The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1872-06-05
Greeley's Letter Of Acceptance.

The following is the notification to
Mr.. Greeley of his nomination by the
Liberal Republican Convention and Ills
reply, accepting the nominations:
CINCINNATI, o.,
May ), 1872.
Hon. Horace Greeley, New York:
DEAR SIR-The National Convention
of the Liberal Republicans of the Uni
ted States have instructed the under
signed to inform you that you have
been nominated as the candidate of the
Liberal Republicans of the United
States. We also submit to you the ad-
dress and resolutions unanimously
adopted by the Convention. Be pleas
ed to signify to US your acceptance of
the platform and nomination, and be-
lieve us very truly yours,
c. SCHURz, President.
GEO. w. JULIAN, Vice. President.
! !: + R S & %sSs1 Secretaries.
MIR. GREELEY's REPLY.
NEW YORK CITY,
May 20, 1872.
Hon. Carl Schurz, President; Hon. G.
w. Julian, Vice-President, and Messrs
VIM. E. Mclean, J. G. Davidson, j.
FL. Rhodes, Secretaries of the National
Convention of the Liberal Republicans
of the United States:
GENTLEMEN-I have chosen not to
acknowledge your letter of the Sd inst.
until I could learn how the work of
your Convention was received in NIL
parts of our great country, and judge
whether that work was approved and
ratified by the mass of our fellow
citizens.
Their response has from day to day
reached me through kilograms, letters
and comments of journalists, indepen-
dent of official patronage and indiffer-
emit to the smiles or frowns of power
The number and character of these un
restrained, unpurchased, unsolicited ut
terances, satisfy me that the movement
which found expression at Cincinnati
has received the stamp of public ap.
proval and been hailed by a majority
of our countrymen as the harbinger of
a better day for the Republic.
I do not misinterpret this approval
as especially complimentary to myself,
nor oven to the chivalrous and Justly
esteemed gentlemen, with whose name
1 thank your Convention for associa-
ting me. receive and welcome it as
spontaneous and deserved tribute to
that admirable platform of principles,
wherein your Convention so freely, so
lucidly and forcibly set forth, the con-
victions which impelled and the pur-
poses which guided it's course. The
platform which casting behind it the
wreck and rubbish or worn out conten-
tions, and by-gone feuds embodies in
fit and few words the peeds and aspi-
rations of to-day, though thousands
stand ready to condemn your every
act. Hardly syllable of criticism or
cavil has been aimed at your platform,
of which the substance may be epito-
mized as follows:
First All the political rights and
franchises which have been acquired
through our late bloody convulsion
must and shall be guaranteed, MAIN
tanned, enjoyed and respected ever
more.
Second. All the political rights and
franchises which have been lost through
that CONFUSION should and must be
promptly restored and re-established,
SO that there shall be henceforth no
prescribed class and no disfranchised
class within the limits of our Union,
whose long estranged people shall re-
unite and fraternize upon the broad
basis of universal amnesty; with i'm
partial suffrage.
Third. That subjects to our solemn
constitutional obligations to maintain
the equal rights of all citizens our pol
icy should aim at local self-govern-
ment and not at Capitalization that
the civil authority should be supreme
over the military.
That the writ of habeas corpus should
be jealousy upheld as the safeguard
of personal freedom. That the indi-
vidual citizen should enjoy the largest
liberty consistent with public order
and that there shall be no Federal
subversion of the internal policy Of the
several States and municipalities, but
that each shall be left free to enforce
the rights and promote the well-being
of it's inhabitants by such means as
the judgment of its own people shall
prescribe.
Fourth. There shall be a real and
not merely a simulated reform in the