Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1872-08-10
MIR GREELEY ACCEPTANCE.
New YORK, July l8, 1872.

GESTLEMEN--Upon mature dolib
Grafton seems lit that ! should
give to our letter Of the 10th inst,
some further and fuller form than
tho hasty unprecedented words in
which l acknowledged and accept
cd your nomination AZ our meeting
on tho 18th.
That your convention SAW fit to
accord it's highest honor to one who
had been prominently, pointedly
opposed to your party IN tho earn,
est and angry controversy OF the
last forty years, in oninent!y note
worthy. That many Of you origi,
nalIy preferred that The Liberal Re
pubilcuns should present another
candidate, and loud more readily
have united both OF US in the sup
port of Adams or Trumbull, Da is
er Brown, is we'll known. ] owe
my adoption at Baltimore wholly
TO the fact that | had already been
nominated at Cincinnati, aud that
. concentration Of forces on any
new ticket had been proved imprac
tical. Gratitied Us | am at your
concurrence IN tho Cincinnati nom.
inauon, certain as | am that you
would not have thus concurred had
you not deemed me upright and ca
paOle, | find nothing III tho circum
stance calculated to infamo vanity
or nourish seil.conccit.
But that convention saw fit in
adopting the Cincinnati ticket to
reathrm the Cincinnati platform, is
to mo a source of the profoundesl
satisfaction. That body was con
strained to take this important step
by no party necessity, real or sup.
posed 1t might have accepted the
candidate, OF the Liberal Ropubli
cans upon grounds entirely it's own,
or it might have presented tn m,
as the first Wing National Conven
ton did Harrison and Tyler, with.
out adopting any platform whatev
er. That it choose to pant itsell
deliberately By vote nearly unan
imous upon tho fullest aud clearesl
enunciatlon OF principles which are
ut once inconlestably Republican
and emphaticaily Democratic, gives
trustworthy assurance that a new
and more auspicious era is dawnine
upon our long-distructed country
Some of the bost years and bes
efforts Of my life were devoted to d
struggle against chattel slavery, 8
struggle mono the less earnest or AZ.
duous because respect for constitu
tional obligations constrained me t
act for the most part on the defun
sirc, IN resistance to the diffusion
rather than IN direct efforts for th,
extinction of human bondage
Throughout most OF those years my
vision was uncheered, my exertiont
We're rarciy animated by even 8
much as u hope that | should liv'
to sec my country pecp!cd by free
mon alune. The aftirmance by you,
convention of tho Cincinnati plat
form Is most conclusive proof tha
not merely is slavery abolished, bu
tnat its spirit is extinct; that des
pItc the protests Of respectabl,
but isolated few, there remainl
among US no party and no iormida
ble interest which regrets the over
throw or desires the establishment
of hGman bondage, whether in tn,
letter or IN the spirit. | am there
By justified in my hope and trus
tbaL the first century of Americar
independence will not close befor,
tue grand elemental truth on whicl
It's righttulnoss was based by Jeffur
son aud the Continental Congress
OF 76 will no longer be regarded ~
/ glittering generaIities, but wall hav,
become the universally accepte'
aud honored foundation Of our po
litical fabric.
| demand the prompt application
Of those principles to our existing
condition. Having douo what
could for the complete euancips
ton Of the blacks, now ins.st o.
the full Acknowledgement Of all m
white countrymen. Let none sa
the ban has inst been removed fror