Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1872-06-06

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Grecley's l. etter of Acceptance.
The following Is the official notice
to Mr.. Greeley of the Liberal Re
publican nomination
CINCINNATI, May 3, 1872.
To Hon. Horace Greeley, New Torl
City:
DEAR SIR The National Conven
ton Of Liberal Republicans OF the
United States have instructed the un-
dersignel, President, Vice President,
and Secretaries OF the Convention, to
inform you that you have been nom
mated as candidate OF the Liberal
Republicans for the Presidency OF
the United States. We also submit
TO YOU the address and resolutions
unanimously adopted by the Conven-
ton. BE pleased to signify to us
your acceptance OF the platform and
nomination and believe us.
Very truly yours,
G. ScHuRz, President.
GEo. w. JULIAN, Vice Pres.
VIM. Z. Mclean, John G. Donald
son, J. II. Rhodes, Secretaries.
The following is Mr.. Greeleys re.
ply:
"NEw YonK, May 20, 1872.
"GENrLEMEN Il have chosen not
to acknowledge 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 ap-
proved and ratified by the mass of
our fellow citizens. Their response
has from day to day reached me
through kilograms, letters, and the
comments OF the journalist, indepen
dent of official patronage and indif-
ferent to the smiles or tiowns OF pow
er. The number and character OF
these unrestrained, unpurchased, un-
solicited utterances, satisfy me that
the movement which found express
sion at Cincinnati, has received the
stamp Of public approval, and has
been hailed by majority OF our
countrymen as the harblnger OF bet
ter day for the Republic.
II do not misiuterpret this APPROX.
al as especially complimentary to my.
self or eAn to the chivalrous and
Justly esteemed gentleman with
whose name l thank your convention
tor associating mine. l receive and
welcome it as spontaneous and de.
served tribute to that admirable plat.
form OF principles wherein your con-
vention SO tersely SO lucidly and SO
forcibly set forth the convictions
which impelled, and the purposes
which guided its course-a platform
which, casting behind 1t the wreck
and the rubbish OF worn.out conten-
tions and by-gone teuds, embodies in
fit and few words the needs and as
plrations of to-day, though thous.
ands stand ready to condemn your
every act.
Hardly syllable Of criticism or
cavil has been aimed at your plat
form, OF which the substance may be
fairly epitomixed as follows: FIRST
ALL political rights and franchises
which have been acquired through
our late bloody convulsion must and
shall be guaranteed, maintained, en-
joyed and respected evermore. Sec
ond-all political rights and tranchis.
es which have been lost through that
convulsion should and must be
promptly restored and re-established,
so that there shall be hcncetorth no
prescribed class and no distranchised
caste within tho limits OF our Union,
whose long estranged people reunite
and traternize upon the broad basis
of universal amnesty, with impartial
suffrage. Third-that subject to our
constitutional obligation to MAINTAIN
the equal rights OF all citizens, our
policy should aim at local sclf-gov'
ernment and not at Capitalization
that civil authority should be su
preme over the military; that the
writ Of habeas corpus should be jeal.
ouslY upheld as safeguard of per
| sonal freedom; that individual clti
| zens should enjoy the largest libanty
consistent with public order, and tha'
there shall be no federal subversior
of the internal policy of the severa
States aud municipalities, but thai
each shall be left free to enforce the
rights and promote the well-being o.
its inhabitants by such means as the
judgment of it's own people shall pre-
scribe; tourth-there shall be real
and not merely simulated reform II
the civil service of the republic, tt
which end 1t is indispensable that thu
chief dispenser OF Its vast official pat
ronage shall be shielded from tn,
temptation to use his power selfish,
by a rule inexorably torbidding ant
prccluding his reelection iiith-tha
the raising OF revenue, whether by
tariff or otherwise, shall be recog
nizod and treated as the peoples I'm
mediate business, to be shaped an,
directed by them through their rep
resentatives III congress, whose actor
thereon the President must neithe