Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-08-15
Mr.. Greeley's Official Notification and
Formal Acceptance of the Balti-
more Nomination..


AVE-" i""N' O",! So
The following IS the olllClaI notlce OF
MIR. Greeley S nomination al Baltimore
BALTIMORE. July 10
HOY uoRAcr SRrpIPy-BsI, sir. II Is
o,,r ,,Icssurn II. ,,,prliarrc with the instruc.
tions of the Democratic National Convcn.
tinn osss,nLlrb in This civ to inform Won
that Won have been unanimously nominated
liz candidate far the Presidency of The
Itnit.d Stat
Tn Conyrn+ior, CONSISTING of T2a dole.
rotns ranroa,antirsr ,var> state and Territory
n tla Irninn odontnd without amendment
The declaration of nrinriples affirmed by the
Convention nf Liberal RppubljcAus at Gin
rinn.t and strenrthnned hy the indorsr-
mont contained in your letter of accrptauco.
IN. oction ~ MS ureat hody of DELEGATES
nrov%s hat they are with stnruIor uneniln.
In, d,tar,ninrd ia honor your leadership in
The rlatrintic dutv of restoring TO the nd
ministration Of the Government purity and
INTEGRITY and that indepcudpucc to lis de-
nartmrrts which regards the Constitution
as alike thn source and limit of Federal
mower
Ia,,i,g asidn tl,o differences of IN. mast
obIudonino all purposes Of mere partisan
adyantare asking for no pledge other than
that of fidelity to the principles TO which
they have given their deliberate and resolutc
sdEprpnca aud which they believe will rom-
mand fine onnroyol of A large majority of the
American people they tender Won their nom
ination confident that peare and good cov
eminent will be inauguratcd and maintained
under your administration.
Rrspectfully. your obedicnt servant.
j. X. DooLITTLE,
Chairman Of the Convention and Member OF the
Committee of Notification.
MR.. GREELEY's LETTER.
New YORK, Julyi1S, 1872.
GFST1FNrN. Ttuon mature acljbcrati0u, il
seems iii that | shopld rive TO your letter of
thr 1Otb ,tsi some further and fuller re-
sponsr than the few uupremeditatcd words
in which | Acknowledged and accepted your
nomination nj r,,r ,naCtinp an the ION
That vour Convention saw iii TO confer II 3
tirbnet honor ON one Who Ind been painted
l., n+,rosad 10 ynur marty in the earnest and
SOMETIMES antrrv rontrnyersin. of the last
fNrty y,nrs Il essentially noteworthy. That
NAVY nf Won originally prcfcrred That the
liberal Republicans should present another
candidate for President, and would more
readily have united with US in the support of
Adams or Trumbull. Davis or Brown, is well
known. | owe nv adoption at Baltimore
wholly to the fact thai | had already been
nominated at Cincinnati, and that a con
centration of forces on any new ticket
had been proved impracticable. Gratiiied
as am at your concurrence in the Gin.
rinnati nomination, certain as | am that
YOU would not have thus concurrcd had YOU
not deemed me upright and capable, find
nothing in the circumstance calculated to In.
flame vanity or nourish self cOuceit. But
that your Convention saw fit in adopting the
Cincinnati ticket TO rcatlirm the Cincinnati
platform, is Il source of profound satisfac-
lion, That body was constrained to take
this important step by no party necessity,
real or supposed 1t might have accepted
thu randidates nf tine ibpral Rppuhlirgus