North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1864-06-15
THE CLEVELAND NOMINATIONS,
General Fremonts Letter of Acceptance.
LETTER TO GENERAL FREMONT.

NhNhRAL n convention o. tne people SIT
ting at the city of Cleveland, in the State oi
Ohio, on the 3lst day of May, 1864, have
nominated you unanimously and by acclama-
ton as q candidate for President of the Uni
ted States.
The convention have appointed as their
Committee, with instructions TO comlnuni-
cate o you the result of their delberation
and to ask your acceptance of the nomina-
tion.
In discharging this duty the committee
need hardly inform you, general, that the
convention which has thus put you in nomi-
nation for the Office otPresident, represent
ed that great mass of the nation which hold
| in practice as we'll as in theory to the funda-
| mental doctrine oflts founders, that all men
have the inaIienable right to life, property,
and the pursuit of happiness, and that slave
ry and caste are Incompatible with its enjoy
nent, and ough not to be suffered to exist.
The convention, true to its faith in the
common brotherhood of man and Of govern
nent By all the people foT all the people,
| adopted a series of resolutions which the
| committee submit for your consideration, go
| ing in some sense to express the views whicir
| they hold in unison With those of the radical
| democracy OF the nation upon some of the
main issues to be tried before the people at
| the coming presidential election.
That they do not cover specifically every
| paint Of the political faith Of the radical de
| :nocFacy of the country. or de- not define per
haFs as sharply as they night have been
made 20 do, the radical views Of the cunyen-
ton upon the subjects presented, is, after all,
OF Estie Importance for the reason that the
iIlustC.ous nominee OF the convention for
President is the living embodiment of all its
! principles of government and civil and mil
| taEy administration which has called into be-
ING the political organization that has just
tA-te you, general its standard bearer
I"ur own high character for fidelity to the
! rqIal rights Of all the people, and the Sigual
p,ool5 you have given TO the world OF the
possession Of the statesnanshp ID wisdom
necessary to govern well aud justly, and OF
! the generalshp so sore!y needed to carry the
var 10 quick and triumphant issue, are
better guaranty that the principles you repre-
sent viii not be BETRAYED, shoqld the nation
! elevate ou /" is chief magistracy, than any
written profession Of political faith, however
-lu.os!y drawn and gravcIy accepted. With
! intent to be broken.
Lct tAc convention, in what they have
| do"e, hR7e Substantially covered the whole
ground Of che political faith Of the radical
Democracy, in asserting the necessity for re
establishing the supremacy Of the federal Tn
! s2a: for lie faithful execution Of the laws OF
| lho United States for maintaining the li5
eEtes Of person, speech, and press. except
when suspended by martha! law for sup
| pressing the rebellion by force of arms and
~iJhoat compromise; for amending the Con
stitUtIon so IS to abolish and prohibit slavery
forever N the United States, and securl ng TO
| all men absolute equality before the law; for
integrity and economy in the adnnist att n
OF the national government for upholding
the right of asylum except for crime and of
| lenses against international law for the vim
dicatlon Of the Monroe doctrine, bv declar-
ing anew the determination of the American
people not TO tolerate the setting up of am
| anti republican government on this continent
by any foreign power; for insisting upon ap.
plying the one term principle to the offiee Of
President, and amending the Constitution, SO
as 10 provide for the election Of that officer
| by direct vote of the whole people for re-
stricting the power of reconstructing rebell-
ous states to the people through their repro
sentatives in Congress- and for confiscatrng
| the lands of rebels, and distributing them
among the soldiers and actual settlers.
| What these principles would mean in prac
tlce the convention clearly declared, general,
! when they put you upon them as their can
! d!date for President, for they knew and the
country knows, that you will, if elected, faith
fully carry them out to all their logical C, n
sequences with out fear or favor, and give the
country an administration of public affairs,
| hat will command the affections of the
whole people and re store it to It's former
high place in the scale of nations.
Perhaps zoe may best illustrate The tenn
per OF The convention bv referring you to the
| teller OF Mr. Wendell Phillips, the reading
OF which vas ordered and received with
storm OF applause. We feel authorized to
declare 1t as our opinion, that had 1t been
offered as a platform of the principles OF
government and administration, IL arouId
hdre been adopted with the same tu,nultu.
Gus applause as that which hailed your nom
nation. Its mastery exposition of the needs
OF the country in this dark crisis of its ex-
lsience and struggles for continued life is
fitting commentary upon the purposes OF the
convention, and we commend it to your CON.
slderation as part of their deliberations.
And now, general, having discharged our
| duty imposed OH US by the convention. we