Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-05-30

MIR. Greeleys letter, In response to the
official notice of hIs nomination by the
Cincinnati Convention, is as follows:
New YORK. Goth May, 1872.
GENTLEMEN: I have chosen not to ac-
knowledge your letter of the Sd instant, un-
til l could learn how the work of your Con-
yention was received in all parts of our great
country, and Judge whether that work was
approved and ratified by the masses of our
fellow citizens. Their response has from
day to day reached me through kilograms,
letters, and comments of journalists indie
pendent of official patronage and Indifferent
to the smiles or frowns of power. The num-
Der and character of these unconstrained,
unpurchased, unsolicited utterances satisfy
me that the movement which found express
sion at Cincinnati has received the stamp
of public approval, and been hailed by -
majority of our countrymen as the harbinger
of a better day for the Republic do not
misinterpret this approval as especially COM
plimentary to myself, nor even to the chiyal-
rous and justly-esteemed gentleman with
whose name l thank your Convention for as
sociating mine. ! receive and welcome it as
q spontaneous and deserved tribute to that
admirable platform of principles, wherein
your Convention so tersely, so lucidly, so
fOrcibly 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 conten-
tions and bygone feuds, embodes in fit and
few words the needs and aspirations of to-
day. Though thousands stand ready to con-
denim your every act, hardly syllable of
| criticism or cavil has been aimed at your
platform, of which the substance may be
| fairly epitomiZed as follows:
l. All political rights and franchises, which have
been ACQUIRED through our late bloody convulsion,
must and shall be guaranteed, maintained, enjoyed
and respected evermore
. Ali political rights and franchises which have
been lost through that convulsiOn. should, and
must be promptly restored and re-estahlished- so
that there shall be ehenceforth no prescribed class
and disfranchised caste within the limits of our
Union. whose long estranged people shall reunite
and fraternize upon the broad basis of universal
amnesty and impartial suffrage.
3. That subject to our solemn constitutional OBJ
legation to maintain the equal rights OF all citizens,
our policy should aim at local self government
and not centralization; that the civil authority
that the writ of hdbeGs corpus sbould be zealously
upheld as the safeguard OF personal freedom; that
the individual citizen should enjoy the largest lib
erty consistent with public order. and that there
shall be no Federal subversion of internal polity
of the several States and municipalities. but that
each shall be left free to enforce rights, and pro-
mote the well being Of its inhabitants by such
means the judgment of its own people shall pre-
l. There shall be a real. and not merely simu-
lated reform. in the civil service OF the Repnonc
to which end il is indispensable that the chief dis
penser of its vast official patronage shall be shield
ed from the main temptation TO use his power self
/ ishly. by rule inexOraby forbidding and preciud-
| ing his reelection.
8 That the raising of revenue, whether by tariff
or ;a sna De bnsnee 10 he .bsned and
directed by them through their Representatives in
Consfess, whose action thereon the Presioent
attempt to dictate. nor presume TO
punish by bestowing office only on those who
agree with him, or Withdrawing 1t from those VINO
6 That the public lands must be sacredly re-
served for occupation and acquisition oy cultlva-
tors and not reckessly squandered on the projectors
/ of railroads for which our people have no present
need and the premature construction OF which Is
annually punging US into deeper and deeper
i abysseE of foreign indebtedness.
| 4. That the achievement of these grand purposes
| of universal benefcence- Is expected ana sought
at the hands of all who approve them. irrespective
6. That the public faith must be maintained and
/ the National credit preserved.
| 9 That the patriotic deyotedness and inesti-
mable services of our fellow-citizens, who, as
soldiers or sailors, upheld the flag and maintained
| remembered and honorably requlted-
These propositions, so ably and foreibly
presented in the platform of your Conven,
| ton have already fixed the attention and
| commanded the assent of large majority
| of our eountrymen who joyfully adopt
| them, as do, as the basis OF true, beneh-
| cent National reconstruction; OF a new de-
parture from jealousies, strifes, and hates.
| which have no longer adequate motive, or
even plausible pretext, into an atmosphere
| of peace, fraternity and mutual good WILL
| In vain do the drill-sergeants OF decaylng or
| CARNATIONS flourish menacingly the trunch-
/ cons. and angrily insist that the files shall
| he closed and Strengthened. In vain do the
whippers in of parties, once vital, because
rooted in the vital needs of the hour, pro-
test against strayins and bolting, de-
nounce men nowise their interiors as
traitors and renegades, and threaten them
with infamy and ruin. / am confident that
the American people have already made your
cause their own, fully resolved that their
brave hearts and strong arms shall bear it
on to triumph. In this faith, and with the
distinct understanding that, if elected, i
shall be. the President not of party, but of
the whole people, 1 accept your nomination,
in the confident trust that the masses of our
countrymeu, North and South, are eager to
clasp hands across the bloody chasm which
has too long divided them, forgetting that
they have been enemies in the joyful con-
sciousness that they are, and must hence
| forth remain, brethren Yours gratefully,
HORACE GREELEY