The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-08-02

preferred that the liberal Republicans
should present
ANOTHER CANDIDATE
for President and would more readily
have united in the support Of Adams,
Trumbull, Davis or Brown is we'll
known. l owe my adoption at Balti-
more, wholly to the fact that I had
already been nominated at Cincinnati,
and that a concentration of force upon
any new ticket had been
PROVED IMPRAcT1cABLE.
Gratified as I am at your concurrence
in the Cincinnati nominations, certain
as am that you would not have thus
concurred had you not deemed me up
right and capable, I find nothing in
the circumstance calculated to infame
vanity or nourish self conceit. That
your convention saw fit in adopting
THE CINCINNATI TICKET,
to reafirm the Cincinnati platform, is
to me source of the profoundest salts
faction. That body was constrained to
take this important step by necessity
real or supposed. 1t might have ac-
cepted the candidates of the Liberal
Republicans upon grounds entirely its
own, or it might have presented them
as the first Wing national convention
did, Harrison and Tyler, without adopt
ing any platform whatever. That it
chose to plant itself deliberately by a
vote nearly unanimous upon the fullest
and clearest enunciation of principle
which are at once
REPUBLICAN AND EN-
PRACTICALLY DEMOCRATIC,
gives trustworthy assurance that a new
and more ausricious era is dawning up
on our long distracted country. Some
Of the best efforts of my life were de-
voted to a struggle against chattel
slavery; struggle none the less earnest
or arduous because
RESPECT FOR CONSTITUTIONAL oBL1-
CATIONS
constrained me to act for the most part
on the defensive in resistance to the
rather than indir ect efforts
for the extinction of human bondage.
Throughout the most of those 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 free men alone.
The affirmation by your convention Of
the Cincinnati platform is most con-
elusive proof that not merely is slavery
abolished, but that its spirit is extinct;
that, despite the protests of a respecta-
BILE but
ISOLATED FEW,
there remains among us no party and
no formidable interest which regrets
the overthrow or desires the establish
ment Of human bondage, whether in
letter or spirit. I am thereby justified
in my hope and trust that the first
century of American independence will
not close before the ground elemental
truth on which its rightfulness was
based by Jefferson and the Continental
Congress Of '76, will not be regarded
As glittering gencralities, but will have
become the universally accepted and
honored foundation of
OUR POLITICAL FABRIC.
demand the prompt application of
those principles to our existing condi-
ton. Having done what I could for
complete emancipation of the blacks, I
now insist On the full Acknowledgement
of all
MY WHIT CoUNTRYMEN.
Let none say the bar has just been
from all but a few elderly
gentlemen to whom eligibility to Office
can be of little consequence; my view
contemplates not the hundred proscrib-
ed, but the millions who are denied the
right to be ruled and represented by
The men of
THEIR UNFETTERED CHOICE.
Prescription were absurd if these did
not wish to elect the very man whom
they are forbidden to choose. I have
a profound regard for the people Of
that New England wherein was born,
in whose common schools I was taught;
l rank no other people above them in
intelligence, capacity and moral worth,
but while they do many things we'll
and some admirably, there is one thing
which I'm sure they can't wisely or
safely do, and that is the selection for
States remote from and unlike their
own, Of the persons by whom those
States shall be represented in Congress.
f they could do this to good purpose,
hen Republican institutions were unfit,
md aristocracy the only true political
ystem.
What have we recently witnessed 7?