The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-05-28
NO. 10.
Greeley's Acceptance.
NEW York, May 81.
FFICIAL NOTICE OF THE NOMINATION.

president and vice-prcsident and secre.
taries of the convention, to inform you
that you have been nominated as the
candidate Of the Liberal Republicans for
the Presidency Of the United States
We also submit to you the address and
resolutions unanimously adopted by the
convention.
Be pleased to signify to us your ac-
ceptance Of the platform and the nomin-
alton, aad believe US very truly yours,
G.. ScnURz, President.
Geo. W. Julian, Vice President
W. E. Mclean,
j. G. Davidson Secretaries.
j. II. Rhodes,
Hon. Horace Greeley,
New York City,
MR.. GREELEY's REPLY.
New YORK, May 20.
GENTLEMEN Il have chosen not to
acknowledge your letter of the Sd inst,
until | could learn how the work of your
convention was received in all parts of
our great country aud judge whether that
work was approved and ratified by the
mass of their fellow citizens. Their
response, from day to day, has reached
me through kilograms, letters and the
comments of journalists, Independent of
off ial patronage and Indifferent to the
smiles and frowns Of power. The number
and character of these demonstrations,
unpurchased and unsolicited, satisfy me
that the movement which found express
sion at Cincinnati has received the stamp
Of public approval and been hailed by a
majority Of our countrymen as harbin-
ger Of a better day for the Republic. | do
not misinterpret this approval,as especial
y complimentary to myself nor even to
the chivalrous and justly esteemed gen
tlemen with whose name thank your
convention for associating mine. | re-
ceive and welcome it as a spontaneous
and desired tribute to that admirable
platform Of principles, wherein your con-
vention so tersely, so lucidly and so forci-
bly, set forth, the conviction which i'm
PEELED, and the purposes which guided its
course. \ platform which casting behind
it the wreck and rubbish of worn out con-
tertions and bygone fcuds embodies in fit
and few words the needs and aspiration
of to-day.
! Thousands stand ready to condemn
your every act, hardly syllable of criti-
cism or cavil has been aimed at your
platform, of which the substance may be
fairly epitomized as follows:
First. All the political rights and
franchises which have been acquired
through our late bloody convulsion must
and shall be guaranteed, maintained and
enjoyed and respected evcrmore,
Second. All the political rights and
franchises which have been lost through
that convulson should and must be
promptly restored and re-establishcd, so
that there should be henceforth no pro-
scribed and no disfrauchised caste within
the limits of our Union, whose long
estrangcd people shall re-unite and fra
ternize upon the broad basis Of universal
amnesty, with impartial suffrage.
Third. That subject to our solemn
constitutional obligation to maintain
equal rights of all citizens, our policy
should aim at local self government and
not at Capitalization. That civil author
ity should be supreme over the military.
That the writ Of habcas corpus should be
zealously upheld as the safeguard of per-
sonal freedom. That the individual
citizen should enjoy the largest liberty
consistent with the public order, and that
there should be no federal subversion Of
the internal polity of the several States
and municipalities, but that each shall be
left free to enforce the rights and promote
the well being of its inhabitants by such
means as the judgment of its own people
shall prescribe.
Fourth. There shall be real and not
merely simulated reform in the civil
service of the Republic, to which end it
is indispensable that the chief dispenser
of its vast official patronage, shall be
shielded from the main temptation to use
his power selishly by rule inexorably
iorbidding his reelection.
Fifth. That the raising of revenue,
whether by tariff or otherwise, shall be
recognized and treated as the peoples
! immediate business, to be shaped and
directed by them, through their repre-
sentativcs in Congress, whose action the
President must neither overrule by his
veto or attempt to dictate nor presume to
) punish by bes:owing office only, on those
| who agree with him or Withdrawing it
: from those who do not.
, Sixth That the public lands must be
/ sacredly reserved for occupation, aud ac-
: QUESTION by cultivators and not reckless
, ly squandcred on the projectors Of rail-
, roads. for which our people have no
/ present need, and the premature construc-
} ton Of which is annually plunging us in-
to deeper and deeper abysses of foreign
/ Indebtedness.
, Seventh. That the achievement Of
: these grand purposes of universal bonef.
cence is expected and sought at the hands
of all who approve of them, irrespective
: Of past affiliations.
Eighth. That the public faith must
at all hazards be maintained and the ma
/ tional credit preserved
Ninth. That the patriotic devotedness
and inestimable services of our fellow
} citizens, who as soldiers or sailors upheld
the flag and maintained the rights Of the
republic shall ever be gratefully remem-
bered and honorably acquitted
These propositions so ably and forcibly
presented in the platform OF your conven-
tion have already fixed the attention and
, commanded the assent of large majority
: of our countrymen, who joyfully adopt
them, as | do, as the basis of true and
benefcent national reconstruction, of a
; new departure from jealousies, striies and
hates, which have no longer adequate
motives, or even plausible pretext, into
an otmosnhara of neace nrosneritv and