Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-07-28
GREELEY's ACCEPTANCE.
He is Ofllcially Notified Of His Nom
nation by the National Dem
ocratic Convention.
His Letter in Response.
"a New and More Auspici0us Err
iav DaWning Upon Our Dis IS /
3aielal traeted Country" oa

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BALTIMORE Jaly 10, Is72--Dear Sir; II is on
pleasure, in compliance with the Instructions o
the Democratic National Convention assemblies
In this city, 70 inform you that you have besl
unanimously nominated its candidate for tnf
Presidency Of the United States.
The Convention, consisting OF 7e2 delegates
representing every State and Territory N m
Union, adopted, without amentlments, me aesla
ration Of principles affirmed by the Conyentioa
Of Liberal Republicans az Cincinnati, am
strengthened by the Endorsement contained y
yotir .etter OF acceptance. 4
The action Of this great body of delegates prove
that they are, with singular nnanimity to entel
under your leadership upon the patriotic duty o.
restoring to the administration Of the Government
purity and integrity, and that Independence Q
its Departments which regards the Constitution
as alike the source and the limit of Federal pow
er. g .arGl4 !
LAYING aside the differences Of the past, aband-
oning all purpose Of mere partisan advantage,
asking for no pledge other than that o. ndelitF
10 the principles to which they have given their de
iiberate and resolute adherence, and which they
believe will command the approval OF largr
majority Of the American people, they tender yon
their nomination, confident that peace and good
government viii be ilaugurated and maintained
under your administration besRecunlly, your
Ir.'- Chairman of Convention. L
Frs. W. Sykes, Alabama; John O. Maccabe,
Arkansas; j. G.. Downey, California; A. r
Burr, Connecticut; z. l., Martin, Delaware; l.
w. Jones' Florida; w. A. Hawkins, Georgia; A.
N. Miller, Illinois; NJ NJ. Ray, Indiana j. ID.
Thompson, Iowa; John Martin, Kansas; B. Ma
coffin, Kentucky; Given Campbell, Louisianai
James @. Madigan Maine; John Lee Carroll,
Maryland; j. G. Abbott, Massachusetts; George
II. Brace, Michigan; William Lee, Minnesota;
T.. o. Sykes, Mississippi; Henry Brokmyer, Mis-
souri,; j. c. Crawford Nebrasks; s. B. Wyman,
Nevada; james s. ThAyer, HeW York. John s.
Darcy, North Carolina; j. A. AeMahan, Ohio;
George W. Cass, Pennsylvania A. SPrague,
Rhode Island; James Chestnut, South Carolina;
John G. Bureh, Tennessee; Ashbel Smith, Tex
as; Lucins Robinson, Vermont; J. II. Aarye,
Virginia; VIM. NJ. Clements;. West Virginia b
S. Well, Wisconsin,; c.. p. Clever, New Mexico
To the Hon. Horace Greeley, New York. s-4
MR.. GREELEY e ACCEPTANCE. .uel
New YORK, July Is, lS72.-GENTLRNES;f UP.
on mature deliberatiOn, 1t seems MT that snould
give to your letter Of the 10th inst some further
and fuller response than the hasty, unpremedi1
tated words in which l ACKNOWLEDGED and &C
cepted your nomination at our meeting on the
18th. @ -
That your Convention saw ft to accord It's
highest honor 20 one who had been prominently
and pOintedly opposed to your party IN the earn
est and sometimes angry controversies OF the last
forty years, is essentially note worthy. That
many OF you originally preferred that the Liberal
Republicans should present another Candidate
for President, and would more readily have
united with us in the support of Adams or frum7
bull, Davis or Brown, Is well known owe my
adoption at Baltimore wholly to the TACT that II
had already been nominated at Cincinnati, and
that concentration Of forces upon any new
ticket had been proved impracticable. Gratined
as am at your concurrence in the Cincinnati
nominations, certain as / am that you would not
have thus eoncurred had you not deemed me
upright and capable, 1 find nothing IN the cir
cumstance calculated to infame vanity or nour1
ish self-conceit. .--f. II
But that YOUR Convention saw iii, In adopting
the Cincinnati ticket, TO reafllrm the Cincinnati
Platform, is 10 me q source OF the protonndest
satisfac ti0n- That body was constrained 70 take
this important step By party necessity, real or
supposed, 1t might have accepted TIE candidates
OF the Liberal Republicans upon grounds entirely
its own, or il might have presented them as ths
first Wing National Convention did Harrison and
Tyler without adopting any platform whatever.
That il chose TO plant itself deliberately, by vote
nearly unanimous, upon the fullest and ciearest
enunciatiOn of principles WHICH are at once in
conteetably Republican and emphaticaly Dem
Ocratic, gives trustworthy Assurance tnat q new
and more auspici0ks erals dawning upon our long
SoTs ~ the hest wears and best efforts of nv
life we're devoted 70 the struggle against cllattel
slayery-a struggle none the less earnest OF ar
duOus because respect for constitutional 0bhga-
tons constrainedme TO act Tor thS mos. part on
the defensive-iH resistance TO fhe diffusion
rather than in direct efforts for the extinction OF
human bondage Throughout most OF those
years my vision was Hncheered, my exertl0ns
we're rarely animated, by even 50 much as hope
thst I should live to see my country peopled by
freeinen alone. The affirmance by your c0nSell-
lion OF the Cincinnati Platform Is MOS, cVnelu-
sive proof that not merely is slavery Abolished but
that its spirit Is extinct-that, deSplre the pro-
tests OF a respectable bat isolated few, there re-
mains among US no party and no formidable IN
erest which regrets the overthrow or desires the
-e-establishment Of human bondage, WHISTLER III
etter or in spirit I an thereby justified in my
nope and trust that the first century OF American
will not close before the grand ele
mental truths on which It's rghtfuness was based
BY jefferson and the Continental Congress OF 20
viii no longer be regarded ''gittering general
ties" but will have become tile universally ac-
,epted and honored foundations OF our political
abrie. --
principles to our existing condition. Having
lone what 1 could for tine completes emancipa-
ion of blacks, now insist on the fun enffan-
basement of all my white eountrymen. Let
zone say that the ban has just been removed
rom ali but a few hundred elderly gentlemen, TO
yhom eligibility tUOfiee-can be OF little con5e-
Iueuce Ny NEW cOnIem plates not the hun
reds prescribed bat the iniilons who ere denied
he ri6ht 10 be ruled and represented BY the men
II their unfettered choice. Prescription were
absurd ii these did not wish to elect the very
men whom they are forbidden 20 choose.
have profound regard Tor the people OF that
le,N- england wherein l was bOrH in whose
common schools l Was taught. rank mo 9TH
n people above them In intelligence, capacity
md moral worth. But, while they DO many
hings we'll and some admirably, there IS one
hing which am sure they sann0t wisely on
,afely undertake, and that IS the selection, for
states remote from and unlike their own, OF the
persons by ON those States shall be represented
N Congress. Ii they could do this to good purpose
hen republican institutions were unit, and aris-
Ocracy the only true political system
Vet what have we recently witnessed? Zebulon
B. Vance, the unquestioned ehoices9f large ma
ortiz Of the present. Legislature of North Carolina
a majority backed by majority of the people
who voted at its eectiOn-reflsed the seat in the
federal Senate to which he fairly chosen, and
ne Legislature thus constrained to choose another
n his stead or leave the State unrepresented for
ears The votes of New England thus deprived
Sorth Carolina of the Senator OF her choice, and
omBeied her to send another In his stead-anotnsr
yho in our late contest, was, like Vance, rebel,
nd lighting rebel, but who had not served in Il
congress before the war as Vance had, though the
tier remained faithful to the Union till after the
lose Of his term. protest against the disffah-
.hisenlent of State--presamptiyeiy, Of number
II States-on grounds narrow and technical as
his. The fact that the same Senate which rs
used Vance his seat proceeded 70 remove ms diss-
,iires after that seat had been hiled by anether
ny serves to place in stronger light the indignity
. North Carolina and the arbitrary, capriciouss
tyranny which Dictated it. l thank you, gentle
aen that my name is to be conspie uously assoei-
ted with yours IL a determined EFFORT to render
.nnesty eomplete and universal in spirit as well
q in letter Even defeat IN such 4 cause would l
cave no sting, while triumph would rank with
hose victories which no blood rsddens and Eflch
woke no tears but those Of gratitude and jos. -
Gentleman, your platform, which is also mine,
ssures me thar Democracy Is not hencoforth %
tand for one thing and RePubiicauisIn for an
ther but that those terms are TO mean in poll
les. as they always have meant IN the Dictionary,
one and the same thing -nameiy,
EQUAL rights, regardless Of creed, or cline, or
DIOR, i hail this as a genuine New Departure
rom outworn feuds and meaningless contentioils
4 the direction of Progress and Reform Whetll-
shall be found worthy to bear the standard OF
he great Liberal movement which the American
'eoDIe have inaug urated is TO be determined not
" words but by deeds With me if steadily adj Il
ance over me if I falter, its grand array moves
n to achieve for our country her glorionsJ ben
hcent destiny. - a. 49, .e.,.,. ..i-.z,--a ~ II
remain, gentlemen, yours, =.
Ef HORACE GREELEY.
o the Hon. James r. Doolittle, Chairman OF the
Convention, and Messrs. Z. w. Sykes; John G.
Maccabe, and others, COMMITTEES. -.ss.-,..I Il