The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-06-01
Mr.. freeley's Letter of Ac.
ceptance.
oFFICfL NOTICE TO MIR. GREELEY.
EIAcINNATI. Ohio, May 8. 1872.

fUnlted ssltes. We also submit tC
, 2.you the Address and resolutions una.
, lnimousl, adopted by the Convention
n Be pleased to signify to us your ac-
lceptanclo of the platform and the nom.
iination, ,5ahd believe us, very truly
Fyours,
i c. SCHURZ, President.
i GEO.Tf. JULIAN, Vice President
B 3oHs f f, / I; / szs'SSs1s' g. Secretaries.
EThe HdE Horace Greeley, New
+ York H1ity.
+ ~ GREELEY's REPLY.
T. Il New York, May 20, 1872.
a GENTLEMEN: | have chosen not to
kacknowtedge your letter of the Sd
finst. until Il could learn how the work
tef your, Convention was received in
tall partk Of the country, and judge
Ewhethe1 hat work was approved and
tratifiedghY the mass of our fellow citi-
zens. Taeir response has from day
to day seiehed me through kilograms,
letters, :alh the comments of Journal
4 lists independent of official patronage
sand INDEPENDENT to the smiles or
frowns Df power The number and
character of these unconstrained, un-
Spurchased unsolicited utterances sat
tisfy me that the movement which
found EXPRESSION at Cincinnati has re-
! ceived tho stamp of public approval,
and be hailed by majority of our
| countr,snen as the harbinger of bet
ter day for the Republic.
I: / do tat misinterpret this approval
as especially complimentary to my
. self, nog even to the chivalrous and
justly esteemed gentleman with whose
! name Istatank your Convention for as
sociatirig mine. / receive and well
come its d. h spontaneous and deserved
tribute tbE that admirable platform of
principles wherein your Convention
so tersdlts so lucidly, so forcibly, set
forth tile convictions which impelled
and the purposes which guided its
course Aa platform which, casting be-
hind il the wreck and rubbish of
worn-oiltI contentious and hy-gone
feuds, elahadies in fit and few words
the nee.lsI and aspirations of to-day.
Though thousands stand ready to
condemn sour every act, hardly
syllabl, of criticism or cavil has been
aimed At your platform, of which the
substa,k kce may be fairly epitomized as
followsE
|. An tlre political rights and fran
nl,i lxN-a,snl, Il
through our late bloody convulsion
must and shall be guaranteed, main
tanned, ,it1joyed, respected, eyermore.
ii. Al the political rights and fran
chiscs which have been lost through
that coIaulsion should and must be
prompt restored and re-established,
so that flere shall be henceforth no
prosclihfd class and no DISTINGUISHED
caste within the limits of our Union,
whose lohg estranged people shall re-
unite amid fraternize upon the broad
basis of universal amnesty with I'M
PARTIAL suffrage.
III. That, subject to our solemn
constitutional obligation to maintain
the equal rights of all citizens, our
policy SHOULD aim at local self-govern
ment, aIil not at centralization that
the civil authority should be supreme
over the military that the writ of
habeasicgrpas should be jealously up
held us the safeguard of personal free
dom that the individual citizen
should enjoy the largest liberty con-
sistenti with public order; and that
there shall be no Federal subversion
of the illfelnal polity of the several
States anil municipalities, but that
each shall he left free to enforce the
rights and promote the well-being of
its inhabitants by such means as the
judgmsHf of its people shall pre-
scribe. 4
". There shall be real, and not
merely ai stimulated reform in the civil
service Of the Republic; to which end
it is indispensable that the chief dis
penser; Cf it's vast official patronage
shall oaI shielded from the main
temptation to use his power selfishly |
by rllls inexorably forbidding and
his reelection.
V. That the raising of revenue,
by tariff or otherwise, shall
be recG ghized and treated as the peo-
ple's ialmediate business, to be
shaped and directed by them, through |
their Representatives in Congress,
whose ACTION thereon the President
must neither override by his veto, at
tempt to dictate, nor presume to
punish f5y bestowing Office only on
those whb agreed with him or with
drawing it from those who do not. 4
VI. that the public lands must be
sacredlN reserved for occupation and
lcquisi pm by cultiyators, and not
reckless squandered on the projec-
tors of i7liiro;lds for which our people
have no1present need, and the prema-
ture construction of which is annually
us into deeper abysses of
foreign Indebtedness.
VII. gIhat the achievement of these