Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-08-17
POLITICAL.
i 6REEIET'S ACCEPTANCE ACCEPTANCE

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BALTIMORE July 10, tS72.-Dear Sir: 1t Is oul
pleasure, in compliance with the Instructions o.
the Democratic National Convention assembled
in this city, TO inform you that you have been
Presidency Of the United States.
The Cony entfon, consisting Of I3z delegates
representing every State and Territory IN the
Union, adopted, without amendments, the decla-
ration of principles afirmed BY the Conyention
of Liberal Republicans at Cincinnati, and
strengtheasd by the Endorsement contained N
your letter Of acceptance ~ - ,Aa.ft
The action of this great body OF delegetes proves
that they gre, with singular unanin1ity % enter
under your leadership upon. the patriotic duty Of
restoring % the administration Of the Government
purity and integrity, and that independents TO
its Departments which regards me CONSTITUTION
as alike the source and the limit Of Federal pow
Laying aside the differences of the past, sband-
onfng all purpose Of mere partisan advansage,
asking for no pledge other than that o aseiity
70 the principles to which they have given their de-
liberate and resolute adherence, and which they
believe will command the approval OF large
majority Of the Americanp eople. they tender you
government viii be inaugurated and maintained
under your administration. Respectfully. youE
obedient servants " J.R. DooLITTLE.
Chairman Of Convention.
Frs. w. Sykes, Alabama; John, c. MaceaDe,
Arkansas; j. G. Downey, California; A Z.
Burr Connecticut; e. L, Martin, Dels@arei u.
W. Jones. Florida; W. A. Hawkins, Georgia; A.
N. Miller, Illinois; NJ. M. Ray, Indiana y. ID
Thompson Iowa; John Martin, Kansas; b. Ma
coffin. Kentucky; Given Campbell, Louisiana;
James @. Madigsn, Maine; job. Lee Carroll,
Maryland; j. G. Abbott, Massachusetts; George
h. Bruce, Michigan; william Lee, Minnesota;
z. o. Sykes, Mississippi; Henry Brokmyer, Mis-
souri,; j. C. Crawford Nebraska; s. B. Wyman,
Neyada; James s. Thayer,- New York; John 8.
Darcy, North Carolina; j. A. McMahAns Ohio
George w. Cas-, Pennsylysniai A SPragae,
John G. Burch, Tennessee; Ashbel smith. Tex
as; Lucius Robinson, Vermont; y. d. Marye,
Virginia; wm. NJ. Clemerfsi West Virginia; b.
s. Well, Wisconsin; @. p Clever, New N exico.
To the Hon. Horace Grealey, New York. -l
MR.. GREKLEY's ACCEPTANCE. =
NEW YORK. July Is, 1S72.-GEHTLR1rKH: Up
on mature deliberatiOn, it seems ut that should
give to voar letter of the 10th inst. some further
and fuller response than the hAsty, uppremedi-
tated words in which I acknowledge and ac-
cepted your nomination at our meeting on the
18th. --az---s-- -.
highest honor to one who had been prominently
and pointedly opposed to your party IN tne earn
est and sometimes angry controversies OF the last
forty years, is essentially noteworthy. = nas
many Of you originally preferred that the Aaperal
Repubiicans should present another candidate
for President and would more readily nave
united with us in the supported Adams or TrnIn-
bull, Davis or Brown, is well known: oHe ny
had already been nominated at Cincinnati, and
that a concentration Of forces upon any new
ticket had been proved impracticable. Gratined
as am at your concurrence IN tne SlncI ,1 Al
nominations, certain as am that you would not
have thus coneurred had you not deemed me
upright and capable, find nothing in the cir
cumstance calculated to inhame vanity or nour-
Il B Mt that your Convention sew Bt, in adopting
the Cincinnati ticket, TO reaffirm the Cincinnati
Platform, is 70 me q source OF the profouncest
satisfaction. That body was constrained % take
this important step by no party necessity real or
supposed. 1t might have accepted the candidates
Of the Liberal Republicans upon gIoanes sn.al ~,
its own, or it might have presented them (as n:
drst Wing National Convention dld darflson anu
That Ii chose TO plant itself deliberately by vote
nearly unanimous. upon the fullest ana cle2reSt
enunciation of principles which are az once IN
contestably Republican and emphatlcaly Den-
ocratic, gives trustworthy assurance that new
and more auspiciOus era is daHning upon our long
distracted country. -.
Some OF the best years and best enorss OF my
life were devoted 70 the sernggl ssa.nss e..ssA
slayery--a struggle none the less earnest OF az
duous because respect for constitutional ooiga-
tons constrained me to act for the most part on
the defensive-in resistance the dnuslon
rather than In direct efforts for the extlnction 81
human bondage. Throughout most Of those
years, my vision was uncheered, my exer.ions
were rarely animated, by even 50 much as hepo
that should live to see my country peopled Dy
freemen alone The athrmance BY your CONVEX
ton of the Cincinnati Platform Is most conciu-
siyr proof that not merely is slavery abolished but
that It's spirit Is extinct-that, despite the pro
tests of q respectable but isolated rev mere r.
mains among us no party and no formldaDle ID
terest which regrets the overthrow or desires the
re-estabIishment of human bondage, wnether N
letter or in spirit. am thereby 1Hstlned In my
hope and trust that the nrst century o. Anesican
Independence win not close before the grand ele,
mental truths on which its righuulness was based
by Jefferson and the Continental Congress OF 10
win no longer be regarded as ssgltterng general
ites,p but viii have become tne m
cepted and honored foundations OF our poiltieal
fabric. ls cr $50
l demand the prompt application OF lnes1
principles to our existing condition daylng
done what could for the complete emanelpa-
ton of blacks, now insist on the fall .enfran-
chisement of an my white country men- LIZ
none say that the ban mas JUST peen Lelno'sa
from all but few hundred elderly gentlemen, 70
quence. My view contemplates not the hnnE
dreds prescribed bus the m1llons VINO ~ ue-alo1
the rightto be ruled and represe nted py tne Lnsn
of their unfettered choice. fIoscEipLion 49,
absurd if these did not wish TO elect the very
men whom they are for Ridden 10 choose: IL
i have profound regard for the people OF That
New England wherein was born, IN whose
common schools was taught rank no oeh-
Ar people above them in intelligence, capacity
and moral worth. But while they 90 many
things we'll, and come admirably, there Is one
thing which am sure they cannot wisely ca
safely undertake., and that Is the seleetlony loE
States remote from and unlike their own, OF me
persons by wh9m those States shall be represented
in Congress- If they could do this to good purpose
then republican institutions were uni1t' ana ariS-
tocracy the only true political system.
Yet what have We recently witnessed? Zebnlon
B. Vance, the unqnestioned choice,of large ma
iority of the present. Legislature Of North carolina
"a majority backed By majority Of TIE People
vho voted at its election-refused the seat in the
Federal Senate to which he was fairly chosen, and
the Legislature thus constrained to choose another
in his stead or leave the state unrepressnted foE
wears. The votes of New England thus deprived
North Carolina Of the Senator Of her choice and
hof ~ o,,r Iate contest was IKE Vance a rebel
md a t0hting rebel but who had not served in
Co. s,rass hafors the war As Vance had though the