Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-06-05
Response from Grant and Colfax.

The committee appointed by the ma
tional republican convention at Chicago
under instructions from the body to pre-
sent Gen. Grant and Schuyler ColfaS
with a record Of its proceedings, and to
inform them of their nomination, per
formed that duty, Friday evening, at the
residence of Gen. Grant About two
hundred persons were present. including
the delegates to the convention, several
members of Congress, Gen. Grants staff,
and the ladies of the families of Gen.
Grant and Speaker Colfax. These two
gentlemen stood side by side, and the
spectators formed in semi-circle in front
of them, thus ailording full view of the
proceedings. Gen. j. II, Hawley, pres
ident of the convention addressed Gen.
Grant in eloquent terms, stating briefly
the doings of the convention and the
unanimous confidence they reposed in
him, and to which, the following is
GEN, GRANT REPLY.
Mr.. President and gentlemen of the
National Union convention: Twill en-
deavor, in very short time, to write you
letter accepting the trust you have i'm
posed upon me (applause,) expressing
my gratitude for the confidence you have
placed in me. will now say but little
orally, and that is to thank you for the
unanimity with which you have selected
me as candidate for the presidential
office. / can say in addition, thatI looked
on during the progress of the proceed
ings at Chicago, with a great deal of in
terest, and am gratifed with the harmo-
ny and unanimity which seemed to have
governed the deliberations of the conven-
ton. If chosen to fill the high office for
which you have selected me, | will give
to its duties the same energy, the same
spirit, and the same will, that | have
given to the performance of all duties,
which have devolved upon me heretofore.
Whether shall be able to perform these
duties to your entire satisfaction, time
will determine. You have truly said in
the course of your address, that | shall
have no policy of my own to interfere
against the will of the people.
As the general closed his speech there
was long continued applause.
MR.. coLFAx's ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
After the brief address of Gen. Haw-
ley, Mr.. Colfax replied:
Mr.. President Hawley and gentlemen:
History has already proclaimed that the
victories of the party you represent, du-
ring the recent war, always gave increas-
ed hope and confidence to the nation,
while its reyerses and defeat ever in
the national peril 1t is no light
tribute. therefore, to the millions of re-
publ cans in the forty-two states and ter
rtoiies represented in the Chicago con-
vention, that that Organization iras been
so inseparably interviewer with the best
interests OF the republic,-that the tri-
umphs and reverses of the one have been
the triumphs and reverses of the other.
Since the general of our armies, with his |
heroic followers crushed the rebellion,
the keynote of its policy, that loyalty
should govern what loyalty preserved, |
has been worthy of its honored record in
the war. Cordially agreeing with the
platform adopted by its national conven-
ton, and the resolutions, thereto attached
| accept the nomination, with which |
have been honored, and will hereafter
communicate that acceptance to you in
the formal manner, that usage requires.
There were long demonstrations of APP
plause, and the gentlemen present gene
rally advanced and shook Gen. Grant
and Mr.. Colfax by the hand and con-
graduated them on the choice of the con-
Vention. The party then withdrew to
The adjoining room, where collation.
lad been provided.