The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1869-08-27
Pendlaton' Is Letter Of Acceptance.

CINCINNATI August ID, 1863.
Nos=rs. F. F Bingham, H. H. Dodge, David Tar
bell, 4. :. Ramsey and z. V. BrOOkheli, Com
mittee.
GENTLEMEN-I have received, by
the hands of the Chairman, your let
ter notifying me formally Of my nom
ination by the Democratic State Cen
tral Committee, as candidate for the
office of Governor, to supply the va
caUey caused by the deelination of
General Roseerans. I repeat to you
what l said to the committee by tel
egraph-that if it was their unani-
nous opinion, notwithstanding my
views and wishes, that [ ought to ac-
cept the nomination, | would consid-
er their request as an imperative COM
mand to make the canvass, and l
would do so to the best Of my ability.
presume it is well known to all
who take an interest in these matters,
that | did not desire this nomination.
| appreciated fully its importance !;
I recognized the dignity of the high
Office l believed your nominee
would be elected but my health. i'm
paired by an accident, my occupa-
tion and my plan oflife for the pres
ent, combined to prevent my desiring
it.
The nomination of General Rose
Grams commanded my cordial and zeal
Gus support. When he declined, be-
cause he had removed from the State,
1 was anxious for the nomination of
a wise and accomplished gentleman,
an eminent jurist and statesman
Judge Ranney, or of a gallant and
patriotic soldier, General McCook,
or of one of the other distinguished
gentlemen who had been voted for in
the convention; but when they all
declined, and the committee With en-
tire unanimity, and with their con-
cure nee, rendered me the nomination,
and with great urgency claimed my
services, felt that | had no alterna-
tive but to accede to their wishes. |
felt that my personal convenience
must be held for nothing in the pres
ence of the demand of that great and
patriotic party which has so often
and so signally honored me with its
confidence.
In this spirit | accepted the nomi-
nation, and will do whatever I, in
truth and honor, may to secure the
election. | will not now discuss the
questions which divide the parties.
In due time | trust to be so far recov-
cred as to be able to take part in the
great debate.
Governor Hayes, in his speech at
Wilmington, forgot to allude to the
Fifteenth Amendment and his views
on that important question.
In discussing the finances, he said:
awe are in the midst of profound
peace, yet money Is scarce and bust
ness depressed He might have
added that employment is difficult to
be obtained that labor is badly re-
warded that industrial pursuits are
all hampered; that enterprisiDg bust
ness men engaged in business are
standing on the very verge of bank
ruptcy-that interest is enormously
high-that the tariff is most oppress-
ive-that the internal taxation is
most unequal, unjust and onerous-
that dead capital is exempted, and
active capital and labor are weighed
down-and warming with the picture,
he might also have said that for eight
years the Republican party had been
in absolute possession of the Govern
men that a Republican Secretary of
the Treasury has now control of the
money market of the country, and
that he uses his power only stili
further to contract the currency, to
increse the "hard times, and to buy
overdue bonds at one hundred and
twenty dollars, which by law he is
entitled to pay at par, thereby taking
twenty dollars for every hundred
from the tax-payer and giving it to
the bondholder. The farmer, the
merchant, the manufacturer will ask
why these things are so? What is
the cause? What is the remedy {?
They are important questions this
fall. They touch us all, Democrats
and Republicans alike. They rise
nhAvo thv domain OF mere partisan
politics, and should be considered
with the calmest reason, the purest
motives and the best Judgment. In
this spirit [ shall discuss them so
soon as [ am able to take part with
my friends in the activity of the can
vass-of the result in October we
need have no fear.
| am, respectfully,
GEO. III. PENDLETON.