Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-08-07
Hon. HOratio seymOur's Letter of
Accordance,

SeY
Acceptance.
Hon. HoRATIo SEYMoUR's letter ofaccept-
ance is asdoeument that must prove satis-
factory, not only to the mass OF the. Demo-
cratic party, but to the masses of all parties
Having, ina brief speech, on the 11th of
July, In the city of New York, accepted
| the nomination that was forced upon him
by the Democratic National Convention,
and having then and there av0wed his fa-
miliarity with the ''scope and import" of
the platform adopted by the Convention,
and declared his|committal to its "terms"
by reason of his membership of the Con-
vention, and accepting it as his political
guide sin the future" there was great pro-
priety 2 ini fMf. SEYMOUR not being in
haste to redeclare his acceptance through
letter. Had he within a dav or two, after
making this acceptance speech, put that
acceptance into letter and given that let
ter Immediately to the public, there are
parties who would have done him the in
Justice of constituting the Platform touch
ing the vital issue of the finances as differ
ent from the design and intent of its franz
ers. This cannot be done now. In his let
ter Of acceptance he says: -s..sip., -sasi9
81 see no reason, upon reflection, to
change or quality the terms of my approval
of the resolutions of the Convention"
This he wrote after Mr., PENDLEToN had
given to that platform mthelconstruetion that
it gave perfect indorsementto to hisfinancial
his Greenback policy. This he wrote afr
ter tine RepublicanpressE East and West had
represented that Platform as embodying
Mr.. PENDLEFoN's Greenbaek policy. and
had with that reckless disregard of truth,
which is their prominent characteristics,
denounced it as dignifying with the coun.
tenance of q great party Republication and a
violation of the plighted faith of the Ma
ton. He wrote it after the Democratic
Press everywhere had appIauded it as an
Endorsement of the views of the great
champion of the Tax-payers--Hon
GEoRGE H. PENDLEToN. He wrote it after
the country--ail parties1had placed their
construction upon the Platform and had
given to it the same construction ?s,s o. : Z, "a -
In his speech accepting the nomination
Mr.. SEYMOUR had been unreseryed., He ac-
cepted the Platform cheerfully. He re-
garded himself bound by it,. It, should be
to him his rule OF. political action, sin the
future''-throughou the future. land now,
after the country has given to It its con-
struction- after it has been. ascertaiDed
that the Platform does not speak with a
forkeds tongue; after it has been ascer-
tanned that it is in truth, tie, great Work
ingman's Platform, for the financial and
the land planks of the platform are the
same as those which the Labor National
Convention put into their Platform as OF
chief imp0rtahc writes -coolly and
deliberately, first having given to the whole
subject. the most thorough consideration
that he has -.sno reason" .sto change or
qualify the terms of" his approval of the
resolutions of the Convention"
Mr.. SEYMOUR is an honorable, high
minded sman-undoubtedly the ablest
statesman of his age in. the United States.
4 The great army of workers then have
not been cheated ither in the Platform or
Nominees of the Democratic National Con-
vention, as they were at the Chicago Con-
vention. gcAs Mr.. PENDLEToNi wrote in
June, their interests will be carefully look
ed to by Mr.. SEYMOUR. 1T is with great
heartiness,, therefore, /, that the, slaboring
man, the mechanic and the business man
every man desirous of economy and hon
esty in the administration of the Govern
ment-every man in favor of equal taxa
tion-eyery man in favor of one currency
for all, alike for the bondholder and the
laboring iman--eanig go into the contest for
SEYMoUR and BLAIR and the Democratic
candidates for Congress. ,iig, eiso,s a. =
Although Mr.. PENDLEroN-the great
favoritel Of thes West not the Presiden-
tial no mineeyyet the man who is second to
no man in the United States In point of
ability and statesmanship, is the nominee,
aud is the unequivocal indorser of the
PENpLLEFoMAN policy This being true,
it were imp ar donabIe isceptieism to doubt
the election of SEYMOUR and BLAIR. zo9 bn
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