Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-05-22
Greeleyss Aeeenfanee

Greeley's Acceptance.
The GLOWING is the notifc alton to Mr.. Gree
ley of his nomination by the liberal republican
convention, and his reply, accepting the nomi-
nation:
CINCINNATI, Maya
DEkR SIR: The national convention OF the
liberal republicans OF the United States has in
structed the undersigned to inform you th at Won
have been nominated as the candidate OF the
liberal republicans for the Presidency OF the
United States. We also submit to YOU the adj
the convention. Be pleased to signify TO rs your
acceptance of the platform and the Nomination,
and believe US, very truly, yours,
J1iisn xIca ,r SSnurz; president; George w.
u. Davidson, j. III. Rhodes, secretaries.
Hon. Horace Greeley, Nelg York.
ME. GREELEY's REPLY.
NEW YORK, Nav 20.
GENTLENES: have chosen not to acknowl-
edge the receipt OF your letter of the Sd instant
until could learn how the work OF your conven-
try, and judge whether that work was arAroyed
and Tatined by the mass OF our fellow CITIZENS.
Their response has, from day to day reached
me through kilograms, letters, and the com
ments Of journalists independent of official
patronage and Indifferent to the smiles or frowns
OF power. The number and character of these
unconstralned, unpurchased, unsolicited utter
ances satisfy me that the movement which found
expression at Cincinnati has received the stamp
OF public approval and been hailed by majority
day for the republic
do not misinterpret this approval as espe-
claiy complimentary to myself, nor even TO the
chivairous and justly esteemed gentlema an with
whose name thank your committees for assn
Chatting mine. L receive and welcome il as a
spontaneous and deserved tribute to that ad-
miraole platform Of principles wherein your
convention so tersely, SO lucidly so forcibly set
forth the convictions which impeIled and the
purposes which guided its course: a platfnrm
which, casting behind it the wreck and rubbish
of worn out contentious and by-gone feuds. EN-
bodies in fit and few words the needs and aspi-
rations of to-day. Though thousands stand
ready 10 condemn your every act. hardly a
YOUR platform, OF which the substance NAV be
fairly epitomized as follows:
First. All the political rights and franchises
winch winch have been acquired through oar late
bloody commissions must and shall be guar
anteed, maintained, enjoyed, and respected
evermore.
Second. All the political rights and franchises
which have been lost through that CONFUSION
should and must be promptly restored and re-
established, 80 that there shall be henceforth
no prescribed class, and no disfranchised caste
within the limits OF our Union, whose long
estranged people shall reunite and fraternise
upon the broad basis of universal amnesty and
impartial suffrage. :
Third. That, subject to our solemn constitu-
tional obligation to maintain the equal rights Of
all citizens our policy should aim at local self.
government, and not at Capitalization; tn at the
eivil authority should be supreme over the mil
itary: that the writ of ha5eas corpus should be
jealously upheld as the safeguard of personal
freedom; that the individual citizen should en-
JOY the largest liberty consistent with public
order, and that there shall be no federal subyer-
sion of the internal polty of the several states
and municipalities, but that each shall be left
Tree 20 enforce the rights and promote the we'll
being Of its inhabitants by such means as the
judgment of its own people shall prescribe.
Fourth. There shall be real, and not III erely
simulated, reform in the civil service of the
republic; to which end it is indispensable that
the Chief dispenser OF its vast Off cial patronage
shall be shielded from the main temptation 70
use his power selfshly by rule forbiddng aud
precluding reelection; that the raising of rev
nized and treated as the peoples immediate
business, to be shaped and directed by them
through their representatives in Congress,
neither overrule By his veto, attempt TO dictate
nor presume to punish, by bestowing Office only
on those who agree with him, or Withdrawing
1t from those who do not.
Sixth. That the public lands must be sacredly
reserved for occupation and acquisition by Gull
tiyators, and not recklessy squandered on the
projectors OF railroads, for which our people
have no present need, and the premature con
struction OF which is annually plunging Us
INTO deeper and deeper abysses Of foreign in
debtedness. !
Seventh. That the achievement of these mr.
poses of universal benefcence is expected and
sought at the hands of all who approve them.
irrespective of party affiliations.
Eighth. That the public faith must at all |
hazards be maintained and the national credit |
preserved.
Ninth. That the patriotic devotedness and in
services of our fellow citizens who
as soldiers or sailors, upheld the flag and main
tanned the unity of the republic, shall ever be |
remembered and honorably reauited
These propositions, so ably and forcibly pre-
sented in the platform OF your convention, have
already fixed the attention and commanded the |
Of large majority of our country
men, who joyfully adopt them, as 1 do as the |
basis of q true, beneficent national reconstruc-
a new departure from jealousies, strifes
and hates, which have no adequate motives, or
even plausible pretext, into an atmosphere OF
peace, fraternity and mutual goodwill. In vain
do the drillsergeants of decaying organiza tions
flourish menacingly their truncheons and angri-
ly insist that the files shall be closed and |
parties, once vital because rooted in the vital
needs Of the hour, protest against straying and |
boltng, denounce men nowise their interiors as
traitors and renegades, and threaten them with |
infamy and ruin. |
/ am confident that the American people have |
solved that their brave hearts and strong arms
shall bear 1t in triumph. |
In this faith, and with the distinct understand
ing that Ii elected i shall be the President not
Of party, but of the whole people, accept |
your nomination, in the confident trust that the |
eager to clasp hands across the bloody chasm |
which has too long divided them, forgetting that |
they have been enemies in the joyful conscious
ness that they are, and must henceforth remain,
brethren.
Yours, gratefully, HORACE GREELRY.
Julian, vice president, and Messrs. VIM. f. |
Mclean, John G. Davidson, and j. H. Rhodes,
secretaries OF the National Convention Of the |
Liberal Republicans OF the United States.
D.. W. LAMONT WHEELER, formerly resi-