Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-06-12
Hannibal Hamlin's Letter of
AcceDtance.

The Republicans may we'll be proud
of their candidates for President and
Vice President of the United States
The contrast between the harmonious,
patriotic and enthusiastic action Of
the Chicago Convention, and the fierce,
sectional animosity and irreconcilable
antagonisms, and final disruption Of the
meeting of factions at Charleston, can
not escape the notice Of any intelligent
citizen. And we belive the people of
this great Country will not intrust their
interests in the hands of factionists who
are only restrained from mutual slaugh-
ter by the slender hope Of further
reveling in the plunder Of the people.
We here give the letter of Mr.. Ham
lin, accepting the nomination for Vice
President, by the Chicago Convention.
1t is a model in its way, and if any
PROOF we're needed of the fitness of the
selection it would be found in this short,
but comprehensive letter. Read and
preserve it:
WASHINGTON, May 30, 1860.
Gentlemen: Your official commune
cation of the 18th inst, informing me
that the representatives of the Republi-
can party Of the United States, assem-
! bled at Chicago, had by unanimous vote
selected me as their candidate for the
office of Vice President of the United
States, has been received, together with
the resolutions adopted by the Conven-
ton as its declaration of principles.
Those resolutions enunciate clearly
and forcibly the principles which unite
us, and the objects proposed to be ac-
complished There is neither necessity
nor propriety in my entering upon dis
cussion of them. They have the appro-
val of my judgment and, so far as any
action of mine is concerned, will be cor
daily and faithfully sustained.
l am profoundly grateful to those
with whom it is my pride and pleasure
politically to operate, for the nomina-
tion so unexpectedly conferred; and L
desire to tender through you to the mem
bers of the Convention, my sincere thanks
for the confidence thus reposed in me.
Should the nomination which L now
accept be ratified by the people, and the
duties devolve upon me of presiding
over the Senate of the United States, it
will be my earnest endeavor to faithfully
discharge them, with just regard for
the rights Of all.
1t is to be observed in connection with
the doings of the Convention, that a
paramount object with us is to preserve
the norma lcondition of our Territorial
domain as homes for freemen.
The able advocate and defender of
Republican principles whom you have
nominated for the highest place that
can crafty the ambition of man, comes
from State which has been made what
it is by special action in that respect, of
wise and good men who founded our in
stitutions. The rights of free labor
have there been vindicated and main
tanned. The thrift and enterprise which
so distinguish Illinois as one of the
most fourishing States of the glorious
West, we would see secured to all the
Territories of the Union, and restore
peace and harmony to the whole coun-
try by bringing back the Government
to what it was under wise and patriotic
men who created it. If the Republicans
shall succeed in that object as they hope
to, they will be held in grateful remem-
brance by the busy, teeming millions Of
future ages.
| am truly yours,
H. HAMLIN.
To GEO. AsHMUN, PreS't., &c.