The Republican journal., 1872-08-01
MIR. GRFElEl'S REPLY.
NEW IORK, july Is, 1872.

MIR. GREEIEl'> REPLY.
NEW York, July Is. 1872.
Gentlemen After mature dcliheration,
n seems fit that | should give to your let
ter ui The luth inst some further and full
~ response than the haSty, mnpremeIitat-
at words in which lrknowIe lodged and
accepted Your nomination al our meeting
uu rllr I'm.
Ihu Your convention saw fit 10 accord
itS highest honor To one who had been
prominently and pointrdly opposed TO
sour party in the earnest and sometimes
angry controversies ui the last forty wears
b. essentially noteworthy. That many oi
1un originally preferred that the Liberal
Republicans Shnnld present another can
didale ion President, and would more
readily have united with Us in the sup
port at Adams or Trnmhull, Davis or
Brown, is well known. | owe my adop-
ZION III Baltimore wholly to the fact that
| had already been nominated ut Cmril-
n4u, and that concentration OF forces up
IN any new ticket had been proved inn
practicable. Gr:lliled rs | am at your
concurrence in The Cincinnati nomination
certain aS | am thai You would not have
tuns concurred had YOU not deemed me
upright and capable, lind nothing in the
circumstance calculated to influence vani-
" OF unurleh Stlt-cnnceit
But that Your convention saw fit in
adopting the Cincinnati ticket 10 re affirm
the Cnrinnati platform, is TO me, a source
OF the prniuundest sllslaclion
That body was constrained to take this
important step by no party necessity, real
or supposed. IL might have accepted The
candidates OF the Liberal Republicans up
on grounds entirely It's own, or il mi ght
htvr presented them as the first Wing
National Convention did Harrison and "
Ter, without adopting any platform what
ever. That it chose 10 plant itself DELHI
cratrlv by vote nearly unanimous upon
lhr fullest and clearest enumeration of
principles which are ut once incontesta-
bh Republican and emphaicnlly Demo-
Cl'Iic. gives trustworthy assurance that
a new and more anspriouS era is dawn
mo upon our long distracted country.
SOME of the best wears and best efforts
81 nay life we've devoted to Il struggle
against chlttel slavery. A struggle none
The les earnest oi arduous because respect
inr constitutional obligations constrained
me- /" act Tor the most part on the delen-
elVr in resistance to diffusion rather than
ill ,Iircl efforts for the extinction of hu-
ulnn bondage. Throughout most of those
5ttl4 my vision WAS uncheercd. my eAer-
tiur, were rarely animated hv even 50
much as a hope that | should live to see
my country peoplrd by lreemen alone.
line tllirmAnre by your convention OF the
tmrinnHti Convention platform is Il most
conclusive proof that not merely is slave
N abolished, but that its spirit is extinct /;
That, despite the protest Of a despcabIe
bul Isolated few, here remains among us
uu party and no Formidable interest which
ir.lrl~ the overthrow or desires the reeS-
Enlistment of human bondage, whether
Ia letter on IN spirit am thereby justi-
Il i an nay hope, and trust that the fiji st
century ui American Independence will
n''t close before the grand elemental truths
"u which It's lighliulntSS was based by
jefferson and the Continental Congress- OF
~ will 10 longer lie regarded rs glitter
ing YencrtIitirS, but will have become the
universally accepted and honored tounda-
1lnns 81 oar political fabric demand
TIA" prompt application of these principles
f. our tNistin" condition. Having done
tinu nt the blacks | now insist on Il tull
"nlnnrhiSemrnt of my white country men
!.cI none say that the bond has inst beer
removed from Ill but few hundred elder
IL Gentlemen la whom eligibility to office
can II" at little consequence.
My view cnntempIaeS, not the hundred,
prescribed, but the millions who are de
nled the rioht to he ruled and represented
h} the men of their nnttttered choice
Prescription We're absurd if these did no
wish to elect the very men whom they AZ,
forbidden To choose. have a proloun,
lr"ard Tor the people OF that New Eng
land wherein was born, in whose com
mon school | was taught. | rank no othe
people above them in intelligence, capac
tY and moral worth.
Bat, white they do many things well
and some admirably, there is one thing
which ! am sure they cannot wisely o
safely undertake. and that is the selection
tur States remote from. and unlike thei
own, of the persons by whom these State
shall be represented in Congress. If the'
could do This To good purpose, then Re
publican institutions We're unfit, and arts
t"crAcy the only political system. Ye
what have we recently witnessed? Sc
Btnton +. Vance, the unqueSiOned chOic
"i Il large majority OF the present l.egis
laturc of North Carolioa, a ma ority back
cd by majority Of the people who vote
at it's eltction refused the seat i'm til
Federal Senate to which he was tairl
rhn-'-n and the Legislature thus con
strained Ia choose another in his stead, O
leave the State unrepresen1ed for years
The votes of New England thus deprive
North Carolina of the Senator of he
choice. and compelled her to send anothe
III his stead. another who in our late con
lest was, like Vance, u rebel and fight
mo rebel, but who had not served in Cor
yrcss before the war us Vance had thong
lie latter remained faithful to the Unio
I'LL after the close of his term prote.
against the disiranthisemen of Il State
prtsumptively of II number of States, O
grounds 50 narrow and technical as this
The fact that the same Senate which rt
fused Vance his seat proceeded to remov
lis disabilities alter that seat had bee
filled bv another, only serves to place
stronger light the indignity to North Care
lima and the arbitrarily, capricions tyrann
which dictated it.
thank you, gentlemen. that my nam
is to be conspicuously associated wit
yours in determined effort to rendt
amnesty complete and universal, in spir
as well as in letter Even defeat in sue