Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1872-08-21

and success Of these vital prin-
ciples, and the SUPPORT of the
candidates nomin ated by this
Convention, we invite and cor
daily welcome the co-opera>
ton of all patriotic citi zens,
without regard to previous
political affiliations.
MIR. GREELEY's LETTER oFACCEPTANCE.
New York, May 20, 1872.
GENTLEMEN:-I have cho>
sen not to acknowledge your
letter of the Sd inst, until I
could learn how the work Of
lyour Convention was received
lin all parts ofthe country, and
Judge whether that work was
approved and ratified by the
mass Of our fellow citizens
Their response has from day
to day reached me through
kilograms, letters and com
ments Of journalists, independ>
ent of official patronage and
Indifferent to the smiles or
frowns of power. The num-
ber and character of these un-
restrained, unpurchased, unso.
licited utterances satisfy me
that the movement which
found expression at Cincinnati
has received the stamp Of pub
lie approval, and has been hail
ed by majority Of our coun-
trymen as the harbinger of a
better day for the Republic. =
do not misinterpret this ap>
proval as especially plimen.
tary to myself nor even to the
chivalrous and justly esteemed
gentleman with whose name l
thank your convention for as
sociating nine. | receive and
welcome it as spontaneous
and deserved tribute to that
admirable platform Of princi-
pies wherein your convention
so tersely, so lucidly, SO forci-
bly, set forth the convictions
which impelled and the purpo.
ses which guided it's course-a
platform which, casting behind
it the wreck and rubbish of
worn out contentious and by
gone feuds, embodies in fit and
few words the needs and aspi-
rations of to-day, Though
thousands stand ready to con
denim your every act, hardly a
syllable of criticism or cavil
has deem aimed at your plat
form, of which the substance
may be fairly epltomized as
follows:
First-All political rights
and franchises which have been
acquired through our late
bloody con vulsion must and
shall be guaranteed, maintain
ed, enjoyed audrespected ever
mere. =
Second-All political rights
and franchises which have been
lost through that convulsion
should and must be omptly
restored and re-established, SO
that there shall be henceforth
no prescribed class and no dis.
franchised caste. within the
limits Of our Union, whose lc ng
estranged people shall re-unite
and fraternize upon the broad
base of Universal Amnesty
with Impartial Suffrage. That,
subject to our solemn oonstitu>
tiopal obligations to maintain
the equal rights Of all citizens,
our policy should aim at local
SelR.government and not cen.
tralization; that civil authority
should be supreme over militia.
ry /; that the writ Of habeas
corpus should be jealously up
held a. the safeguard of per-
sonal freedom; that the indi-
vidual citizen shall enjoy the
largest liberty consistent with
public order, and that there
shall be no federal subyersion
of the internal policy Of the
several State municipalities,
but that each shall be left free
to enforce the rights and pro.
mote the well being of it's in.
habitants by such means as the
judgment Of its own people
shall prescribe,
Fourth-T There shall be a
real and not merely asimulated
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