The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-07-26
GREELEY.
FORMAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE
BALTIMORE NOMINATION.
DETAILS OF HIS AMNESTY NO
TlUNS.

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I VOC tA,i Voc have beer unanimously nou'i-
T,te& ~ is candidate tot iae Presidency
IL ne C1Stea States
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.. delegates prove, TIA. they are ~lih 81.
cGl&- a1srIuiiy determined 81 honor your
leadership CpcD the patriotic duty ~ re-
storing 10 the Administration o. The govern
meni purity and integrity; Of that inde-
pendence 10 its departments which regard;
the constitution a. alike the source and
limit Of federal power.
Laying aside the differences of the past,
abandoning all purposes of mere partisan
advantage, asking for no pledge other than
that of fidelity TO the principles TO which
they have given their deliberate and reso-
lutte adherence, and which they believe
will command the approval of y large ma
jority of the American people, they tender
you their nomination, confident that peace
and good government will be inaugurated
and maintained under your administra-
ton. Respectfully, your obedient servant,
j. r. DooLIITLE,
Chairman Of the convention, and members
of the committee Qualification.
MR.. GREELEYs ACCEPTANCE.
New YORK, July 10, 1872 GENTLE
MEN Upon mature dehberation it seems
fit that should give to your letter of the
10th inst, some further and fuller response
than the few unprecedented words in
which acknowledged and accepted your
nomination at our meeting on the 18th.
That your convention saw lit to give lis
| highest honors to one VINO bad been point
eddy opposed to your party in the earnest
and sometimes angry controversies of the
last Az years is essentially noteworthy.
That many Of you originally preferred
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
my adoption ut Baltimore wholly 10 the
fact that had already been nominated ut
Cincinnati, and that a concentration of
forces on any new ticket had been proved
impracticable. Gratifed as ! am at your
concurrence in the Cincinnati nom nation,
certain rs am that you would not have
thus concurred had you not deemed me
upright and capable, i find nothing in
the circumstances calculated 10 inhame
vanity or nourish self-concet. But that
your convention saw Mt, in adopting the
Cincinnati ticket, to reaffirm the Cincin-
natl platform, is source OF profoundlsatis-
faction. That body was constrained to
, take this important step by no party ne.
cessity, real or supposed. 1t might have
accepted the candidates of the liberal re.
publcans upon grounds entirely its own
or it might have presented them as the
) first wing national convention did Harrison
and Tyler, without adopting any platform
That it chose to plant itself deliberately,
!, by vote nearly unanimous, upon the
fullest and cleverest enunciator Of prin-
r ciples which are at once incontestibly re-
publican and empnatically democratic,
gives trustworthy assurance thvt new
and more suspicious era is dawning upon
orr long-distracted country.
} Some of the best years and best efforts
, OF my life were devoted to the struggle
against chattle slavery, II struggle none
the less earnest, or arduous because respect
for constitutional obligations compelled
me to act, for the most part, on the defens-
? i've, in resistance to the diffusion rather
, Shuh ~ ubrSt choito iol Inc eAlluCtiOH VI
human bondage. Throughout most OF
those years, my vision was uncheered, my
3 exertions were rarely encouraged by even
so much as II hope that should live to see
my country peopled by tree men alone
The afiirmance Of your convention by the
$ Cincinnati platform is most conclusive
y proof that not merely is slavery abolished
a but that its spirit is extinct; that despite
the protest of respectable but isolated
few, there remains among us no party &c
regret the achievements of the past few
, years | am thereby justified in my hope
and trust that the first century OF Ameri
A. can independence will not close before the
good truths on which its rghtfulness was
D based by Jefferson and the continental
congress Of &c will no longer be regarded
rs 'glittering generalties' but will have
become the universally accepted and hon.
orcd foundation Of our political fabric.
demand the prompt application Of these
( principles 10 our existing condition. Hav'
ing done what / could for the complete
emancipation Of the blacks, now insist
. on the full enfranchisement OF all ms
= white countrymen. Let none say that tht
q bar has just been removed from all but
u few hundred elderly gentlemen 10 whom
. eligibility 10 office Can be of little conhe
7 quence. Ny view contemplates not th'
hundred, but the millions who are denied
g the right to be ruled and represented By
!, the men Of their unfettered choice. Pro
: scr!ptions were absurd if these do not wish
TO elect the very men who they arr
G forbidden to choose. / have profound
t regard for the people Of that New Eng
, land state wherein / was born, in who's,
; common schools was taught. ] rank M
other people above them in intelligence
capacity, and moral worth, but while they
I do many things well, and some admirably
= there is one thing which l am sure thai
they cannot do wisely or safely, that is tn,
selection for seats remote from and unlike
. their own, Of the persons by whom those
1 states shall be represented in congress
r If they could do this to good purpose, Their
republican institutions were unwise, and
aristocracy the only political system. Yet
what have Ye recently witnessed n b
i Vance, the unquestioned choice Of large
n majority Of the present legislature of NORTH
/ Carolina, majority backed by majority
of the people who voted OF its election, re
fused the seat in the federal senate to which
y ne was fairly chosen, and the Legislature
thus constrained to choose another In hi
3, stead or leave the state unrepressented to-
n years The votes of New England thu
deprived North Carolina of the senator O
her choice, and compelled her to send an
70 other in his stead -another who in on