Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1864-06-17
Frcmont,s Letter of Acceptance.

The Cleaveand Convention nominated for Presi-
dent ard Vice President two broken down gene
rails. Fremont after two trials, vas laid on the
nhef permanently. Cochrane regrets the physi.
cal disability" which withdrew him from the
These generals from the retired list, are the can.
ddates Of the radical Democracy" We doubt f
there IS gunpowder enough in the history OF both
Of them together, to help them materially. The
following is Fremonts letter Of acceptance with
his opinion of Abraham inclusive:
Gentlemen In answer to the letter which I
had the honor to receive from you, on the part of
the representatives of the people assembled at
Cleavcland on the 3lst OF May, l desire to express
my thanks for the confidence which led them to
Offer me the honorable and difficult position of
their candidate in the approaching Presidential
contest
Very honorable, because in Offering it to ne you
act i'll the name Of 4 great number Of citizens who
seek above all things the good of their country,
and who have no sort of selfish interest in view
Very difficult, because in accepting the candidacy
you propose TO me, | an exposed to the reproach
Of creating schisin to the party with which |
have been identified.
Had Mr.. Lincoln remained faithful to the princi-
pies be was elected to defend, no schIsm could
have been created and no contest could have been
possible. This is not an ordinary election. 1t is
d contest for the right even to have candidates
and not merely, as usual, for the choice among
hem. Now for the first time since 70 the cues.
reCtly before the people for their serious consid
Grafton and vote The ordinary rights secured IN
der the constitution and the laws of the country
have been violated, and extraordinary powers have
been usurped by the Executive. 1t is directly be
lore the people now to say whether or not the prin.
eiples established by the Revolution are werth
maintaining.
If, as we have been taught 10 believe, those quar-
antees for liberty which made the distinctive value
and glory OF our country. are in truth involably
sacred then there must be protest against the
arbitrary violation which had not even the excuse
of necessity. The schism is made by those who
furce the choice between shameful silence or
protest against wrong. In such considerations
; originated the Cleaveland Convention 1t was
among its objects to arouse the attention of the
neopc to such facts, and to bring them to realize
that while we are saturating Southern soil with
the best blood OF the country IN the name of lis
erty, We have really parted with it a: home
! To-day We have in the country the abuses of a
military dctation without its unity Of action and
vigor of execution. An administration marked at
home by disregard Of constitutional rights by its
violations of personal liberty and the liberty of the
press, and as browning shame by its abandon
nent of the right of asylum, right especially dear
to all free nations abroad. It's course has been
! characterized by feebleness and want of principle
which has misled European powers and driven them
to belief that only commercial interests and per-
sonal aims are concerned, and that no great prin-
| ciples are. involved in the issue. The admirable
| conduct of the people, their readiness to make
! every sacrifice demanded of them, their forbear-
ance and silence under the suspension Of every
thing that could be suspended, their many acts of
herOSm and sacrifices, were all rendered fruitless
by the lncapacity, or to speak exactly by the
| personal ends for which the war was managed
This incapacity and selfshness naturally pro-
! duced such results as led the European powers
and logically enough, to the conviction that the
North, with its greatly superior population its i'm
mense resources and its credit will never be able
! to recover the South. Sympathies which should
have been with US from the outset Of the war were
turned against US, and in this way the administra
ton has done the country double wrong abroad.
IL created hostility, or at best indifference among
those who would have been its friends it the real
interest Of the people could have been better
| known, while, at the same time, it neglected no
occasion for making the most humiliating conces
! sionS.
! Against this d 7astrous condition of affairs the
| Cleveland Convention was protest
The principles which form the basis of it's plat
form have ny unqualified and cordial appreciation;
but caonot SO heartily concur in all the measures
which you propose. i do not believe that conlis-
cation extended to the property of all rebels is
practicable and if it were So do not think Il
measure of sound policy. It is in fact, question
belong ing to tbs people themselves to decide and
Is prOpeSHen siAn for the exercise of their org-
nal and SOVEREIGN authority. IS wsr measure,
IN the beginning of revolt which might pe quelled
oy prompt severity, understand the p0li,Y of con-
hScation, but not as final measure Of raco 7struc
uon after the suppression of an insur,ection.
In the adjustments which arc to follow na.os r.,
CONSIDERATIONS OF vengeance can consistently be-
admitted. 'y Oe
The object of the. war is to make peruanar,,v