The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-07-30
Horace Crecley's Acceptance.

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their candidate for President Of the
United States. His response was as
follows
New YoRK, July Is, 1872.
GENTLEMEN Upon mature delibera
ton, it seems fit that | should give to
your letter Of the 10Th inst some further
aud fuller response than the hasty, un
prcmeditated words in which | nc
knowledged and accept your nomina
ton at our meeting on the 18th.
That your Convention saw fit to ac-
cord its highest honor to one who had
been prominently and pointedly oppos-
ed to your party in the earnest and
sometimes angry controversies of the
last forty years, is essen tally note
worthy. That many of you originally
preferred that the Liberal Republicans
should present another candidate for
President,and would more readily have
united with us in the support of dams
or Trumbull, Davis or Brown, is well
known | owe my adoption at Balti-
more wholly to the fact that / had
+ already been nominated at Cincinnati,
and that a concentration of forces upon
any new ticket had been proved i'm
practicable. Gratified as | an at your
concurrence in tie Cincinnati nomina-
tons, certain a. | am that you would
not have thus concurred had you not
deemed me upright and capable, | find
o,hing in the circumstance calculat-
to inilainc vanity or nourish self-con-
ceit
But that your Convention saw fit. in
adopting the Cincinnati ticket to re-
affirm the Cincinnati Platform, is to
N a a af In. 81; 81,
ton. That body was constrained to
take this important step by no party
necessity, real or supposed 1t might
have accepted the candidates of the
Liberal Republicans upon grounds en-
tirely its own, or ii might have present.
ed them las the first Wing National
Convention did Harrison and tyler
without adopting any platform what
ever That it chose to plant Itself de
liberately, by a vote nearly unanimous.
upon the fullest and clearest enuncia-
ton of principles which are at once in
contestably Republican and emphati-
cally Democratic, gives trustworthy as
surance that new and more auspici-
Gus era is dawning upon our lohg dis
.racted country.
Some of the best years and best efforts
Of my life were devoted to n struggle
none the less earnest or arduous because
respect for constitutional obligations
constrained me to act for the most part
on the deiensive-in resistance to the
diffusion rather than in direct efforts
for the extinction of Human Bondage.
Throughout most of these years, nv
vision was uncheered, my exertions
were rarely animated, by even so much
as hope that | should live to see my
conntry peopled by freemen alone
The aliirmance by your Convention Of
the Cincinnati Platform is most con
elusive proof that not merely is Slavery
abolished but that its spirit is extinct
that dispite the protests of a respectable
but isolated few, there remains among
us no party and no formidable interest
which regrets the overthrow or desires
the re-establishment of Human Bond
age, whether in letter or in spirit.
am thereby justified in my hope and
trust that the first century of Ameri-
can Independence will not close before
the grand elemental truths on which
is rightfulness was based by jefferson
and the Continental Congress of '76 will
no longer be regarded as 'glittcrinp
generalites, but will have become
! the universally accented and honored
den ana the prompt application Of
those principles to our existing condi-
llon. Having done what | could for
the complete emancipation of Blacks, I
now insist on the full acknowledgements
of all my White countrymen Let
none say that the ban has Just been re-
moved from all but few hundred cid
erly gentlemen, to whom eligibility to
office can be of little consequence. NV
view contemplates not the hundreds
prescribed but the millions who denied
The right to be ruled and represented by
The men of their unfettered choice
prescription were absurd if these did
not wish to elect the very men whom
hey are forbidden to choose.
nave a protonnd regard for the noo-
PIE or that New England wherein 7
was norh, IN whose common schools I
was Taught | rank no other people
ABOVE them IN Intelligence. capacity
an" moral worth. But, while they do
many things well and some admirably
there is one thing which am sure
they cannot wisely or safely undertake.
ana that Is the selection, for States re-
mote from and unlike their own. of the
persons by whom those States shall he
represented in Congress. Ifthey could
90 'nls TO good purpose, then republi-
can INSTITUTIONS were unfit, aud aristo-
cracy the only true political system.
Yet what have we recently witness
ed? Iebulon Il. Vance. the unoues-
TONED choice of large majority of the
present Legislature of North Carolina
majority backed by majority of the
people who voted at its eection-refus-
ed the seat in the Federal Senate &c
winch he was fairly chosen. and the
Legislature thus constrained to choose
another in his stead or leave the State
unrepresented for years. The votes o.
New England thus deprived North
carolina or the Senator of her choice
and compelled her to send another in
ms stead-another who, in our late con
test, was, like Vance, n rebel. and &
+ lighting rebel, but who had not served
, n Congress before the war as Vance
, had, though the latter remained faith.
'ul to the Union till after the close o
his term. | protest against the dis
: reimbursement ola State presumptive
y, OF number of States-on ground,
50 narrow and technical as this. TIL,
, fact that the same Senate which refus
ed Vance his seat proceeded 10 remove
I his disabilities after that seat had beer
filled by another. only serves to plac,
, in stronger light the indignityto Nortl
Carolina and the arbitrary, capriciou
tyranny which dicfated it. | thanl
: YOU, gentlemen, that nv name is to h,
n conspicuously associated with yours il
p q determined effort to render Amnest,
! complete and universal, in spirit as wei
as in letter. Even de'eat in such
u ause would leave no sting, while tri
u umph would rank with those vicrorie
;. which no blood reddens and whicl
Il evoke no tears but those of gratitud
. and joy.
!. Gentlemen, your platform, which i
also mine, assures me that Democrac'
u is not henceforth TO stand for one thin
e and Republicanism for another hu
Y that those terms are to mean in politics
,, as they always have meant in the die
iionary, substantially one and the sam
thing namely, Equal Rights, regard
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