The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1868-08-12
GYE8UR's LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE
REASONS FOR ITs DELAY.
UnequivOcaI ReiterafiOn of his
Purpose 20 stand Upon the
Platform at All Time and
Under ali circumstances.
scathlng Review Of the Congress.
sional Policy.
Radical RceEiessness and Rotten
Borough Representation
Denounced.

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UTICA, August 4, 1868.
GENTLEMEN: When in the city of NeV
/, York on the lth inst, in the presence of
vast multitude, on behalf of the Nationa
Democratic Convention, you rendered to M
its Insimous nomination as their candidate
for the Office of President of the UnteC
States, l stated that had no words ade
quate to express my gratitude for the gnoC
will and kindness which that body had
shown to me. Its nomination was unsought
and unexpected. 1t vas my ambition tC
take an active part, from which | am nov
excluded, in the great struggle going on fol
the restoration of GOOD government. oil
peace and prosperity to our country; but
have been caught up by the owe wheIming
tide which is bearing us on to great po-
litical change, and | fnd myself unable to
resist its pressure.
You have also given me copy of the
resolutions put forth by the Convention,
showing its position upon all the great
questions which now aeitatc the country.
As the presiding officer of that Convention
am familiar with their scope and import:
as one Of its members [ am party to thei
terms. They are in accord with my views
and stand upon them in the contest upon
l.
strive to carry them out in the future, wher.
ever may be ploced, in political or private
life.
| then stated I would send you these
words Of acceptance i'll letter, as is the
customary form. see no reason upon res
Election to charge or qualify the terms OF
my approval Of the resolutions of the Con
ventlon. | have delayed the mere formal
act OF communicating to you in writing what
| | thus publicly said, for the purpose OF
seeing nhat light the action Of Congress
would throw upon the interests ofthe coun-
try, Its acts since the adjournment of the
| Convention show an alarm lest change of
political power will give TO the people what
they ought to have, clear statement OF
what has been done with the money drawn
from them during the past eight years
Thoughtful men tell that there have been
wrongs in the financial MANAGEMENT which
have been kept from the public knowledge
| The Congressional party has not only allied
to itself the whole military power, which is
| to be brought to bear directly upon the elpc
tion IN many States, but holds Itself in per-
| petuai session with the avowed purpose of
making such laws as it shall see fit in view
Of the election which will take place within
| few weeks, Itdid not, therefore, adjourn,
but took recess to meet again if its partl-
| san interests shall demand its reassembling
Never before in the history of our coun-
| try has Congress thus taken menacing at =
! titude towards It's electors. Under its ine
! huence some Of the States organized by its
| agents are proposing to deprive the people
! Of the right TO vote Tor President electors,
and the first bold steps are taken to destroy
| the rights Of suffrage + it strange, there
| fore, that thoughtful men see in such action
the proof that there is with those who
shape the policy OF the Republican party
motives stronger and deeper than the mere
wish to hold political powerful hat shnre is a
| dread of some exposure which drives them
on to acts so desperate end 50 impoijtic?
| Many Of the ahlcst leaders and journals Of
| the Republican party have openly depiorea
the violence of Congressional aetlon, and its
tendency to keep up dIscord in our country.
The great interests Of our Union demand
peace, order and a return to those industrial
pursuits without which we cannot maintain
| the faith or honor Of our Govcrnm ent The
minds OF business men are perplexed by un-
| ceralnlies; the hours of tod Of our labore.s
are lGngthenud BY the cost of living made
by the direct and indirect exactions OF the
Government; our people are harrassed by
the frequent demands Of the tax gatherer.
Without distinction of pnrly there is
strong feeling in favor OF that line o. action
which shall restore order and confidence
and shall lit off the burdens which now hn>
der and .vex the industry OF the country.
Yet at this moment those in power have
thrown into the Senate chamber and Con-
gressional hall new element Of discord and
violence Men have been admitted as re.
presentatives of some OF the Southern
States with the declaration upon their lips
that they cannot live in the States they
claim to represent without military protecA
ton These men are to make laws fer the
North as well as the South; these men, who
few days since were seeking as supplants
that Congress would give them power with
in their respective States, are to-day the
controllers of the actions of those bodies
entering them with minds filed with dues-
tions and demands that Congress shall look
upon the States from which they come as
in conditions of ,ivil war; that the majority
of their populations, embracing their in
telligence, should be treated as public ene>
mics, be Kept up at the cost Of the people
of the North, and that there shall be no
peace and order at the South save that
which is made by arbitrary power. Every
intelligent man knows that they not only
owe their present positions to disorder, but
that their every motive springs from the
love of power, of gain; chat desire for
vengeance prompts them to keep the South
in anarchy While. that exists they are
independent of the will or wishes Of their
fallowsctizens; while confusion reigns they
are the recipients Of the profits and honors
which grow out of government of mere
force. These men are now placed in posi-
tions where they cannot only urge their
views of politics, but where they can enforce
them. When men shall be admitted in
this manner from the remaining Southern
States, although they will have in truth no
constituents, they will have more power in
the Senate than majority Of the people of
this Union, living in the line of the great
States.
In vain members Of the Republican par.
ty protested against the policy that led to
this result, While the the chiefs of the late
rebellion have submitted to the result CT
war, and are now quietly engaged in useful
pursuits for the support Of themselves and
their families, and are trying by the force
of example to lead back the people of the
South to the order and industry not only
essential to their well,beng, but to great
ness and prosperity ofour community, all
see that those without ability or inf renee
have been thrown by the agitations of civil
conyulsion into positions of honor and pro-
fit, and are striving to keep alive the pas
sons to which they owe their elevation,
and they clamorously insist that they are
the only friends of our Union. Proof of
that orly have sure foundation in frater-
nal regard and common desire to promote
the peace, the order and tne happiness Of
all portions of our land.
Events in Congress since the adjourn.
ment of the Convention have vastly increas.