Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-08-10
GREELEY'S FORMAL ACCEPTANCE OF
The BALTIMORE NOMINATION.

New YORK, July 24.-The official no.
tification of Grecley's nomination at Balti.
more, with his response, are published.
The notification is quite brief 1t merely
announces his unanimous nomination and
the adoption Of the Cincinnati platform, as
strengthened by the endorsement contained
in Greclcy's letter os acceptance of the
Cincinnati nomination, adding that, in ten.
dering the nomination, they lay aside the
differences of the past, abandon all pur.
poses of mere partisan advantages, and ask
of him no pledge other than that of fdeli-
ty to the principles of the Platform. Gree.
ley's response is dated July 18th, and reads
as follows:
New York, July 18th.
GENTLEMEN Upon mature delibera.
ton it seems fit that should give to your
letter of the 10Th fuller response than the
hasty unprecedented words in which l
acknowledged and accepted your nomina-
ton at our meeting Oh the 18th. That
many of you originally preferred that the
Liberal Republicans should present an
other candidate for the Presidency, and
would have more readily united with US
in the support of Adams or Trumbull, Da
Wis or Brown, is well known.
owe my adoption at Baltimore wholly
to the fact that had already been nomin.
atcd at Cincinnati, and that concentra-
ton of forces upon any new ticket had been
proved unacceptable. Gratifcd as l am at
your concurrence in the Cincinnati nomin.
ations, certain as am that you would not
have thus concurred had You not deemed
me upright and capable, l find nothing in
the circumstances calculated to infame any
vanity. But that your Committee saw fit,
in adopting the Cincinnati ticket, to re.
affirm the Cincinnati platform, is to me a
source of profound satisfaction. That
body was constrained to take this import
ant step by no party necessity, real or sup.
posed. 1t might have accepted the can
didates of the Liberal Republicans on
grounds entirely its own, or it might have
presented them as the first Wing National
Convention did Harrison and Tyler, with
out adopting any platform whatever. That
it chose to plant itself deliberately, by
vote nearly unanimous, upon the fullest
and clearest cnunciation Of principles,
which are at once incontcstibly RepubIi.
can, gives trustworthy assurance that a
new and more auspicious era is dawniny
upon our long distracted country. Some
of the best years and best endeavors of my
life were devoted to struggle against
chattcl slavery-a struggle none the less
earnest or arduous because constitutional
obligations constrained me to act for the
most part on the defensive, in resistance
to the diffusion, rather than the direct eff.
forts for the extinction, Of human bond
age. Throughout the most of these years
my vision was uncheered, my exertions
were rarely animated, by even SO much as
a hope that l should live to see my count.
ry peopled by free men alone.
The affirmance by your Convention of
the Cincinnati Platform is a most conclu-
sive proof, not merely that slavery is abol-
ished, but that its spirit is extinct. De.
spite the protests Of respectable but
isolated few, there remains among us no
party nor formidable interest which regrets
its overthrow, or desires the re-establsh-
ment of human bondage, whether in
letter or spirit. am, therefore, justified
in my hope and trust that the first ceutu-
ry of American independence will not close
before the great truths on which its right
fulness was based by Jefferson and the
Continental Congress Of '76, will no longer
be regarded as glittoriug geueraities, but
will have become the universally accepted
and honored foundations of our political
fabric. l demanded the prompt applica.
tion of those principles to our condition.
Having done what could for the com.