The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-08-26


revolutionary down to the entrance Of our army
into the city of Mexico they have shown themsev
In generasbp and sodiershp at least equal to those
of any other section Of the Union Our custom houses
would afford us revenue amp'e for every purpose al
mott as great in amount as that collected by the
Federal Government. The South exports to the
Northern States more than athe exports Of the North
to foreign countries and it is well pri nc
pie that the imports Of a community are based upon
its exports and that they nearly equal each other In
whatever aspect then consider it, will be well
prepared for the struggle as the North He did not
court 1t, but he would not shun IL and old rs he
was, he was willing to 60 through his share of the
test.
when the loud and long protracted cheering which
greeted the close of MIR. Calhouns speech had
what moderated, on motion of w. D. Prngle Esq, the
meeting adjourned
From another paper.l
1saac +. Holmes is announced n candidate for
re-ele cton in the Charleston District He is said to
be the only member in the present delegation favorable
to General Taylor's election And James Smith Rhett
is already in the field in opposition to him.
The Letter of Charles Francis Adams, Accept
ing the Free sOii Nomination.
To the Committee Of the National Free Soil Con-
vention, held at Buffalo, N y
QUINcr, August o. 1913.
Gentlemen-I have just received your official letter.
apprising of the great honor done by the con-
yention which you represen in nominating me as its
candidate for the Office of Vice President nited
States and also soliciting my acceptance of the nom
nation.
In reply, permit me to say that it had been my hope
and my expectation to be- able to act in the
canvass as of the humbiest but not of the lea
earnest and devoted, servants of the great in
which we are engaged; but since it has pleased my
fellow aborers, and especially the noble represe
tyes of the great State Of Ohio to whom your
you particularly allude, 20 call upon me, unex-
pectedly to myself to stand in the front nks of the
contest since it is their will unequvocally expressed
that should be their candidate for the office
in the Union am not the man to refuse to acknow-
ledge the obligation, or to shrink by nome nt's hest
tation the post not less of duty than honor to
which they assign me- accept most cheerfuy of the
nomination.
The fathers of the republic, nurtured in the Great
school Of liberty opened by the reformation, aimed to
illustrate by practical example in America the
celence Of their cherished theory If government To
the general success of their experiment ed
in 17T6 and carried forward in 1852 lapse of more
Than half q century has borne witness,
But unfortunately the period has also dev eoped
the existence of adverse nue nce incautousy adj
mted ut the outset which has thus far done much to
qualify the beneficial results which have been attained
fIom IT.
That which at first seemed only detection from the
path Of justice in favor Of vested rights and priv-
legged class has by degrees shown itself to wide
divereency that the only choice left to the peo-
pie of the United States is either to turn back else
by going further forward voluntarily to abandon the
principles with which their fathers started The alter
native clearly of the extension Of slavery
over the whole breadth OF the North American conti-
nent or the maintenance Of the fundamental doc
trnes Of the Declaration Of independence. The two
things cannot co-exist in the United States Regret
il may, neither evade refuse the issue
made up for Not TO accept it is equivalent in my
mind, to DESERVING great moral social and political
trus h at nome mt when every know rule of human
duty would seem to demand the complete establish.
ment of it over the minds of u free people.
With these feelings ! have read, again and again.
the platform Of principles laid down by the Buffal-
Convention hail it as the signal Of return to tho
path OF the revolutionary PATRIOTS the of ade
vance in the theory of free democracy.
There but two living ntagonist prin cipIes
in the politics of the United States-the which
shelters itself under the of human iorce and the
other which draws its vitality from human and
human sympathy. To all those who have confidence
in the capacity Of man for self government it must be
source Of great satisfaction to believe that the pc
Rod when the last of these principles will triumph in
the United States, is rapidly approaching.
At the same time it would be unju to accompany
such victory with any feelings of acrimony i'll will
towards the individual members Of the losing side.
sympathy, while its aggressive policy meets with
the frmest resistance. For the time may yet come
when those who regard the declarations of the
Buffalo Platform q vindctve assault upon their
dearest interests will consrue them rather to be the
preservation of their highest moral and political rights
Ours is not contest with geographically defined
tions of country, nor with organized communities of
IL is struggle to sustain principles of inesti
nable value in every land-of general appica tic n
wherever society Is established.
Success with is the synonyme only of that extern
sion of the greatest blessings which good mt
can most certainly be expected to confer upon tie
human race. AS such we hail its approach not so
much for the good it may do TO u.s. to all these who
may now regard 1t as portendng nothing bat injury
to themselves.
am, gentlemen, with sentiments Of the highest
respect,
Your obedient servant
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS