Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-06-20
SENATOR WILSON'S LETTER OF AC-
CEPTANCE.


letter of acceptance of the Phila
delphia nomination:
WASHINGTON, June l3:-To Hon
orable Thos. Settle. and Others.
President and Vice Presidents of
the National Republican Convention
held at Observation-Disclosures
Your note of the 10th instant, con
veying to me the action of the Con
vention in placing my name in NOM
ination for office of Vice President
of the United States, is before me.
l need not give you an assurance of
my grateful appreciation of the high
honor conferred on me by this ac-
tion of the fifth National Conven-
tion of the Republican party. Six
teen years ago, in the same city,was
held the first meeting of men who,
amid the darkness and doubt OF
that hour of slaveholding ascendan
cy and aggression, had assembled
in national convention to confer
with each other on the eXigencies
to which that fearful domination
had brought their country. After
full conference, the highest point of
resolve they could reach, the most
they dared recommend,was an avow-
ed purpose to prohibit the extension
of slavery in Territories. Last
week the same party met, by the
representatives from thirty seven
States and ten Territories, at the
same great centre of wealth, intelli-
gence and power,to review the past,
take note Of the present, and indi
cate its line of action for the future.
As typical facts and headlands Of
nations recent history, there sat on
its platform, taking prominet and
honorable part in Its proceedings,
admitted on terms of perfect equal
ity to the leading hotels of the city,
not only colored representatives of
a race which were ten years ago in
abject slavery, but one of the oldest
and most prominent Of the once
despised abolitionists, to whom was
accorded as no other the warmest
demonstrations of popular regard
and esteem-an ovation, not to him
alone, but to the cause he had so
ably and for so many years repre-
sented, and to men and women, liv-
ing and dead, who had toiled through
long years of obloquy and sacrifice
for the glorious fruition Of that
hour. 1t hardly needed the brill
liant summary of its platform to set
forth its illustrious achievements.
The very presence of those men was
alone significant of the victories al
ready achieved, progress already
made, and the great distance which
the nation had travelled between the
years 1856 and 1872. But grand as
has been its record, the Republican
party rests on its past alone. 1t
looks to the future and grapples
with it's problems of duty and dan
ger. 1t proposes as objects of its
immediate accomplishment, COM
plete liberty and exact equality for
all, the enforcement of the recent
amendments to the National Con-
stitution, reform in the civil service,
the national domain to be set apart
for homes for the people, the adjust
ment of duties on imports so as to
secure remunerative wages to labor,
extension of bounties to all soldiers
and sailors who in the line of duty
come disabled, continued and care
full encouragement and protection of
voluntary immigration, and guard
ing with Jealous care the rights of
adopted citizens, abolition of the
franking privilege, and speedy re-
duction of the rates Of postage, re-
duction of the national debt and
rates of interest, and a resumption
of specie payment, encouragement
of American commerce and Of ship
building, and suppression of vio-
lence and protection of the ballot
box. 1t also placed on record the
opinion and purpose Of the party in
favor of amnesty, against all forms
of reputation, and endorsed the
humane and peaceful policy Of the
administration in regard to the In
dians; but while clearly defining
and distinctly announcing the poll
cy of the Republican party on these
questions of practical legislation
and administration, the Convention
did not ignore the great serial OF
problems which are pressing their
claims for solution and which de-
mand most careful study and wise
Foremost stands the
labor question. Concerning the re-
lations of capital and labor, the Re-
publican party accepts the duty of
shaping legislation as to secure full
protection and the amplest field for
capital and for labor, the creation of
capital; the largest opportunities |
and just share of mutual profits of |
these two great servants of civil
zation, to woman and her new de-
mands it extends greatful recogni-
tion and protiers its most respectful
inquiry; it recognizes her noble de-
votion to country and freedom, wei
comes her admission to wider fields
Of usefulness, and commends her
demands for additional rights to
;he calm and careful consideration
of the nation, to guard well what
has already been secured, to work
,ut faithfully and wisely what is
low in hand, and to consider ques-
ions which are looming up to view
,ut a little way before us.
The Republican party is to-day
What it was in gloomy years of sla-
'ery, rebellion and restruction-a
rational necessity. 1t appeals, there
ore, for support to the patriotic
nd liberty-loving, to the just and
to all who would dignity
abor, to all who would educate, ele-
ate and tighten the burdens of the
ons and daughters of toll. With
is great record, with work still to
'e done under the great soldier,
whose historic renown and whose
uccessful administration for the
ast three years begot such popular
onfidence, the Republican party
nay confidently, in the language of
he Convention you represent, start
n a new march to the victory.