The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-06-07
Hon. Horace Greeley's Letter OF Ac-
ceptance.

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structed the undersigned, President
Vice President, and Secretaries of the
Convention, to inform you that you
have been nominated as candidate fol
the Presidency of the United States
We also submit to you the address and
resolutions unanimously adopted by
the convention. Be pleased to signify
to us your acceptance of the platform
and nomination, and believe us, very
truly yours, &. ScHURz.
President.
GEO. w. JULIAN,
Vice President.
WV. +. MCLEAN,
JNo. G.. DAVIDSON,
j. III. RHODES,
Secretaries.
To Hon. HORACE GREELEY, New York city.
MR.. GREELEY's REPLY.
New YORK, May 20, lS72.-GRNTLE-
MEN: | have chosen not TO acknowl-
edge your letter of the Sd inst. until |
could learn how the work of your con-
vention 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
res. onse has from day to day reached
me through kilograms, letters, and COM
ments of journalists independent of otfi.
clal patronage, and indifferent TO the
smiles or frowns of power. The numb er
and character of these unconstraine ed,
unpurchased, unsolicited utterances,
satisfy me that the movement which
found expression at Cincinnati has re-
ceived the stamp of public approval,
and been hailed by majority of our
countrymen as the harbinger Of bet
ter dayton the Republic. do not mis-
interpret this approval as especially
compli mentary To myself nor even TO
the chivalrous and justly esteemed gen
tlemen with whose name | thank your
convention for associatng nine. | re.
ceive and welcome it as spontaneous
and deserved tribute to that admirable
platform Of principles wherein your
convention so tersely, so lucdly, so for
chilly set forth the convictions which
impelled, and the purposes which
guided, its course platform which,
casting behind it the wreck and rub
Dish of worn-out 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 a
syllable of criticism or cavil has been
aimed at your platform, of which the
substance may be fairly epitomized as
follows:
|. All political rights and franchises
which have been acquired through our
"A "A Iain h. I.
anteed, maintained, enjoyed, and re-
spected evermore.
,. All the political rights and fran
chises which have been lost through
that CONFUSION should, and must, be
promptly restored and re-established,
so that there shall be henceforth no
prescribed class and no disfranchised
caste within the limits of our Union,
whose long estranged people shall re.
unite and fraternIze upon the broad
basis of universal amnesty with impair
tial suffrage.
3. That, TO our solemn constitutional
obligation TO maintain the equal rights
of all citizens, our policy should
aim at local self government and not
at contradiction; that civil authority
should be supreme over the military;
that the writ of habeas corpus should
be jealousy upheld as the safeguard OF
personal freedom; that the individual
citizen should enjoy the largest liberty
consistent with public order, and that
there shall be no subversion of the in
ternal policy of the several States and
but that each be left
free to enforce the rights and promote
the well-bcing of its inhabitants by
such means as the judgment of its own
people shall prescribe.
4. There shall be real and not
merely a simulated reform in the civil
service of the Republic, TO which end it
is indispensable that the chief dispenser
of its vast patronage shall be shielded
from the main temptation to use his
power seltishly, by rule inexorably for.
bidding and precluding his re election.
5. That the raising Of revenue,
whether 10y tariff or otherwise, shall be
and treated as the peoples
immediate business, TO be shaped and
by them through their repre-
sentatives IN Congress, whose action
thereon the President must neither
overrule by his veto, attempt 10 dictate,
nor presume to punish by bestowing
office only on those who agree with him,
Or Withdrawing it from those who do
not.
6. That the public land shall be
,acredly reserved for occupation and |
acquisition by cultivators, and not reck-
essly squandered on the projectors of
for which our people have no
present need, and the premature con-
truction of which is annually plunging
is into deeper and deeper abysses OF
oreign Indebtedness.
I. That the achievements of these
grand purposes of universal benefcence
5 expected and sought at the bands of
Ill who approve them, irrespective OF
,ast affiliations.
8. That the public faith must, at all
hazards, be maintained and the national
redit preserved.
9. That the patriotic devotedness and
services of our citizens who,
S soldiers or sailors, upheld the flag
nd maintained the unity Of the Re
public, shall ever be gratefully remem-
l. Il