The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-07-26
THE EGIS AND INTELlIGENCER
BEL AIR, Nd, JULY 18th, 1872.

Horace Greeley's Acceptance of the Bal
timOre Nomination.
Mr.. Greeley has written a letter TO the
committee appointed by the Baltimore Con
vention to inform him of his nomination by
hat body, in the course Of which he says:
Having done what could for the complete
emancipation of the blacks, now insist on
the full reimbursement of all my white
countrymen. Let none say that the ban has
just been removed from all but few hum
dred elderly gentlemen to whom eligibility
to office can be of little consequence
My view contemplates not the hundreds
proposed, but the millions who are denied
the right to be ruled and represented by the
men of their unfettered choice Proscrip-
tions were absurd if these did not wish to
elect the very men whom they are forbidden
to choose.
/ have a profound regard for the people of
that New England wherein was born, and
in whose common schools | was taught. L
think no other people above them in intelli-
gence, capacity and moral worth, but while
they do many things well and some admira-
bly,, there is one thing which l am sure they
cannot do wisely or safely, and that is to I'M
dertake the selection for States remote from
and unlike their own of the persons by whom
those States shall be represented in Congress.
If they could do this to good purpose, then
republican institutions are unfit and aristoc.
racy the only true political system. Yet
what have we recently witnessed? z. b.
Vance, of North Carolina, the unquestioned
choice of a large majority of the present
Legislature, majority backed by majority
of the people who voted at its election, re-
fused the seat in the Federal Senate to which
he was fairly chosen, and the Legislature
was thus constrained to choose another in
his stead or leave the State unrepresented
for years.
The votes of New England thus deprived
North Carolina of the Senator Of her choice
and compelled her to send another in his
stead another, who in our late contest was
like Vance rebel, and a fighting rebel, but
who had not served in Congress before the
war as Vance had, though the latter remained
faithful to the Union until after the close of
his term. protest against the disfranchise-
ment of State, presumptively of number
of States, on grounds so narrow and techni-
cal as this. The fact that the same Senate
which refused Vance his seat, proceeded to
remove his disabilities after that seat had been
filled by another, only serves to place in
stronger light the indignity to North Carroll
ma, and the arbitrary, capricious tyranny
which dictated it.
thank you, gentlemen, that my name is
to be conspicuously associated with yours in
determined effort to render amnesty complete
and universal in spirit as well as in letter.
Even defeat in such q cause would leave no
sting, while triumph would rank with those
victories which no blood reddens and which
evoke no tears, but those of gratitude and
joy.
Gentlemen, your platform, which is also
mine, assures me that democracy is not hence
forth to stand for one thing and republican
ism for another, but that those terms are to
mean i'll politics, as they always have meant
in the dictionary, substantially one and the
same thing, namely, equal rights, regardless
of creeds, or cline, or color.
l hail this as q genuine new departure from
outworn feuds and meaningless contentious
in the direction of progress and REFORM
Whether shall be found worthy to bear the
standard of the great liberal movement which
the American people have inaugurated is to
be determined not by words, but by deeds
With me, if | steadily advance, over me if
falter.
Its grand array (army?) moves on to achieve
for our country her glorious, benefcent des-
tiny. | remain, gentlemen, yours,
HORACE GREELEY.