The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1872-08-14
Gr,eley.. Lerter OF Accep1nnce.


his response, are published. The notification is
qaite brief 1t merely announces the unanimous
nomination and the adoption Of the Cincinnati
platform, as strengthened by the endorsement
contained in Greeleys letter Of acceptance Of the
Cincinnati nomination. adding that in rendering
\ the nomination, they lay aside the differences Of
the past abandon all purposes Of mere partisan
advantages, aud ask of him no pledge other than
that OF fidelity to the principles Of the platform.
/ Greeleys response is dated July 18th, and reads
as follows
! GENTLEMEN; Upon mature elaboration it
seems fit that l should give to your letter Of the
i 10Th fuller response than the hasty unpremedi-
ta,ed words in which acknowledged and accept
. ed your nomination at our meeting on the 18th.
That many Of you originally preferred that the
Liberal Republicans should present another can
dlda,e for the Presidency, and would more readily
unite with Us IN the support ofNAdams or Trum-
bull, Davis or Brown, is well known
l owe my adoption at Baltimore wholly to the
fact that | had already been nominated at Gin
tiuuati, and that a concentration Of forces upon
any new ticket had been proved unacceptable
Gntifed as | am at your concurrence in the Gin
cinuaii nominations. certain as l am that you
would not thus have coucurred had you not
deemed me upright and capable, l find nothing in
the circumstances calculated to infame my vanity.
But that your Committee saw fit, in adopting the
Cincinnati ticket to reaiirm the Cincinnati plat
form, is to me source OF profound satisfaction.
That body was constrained to take this important
step By no party necessity. real or supposed. 1t
might have accepted the candidates Of the Lib
eral Republicans on ground entirely its own or it
might have presented them as the first Wing Ma
tiOnal Convention did Harrison and Tyler, with
out adopting any platform whatever. That 1t
chose to plant itself deliberately, by vote nearly
unanimous, upon the iulIeS; and Clearest econO-
mcalion Of principles, which are at once incon-
testify Republican and emphaticalIy Democratic,
gives Trustworthy assurance that a new and more
auspcious era is dawnng upon our long dis
trlcted country. Some OF the best years and
best efforts Of my life were devoted to a struggle
against chattel slavery. a struggle none the less
earnest or arluous because Unconstitutional obi
cations. constrained me fo-tho most part oact on
the defensive, in resistance to the diffusion rather
than in direct efforts for the extinction, of human
bondage Throughout the most Of these years
my vision was uucheered, my exertions were
rarely animated by even so much IS hope that
should see my country peopled by free men
alone. The afirmance by your Convention Of
,b, fr7,,i,r,,f ,,I,.F,-r, - N most conclusive
proof not merely that slavery is abolished, but
that its spirit is extinct Despite the protests Of
a respectable but isolated few, there remains
among Us no party nor formidable interests which
regret its overthrow, or desire the reestablishment
Of human boudoge, whether in letter or in spirit
| am therefore justified in my hope, and trust
that the first century of American Independence
viii not close before the great truths on which its
rjghtfulnesS was based by jefferson. and the Con
tinental Congress of 20, will no longer be re-
garded as gIjttering generalities, but will have
become the universally accepted and honored
foundations OF our political fabric. | demandd
the prompt application Of those principles TO our
existing condition. Having done what l could
for the complete emancipation Of the blacks, I
now insist on the full reimbursement Of all my
white countrymen. Let none say that the ban
has Just been removed from all but few hundred
elderly gentlemen, to whom eligibility to office
can be Of little consequence. My view contem-
mates not the hundreds prescribed, but the mil
lions who are desiring the right to be ruled and
represented by the men Of their unfettered choice
have profound regard for the people Of that
New England wherein l was boEu in whose
common schools I was brought up. | rank no
people above them iu intelligence; but while
they do many things well and some admirably,
there is one thing which | am sure they cannot
wisely and safely under take, and that is the Sc
lection for States remote from and unlike their
own Of the persons by whom those States shall
be represented ia Congress If they could do this
10 good purpose, then Republican institutions
we're unfit, and Aristocracy would be the only true
political system. Yet what have We recently
witnessed? ZebulOn B. Vance, the unquestioned
choice Of a large majority Of the Legislature Of
North Carolina, backed by a majority Of the
people who voted at lis election, refused the seat
10 the Federal Senate to which he was fairly
chosen, and the Legislature thus constrained TO
choose another in his stead, or leave the State
unrepresented for years. The votes Of New
England thus deprived North Carolina of the
Senator of her choice and compelled her to send
another in bis stead another who in our late con-
test was, Ike Vance, Rebel, but who had not
served in Congress before the war as Vance had.
though the latter remained faithful to the Union
until after his term.
! protest against the disfTanchisement of
State presumpluously Of a number Of States, on
grounds SO narrow and technical as this The
fact that the same Senate. which refused Vance
his seat, proceeded to remove his disabilities after
that seat bad been filed by another, only serves
to place in stronger light the indignity to North
Carolina, and the arbitrary, capriCious tyranny
which dictated it.
/ thank you that my name is to be conspieu-
ously associated with yours in determined effort
to render amnesty complete and universal, in
spirit as well as in letter Even defeat in such
cause would leave no sting. while victory would
rank with those victories which no blood reddens
and which evoke no tears bot those of gratitude