The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-06-01
GreeIey,s letter of Acceptance.


cinnati Convention for President, which will
be found below. Il is written with remark
able bolduess and expressed in language SO
plain as to be easily cornprehended, and to
leave no doubt as to bis position on the ya>
Iious questions to which he refers. His com7
meuts on the tariff resolution in the Cincin-
natl platform are briefly but comprehensively
expressed, aud may be regarded as the corn-
mon sense view of the duties of President
in reference Congressional legislation on
that sDhJect. There is nothing new in the
statement of the position be would occupy
on this question, for the reason that our past
history furnishes no instance of President
having ever arrested tariff bill passed by
Congress, no matter whether that body was
in political accord with him or. not.
CINCINNATI, Ohio. May 3. 1872.
DEAR SIk: The National Convention of the
Liberal Republicans of the United States have
instructed the undersigned. President. ' ice
President and Secretaries of the Convention,
to inform YOU that you have been nominated
ss the candidate of the Liberal Republicans for
the Presidency of the United States We also
submit 10 YOU the address and resolutions unan-
imously adopted by the Convention.
Be pleased to signify to US your acceptance
of the platform and the nomination, and believe
US. very truly yours, g. ScHUEz, l'res'E-
GEe w. Julian, Vice President.
WIN L. MCLEAN, JOHN q. DAvIDsoE, j. II.
RHoDks, Secretaries. . .-..-..
To Hon. HORACE GREELEY. New York City
MR. GREELEYs RIPLT. ..
INV YonK, May 20. 1872.
GESTLFMEN: l have chosen not to acknowl>
edge your letter OF the Sd inst. until | could
learn how the work of your Convention was
received in all parts of our great country, and
judge whether that work was approved and
ratified 10y the mass of our fellow citizens.
Their response has from day to day reached
me through kilograms, letters, and tue com
ments OF Journalists independent of official
patronage and Indifferent to the smiles
froWns OF power. The number and character
OF these uuconstrained, unpurchased, unsolct-
ed utterances satisfy me that the movement
which found expression at Cincinnati has re-
ceived the stamp of public approval and
been hailed by a majority OF our country men
as The harbinger of better day for the Repub-
lie.
do not misinterpret this approval as sspe-
cially complimentary to myself, nor even to
the chivalrous and justly esteemed gentleman
with whose name thank your Convention for
associatng mine. ! receive and welcome it as
a spontaneous and deserved tribute to that ad
mirabe platform of principles, wherein your
Convention SO tersely. so lucidly, SO forcibly,
set forth the convictions which impelled aud
the purposes which guided its courss-a plat>
form which. casting behind it the wreck and
rubbish of worn-Out contentious and by gone
feuds embodies in fit and few words the needs
and aspirations of to day. Though thousands
stand ready to condemn your every act. hardly
a syllable of criticism or cIvii has been aimed
at your platform, of which the substance may
hoF Faf arNsf,, ,aI folia
1 III the political rights aid franchises
which have been acquired through our late
bloody coEVulson must and shall be guaran-
teed, maintained. enjoyed, respected, evcrmore
IL. All the poii1 lcal rights an0 franchises
which have been lost through that conyulsion
tablished, so that there shall be henceforth
no prescribed class and no DISTINGUISHED caste
within the limits of our Union, whose long
estranSed people shall reuulte and iraternZe
upon The broad basis OF univ ersal amnesty with
impartial suffrage.
III. That, snbi icct to our solemn constitu,
tionul obligation 10 maintain the equal rights
OF all citizens, our policy should aim at local
sel'-gov ernment, and not at Capitalization
that the civil authority should be supreme over
the military that the wit of RABEAs CORPUS
should be jealousy upheld as the safeguard Of
personal freedom that the individual citizen
should cIjOy the largest liberty consistent " ith
puOiC OIutE anu luAl tbtE0 snti DC no r eO-
eral subversion of the internal polity of the
several States and nun icipalities, but that
each shall be left free TO enforce the rights and
promote the well-being of its inhabitants by
such means as the judgmen of its own people
shall Prescribe.
". There shall be real, and not merely
simulated reform in the civil service OF the Re-
public 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 selhshly by rule inexorably for
bidding AID precluding his e-election.
V. That the raising of revenue, whether by
tariff or otherwise, shall be recognized aud
treated as the people immediate business, to
be shaped and directed by them, through their
repre- entntives in Congress, whose action
theI e-on the President must neither overrule
by his veto, attempt to dictate, nor presume to
punish hy bestoWing office only on those who
agree with him or Withdrawing it from those
who do not.
VI. That the public lands must be sacrsdly
reserved for occupation and acquisition by cul-
tiyators, and not reckles5ly squandered on the
projectors of railroads for which our people
have no present need, and the premature con-
struction OF which is annually plunging US into
deeper and deeper abysses oil foreign indebted>
ness.
VII. That the achievement of these grand
purposes of universal benehcence is expected
and sought at the hands of all who approve
them, irrespective of past affiliations.
VIII. That the public faith must at all haz-l.
ards be maintained and the national credit
preserved.
TX. That the patriotic devotedness and in-
estimable services of OR fellow citizens who,
as soldiers or sailors, upheld the flag and main
taned the unity OF the Republic shall ever bs
remembered ana honorably requited.
hese propostlons, so ably and forcbly pre-
sented in the platform of your Convention,
have already fixed the attention and command
ed the ascent of large majority of our coun-
trymen. who joyfuly adopt them, as / do, as
the bases of a :rue, benefcent national recon>
structlon-of new departure from jealousies,
strlies, and hates, which have no longer
adequate motive or even plausible pretext, into
an atmosphere OF peace fraternity, and mutual
good will. In vain do the drill sergeants of
desaying organizations flourish menacingly
their trunchons, and angrily insist that the
files shall be closed and stIa ig ht eneG in vain
do the whippers-in of parties once vital,
because rooted in the vital needs of the hour
protest against stray ring aud boiling. denounce
men nowise their Interiors as traitors aud