have been nursed by the
President into pernicious activity.