The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-08-20
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| men: It's certainly true tnat tnrou8n
out the conrse of my life, 90 far d
been connected with public sffairs,
have struggled with such capacity a.
God has gwen ms-tor iist. impartial
and universal liberty; second tor the
union aud greatness Of our common
country, and third and by no means
least, when the former end was at
tanned, for early and hearty reconcilis,
ton and peace among our countrymen
For these great ends / have struggled
and hope the issue Of the third is moi
doubtful.
thoroughly comprehend that no per
sonsl consideration has drawn this vast
assembly together. Other higher and
grander considerations have collected
you around me to-day. 1t is part oil
the unwritten law OF our country that
candidate for the Presidency may not
make speeches 10 vindicstion and COM
mepdation OF principles vbereupon he
is supported, or tue measures which bis
election is intended to promote; though
candidate for Vice President ID under
no such inhibition. / not merely
acquiesce in the restriction but l receg.
nize and affirm its propriety.
The temptation to misinterpret and
misrepresent q candidate for the higher
posts is 30 great, the means of circuls-
ting such perversions among the people
who never see a word of their reputa-
ton are 30 vast, that a candidate has
no moral right to subject his friends TO
the perils he must brave, il not invite,
by taking part in the canvass. Yet
there is truth TO be uttered in behalf
Of those who have placed me before the
American people in my present attitude,
which does them such honor that l
claim the privilege of stating it here
and now. This is the truth: No per
son has ever vet made the fact known
that he proposed to support, or actively
did support my nomination, whether at
CINCINNATI or at Baltimore, or in any
action which resulted in sending dele
gates to either Convention, ss the basis
OF claim for Office at my hands. No
one who favored my nomination before
either Convention or at either Conven-
ton has sought office at my hands
either for himself or any one else, nor
has any one suggested to me that !
might strengthen myself as a candi-
date by promising to appoint any one to
any important Office whatever. In q
very few instances-less than a dozen,
| am certain-some of the smaller fry
OF politicians have since my double
nomination, limited to me that might
increase my chances Of election by
promising a postoffice or some such
place to my volunteer correspondents
respectively. l have not usually re-
sponded to these overtures, but now
give general notice that should be
elected l will consider the claims of
these untimely aspirants after those of
the more modest and reticent shall
have been fully satisfied. Applause.
In two or three instances | have been
asked to say whether l would or would
not, if elected, confne my appointments
to Republicans. I answer these by
pointing to the plank in the Cincinnati
platform, wherin all who concur in the
principles therein set forth are cordially
invited to participate in their establish
ment and vindication.
Inever yet heard Of a man who 10
vited his neighbors to help him raise q
house, and proceeded to kick them out
OF it as soon as the roof was fairly over
his head. For my own part, 1 recog-
nize every honest man who approves
and adberes to the Cincinnati platform
as my political brother, and as such,
fully entitled to my confidence and
friendly regard.
One other point demands a word.
Those adverse to me ask what pledges
have given to those lately hostile 10
the Union, to secure their favor and
support. I answer, no man or woman
in all the South ever asked of me,
either directly or through another, any
other pledge than is given in all my
acts and words, from the hour of Lees
surrender down to this moment.
No Southern man ever limited to me
an evacuation, hope or wish that the
rebel debt, whether Confederate Or
State, should be assumed or paid by
the Union; and no Southern man who
could be elected to a Legislature or
colonel OF q militia regiment, ever sug-
gested the pensiouing Of all the rebel
soldiers or any OF them even, as o re-
mote possibility.
All who nominated me we're per-
fectly aware that upheld and justified
Federal legislation to repress Ku.Klux
conspiracies aud outrages, though /
had long ago insisted, 30 strenuously as
! now do. that complete amnesty and
general oblivion of the bloody. hateful
past would do more for the suppression
and utter extinction OF such, outrages
than all the force bills and suspension
OF haJeas corpus ever devised by man.
Wrong and crime must be suppressed
and punished, but far wiser and nobler
is the policy of the legislation by which
they are prevented.
From those who support me in the
South have heard but one demand
Justice but one Observation-Disclosures.
They wish to be heartily united and at
peace with the North on any termswhich
does not involve the surrender Of their
manhood. They ask that they should
be regarded and treated by any Federal
authority as citizeps-not culprits-so
long as they obey and uphold every Law
consistent with equality and right.
They desire rule which, alike for
white and black, shall encourage in
dustry and thrift and discourage
rapacity and villsiny. They cherish q
joyful hope, in which l fully concur,
that between the 9th of November and
the 4th of:March next quite number
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