New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-22
WHEAT WAREHOUSES BURNED
PRESIDENTIAL.

PRES1DEN
Notification of MIR. Greeley's Nominal
tiOn-His Letter of Acceptance-The
Platform and NOminatiOn-Respon
of the PeOpIe-SpOntaneOus Tribute to
Platform of Principles.
New YORK, MAY 2l.-The following is
the notification to Mr.. Greeley of his nomi-
nation by the Liberal Republican Conven-
ton, and his reply accepting the nomina-
ton:
CINCINNATI, May 8, 1872.
DEAR SIR-The National Convention of
the Liberal Republicans Of the United
States have instructed the undersigned to
inform you that you have been nominated
as the candidate of the Liberal Republicans
of the United States. We also submit to
you the address and resolutions unani-
mously adopted by the convention. he
pleased to signify to us your acceptance of
the platform and nomination, and believe
us very truly yours,
C. SCHURZ, President;
GEORGE w. JULIAN,
Vice President;
WILLIAM, Z. MCLEAN,
JOHN G. DAVIDSON,
j. H. RHODES, Secretaries.
Hon. Horace Greeley, New York City.
MR.. GREELEY's REPLY.
New YORK, May 20, 1872.
GENTLEM EN- have chosen not to
acknowledge your letter of the third in
stant until [ 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 response
has from day to day reached me through
kilograms, letters and the comments of
journalists independ ut of official patronage
and Indifferent to the smiles or fayors of
power.
The number and character of these un-
constrained unpurcnased, unsolicited ut
terances satisfy me that the movement
which found expression at Cincinnati has
received the stamp of pdblic approval, and
been hailed by majority of our country
men as the harbinger OF a better day for
the republic. | do not nlisinterpret this APP
prOval as especially com plimentarY to my
self, nor even to the chivalrous and justly
esteemed gentleman with whose name
l thank your convention for assO-
ciating mine; | receive and welcome it as
a spontaneous and deserved tribute to that
admirable platform of principles wherein
YOUR convention so tersely, SO lucidlY and
so forcibly set forth the convictions which
impelled and the purposes which guided its
course.
The platform, which, casting behind it
the wreck and rubbish of wOrn-out conten-
tions and bygOne 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 syl-
liable of criticism or cavil has been
aimed at your platform, of which the
substance may be fairly epitOmized as fol-
lows:
First-An the political rights and fran
chises which have been acquired through
our late bloody cOnvulsion must and shall
be guaranteed maintained, enjoyed and
respected evermOre,
Second-All tRe political rights and frau
chises which have been lost through that
convulsion should and must be promptly
restored and re-established, so that there
shall be hencefOrth 10 prescribed class and
no disfranchised caste within the limits of
our Union, whose long estranged people
shall reunite and fraternize upon the broad
basis of universal amnesty with impartial
suffrage.
Thifd-That, subject to our solemn con-
stitutionaI obligations to maintain the equal
rights of all citizens, our policy should aim
at local self-government, and not at central
ization that the 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 pubic order,
| and that there shall be no federal subver
| sion of the internal policy of the several
| States and municipalities, but that each
| shall be left free to enforce the rights and
promote the well being Of its inhabitants
| bv such means as the judgment of its own
| people shall prescribe.
FOurth-There shall be a real and not
merely a simulated reform in the civil
! service of the republic, to which end it is
/ 4hak ba e ffc
vast official patronage shall be shielded
| from the main temptation to use his power
| selfshly by rule inexoribly forbidding
and precluding reelection.
! Fiith-That the raising of revenue.
| whether by tariff or otherwise. be recog-
nized and treated as the peoples imme-
| diate business, to be shaped and directed
! by them through their Representatives in
| Congress, whose action thereon the Presi-
| dent must neither overrule by his veto, at
tempt to dictate, nor presume to punish by
| bestOwfng Office only on those who agree
with him, or withdrawing it from those
| who do not
Sixth-That the public lands must be sa-
| credly reserved for occupation and acquLS7I- L7l
! ton by cultivatOrs, and not ri1uy reehless5y
! squandered on the projectors OF raliIoa9s 1tl
for which our people have no preSenG, nJeG, =
| and the premature construction o1 WHICH y
! annually plunging us into deeper ana
deeper abysses Of foreign indebtedness.
SeyenthZThat the achievement OF these
purposes of universal, beneticenee is ex-
peeled and sought at the hands Of all who
approye them, Irrespective Of party atdlia-
| tiOns. 60. - =,
hazards, be malhtalne" anu 1no national
TintR-That the patriotic devotedness
and inestimable services of our fellow-citi-
zens who, as soldiers or sailors, upheld the
fiag and maintained the unity of the repub-
lie, shall ever be gratefully remembered
/ and honOrably requited.
I These propositions, so ably and forcibly
presented in the platform of your conyen-
ton, have already fixed the attention and
/ commanded the support of a large majority of
our countrymen, who joyfully adopt them as
lido, as the basis of true, benefcent national