The New York herald., 1872-07-24


and maintained under your administration. Re-
spectfully, your Obedient servants.
J. II. 'DOOIlTTIE, Chairman of Convention.
Fra. w. sykes, Ala. william Lee, MINI.
John g. Maccabe Ark. Il. o. Sykes, Miss.
]. q. DOwney, Cal. Henry BrOkmeyer, Mo.
A. Z. Burr, Conn. J.C. Crawford, Neb.
Il. l.. Martin, Del. s. Ii. Wyman, New.
l.. w. Jones, Fla. James 3. Thayer, N. Y.
w. A. Hawkins, Ga. John :. Darcy, N. G.
A. NJ. Miller, Ill. J. A. McMahan, Ohio
M. M. Ray, Ind. George w. Cass. Pa.
j. D. Thompson, Iowa. A. Sprague. Il. I.
John Martin, Kansas. James Chestnut, =. c.
b. Magoffin, XIV. John G. Burch, Tenn
Given Campbell, La. Ashbel Smith. Texas.
James G. Madigan Me. Lucius Robinson, Vt.
John Lee Carroll, Nd J. II. Marye, Va.
J. G. Abbott, Mass. VIM. NJ. Clements, W. Va
George Ii. Bruce. Mich. b. 8. We'll, Wis.
c. r. Clever, New Mexico.
To the Hon. HORACE GREELEY, New York.
Mr.. GreeIey's Letter or Acceptance.
NEW YORK, July Is, 1872.
GENTLEMEN:-Upo mature dellberaton, it seems
fit that should give to your letter of the 10th inst.
some further and fuller response than the hasty,
unpremedtated words in which acknowledged
and accepted your nomination ut our meeting on
the 18th.
That your Convention saw ft to accord Its highest
honor to one who had been prominently and point
edly opposed to your party In the earnest and
sometimes angry controversies OF the last forty
years is essentially noteworthy. That many OF
you originally preferred that the liberal repub-
licans should present another candidate for Pres-
dent, and would more readily have united with
us In the support of Adams or Trumbull,
Davis or Brown, is well known. I owe my
adoption at Baltimore wholly to the fact that
had already been nominated at Cincinnati, and
that concentration OF forces upon any new ticket
had been proved impracticable Gratifled as am
at your concurrence In the Cincinnati nominations
certain as am that you would not have thus con-
CURED had you not deemed me upright and Capa-
BILE. find nothing In the circumstance calculated
to lnname vanity or nourish self cOncelt.
But that your Convention saw it, In adopting the
Cincinnati ticket, to re-affirm the Cincinnati
PLATFORM Is to me source OF the
That body was
by no party necessity, real or supposed II might
have accepted the candidates Of the liberal republl
have presented them (as the first Whig National
Convention did Harrison and Tyler without adopt
ing any platform whatever. That it chose to plant
itself deliberately, by a vote nearly unanimous,
upon the fullest and clearest enuncatiOn of prin-
cples which are at once incOntestaby republican
and emphatically democratic, gives trustworthy
assurace that new and more auspicious era is
dawning upon our long distracted country
were devoted to struggle against chatte slavery
a struggle none the less earnest arduOus because
respect for constitutional obligations constrained
me to act for the most part on the defcnsiven re-
sistance to the dinlsion rather than in direct
efforts for the extinction of human bondage.
cheered, my exertiOns were rarely animated by
even so much as hope that should live to see my
by your Convention Of the Cincinnati platform il a
most conclusive proof that not merely is slavery
abolished but that its spirit is extnct-that despite
the protests OF respectable but isolated few there
remains among us no party and no formidable
interest which regrets the overthrow or de-
sires the re-establishment Of human bondage,
whether in letter or in spirit. / am thereby
Justified In my hope and trust that
the @ afst century ,re Of American me ndepend
truths on which its rightiulness was based by JEFF
ferson and the Continental Congress OF 1916 will
but will have become the universally accepted and
honored foundations OF our political fabric.
demand the prompt appllcaton Of those prn,
what could for the complete emancipation
Of blacks, ] now insist on the full enfran-
chisement of all my white countrymen. Let
none say that the ban has just been
removed from all but few hundred
elderly gentlemen to whom eligibility to oalce can
not the hundreds proscribed, but the millions who
are denied the right to be ruled and represented by
were absurd II these did not wish to elect the very
men whom they are forbidden to choose.
nave profound regard for the people Of that
above them in p Intelligence, capacity and
things well, and some admirably, there is
one thing which sure they can
not wisely or safely undertake and that is the sele
Of the persons by whom those States shall be repre-
scnted in Congress. II they could do this to good
and aristocracy the only true political system.
Yet what have we recently Witnessed Zebulon
Iority of the present Legislature OF North
Carona-a majority backed by majority
OF the people who voted al its election
which he was fairly chosen. and the Legis.
lature thus constrained TO choose another In his
stead or leave the State uDrepresented 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
nur a ike rpha al
lighting rebel but who had not served in Congress
before the war as Vance had, though the latter
close Of his term. ! protest against the disfran-
chisement OF State-presumptivey, OF n
number OF states.on grounds 80 narrow
same Senate which refused Vance his seat pro
cceded TO remove his disabilities after that seat
had been filed by another, only serves to place In
stronger light the indignty to North Carolina and
the arbitrary, caprciOus tyranny which dictated II.
thank you, gentlemen, that my name b TO be
conspicuously associated with yours in deter
mined effort to render amnesty complete and uni
versa in spirit as well as In letter. Even defeat in
such cause would leave no sting while triumph
would rank with those victories which no blood
reddens. and which evoke no tears but those OF
gra titude and Joy
Gentlemen, yOur platform, which is also mine. as
sures me that democracy IL not henceorth TO stand
for one thing and repubcanism for another, but
that those terms TO mean in politics as they al
ways have meant In the dictionary substantially
one and the same thing-namely, equal rights, re-
gardiess OF creed OF CLINE, or color hall this as
contentious in the direction OF progress
and reform. Whether shall be found worthy TO
which the American people have Inaugurated IL to
DE determined not by words but by deeds With
me Il ! steadily advance, over me II fslter, It's
grand array moves on to achieve for our country
her glorious, benefcent destiny.
remain, gentlemen, yours,
To the Hon. JAMES r. DOoLiTTLE, Chairman OF the
Convention, and Messrs. r. w. SYKES, JOHN G.
MACCABE and others, Committee.