The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-08-01
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TANCE OF THE BALTIMORE
CONVENTION.
ssHnvfmg Done what Could for
the Complete Emancipation of
Blacks. n Now Insist ON the
Full I'm framehGsememH OF
All Way White COun.
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New YORK. July Ia 1872.

| IEynMems
NEW YORK, July Is, 1872.
| GENTLEMEN-UpOn mature deliberatioI
| it seems fit that [ should give to your lette
| of the 10th instant some further and fulle
| response than the hasty, unpremeditatet
words in which l acknowledged aud accep
ted your nomination at our meeting on tn
18th inst.
That your Convention saw tit to accorC
| its highest honor TO one who had beer
prominently and pOintedly opposed TO you
party in the earnest and sometimes angry
controversies of the last forty years is essen
| TALLY noteworthy. That many of you Lib
eral Republicans should present anOthe
1 candidate for President, and would NOR,
of Adams or Trumbull, Davis or Brown, il
web known. l owe my adoption at Balti
more wholly to the fact that had already
| been nominated at Cincinnati, and that
| concentration of forces upon any new mar
had been proved imPracticable.
Gratified as am at your concurrence il
the Cincinnati nomination, and certain as
am that you would not have thus concurreC
/ had you not deemed me upright and capa
bic, | found nothing in the circumstance
calculated to infiame vanity or nOuriSh self
conceit. But that your Convention saw ii
to reaffirm the Cincinnati platform Is TO me-
a source CT the, profoundest satisfaction
| That body was constrained to take this steL
| by no party necessity, real or supposed. II
might have accepted the candidates of the
Liberal Republican upon grounds entirely
its own, or it might have presented them as
the first Whig convention did Harrison anC
| Tyler, without adopting any platform what
ever.
That it chose to plant itself deliberately
! by vote nearly unanimous, upon the fun
est and clearest enunciatiOn of principles
which are at once incontestably Republican
and emphatically Democratic, gives trust
worthy assurance that new and more aus
picious era is dawning upon our long
distracted country. Some of the best years
and best efforts of nay life were devoted tO
a struggle against chattel slavery, a strug-
gle none the less earnest and arduous be-
cause respect for constitutional objections
constrained me to act for the most part OH
the defensive in resistance to the diffusion,
rather than in direct efforts for the eXtinc-
ton, of human.
Throughout mostof these years my vision
was uncheered, my eXertions were rarely
animated by even so much as hope that
should live TO see my country peopled by
freemen alone. The aflirmance by your
Convention of the Cincinnati platform is a
most conclusive proof that not merely Is
slavely abolished, but that its spirit is ex-
tinct; that despite the protests OF a respect
able, but isolated, few, there remains among
us no party and no formidable interest
which regrets the overthrow or desires the
Ie- establishment of human bondage, wheth-
er in letter or in spirit. | am thereby justi-
fled in my hope and trust that the first
century of American Independence will not
close before the grand elemental truths on
which its rightfulnesS was based by Jeffer-
son and the Continental Congress of 76
will no longer be regarded as glittering
generalities, but will have become the uni
versally accepted and honOred foundations
of our political fabric. l demand the prompt
application of those principles to our exist
ing condition.
Having done tchat I could for the complete
emancipation Of the blacks, nOao insist on the
full enfrdRchiSeBsent OF all 0ty tolsite country
men. Let none say that the ban has just
been removed from all but few hundred
elderly gentlemen to whom eligibility to
Office can be of little consequence. My Uielo
cOntempLdteS not tie hundreds prescribed, but
the millions tchO are denied, the right to be rled
and represented by men Of their Olcn u1afettered
choice. Prescription were absurd if these
did not wish to elect the very men whom
they are forbidden to choose.
/ have a profound regard for the people
of that part of New England wherein was
born, in whose common schools was taught.
l rank no people above them liz intelligence,
and moral worth but while they
do many things well, and some admirably,
there is one thing they cannot safely or Iotsely
undertake, and that is the selection for States
sons by 1clOns these States shall be represented
in Congress. If they could do this to good
purpose, then republican institutions are
unfit and aristocracy the only true political
system. Yet, what have we recently wit
messed? r. B. Vance, the unquestioned
choice of a large majority of the present
Legislature of North Carolina, a majority
backed by majority of the people who
voted at its election, refused the seat in the |
Federal Senate to which he was chosen, |
and the Legislature thus constrained to |
choose another in his place or leave the |
State unrepresented for years.
The votes of New England thus deprived |
North Carolina of the Senator of choice,
and compelled her to send another in his |
'tead-another who in our late contest was
ike Vance, rebel, and fighting rebel, |
out had not served in Congress before the |
var as Vance had, though the latter remain
ID faithful to the Union till after the close
II his term. protest against the dis fran
'hisement of State, presumptively of
number of States, on ground so narrow and
echnical as this. The fact that the
anne Senate which refused his seat pro-
eeded to remove his disabilities after that
eat had been filled by another, only serves
0 place in stronger light the indignity to
forth Carolina, and the arbitrary, capri
lous tyranny which dictated it.
L thank you. gentlemen, that my name is
0 be conspicuOusly associated with yours
q q determined effort to render amnesty COM
tete and UntUerSGL tn spirit as yell as in letter.
wen defeat in such case would leave no
ting, while triumph would rank with those
1cCorles which no blood reddens, and which
woke no tears but those of gratitude and
~.
Gentlemen, your platform, which is also
line, assures me that Democracy is not
enceforth to stand for one thing and Re- ..
ublicanism for another; but these terms !
re to mean in politics. as they have always
leant in the dictionary, substantially one /
nd the same thing, namely, equal rights, re- !
lrdLeSs OF creed, or cline, or color. L hail :
lis as genuine new departure from out :
orn feuds and meaningless contentious in q
Re direction of progress and reform.
Whether shall be found worthy to bear I
le standard of the great Liberal movement I
hich the American people have Inaugural .
d is to be determined not by words, but y
me, if L steadily advance over z
e if falter. It's grand array moves on =
achieve for our country her glorious be- y
.ticent destiny.
remain, gentlemen, yours, d
HORACE GREELEY. d
} Hon. james X. Doolittle, Chairman of the y
Convention, and Messrs. Sykes, Maccabe, =
and others, committee. T
In the true spirit of fraternity which 4
Ould characterize the elements that con- b