Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-25

NEW YORK, July 23.-The followin,
Is the official notification of Mr.. Gree
ley's nomination at Baltimore:
BALTIMORE, July %. Is72.
To Hon. Horace Greeley:
DEAR SIR-IU is our pleasure, i'm com
pliance with the instructions Of Tn
Democratic National Convention, as
sembled in this city, to inform yOu tha
you have been unanimously nominated
as its candidate for President of Ia,
United States. The convention, consist
ing Of seven hundred and thirtV-twt
delegates, representing every State anC
Territory in the Union, SdOpted, with
out amendments. the declaration o
principles affirmed by the convention O.
Liberal Republicans at Cincinnati, anC
strengthened by the Endorsement con.
tained in your letter Of acceptance. The
action of this great body Of delegates
proves that they are, with singular una.
nimity, determined to enter, under yOuI
leadership, upon the patriotic duty OF
restoring to the administration of the
government purity and integrity, and
that independence in its departments
which regards the constitution as alike
the source and the limit of Federal
power. Laying aside the differences OF
the past, abandoning an purpose Of wise
partisan advantage, asking for nOpledge
other than that Of fidelity 10 the nrinci-
piles TO which they have given their de-
hberate and resOlute adherence, and
which they believe VIII command the
approval Of large majority of the
American people, they tender you their
nomination, confident that peace and
good government viii be inaugurated
and maintained under your administTa-
tlon. respectfully, your obedient ser
want, i. R. DOoLlTTLE,
Chairman of Convention.
MR. GREELEYis ANSWER.
New YORK JuIy is. 1872.
GENTI.EME MEN-UpOn mature delibera-
tlUn, IL seems fit that | should give to
your letter Of the tenth instant some
further and fuller response than the has
ty, UHpremeditated words in which ac-
knOwledged and accepted your DOmina-
ton at our meeting on the twelfth. That
your convention saw fit TO accord its
highest honor 10 me, who had been
prominently and pOintedly opposed to
your party in earnest and angry cOntro-
versies for the last forty years, and as ii
Is essentially noteworthy that many Of
you originally preferred that the
Liberal Republicans should present an
other candidate for President. and
would more readily have united with US
in support of Adams or TrImbull, Da-
Wis OF BTewB, il is well known | owe my
adoption at Baltimore wholly 10 the fact
that ] had already been nominated at
Cincinnati, and that a aconcentration of
the forces upon any new ticket had been
proved impractieable. Gratified as am
at your concurrence in the Cincinnati
nominations; certain rs / am that you
would not have thus cOncuTred had YOU
not deemed me upright and capable, I
lnd nothing in the circumstance calcu- /
lated % influence my vanity, or nourish
self-cOnceit. But that your Convention
saw fiji, in adopting the Cincinnati ticket, I
10 reaffirm the Cincinnati platform, is TO
me a source Of the profoundest satisfac-
ton. That body was constrained to
take this important step by no party
necessity, real or supposed. Itmight
have accepted the candidates Of the Lib |
eral Republicans upon grounds entirely
its own, or it might have presented 1
them, as the first Wing National Con- |
ventiOn did Harrison and Tyler, without |
adopting any platform whatever That /
il chose t. plant itself deliberately bY q |
vote nearly unanimous upon the fullest /
and clearest enunciation Of the llrinci- /
pies which are at once ineOntestably I
Republican, and emphatically Dem /
Ocratic-this gives trustworthy assur-
ance that a new and more ausDicious
era is dawning upon our long distracted 4
country. some of the best yeans and |
best efforts Of my life were devoted to !
struggle against chattel slavery; strug-
gle none the less OF arduOus, because re-
spect for constitutional oblieitions con-
strained me 10 act for the most part on
the defensive in resistance 20 diffusion
rather than indirect efforts for extermi-
nation Of human bondage. Throughout
most Of these years my vision was un-
cheered, my eXertions were rarely
animated by even so much as a
hope that ] should live to see my
country peopled by freemen alone. The
afiirmance by your convention Of the
Cincinnati platform is almost q conelu-
sive proof that not merely is slavery
abolished, but that its spirit is extinct;
that despite the protests OF a respectable
but isolated few, there remains among
us no party and n0 formidable interest
which regrets the overthrow or desires
the ere-establishment. of human bondage
in letter or in spirit. l am
thereby justified in my hope, and trust
that the first century of American indie
pendence will not close before the grand
truths on which its rightful-
ness was based by Jefferson and the Con-
tinent8l Congress Of '76 will no longer
he regarded rs glittering gcneralities,
but will have become the universally
accepted and hOnored foundations Of our
political fabric. | demand the prompt
application of those principles to our ex-
Isting condition. Having done what /
could for the complete emancipation Of .
he blacks, / now insist upon the full .
Of all my white coun-
rymen. Let none say the bun has just
lgen removed from all bat few hundred .
.lderly gentlemen 10 whom eligibility !
% Office can be of little consequence. !
My view contemplates not a hundred !
lrOscribed, but millions who are deemed Z
10 have the right to be ruled and repre-
iented by men of their unfetteIed choice !
Prescription were absurd If these did not I
wish to elect the very men whom they
ire forbidden 10 choose. / have a pro- {
Ound regard for the people Of that New
England wherein / was born, in whose
common schools ] was taught. I rank :
10 other people above them in intelli- q
sence, capacity and moral worth. But Z
While they DO many things well, and O
Ome admirably, there is one thing y
which / am sure they cannot wisely or
afely, and that is the selection for Il
states remote from aud unlike their ;
lwn, Of the persons by whom those II
states shall be represented in Congress II
I they could do this to good purpose. q
hen were republican institutions unfit. q
nd an aristocracy the only true politi- q
al system. Yet what have we recently A
Zebnlon B. Vance, the un- v
Questioned choice of a large major q
" Of the present Legislature Of o
SOrth Carolina majority backed >
N a majority Of people who voted at its s.
lection, refused seat in the Federal p
,enate, 10 which ne was fairly chosen, Q
nd the Legislature thus constrained to
hOOse another IN his stead. or eave tine
tate unrepresented for years. The votes y
{ New England thus deprived North ]
larOlina Of the Senator Of her choice, U
nd compelled her to send another in 2
Is stead another who, in our late con-
at, was, like Vance, a rebel, and a fight j
az rebel, but who had not served in y
Ongress before the war as Vance had, n
lOugh the latter remained faithful TO J.
le Union till after the close of his term. e
protest against the disfranchisementl d
a State, pnesumptively Of g. number II
T States, on grounds so narrow and
schnicaI as this The fact that the
ime Senate which refused Vince his
sat, proceeded 10 remove his disabilities i
ffer that seat bad been filled by an st