The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1872-05-30
THE PRESIDENCY.
Horace GreeIey's Letter Accepting
5 the Cincinnati Nominations,

II Greeley of the Liberal Republican
Il nomination:
CINclNNATI, May 3, 1872-DEAI
q SR-The National Convention O
Liberal Republicans Of the UaiteC
: States have instructed the under
> signed President, Vice Presiden
and Secretaries of the Convention
I to Inform you that you have beer
nominated as the candidate of Tho
Liberal Republicans for the Presi
? aency o. the United States; we al
so submit to you the address and
I resolutions unanimously adopted BY
the convention.
Be, pleased to signify to us your
acceptance Of the platform and nom
inatiOn, and believe us,
f Very truly yours,
[Signed1
Z. g. ScHURz, President,
@. W. JULIAN, Vice Pres't.
WM. E. MCLEAN,
JOHN G. DAVIDSON,
]. II. RHODES, r
Secretaries.
HoN. HORACE GREELEY, New York
City.
MR. GREELEY's REPLY.
NEW York, May 90.
GENTLEMEN II have chosen not
to acknowledge your letter of the
Sd inst until l could learn how the
work of your convention was re-
ceived in all parts OF our great
country, and judge whether that
work was approved and ratified by
the mass of our fellow citizens.
Their response from day to day
reached me, through kilograms, let
| ters, and the comments of journal
lists Independent of official patron
age, and Indifferent to the smiles or
frowns Of power. The number and
character Of these Rnconstrained,
unpurchased and unsolicited utter
auces satisfy me that the movement
which found expression at Cincin-
natl has received the stamp of pub
lie approval, and has been hailed Sy
a majority Of our country as the
harbinger Of better day for the
Republic,
I de not misinterpret this appro-
val as especially complimentary to
myself, nor even the ehiYalrous and
justly esteemed gentleman whose
name thank your convention for
assOciating with mine. / receive
and welcome it as a spontaneous
and deserved tribute to that admi- |
rable platform Of principles wherein
your convention so tersely, so forci-
bly, set forth convictions which i'm
PEELED and the purposes which gui-
ded its cause; a platform which |
casting behind it the rubbish and |
wornout contentious and by-gone |
feuds, embodies in fit and few |
words the needs and aspirations of
to-day.
Though thousands stand ready to
condemn your every act, hardly q
syllable or criticism or cavil has
been aimed at your platform, of
which the substance may be fairly
epitomized as follows. p. ...--
First-All political rights and
franchises which have been ac-
quired through our late -bloedy-con
vulsions must and shall be guaran-
tecd, maintained, enjoyed and re
spected eyermore, s.r
SecoRd-All political rights and
franchises which have been lost
through that convulsion sh0uld and
must be promptly restored and re-
established so that there shall be
hencefUrth no prescribed class, and
no disfranchized caste within the
limits of the Union, whose long es-
tranged people shall reunite and fra
ternize upon the broad basis of uni
Versal amnesty.
Sd. That subject to our solemn
constitutional obligation to main
tain the equal rights of citizens our
policy should aim at local govern
ment and not Capitalization that
authority should be supreme over
the military; the habeas corpus
should be jealously upheld as the
safeguard of personal freedom; that
the individual citizen should enjsy
the largest liberty consistent with
public order, ana there shall be no
federal submission or internal poll
cy in the several States, but that
each shall be left free to enforce
the right and promote the we'll be
ing of its inhabitants by such means
as the judgements of their own peo
pie shall prescribe.
4. There shall be a real, and not
merely a stimulated, reform in the
civil service of the republic, ito
which end it is indispensable that
the Chief, in the dispersion of his
vast official patronage, shall II
shielded from the main temptation h
to use his powers selfshly by rule
and fOrbidding his re-
election. II
5. That Revenue, whether By
tariff or otherwise, shall be reeog-
nized and heated as the peoples
immediate business, to be shaped
and directed by them through their
in Congress, whose
action the President must neither
overrule by his veto, attempt to die
tate, or presume to punish, BY
bestowing offices only on those who /
agree with him, and Withholding Of
fee from those who do not.
6. That the public lands must be
Y reserved for the occupation
and acquisition by cultivators, and
not recklessiy squandered on pro- Il
iectors of railroads for which our
people have no present need. 4
Z. That the achievement of these
grand purposes Of universal benefi-
cence is expected and sought at the
hands Of all who approve them, ir-
OF past affiliations.
8. The public faith must st all
hazards be maintained and the ma !
tional credit preserved.
8. The patriotic devotedness and (
services of our fellow
citizens who as soldiers or sailors
upheld the flag and maintaiaed the !
unity of the Republic shall ever be
remsm bered and honora- 1
bly, requited. Il
These propositions so ably and \
forcibly presented in the platform
of your convention have already
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