Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-05-29
MIR. GrttleyVLelter OF Acceptance.

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Il the letter Ofihs sOmuissee appointed b
- de Ciaeinna,i Convention to iniOrn hin
lie Of be poniusiiou D candidate for ih
J. Prssideney:
D. ~ Nav YoRK. Mar 20. 1872.
= GenflsmeE--l have ebosen not 10 &C
, knowledge your letter Of the 81. until
G could learn how the work Of your eOuven
= li0p was reseiysi in al paris Of our grea
c country. judge whether that work was aP
proved aud ratified by the mass Of Oul
fellow citizens. Their response frOm day
: to day has reached me through kilograms
: and letters, and the comments of journal
lists, independent of official patronage and
Indifferent to the smiles or foW1s Of pow
er. The number and character Of these
: anconsraincd, unpurchased and unsolieit-
0lteranees satisfy me that the movement
which found expression at Cincinnati: has
received the stamp Of public approval and
hailed by majority Of our eountrymen
as harbinger Of better day for the re-
public. do not msinterpret the appro.
val as especially complimentary to myself,
nor even to the chiyalrous and justly es-
teemed gentleman with whose name, l
thank the convention for associating mine.
receive and welcome it as a spontaneous
aud deserved tribute TO that admirable
platform of principles, wherein your con-
vention so tersoly, so lucidly, so forcibly
set forth the conviction which impeled,
aud the purposes which guided ITS course
A platform which, casting behind it tle
wreck and rubbish of worn-out, contInu.
Gus and bygoue feuds, embodies in ct and
few words the needs ard aspirations of
to-day. Though thousands stand re ady
to condemn your every sct, hardly syla-
liable of criticism or cavi has BEEN aimed
at your platform, of which the substance
may be fairly epitomzed as follows:
First-All the political rights and
franchises which have been acquired
through our late bloody CONFUSION, must
aud shall be granted maintained, enjoyed
and respected ever more.
Second-All the political rights and
franchises which have been lost through
the convulsion should aud must be prompt
ly restored and re-establIsed, SO that
there shall be hencefoth no prescribed
claims and no DISTINGUISHED caste within
the limits Of our union whose long estran-
ged people shall rc.unite and fratcrnize
upon the broad bases universal amnesty,
With impartial suffrage.
Third-Thatsubject to our constitution
u obligation to maintain the equal rights
fall citizens, our policy should aim at
ocal self government AMI not at centrali. !,
alton. That the civil authority should I,
&c supreme over the military. That tae
abeas corpus should be jealousy upheld
S the safeguard of personal freedom.
hat the individual citizeu should enjoy L
he largest liberty consistent with public
rder, and that there should be 10 federal
Inversion Of the internal policy of the
overall States aud municipalities, but that
lch shall be left free to enforce the rights
nd promote the well being of It's inhabi.
lts, by such means as the Judge. So
cnt OF Its own people shall prescribe.
Four:h-There shall be real ard not =
erely simulated reform in the civil SER
ce of the republic, to which end it is in
spensabe that the chief dispenser ofthe W
Isl Official patronage shall be shielded tn
ON the main temptation to use his pow at
selfNhly, bYa rule ilexcrably forbid pr
ng and recluding his reelection. tic
Flilh-That the r.ising of revenue,
neither by tariff or otherwise shall be
eognized and treated as the peoples i'm !
'date business, to BIO shaped and direct pu
BY them through their representatives SUI
Congress, whose action thereon the inc
esident must neither override by his We,
IS, attempt to dictate nor presume to
nish by bestowing offices only upon 20
'se who agree with him, or withdraw. 1t
I'm those who do not. he'
lxth-Ttat the public lands must be sa. vii
IDLY reserved for occupation and acqui- =.
ion by cutivators and not recklesslv a
Iandercd on the projectors of railroads
which our people have no present need the
the premature construction cit,
lch IS annually plunging US deeper con
deeper in abysses of foreign indebt- uo
less. par
M ls FH par
1o'eN'n- uat the achievement oil these pal
nd purposes of universal benefcence fit
expected, and sought at the hands of all cd
uphold them irrespective CT past af. TWO
atoms. vn',
Elghth-That the public faith must at was