Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-08-03
GREELEY'S ACCEPTANCE.
He is Officially Notified OF His HOm-
inati0n by the National DEM
Ocratic Convention.
His Letter in Response
"A New and More AuspiciOus Era
DaWning Upon Our Dis
traeted Country"
GREELEY'S ACCEPTANCE.
His Letter in Response.

traeted Country"
| BALTIMORE July 20, ls72.-Dear Sir: 1t is oul
| pleasure in compliance with the instructions o.
| the Democratic National Convention assembled
! in this city, to inform you that you nave peel
unanimously nominated its candlo@te IO tnt
| Presidency of the United States.
| The Convention, consisting Of 732 deiegafeS
| representing every State and Territory IN IN
| Union, adopted, without amendments, the decia
| ration on principles affirmed by the Convention
I of Liberal Republicans at Cincinnati, ans
/ strengthened by the Endorsement contained II
! your .etter of aceeptance.
The action of this crest body Of delegates provei
| that they are, with singular uDanimity TO eRtel
under your leadership upon the patriotic duty OF
restoring TO the administration OF the GoVeinnen
| purity and integrity, and that Independence &c
| IL deparments which regards the Constitution
as hike the source and the limit OF Fe0eFal pew
| er.
LAYING sside Che differences Of the past, sband-
| oning all purpose q Enefe partisan adyantage
asking for no pledge other than that o. fidelity
TO the principles to which they have given TIER De
| Iiberate and resolute adherence ard WHICH they
believe viii command the aPproSsa n al g
their nomination, confident that peace ana 9eoo
| government will be inaugurated and maintained
under your administration kesPee d1 MY YOU
Chairman of Convention.
Frs. W. Sykes, Alabama; John q. Maccabe,
| Arkansas; j. G.. DowueJs California; A. f.
Burr, Connecticut; i. L, Martin D g; l.
NJ. Miller, Illinois; NJ. NJ. Bay, Indiana; .; ID.
Thompson, Iowa; John Martin, Kansas; %: Ma
coffin, Kentucky; Given Campbell, Louisiana;
| James @. Madigan, Maine; John Lee Carroll,
MARYLAND; j. G.. Abbott, Massachusetts,; George
| r. Bruce Michigan; William Lee, Minnesota;
2. q. Sykes, Mississippi; Henry Brokmysr, mis-
souri,; j. o. Crawford, Nebraska; ,; p. Wyman'
Nevada: James s. Thayer, New York; John 5.
Darcy, North Carolina; j. A McMahan, ono
George w. Cas-, Pennsylyania; A; SPrague,
Rhode Island; James Chesnrt, 6euIh OarO I'm
as; Iueius Robinson, Vermont; }. n N arye,
Virginia; Vim. M. Clements; West Virginia; d
s We'll. wisconsin; G. p. Clever, New Mexico
To the Hon. Horace Greeley, New York
MR. 9RKELBY's ACCEPTANCE
NEW YORK. July lS, 1S72--GENTLEMES: up
on mature deliberatioT1 it seems fit that should
give to your letter Of tile 10Th inst some IuItner
and fuller response than tne nasty' '
tated words in which acknowledged and &C
cepted your nomination at our meeting on the
18th. - -.
highest honor to one who had been prominently
and pointediy opposed to your party in the earn
est and sometimes angry controversies OF the last
forty wears, is essentially noteworthy. mat
many of You originally preferred Shat the LIBERIA
Republicans should present another cano1oaOe
for President, and would more readily have
united with us in the support OF Adams or Irurn-
bull, Davis or Brown, is well known owe my
ahODfiOO at Baltimore Wholly 10 l6Cb mat =
mad already been nominated at Cincinnati, and
that a concentration of forces upon any new
ticket had been proved imPTactca0le. Gratlnea
as am at your concurrence IN the ClhcInnatl
nominations, certain as am that you would not
have thus concurred had You not deemed me
upright and capable, find nothing in the cir
cumstance calculated TO intame vanity or nour-
ish self-c0nceit
the Cincinnati ticket, to reafirm the CINCINNATI
Platform, is to me a source of the proiounnest
satisfaction. That body was constrained 10 LAC
this important step by no party necessary, ieai OF
supposed. 1t might have accepted the candidates
of the Liberal Republicans upon grounds entirely
its own, or 10 might have presented them as ths
first Wing National Convention did darrlson anu
Tyler) without adopting any platform whatever
That il chose to plant itself deliberately, by vote
nearly unanimous upon the fullest anu clearest
enunciatiOn OF principles Wnlch are a. ~, onTS III
cOntestably Republican and emphatiealiy Dem
ocratic, gives Trustworthy assurance that new
and more auspiciOus era is daWning upone long
distracted country. -
life were devoted TO the struggle against chattel
slavery-a struggle none the less earnest OF az
duOuS because respect for CONSTITUTIONAL oDIgd-
lions eonstrainedme TO act for the mos, part on
the defensiye-in resistance to the dinuslOn
rather than in direct efforts for the extinction Oh
human bondage. Throughout most Oh tnOse
wears nv vision was uncheered, my eKertlons
were rarely animated, by even so much as nope
that / shonld live 10 see my country peopled by
freefnen alone. The afiiTnl2nce by your cohNeh-
ton OF the Cincinnati Platform Is most concur
sive proof that not merely Is slavery Dul
that its spirit is extinct-that, despite the pro-
tests of a respectable but isolated lew, there re-
mains among US no party and no formidable ID
terest which regrets the overthrow or OesiTes tne
establishment of human bondage, NhstheI N
letter ar in spirit am thereby justified in my
hope and trust that the first century Oh American
Independence will not close before the grand eie1
mental truths which its rtghtfullless was basea
Inv Jefferson and the Continental Congress OF 70
will no longer be regarded as 'gltterlhg general
tiles y but will have become the universally ae-
cepted and honored foundations OF our Poiiticai
fabric. 49,
PRINCIPLES to our existing condition. Having
done What could for the complete emanelpa-
ton of blacks, now insist ON the Iull ehiran-
chisement of all my white eountrymen. Let
none saw that the ban has Just been removed
from all but a few hundred elderly gentlemen, 10
whom eligibility to Office can be OF little conse-
auence. NV view cOntemplates not the nun
dreds nroscribed but the millions who are denied
the right to be ruled and represented by the men
of their uufettered choice. Prescription were
absurd if these dad not wish to elect the very
men whom they are forbidden TO choose:
have profound regard for the people OF that
New England wherein l was born, in whose
common schools l was taught. rank no 9TH
er people above them IN mteIilseIce, Sapsci.S
and moral worth. But, while they do many
things we'll and some admirably, there Is one
thing which am sure they cannot Wisely on
safely undertake, and that i the selection, ior
States remote from anu uDllht luCh OWhi VI 49,
nersons by VIII I'm those States shall be represented
In Congress If they could do this TO good purpose
then republican institutions were unnt, anu ais
tOcracy the only true political system, z.h,,
Yet what have We recently wttnessedT ZeOuiOh
r Vance the unquestioned choice OF large ma
iority Of the present. Legislature Of Norm Carohna
"a majority backed by majority OF the people
who voted at its electiOn-refused the seat IN the
FEDERAL Senate TO which he was fairly chosen, ana
the Legislature thus constrained to choose announcer
in his stead or leave the State unrepresented Iog
wears. The votes Of New England thus depTlVe1
North Carolina Of the Senator Of her choice, ana
her to send another in his stead-anOther
who in our late contest, was, like Vance, rebel,
and fighting rebel, but who had not served IN
Congress before the as Vance had, though the
latter remained faithful to The Union till after the
elose Of his term. IPrOtest against the 0lslran-
ehisement OF State-preslnptiTely, OF NUMBER
of States-on grounds so narrow ana tecnnleal as
this The fact that the same Senate which re-
fused Vance his seat proceeded to remove MS dlsa-
biities after that seat had been hlled by another
only serves TO place in stronger light the ndgnlty
to North Carolina and the arbitrary, caprlclous
tyranny which dictated it, / thank you, gentle
men, that my name is to be eonspicuously assOci-
ated with yours in determined effort to rendeT
amnesty complete and universal, IN spirit as Wen
as in letter. Even defeat in such cause Wouiu
leave no sting while triumph would rank with
those victories which no blood reddens and which
evoke no tears but those of gratitude ana JOY.
Gentleman your PLATFORM which is also mine,
assnres me that Democracy is not henceforth TO
stand for one thing and Repubucaolsm IOr an
other, but that those terms are to mean In poll
tics as they always have meant in the dictionary
SUBSTANTIALLY one and the same thing-namely,
Equal rights, regardless of creed, or Cline. OF
color j hail this a genuine New departure
feuds and meaningless contentious
in the direction of Progress and Reform. Wheth-
en- shall be found worthy 10 bear the standard OF
the great Liberal movement which the American
People have inaugurated is to be determined not
bv words but by deeds. With me if 1 steadily adj
vance over me if falter, its grand array moves
on to achieve for our country her glorious, Den
efcent destiny. ...
Iremain, gentlemen, yours,
HORACE GREELEY.
To the Hon. James r. Doolittle, Chairman OF the
Convention, and Messrs. f. w. Sykes John Z.
Maccabe, and others, Committee.