Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-06-13
Gralz Browns Letter Of ACcep-
tanCe,

Gralz Browns Letter Of ACcep-
tanCe,
ST. LOUIS, June LIN reply to a
notification of his nomination as Vice
President by the Cincinnati Conven-
ton Governor Brown makes the follow
ing response:
EXECUTIVE OFFICE,
JEFFERSON CITY, May 81 1872.
GENrLEMEN-Your letter advising
me of the action. Of the Liberal Re-
publican Convention at Cincinnati has
been received, and l return through
you nv acknowledgment Of the hon
or which has been conferred upon
me. 1 accept the nomination as a
candidate for Vice President, and ell
dorse most cordially, the resolutions
setting forth the principles on which
this appeal is made to the whole peo-
pie OF the United States. A century
is closing upon our experience OF Re
publican government, and while that
lapse OF time has ~itnessed Il gr at
expansion of our free institutions, yet
it has not been without illustration
also of grave dangers t, the stability
Of such a system. Of th' Sc success
fully encountered it is needless To
speak. OF those which remain to
menace us the most threate. ing are
provided against, as frmy believe,
IN the wise and pacific measures pro-
posed by your platform. 1t has come
to be the pa. tlce Of those elevated
to the positions Of national autho'
to regard The public selvice no.
pubic trust, but only asa meal.
re..;,, ! i,a,ver. This results. i2f2eI'
tuting :, mere party orgai'zatio
the government itself, which i'm
all independent thought, enable
few to rule the many, and make i.e,
sonai allegiance the road 10 favor. 1t
requires little forecast TO perceive
that this will wreck our Iii critics un-
less there be interpo ed a. timely re-
form OF The Administration from the
highest 10 the lowest station, "h:tn
shall not only lorbidabuses, but like
wise take away the incentive to their
practice. Wearied with the conten-
tions that are carried on In the ava
rice of spoils, the country demands re-
pose, resenls the effort Of officials 10
tlragoon it again into partisan hostil-
tiles. and will zealousIy sustain any
movement promising a sure deliver
ance. Oh the perils which have beeh
connected with the war it is safe to
say thai those are now to be feared
which come of an abuse Of victory
into permanent arrangement The
Union is fortifedby more power than
ever before, and it remains an imper-
atiye duty to cement our nationality
by reconciliation. At the North a
widespread sympathy is aroused in
behalf OF those States Of the South
which, long after the termination OF
resistance to rightlul Federal author
itv, are still plundered under the
guise of loyalty and tyiannized over
in the name of freedom. Along with
this feeling is present, too, the recog-
milton that in complete amnesty alone
oan be found the hope Of any return
to constitutional government as OF
old, o. any development OF more
enduring Unity and broader national
life in the future. Amnesty, howev-
er, to be ehcacious, must be real, not
nominal, not evasive, but must carry
along with it equal rights as well as
equal protection to all. For the re-
moval Of disabilities as to some, with
enforcement as 10 others. leaves room
for the suspicion that pardon is meas
ured by political gain, and especially
viii such preferred clemency be fn-
tile in tie presence of renewed at
tempaat prolonging a suspension OF
the halcas corpus, in the persistent
resort to martial rather than to civil
law, in upholding those agencies used
to alienare the races, where concord
is: most essential, and in preparing
another elaborate campaign On a ba-
sis of dead issues aud arbitrary IN
tervention. All will rightly credit
such conduct as but a mockery OF
amnesty and demand an admlnstra-
ton which can give better warrant
OF honesty in the great work 'of re-
construction and reform. The array
Of sectional interests of public so
wide sprean as ours is never entirely
safe fro.n serious conflicts. These be-
come still. more dangerous.when com
plicated with questions 1f taxation
where unequal burthens are believed
to be imposed on one part at the ex,
pen,e Of another part. 1t Was bold
as we'll as admirable policy in the
interest OF present as we'll as future
tranquility to withdraw the decision
Of industrial and revenue matters
from the usual arbitration of an Elec-
toral College, chosen with a single
aninating purpose Of party ascen-
dency, and refer them for a more
direct popular expression to ea-h
Congressional. District. Instead of
being muzzled by some evasive de-
| clarat on. the country is thereby in
vited to its. lrankest utteraDces, and
sections which would revolt at being
denied q voice out Of Difference to
otLet success would be content to &C
quiesce in a general judgment hon
estly elected. Ii local government
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