The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-07-27

hocoptIuH tu0 DAltlmOro QOmlQ8tlOQ, IN
reply to the letter of the committee ap-
pointed to notify him thereof:
New York, July Is, 1872.
GENTLEMEN: Upon mature 6elibera-
ton, it seems fit that should give your
letter, of the 10th instant, some further
and fuller response than the hasty unpre.
meditated words in which I acknow-
lodged and accepted your nomination at
our meeting on the 18th inst.
That your Convention saw ft to accord
its highest honor to one who had been
prominently and pointedly opposed to
your party in the earnest and sometimes
angry controversies of the last forty
years is essentially noteworthy. That
mauy Of you Liberal Republicans should
present another candidate for President,
and would more rapidly have united with
us in the support of Adams Or Trumbull,
Davis or Brown, ie we'll known. owe
my adoption at Baltimore wholly to the
fact that had already boon nominated
at Cincinnati, and that concentration
OF forces upon any new mnn had been
proved impructicable. Grntified as am
at your concurrence in the Cincinnati
nomination, aud certain as am that you
would not have thus concurred had yon
not deemed me upright and capable, 1
found nothing in the circumstances cal
culated to inhame vanity or nourish self
conceit. But that your Convention saw
lit to reaffirm tho Cincinnati platform is
to me source of the profoundcst satis-
motion. Tint body was constrained to
take this step by no party necessity, reaI
or supposed. 1t might have accepted
the candidates of the Liberal Repubi-
cans upon grounds entirely its own, or it
might have presented them as the first
Whig Convention did Harrison and
Tyler, without adopting uuy platform
whatever.
That it chose to plant itself deliberate
~, by vote nearly unanimous, upon
the fullest and cearest enunciation of
principles which are at once incontestu-
bly, Republican and emphatically Demo
cratic, gives trustworthy assurance that
new and more auspicious era is duwn-
ing upon our longdistracted country.
Some of the best years and best efforts
of my life were devoted to u struggle
against chattel slnvery, struggle none
the less earnest and arduous because re-
spect for constitutional objections con-
strained me to act for the most part on
the defensive in resistance to the diffu.
sion, rather than in direct efforts for the
extinction, of human bondage. Through.
out most Of these years, my vision was
uncheered, my exertions were rarely
animated by even 30 much as hope that
should Live to see MY country paopled
by freedmen alone. The affirmation by
your Convention of the Cincinnati plat
form is most conclusive proof that not
merely is slavery abolished, but that
it's spirit is extinct; that despite the pro-
tests of respectable, but isolated, few,
there remains among US no party and no
formidable interest which regrets the
overthrow or desires the re establish
ment of human bondage, whether in let
ter or in spirit. am thereby justified
In my hope and trust that the frat CEN
tury of American independence will not
olcse before the grand elemental truths
on which its rightfulness was based by
Jefferson and the Continental Congress
Of '76 will no longer be regarded as
gltterlng generalitles. but will have be-
come the universally accepted and ho.
nored foundations Of our political fabric
demand the prompt application of
those principles to our existing condi-
ton.
Having done what 1 could for the
complete emancipation of the blacks.
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oil my white countrymen. Let none say
that the ban has just been removed from
all but few hundred elderly gentlemen,
to whom eligibility to Office can be OF
little consequence. My view contem-
plates not the hundreds prescribed, but
the millions who are deuied the right to
be ruled and represented by men OF their
own unfettercd choice Prescription
were absurd, if these did not wish to
elect the very men whom they are for
hidden to choose
/ have profound regard for the peo-
pie OF that part of New England wherein
was born, in whose common schools
was taught. rank no people abovs
Them in intelligence, capacity and moral
worth; but while they do many things
we'll, and some admirably, there is one
thing they cannot safely or wisely under.
take, and that is the selection for States
remote from aud unlike their own, of
the persons by whom these States shall
be represented in Congress. If they
could do this to good purpose, then Re.
publican institutions are unfit and aris.
tocracy the only true political system.
Yet. what have we recently witnessed?
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