Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-06-06
Hon. Horace Greeley's Letter of Ac-
ceDtancp.


CINCINNATI, May 3, 1872.-DEAR SIR:
The National Convention of Liberal Re-
publicans of the United States have in
structed the undersigned, President,
Vice President, and Secretaries of the
Convention, to inform you that you
have been nominated as candidate for
the Presidency of the United States.
We also submit to you the address and
resolutions unanimously adopted by
the convention. Be pleased to signify
to us your acceptance of the platform
and nomination, and believe US, very
truly yours, c. ScHURz,
President.
GEO. W. JULIAN,
Vice President.
VIM E. MCLEAN,
JNo. G. DAVIDSON,
j. Fl. RHODES,
Secretaries.
To Hon. HORACE GREELEY, New York city.
MR. GREELEY's REPLY.
New YORK, May 20, 1872.-GENTLE-
MEN: l have chosen not to acknowl-
edge your letter of the Sd inst. until |
could learn how the work of your con-
vention was received in all parts of our
great country, and judge whether that
work was approved and ratified by the
mass of our fellow citizens. Their
resi- onse has from day to day reached
me through kilograms, letters, and COM
ments of.journalists independent of Off
cial patronage, and Indifferent to the
smiles or frowns of power. The number
and character of these unconstrained,
unpurchased, unsolicited utterances,
satisfy me that the movement which
found expression at Cincinnati has re-
ceived the stamp of public approval,
and been hailed by majority of our
countrymen as the harbinger of bet
ter day: for the Republic. do not mis-
interpret this approval as especially
compi mentary to myself, nor even to
the chivalrous and Justly esteemed gen.
tlemen with whose name | thank your
convention for associating nine. | re-
ceive and welcome it as a spontaneous
and deserved tribute to that admirable
platform of principles wherein your
convention SO tersely, so lucidly, SO for
chilly set forth the convictions which
impelled, and the purposes which
guided, its course platform which,
casting behind it the wreck and rub
bish of worn-out contentious and by
gone feuds, embodies in fit and few
words the needs and aspirations of to-
day. Though thousands stand ready
to condemn your every act, hardly a
| syllable of criticism or cavil has been
aimed at your platform, Of which the
substance may be fairly epitomized as
follows:
/. All political rights and franchises
which have been acquired through our
late CONFUSION must and shall be guar
anteed, maintained, enjoyed, and re-
spected evermore.
2. All the political rights and fran.
chises which have been lost through
that CONFUSION should, and must, be
promptly restored and re-estabhshed
SO that there shall be henceforth no
prescribed class and no DISTINGUISHED
caste within the limits of our Union,
whose long estranged people shall re-
unite and fraterniza upon the broad
basis Of universal amnesty with impair
tial suffrage.
3. That, to our solemn constitutional
obligation to maintain the equal rights
of all citizens, our policy should
aim at local self government and moi
at Capitalization that civil authority
should be supreme over the military
that the writ of habeas corpus should
be jealousy upheld as the safeguard OF
personal freedom; that the Individual
citizen should enjoy the largest liberty
consistent with public order, and that
there shall be no subverslon of the in
ternal policy of the several States and
municipalities, but that each be left
free to enforce the rights and promote
the well-being Of its inhabitants by
such means as the judgment of its own
people shall prescribe.
4. There shall be real and not
merely a simulated reform in the civil
service of the Republic, to which end it
is indispensable that the chief dispenser
of its vast patronage shall be shielded
from the main temptation to use his
power selfshly, by rule inexorably for
bidding and precluding his re election.
5. That the raising of revenue,
whether by tariff or otherwise, shall be
recognized and treated as the people
immediate business, to be shaped and
directed by them through their repre-
sentatives IN Congress, whose action
thereon the President must neither
override by his veto, attempt to dictate,
nor presume to punish by bestowing
Office only on those who agree with him,
or withdrawing it from those who do
not.
6. That the public land shall be
sacredly reserved for occupation and
acquisition by cultivators, and not reck-
lessly squandered on the projectors of
railroads for which our people have no
present need, and the premature con-
struction of which is annually plunging
US into deeper and deeper abysses OF
foreign Indebtedness.
7. That the achievements of these
grand purposes of universal benefcence
is expected and sought at the hands OF
all who approve them, irrespective Of
past affiliations.
s. That the public faith must, at all
hazards, be maintained and the national
credit preserved.
9. That the patriotic devotedness and
inestimable services of our citizens who
as soldiers or sailors, upheld the flag
and maintained the unity of the Re
public, shall ever be gratefully remem-
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