Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-07-27
GREELEY'S ACCEPTANCE.
He is Officially Notified of His Nom.
ination by the National DEM
IS. ocratic Convention.
His Letter in Response. .
ssA New and More Auspicious Era
aala Dawning Upon Our Dis
tracted Country"


"A New and More AuspiciOus Era
aaia Dawning Upon Our Dis
tracted Country"
AAGs B6AA
BALTIMORE July 10, 1s72.-Dear Sir: 1t is our
pleasure, in compliance with the instructions OF
the Democratic National Convention assembled
in this city, to inform You that y0u have been
unanimously nominated its candidate for the
Presidency of the United States.
The Convention, consisting of 1872 delegates.
representing every State and Territory in the
Union, adopted without amendments, the decla-
ration Of principles affirmed by the Convention
OF Liberal Republicans at CINCINNATI, and
strengthened by the Endorsement contained in
your .etter OF acceptance
The action of this great body of delegates proves
that they are, with singular unanimity to enter
under your leadership upon the patriotic duty of
restoring to the administration Of the Government
purity and integrity, and that independence to
It's Departments which regards the Constitution
as alike the source and the limit of Federal pow
er. gllEtEf8 ~
Laying aside the differences of the past, aband-
oning all purpose of mere partisan advantage,
asking for no pledge other than that o. fidelity
TO the principles to which they have given their de-
liberate and resolute adherence, and which they
believe viii command the approval of large
majority Of the American people, they tender you
their nomination, confident, that peace and good
government viii be inaugufated and maintained
under your administration. Respectfully, your
obedient servants.s-s.,s y. x. DooI4TTLE,
Frs. W.Sykes, Alabama; John c. Maccabe,
Arkansas; j.. &. DOwney, California; A. L.
Burr, Connecticut; Ell Martin, Delaware; L.
W. Jones, Florida; w. a. Hawkins, Georgia; A.
NJ. Miller, Illinois; NJ. NJ. Ray, Indiana; j. d.
Thompson, Iowa; John Martin, Kansas; B. Ma
Coffin, Kentucky; Given Campbell, Louisiana;
james O. Madigal, Maine; John Lee Carroll,
MARYLAND; J. G. Abbott, Massachusetts,; George
H. Bruce. Michigan; William Lee, Minnesota;
E. o. Sykes, Mississippi; Henry Brokmyer, Mis-
souri,; j. c. Crawford, Nebraska; $. b. Wyman,
Nevada; james s. Thayer, New York; John s.
Darcy North Carolina; j. A. McMahan, Ohio;
George w. Cass, Pennsy ylvania; A. Sprague,
Rhode Island; james Chesnut, South Carolina;
John C. Burch, Tennessee; Ashbel Smith, Tex
AS: Lucius Robinson Vermont; j. II. MaTye,
VIRGINIA; VIM. NJ. Clements; West Virginia; B.
S. We'll, Wisconsin; g. p. Clever, New Mexico.
To the Hon. Horace Greeley, New York.
MR.. GREELEY's ACCEPTANCE. ~
NEW YORK, July Is, 1S12.-GENTLEMEN: Up
on mature deliberaton, it seems fit that should
gi o. to your letter of the 10th inst some further
and fuller response than the hasty, unpremedi-
tated words in which L acknowledged and ac-
cepted your nomination at our meeting on the
18th.
That YOUR Convention saw fit to accord its
highest honor TO one who had been prominently
and pontedly opposed to your party in the earn
est and sometimes angry controversies OF the last
forty wears, is essentially noteworthy. That
many of YOU originally preferred that the Liberal
Republicans should present another candldaue
for President and would more readily have
unified with us in the support of Adams or Irum-
bull Davis or Brown, is well known. owe my
adoption at Baltimore wholly to the fact that 81
had already been nominated at Cmelnnau, and
that a concentration of forces upon any new
ticket had been proved impracticable. Gratifed
as am at your concurrence in the CINCINNATI
nominations certain as l am that you would net
have thus concurred had you not deemed me
upright and capable, find nothing in the Cir
cumstance calculated to inhame vanity or nour-
ish self-cOnceit .t
tbe Cincinnati ticket, to reafirm the Cincinnati
Platform, is to a source of the protoundest
satisfaction. That body was constrained 10 take
this important step by no party necessity, real or
snDnosed lit mi ght have accepted the candidates
of the Liberal Republicans upon grounds entirely
its own, or 1t might have presented them as the
first Whig National Convention dld harrison ana
Tvler) without adopting any platform whatever.
That il chose to plant itself deliberately, by vote
nearly unanimous, upon the fullest and eiearest
enunciatiOn of principles which are at once IN
contestably Republican and emphatically Dem
ocratic gives Trustworthy assurance that a new
and more auspiciOus era is dawning upon our long
distracted country. -
Some of the best years and best efforts of my
life we're devoted to the struggle against chattel
sIayery-a struggle none the less earnest or ar
tuous because respect for constitutional obhga-
tions constrained me to act for the most part on
the defensive in resistance to the diffusion
rather than in direct efforts for the extinction Of
human bondage. Throughout most OF those
wears my vision was uncheered, my exertlOns
that should live to see my country peOpled by
freemen alone. The afirmance by your conyen-
tion OF the Cincinnati Platform Is most concln-
lss pra chat 1I1araly IA slavery abolished but
that its sDisit il eXtinct-that, despite .he PF0-
tests of respectable but isolated few, there re-
mains among US no party and no formidable m
terest which regrets the overthrow or desires the
establishment of human bondage, whether IN
letter or in spirit. / am thereby justified in my
hone and trust that the first century OF American
Tndependence VIII not close before the grand ele-
Ina,ItaI fr,Iths on ahichits rightuness was based
Inv jefferson and the Continental Congress OF '76
will no longer be regarded as ''gltterng general
itiesv bat will have become the universally ac-
cepted and honored foundations OF our political
demand the prompt application Of these
nrineiples to our existing condition. Having
done what could for the complete emancipa-
tion of blacks, now insist ON the full enfran-
cbisement of all my white countrymen. Let
nIna saw that the ban has just been removed
from ali but few hundred elderly gentlemen, to
whom eligibility TO Office be Of little cOnse-
ouencp NV view cOntemplateS not the hum
ddreds prescribed butthe millions who are denied
tbe RIGHT to be ruled ard represented by the men
Of their uufettered choice. Prescription were
ohsnrd if these dad not wish to elect the very
men whom they are forbidden to choose,
i have profound regard for the people of that
New-England wherein | was born, IN whose
Common schools 1 was taught rank no 9th
or neople above them in intelligence, capacity
and moral worth. But, while they do many
+hirgs well, and some admirably, there is one
IN
satsiy undertake, and that Is the selection, for
STATES remote from and unlike their own, OF the
nersons by wh1m those States shall be represented
n Congress If they could do this to good purpose
hon republican institutions were unit, anu aris-
tocracy the only true political system
Vet what have we recently witnessed? Zebulon
n Vance the unquestioned choice of large ma
iority of the present. Legislature of North Carolina
"a majority backed by a majority of the people
bo voted at its election-refused the seat in the
FEDERAL Senate to which he fairly chosen, and
+be Legislature thus constrained to choose another
in his stead or leave the State unrepresented for
icars The votes of New England thus deprived
Sorth Carolina of the Senator of her choice, and
compelled her to send another in his sead-another
mo in our late contest, was, like Vance, a REBEL
80 a fighting rebel, but who had not served in
SoHgress before the war as Vance had, though the
tter remained faithful TO the Union till after the
ciose of his term. Iprotest against the disfran-
cbiseulent of a State-presumptively, of number
| ~ States-On grounds narrow and technical as
this The fact that the same Senate which re-
fused Vance his seat proceeded to remove his disa-
bties after that seat had been filled by another,
only serves to place in stronger light the iadgnity
| to North Carolina and the arbitrary, capricious.
tyranny which dictated it. L thank you, gentle
men that my name is to be conspie uously associ-
| ated with yours in determined effort to render
amnesty complete and universal, in spirit as well
| as in'7etter. Even defeat in such cause would
leave no sting, while triumph would rank with
those victories which no blood reddens and which
evoke no tears but those of gratitude and joy. I
Gentleman, your platform, which is also mine,
assures me that Democracy is not hencetorth to
stand for one thing and Republicanism for an
other, but that those terms are to mean in poll
ties as they always have meant in the dictionary,
substantially one and the same thing-namely,
Equal rights, regardless of creed, or cline, or
color. hail this as genuine New Departure
from outworn feuds and meaningless contentious
in the direction OF Progress and Reform. Wheth-
er shall be found worthy to bear the standard of
the great Liberal movement which the American
People have inaugurated is to be determined not
by words but by deeds. With me If L steadily ad-
vance, over me if fater, its grand array NOTES
OIL to achieve for our country her glorious, ben
eGce4t destiny. .
l remain, gentlemen, yours, ~
HORACE GREELEY.
To the Hon. James Z. Doolittle, Chairman of the
Convention. and Messrs. F. W. Sykes; John c..
Maccabe, and others, Committee.
A most decisive victory has been gained
bV CambTidGe in the great university cricket