The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-08-03
MIR. GREELEY'S ACCEPTANCE.
Baltimore Endorscd--No Personal Issue
Universal Amncsty--A Government
oftho People by the People.
OFFICIAL NOTITICATIoN.

OFFICIAL NOTIFICATIoN.
To Hon. Horace greeley:
Dear Sir--lt is our pleasure, in COM
pliance with the instructions Of the
Democratic National Convention, as
sembled in this city, to inform you
that you have been unanimously NOM
mated as it's candidate for President of
United the States.
The convention, consisting of 372
delegates, representing every State and
territory iii the Union, adopted without
amendments the declaration of princi-
pies affirmed by the Convention of
Liberal Republicans at Cincinnati, and
by the endorsement con-
tanned in your lcttcr,of acceptance. The
action of this great body of delegates
proves that they are With singular
unanimity determined to enter, under
your leadership, upon the patriotic
duty Of restoring to the administration
of the government purity andintegrity,
and that Independence to its depart
ments which regards the Constitution
as alike the source and the limit of
Federal power. Laying aside the differ
cnces of the past, abandoning all pur-
poses Of mere partisan advantage, ask
ing. for no pledge other than that of
fidelity to the principles to which they
have given their deliberate and reso-
lutte adherence, and which they believe
will command the approval of Il large
majority of the American people, they
tender you their nomination, confident
that peace and good government will
be inaugurated and maintained under
your administration.
Respectfully, your obedicnt servant,
j. r.. DOOLITTLE,
Chairman Of Convention.
And Members of Committee on Ratiti-
cation.
BoHiWore, July 10, 1872.
MIR. GREELEN'S -ACCEITANCE.
New York, July is, 1872.
Gentlemen-Upon mature delibcra-
ton, it seems fit that l should give
your letter of the 10th inst. some fur
ther and fuller response than the hasty,
unprecedented words in which l ac-
knowledged and accepted your nomi-
nation at our meeting on the 18th. That
your Convention saw fit to accord its
highest honor to one who had been
prominently and pointedly opposed to
your party in the earnest and angry
controversies of the last forty years,
and essentially noteworthy that many
of you originally preferred that the
Liberal Republicans should present
another candidate for President, and
would moro readily have united with
us in support of Adams, Trumbull,
Davis, or Brown, is well known. |
owe my adoption at Baltimore TO the
fact that | had already been nominated
at Cincinnati, and that Il concentration
of force upon any new ticket had been
proven impracticable. ~Grltitied ns |
am at your concurrence in the Cincin-
| natl nominations, certain as am that
you would not have thus cOncurrcd,
had yon not deemed me upright and
capable, ! find nothing in the circ'ln-
| stance calculated to intlamc vanity OF
| nOurish Self-conccit. That your con-
| ventiOn saW fit, i'll adopting the Gin
cinnati ticket, to raatiirIn the Cincinnati
| platform, is to me a source Of the pro-
foundest satisfaction. That body was
constrained to take this important step
by no necessity, real or supposed. 1t
| might have accepted the candidate of
the Liberal Republicans upon grounds
entirely its Own, or it might have pro
aented them rs the first Whig National
Convention did Harrison and Tyler,
without adopting any platform what
ever. That it chose TO plant Itself de
liberatcly, by Il vote nearly unanimous,
upon the fullest and rlearest cnuncin-
ton Of principle which are at one,
incontest;lbly Republican and rmphat-
ically Democratic, gives trustworthy
assurance that Il new and more anspi-
cious cr:t is dawnfng upon Our long
distracted country. Some Of the best
years and best efforts of my life were
devoted to Il struggle against chattc
slavery, Il struggle none the less earnest
or arduOus because respect for constitu
tional obligations constrained men t.
act for the most part on the defensive
in resistance to the diffusion rathc
than in direct efforts for the extinction
Of human bondage. Throughout mos
Of those years my mission was unchccr
cd. My cXcrtfon3 wore rarely animl
ted by even 50 much as a hope that
should live to see my country pcOplc'
by frccmcn alone. The affirmation b,
your convention of the Cincinnati plat
form is Il most conclusive proof tina
not merely is slavery abolished, bu
that its spirits are extinct; that dcspit
the protests of q respectable but iSOla
ted few, there remains among US IL
party and no formidable interests whic
regrets the overthrow of discstablisl
ment of human bondage, whether i
letter or spirit. | am thereby .justific
in my hope and trust that the first cel