Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-05-29
A KICK FOR FRIENDS.AND A KISS FOR
ENEMIES.
Greeley Accepts The ForIorn Hope.
NEW YORK, Nav 90. 1872

NEW YORK, May 20, 1872.
GENTLEMEN: have chosen not to ac-
knowledge your letter of the 3D. instant
until 1 could learn how the work of your
convention was received in all parts of our
great country, and judge whether that
work was approved and ratified by the
mass of our fellow-citizens. Their re-
Spouse has from day to day reached me
through kilograms, letters and comments
of journalists independent of official pat
ronage and indifferent to the smiles or
frowns of power. The number and char
acter of these unconstrained, unpurchased,
unsolicited utterances satisfy me that the
movement which found expression at
Cincinnati has received the stamp of pub
lie approval, and been hailed by a major
ity of our countrymen as the harbinger of
better day for the republic. l do not
misinterpret this approval as especially
complimentary to myself, nor even to the
chivalrous and justly esteemed gentleman
with whose name | thank your committee
for associating mine.
L receive and welcome it as q spontanc-
GUS and deserved tribute to that admirable
platform of principles wherein your con-
vention so tersely, so lucldly, so forcibly
set forth the convictions which impelled
and the purposes which guided its course !;
n platform which, casting behind it the
wreck and rubbish of worn out couten-
tions and by-gone feuds, embodes in fit
and few words the needs and aspirations
of to-day. Though thousands stand ready
to condemn your every act, hardly syl-
liable of criticism or cavil has been aimed
at your platform, of which the substance
may be fairly epitomiZed as follows:
Here he recites the Cincinnati plat
form.)
These propositions, so ably and forcibly
presented in the platform of your conven-
ton, have already fixed the attention and
commanded the approval of a large major
! ity of our countrymen who joyfully adopt
| them, as / do, as the basis of n true, be-
neficent national reconstruction, of new
departure from jealousies, strifes and hates
| which have no longer adequate motives OF
! even a plausible Dretext into an atmo-
sphere ofpeacc, fraternity and mutual good
will. In vain do the drill-sergeants oil
| decaying organizations flourish menacing-
| iy their truncheons and angrily insist that
| the files shall be closed and Strengthened
In vain do the whippers-in of parties once
vital, because rooted in the vital needs OF
! the hour, protest against straying and bolt
| ing, denounce men nowise their interiors
as traitors and renegades, and threaten
them with infamy and ruin.
I am confident that the American pco
pie have already made your cause thei
own, fully resolved that their brave hearts
and strong arms shall bear it in triumph
In this faith, and with the distinct un
Outstanding that if elected I shall be tn,
President, not of party, but of the Who'll,
people, accept your nomination in tn,
confident trust that the masses of on
countrymen, North and South, are cage
to clasp hands across the bloody chasn
which has too long divided them, forget
ting that they have enemies in the Joyful
consciousness that tley are and mus
henceforth remain brethren.
Yours gratefully,
HORACE GREELEY.
To Hon. cart SEIZURE, President.