The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-05-31
HORACE GREELEY.
ON cial NOiific a tlon of His
NOnlinaliOn for the preSi.
dency---Lettcr Of Accept
Ance.

is the official notice to MIR. Greeley of
the Liberal Republican nominations:
CINCINNATI May 8, 1872.
DEAR S1R:-The National Conyen-
ton of the Liberal Republicans of the
United States have instructed the un-
dersigncd, President, Vice President
and Secretaries of the Convention, to
inform you that you have been nominal
ted as the candidate of the Liberal
Republicans for the Presidency of the
United States. We also submit to you
the address aud resolutions unanimous
ly adopted by the convention. BE
pleased to signify to us your accept
ance Of the platform and nomination,
and believe us very truly yours,
TSiyncd1 G. SEIZURE, Pres't.
GEO. w. JULIAN,
VIM. Z. Mclean, Vice Pres't.
y. IL. hnOueS,
Addressed t. Hon. Horace Greeley.
New York City.
The following is Mr.. Greeley's reply:
NEW York, May 20, 1872.
GENTLEMEN:-I have chosen not to
acknowledge your letter of the 3d inst,
until l could learn how the work of
your Convention was received in all
parts Of our country, and judge whcth-
or 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 independent Of Off
cial patronage and indifferent to the
smiles and frowns of power. The num-
Der and character of these unconstrain-
ed, unprecedented, unsolicited utterances
satisfy me that The movement which
found expression at Cincinnati has re-
ccived the stamp of public approval,
and been hailed by majority Of our
countrymen as harbingcr Of better
day1or the Republic. do not misin-
terpret this approval as especially COM
plimentary to myself nor even to the
chivalrous and justly esteemed gentle
man with whose name | thank your
convention for associating mine. re-
cciye and welcome it as spontaneous
and deserved tribute to that admirable
platform of principles wherein your
convention SO tersely, SO lucidly, so fore
IDLY set forth the convictions which i'm
PEELED and the purposes which guided
its course-a platform which, casting
behind it the wreck and rubbish of
worn out CONVENTIONS and bygone feuds,
embodics in fit and few words the needs
and aspirations of the day. Though
thousands stand ready to condemn your
every act, hardly syllable of criticism
or cayil has been aimed at your plat
form, of which the substance may be
fairly cpitomized as follows:
1. All the political rights and fran
chises which have been acquired through
our late bloody commissions must and
shall be guaranteed, maintained, enjoy
ed, and respected, evermore.
2. All the political rights and fran
chises which have been lost through
that CONFUSION should and must be
promptly restored and re-established, SO
that there shall be henccforth no pro-
scribed class and no DISTINGUISHED caste
within the limits of the Union, whose
long estranged people shall unite and
fraternize upon the broad basis of Uni
yersal Amnesty with Impartial Suffrage
3. That, subject to our solemn con-
stitutional obligation to maintain the
equal rights OF all citizens, our policy
should aim at local self government, and
not at Capitalization; that the civil au-
thority should be supreme over the
military, that the wri, of habeas corpus
should be jealousy upheld as the safe
guard Of personal freedom; that the in
dividual citizen should enjoy the largest
liberty consistent with public order. that
there shall be no Federal subversion Of
tho internal policy Of the several States
and municipalities, but that each shall
be left free to enforce the rights and
promote the well being Of its inhabit-
ants by such means as the judgment OF
its own people may prescribe.
4. There shall be real and not
merely simulated Reform in the Civil
Service of the Republic; to which end
- "a ;ol;enorc;hlo thot tho chief disnans