Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1860-06-14
Letters of Acceptance of Messrs, Lincoln
and Hamlin.

and Hamlin.
The following is the correspondence between
the officers of the Republican National Con-
vention and the candidates thereof for Presi-
dent and Vice President
CHICAGO, May Is, 1860.
To the Hon, AbrGhdm Lincoln, of Illinois
SIR: The representatives Of the Republican
Party of the United States, assembled in Con-
vention at Chicago, have this day, by an un-
snimous vote, selected you as the Republican
candidate for the Office of President of the
United States, to be supported ct the next
election and the undersigned were appointed
Committee of the Convention to apprize you
of the nomination, and respectfully to request
that you will accept it. A declaration of the
principles and sentiments adopted by the Con-
vention accompanies this communication.
In the performance of this agreeable duty
we take leave to add our confident assurances
that the nomination Of the Chicago Conven-
ton will be ratified by the suffrages of the
people.
We have the honor to be-, with great re-
spect and regard, your friends and fellow -citi-
Zens,
GEO. ASHAUN, Of Massachusetts,
Hon. George Ashmun, President Of the Republican Ma
tiORdi Contention.
SIR: l accept the nomination rendered me
by the Convention over which you presided,
and of which | am formally apprized in the
etter of yourself and others, acting as Com
mttee of the Convention, for that purpose.
The declaration of principles and sentiments
which accompanies your letter, meets my ap-
Proval and it shall be my care not to violate,
or disregard it, in any part.
lmploring the assistance of Divine Provi-
dence and with due regard to the views and
feelings of all who were represented in the
Convention to the rights of all the States
and Territories, and people of the nation to
the inviolability, and people of the nation to
the lnviolability of the Constitution, and the
perpetual union, harmony and prosperity of all
l am most happy to cooperate for the practical
success of the principles declared by the Con-
yention.
Your obliged friend and fellow citizen,
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
A similar letter was sent to the nominee for
the Vice Presidency, to which the following is
the reply:
WASHINGTON, May so, 1860
GENTLEMEN Your official communication
of the 18th inst, informing me that the repre-
sentativeS of the Republican Party of the
United States, assembled at Chicago on that
day, had, by a unanimous vote, selected me as
their candidate for the office of VicePresident
has been received together with the reSolu-
tions adopted by the Convention as its decIara-
tion Of principles.
Those resolutions enuncate clearly and
forciby the principles which unite US and the
objects proposed to be accomplished. They
address themselves to all, and there is neither
necessity nor propriety in my entering upon a
discussion of any of them. They have the
approval Of my judgment, and in any action of
mine will be faithfully and cordially sustained.
am profoundly grateful to those with whom
it is my pride and pleasure politically to coop
crate, tor the nomination so unexpectedly con-
ferred and desire to tender through you, to
the members of the Convention, my sincere
thanks for the confidence thus repoSed in me
Should the nomination, which | 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
faithfully to discharge them with Just regard
for the rights of ALL
1t is to be observed, in connection with the
doings Of the Republican Convention, that
paramount object with us, is, to preserve the
normal condition of our territorial domain as
homes for free men. 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 a
State which has been made what it is, by
special action in that respect, Of the wise aud
good men who founded our institutions. The
rights of free labor have there been viGdieated
and maintained. The thrift and enterprise
which so distinguished Illinois, one of the most
fouriShing States of the glorious West we
would see secured to all the Territories of the
Union, aud restore peace and harmony to the
whole country by bringing back the Govern
ment to what it was under the wise and patrio-
tic men who created it, II the Republicans
shall succeed on that object, as they hope to,
they will be held in grateful remembrance by
The busy and teeming millions of future ages.
am, very truly, yours, II. HAMGIN.
Hon. GEORGE AsHMUN, President of the Con
vention, and others of the Committee
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