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CINCINNATI CONVENTION.
Greeley's Letter of Acceptance

lA'b9h gu aNS> p'ahSN VI WV
of,he Cincinnati Convention, ,as follows
New YORK, May 90, 1872.
Gsnttmen-I have chosen not tc
acknowledge your letter of the Sd inst
until | could learn how the work o
rour rConvention was received in all parts
Of our great country and to judge
whether that work was approved and
-a,itied by the mass OF our fellow-cln-
--ns. Their response has from day to
lsy reached me through kilograms,
rt,ers, and through the comments OF
oprnalists independent o. official favor,
and ind derent to the smiles or irowns
d.. power. The number and character
o, these unconstrained, unpurchased,
unsolicited utterances satisfy me that
The movement which found expression
s,Cinciunati has received the stamp Of
plblc approval and has been hailed
Ly majority of our countrymen as the
lsrbinger Of a better day for the re-
pab,ic. | do not misinterpret this
srp-0yal as especially complimentary
10 myself nor even TO the chivalrous
and Justly esteemed gentlemen with
whose name | thank your Convention
for associating mine. | receive and
welcome it as "a spontaneous
aai deserved tribute to that
admirable platform ofprinciples wherein
yorr Convention so tersely, so lucidly,
% forcibly set forth the convictions
which impelled and the purposes which
yl.ied ils course; aplatform which cast
DO, behind it the wreck and rubbish Of
worn ont conditions and bygone feuds,
enboiici in fit and few words the aspira>
IONS OF to-day. Though thousands
land ready TO condemn your ev-
~ act, hardly a syllable Of criticism or
csyil has been aimed at your platform,
o, which the substance may be epltom-
izei as follows:
|. All the political rights and fran
Chises which have been acquired
through our late bloody convulsion
must and shall he guaranteed, main
famed and enjoyed evermore.
> All the political rights and fran
rhses which have been lost through
hat convulsion should and must be
promptly restored and re- established,
- that there shall be henceforth no
l-o.crited classes, no disfranchised caste
within the limits Of our union, whose
'5rg estranged people shall reunite and
,ratprnize upon the broad basis OF
suiversai amnesty with impartial sut-
.:a.e.
.. That subject to our solemn con-
.&uuonal obligation to maintain equal
-.h,s Of all citizens, our policy should
ann at local self government and not
:, Capitalization; that civil authority
.'.oull lie supreme over the military !;
hat the writ of habeas corpus should
rr jealously upheld a the safeguard OF
per>oual freedom; that the individual
ct'zen should enjoy the largest liber rty
cousi-,eut with public order, and that
there shall be no federal subverslon OF
The internal polity of the several States
and mu inequalities, but that each shall
lie LETT TO enforce the rights and pro-
my,r the well being OF its inhabitants
ly such means as the judgments OF their
Own people shall prescribe.
I. There shall be a real, and not
merely simulated reform in the civil
.~-yicc of the republic, to which end it
4, .al.spensable that the chief dispenser
u il vast official patronage shall be
sle'ied from the main temptation TO
.,e his power seltishly, by rule inexo-
ably torbidding and precluding his re-
.rctlon.
;. That the raising Of revenue,
whether by tariff or otherwise, shall be
:-c5snized and treated as the people $
.mmeliate business, to be shaped and
.-rcted bv them through their repre-
.ratauves 10 Congress, whose action
thereon the President must neither
oy--ru.r by his veto, attempt to dictate,
~ presume to punish by bestowing
o4ice ONLY on those who agree with him
o. withdrawing it from those who dc
raL
+. That the public lands must be
,icrelIv reserved for occupation and
a.iT-itiou by cultivstOrs, and not reck-
..s-y sQpanderei on projectors OF rail
-JaIS for which our people have no
He-i and the premature construction OF
"blch is annually plunging Us into
te1per and deeper abysses of foreign
.,;rJ;e iness.
= That the achievement OF these
::a0l purposes of universal beneticence
expected and sought at the hands OF
a.. who approve them irrespective oi
ilst affiliations.
). That the public faith must at all
2zards be maintained and national
dit preserved.
3. That the patriotic devotedness and
-estImable services OF our fellow citi-
'-ns who as soldiers or sailors upheld
lie flag and upheld the unity of the re-
public, shall ever be gratefully re-
@enbered and honorably requited.
These propositions so ably and forci-
by presented in the platform OF your
-'Vnt Ol, udNc dlEtauN hASu Nhe az
,-nlton and commanded the assent OF q
!a'ge majority Of our countrymen, who
.3y'ul ly adopt them as do as the lease
oi true and benefcent national recon
s'flc;Ion, Of new departure from the
yva.ousies, strife and hates, which have
no longer an adequate motive or even
Pauslble pretext, into an atmosphere o.
p7a2e, fraternity aud mutual good will
10 vain dothe drill sergeants OF decay
ins Organizations flourish menaclngly
'ne.r e.rtruncheons, and angrily insist thai
lhe files shall be closed and straigtened
II vain DO the whippers in of partie:
o'ce vital, because rusted in the vita
needs OF the hour, protest against stray
.aag and boiling, denounce men nowist
h7ir Interiors as traitors and renegades
aud threaten them with ruin.
am confident that the American
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