Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-08-01

tell the cOlOred citizen wherein ne mas Oeen
lacking in duty, and how he should act in the
future-one who could point out to the old
STAKEHOLDER his past and present errors, who
could show us manly way out of the ku-
klux troubles-in fine, one who could put US
on the right track of a permanent reconstruc-
ton. +.
LETTER FROM HORACE GREELEY.
The following is Mr.. Greeley's letter for
maly accepting the Baltimore nomination,
in reply to the letter of the committee appoint
ed to notify him thereof:
New YORK, July 1S, 1872.
Gentlemen: Upon mature deliberation, it
seems fit that should give to your letter of
the 10th instant some further and fuller re-
sponse than the hasty, unprecedented words
in which I acknowledged and accepted your
nomination at our meeting on the 18th in
stant. .......... :........
That your Convention saw fit to accord its
highest honor to one who had been promi-
nently and pointedly opposed to your party
in the earnest and sometimes angry contro-
versies of the last forty years, is essentially
noteworthy. That many of you desired that
the Liberal Republicans should present an
other candidate for President and would
have more rapidly united with US in the sup
port of Adams or Trumbull, Davis or Brown,
is we'll known. I owe my adoption at Balti-
more wholly to the fact that 1 had already
been nominated at Cincinnati, and that con-
centration of forces upon any new man had
proved impracticable. ....... #..
Gratifed as am at your concurrence in
the Cincinnati nomination, and certain as
am that you would not have thus concurred
had you not deemed me upright and capable,
I found nothing in the circumstance calcula-
ted to inAame vanity or nourish selfconceit.
But that your Convention saw fit to reafirm
the Cincinnati platform, is to me source of
the profoundest satisfaction. That body was
constrained to take this step by no party ne.
cessity, real or supposed. 1t might have &C
cepted the candidates Of the Liberal Republic
cans upon grounds entirely its own, or it
might have presented them as the first Wing
Convention did Harrison and Tyler, without
adopting any platform whatever.
That it chose to plant itself deliberately,
by vote nearly unanimous, upon the fullest
and clearest enuncation of principles which
are at once incontestibly Republican and EN-.
phatically Democratic, gives trustworthy as
surance that new and more ausplcious era
is dawning upon our long-distracted country.
Some of the best years and best efforts of my
life were devoted to struggle against chattel
slavery-a struggle none the less earnest and
arduous because respect for constitutional OBJ
jections constrained me to act for the most part
on the defensive in resistance to the diffusion,
rather than in direct efforts fer the extinction,
of human bondage.
Throughout most of these years my vision
was uncheered, my exertions were rarely an
imated, by even so much as hope that
should live to see my country peopled BY
freemen alone. The afirmance by your Con-
vention of the Cincinnati platform is a most
conclusive proof that not merely is slavery
abolished, but that its spirit is extinct; that
despite the protests of a respectable but isoias
ted few, there remains among US no party and
no formidable interest which regrets the over
throw or desires the reestablishment of human
bondage, whether in letter or in spirit. / am
thereby justified in my hope and trust that
the first century of American Independence
will not close before the grand elemental
truths upon which its righttulness was based
by Jefferson and the Continental Congress of
'76, will no longer be regarded as glittering
generalities, but will have become the .univer-
sally accepted and honored foundations of our
political fabric. I demand the prompt appli-
cation of those principles to our existing con-
dition. .''.
Having done what could for the complete
emancipation of the blacks, now insist on
the full enfranchisement of all 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 con-
templates not the hundreds prescribed, but
the millions who are denied the right to be
ruled and represented by men of their own
unfettered choice. Prescription were absurd
if these did not wish to elect the very men
whom they are forbidden to choose.
have profound regard for the people of
that part of New England wherein was
born-in whose common schools was taught
I rank no people above 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 and wisely
undertake, and that is the selection for States
remote from and unlike their own, of the per.
sons by whom these States shall be represent
ed in Congress. If they could do this to good
purpose, then republican institutions are unfit,
and aristocracy the only true political system.
Yet what have we recently witnessed? q. B.
Vance, the unquestioned choice of large
majority of the present Legislature Of North
Carolina, a majority backed by majority Of
the people who voted at its election, refused
a seat in the Federal Senate to which he was
chosen, and the Legislature thus constrained
to choose another in his place or leave the
State unrepresented for years. 49, ''.l' ....1
The votes of New England thus deprived
North Carolina of the Senator of her choice,
and compelled her to send another in his
stead-another who in our late contest, was
like Vance, rebel, and a fighting rebel, but
had not served in Congress before the war as
Vance had, though the latter remained faith
full to the Union till after the close Of bis
term. 1 protest against the disfranchisement
of State, presumptively Of number OF
States on ground so narrow and technical as
this. The fact that the same Senate which
refused his seat proceeded to remove his disa-
bilities after that seat had been filled by an
other, only serves to place in stronger light
the indgnity to North Carolina, and the ar.
bitrary, capricious tyranny which dictated it.
1 thank you, gentlemen, that my name is
to be conspicuously associated with yours in
a determined effort to render amnesty COM
plete and universal in spirit as we'll as in let
ter. Even defeat in such case would leave
no sting, while triumph would rank with
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