The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-08-03
The Baltimore Nomination.
The Official Notification and Mr.. Gree
ley's Letter Of Acceptance. SAG Z
- BALTIMORE, July IU, 1917.
To Hon. Horace Greeley: vi B ls,s

ley's Letter Of Acceptance. aasE
BALTIMORE, July 10, 1872.
TosHon. Horace Greeley: ga z8
DEAR SIR-It is our pleasure, in
compliance with the instructions OF
the Democratic National Convention,
assembled in this city, to inform YOU
that you have been unanimously nomi-
mated as its candidate for President
of the United States.
The Convention, consisting of 732
delegates representing, every State
and Territory in the Union, adopted
without amendments the declaration
of principles affirmed by the conven-
| ton of Liberal Republicans at Cincin-
natl, and strengthened by the indorse-
ment contained in your letter of .ac-
eeptance, the, action of this great body
of delegates proves that they are with
singular unanimity determined to en-
ter, under your leadership, upon the
patriotic duty of restoring to the ad-,
ministration of the government purity
and integrity, and their independence
to its departments which regards the
constitution as alike the source and
the limit of federal power. Laying
aside the differences OF the past
abandoning all purpose of mere parti-
san advantages; asking for no pledge
other than that of fidelity to the prin-
ciples towhieh they have given their
deliberate and resolute adherence,
and which they believe viii command
the approval of a large majority of
the American people, they tender yeu
their nomination, confident that peace
and good government will he inaugu-
rated and maintained under you ad-
ministration. ts' f3's3c g 'stfit
Respectfully, your obedient servants,
j. r. DOOLITTLE, i..n
Chairman of Convention,
And the members of the committee
on notification.
NEW YORK, July Is, 1872.
To the Hon. james r. Doolittle, Chairman
of the Convention, and Messrs. +. w.
Sykes, John c. McCabe, and others,
committee: ttatss H3ats.s@ iyz
GENTLEMEN Upon mature delib-
Grafton, it seems fit that should give
your letter of the tenth instant some
further and fuller response than the
hasty, unprecedented words in which
| acknowledged and accepted your
nomination at our meeting on the
twelfth. That your Convention saw
fit to accord its highest honor to one
who had been prominently and point
edly opposed to your party in the
earnest and angry controversies of the
last forty years, and essentially 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 support of
Adams, Trumbull, Davis or Brown, is
we'll known. | owe my adoption at
Baltimore to the fact that | had al
ready been nominated at Cincinnati,
and that the concentration of force
upon any new ticket had been pro-
ven impracticable. Gratifed as am
at your concurrence in the Cincinnati
nominations, certain as am that you
would not have thus concurred had
YOU not deemed me upright and capa-
BILE, find nothing in the circumstance
calculated to inflaine vanity or nour-
ish self-cOnceit. a@sa8 55sh % sss8E1
But that your Convention saw fit,
in adopting. the Cincinnati. ticket, to
re-affirm the Cincinnati platform, is
to me source of the profoundest sat
isfaction. That body was constrained
to take this important step by no par
ty necessity, real or supposed. 1t
might have accepted tlIe candidates
of the Liberal Republicans upon
grounds entirely its own, or it might
have presented them (asi the first
Wing National Convention did Harri-
son and Tyler) without adopting any
platform whatever. That it chose to
plant itself deliberately, by n vote
nearly unanimous, upon the fullest
and cIearest enuneiation of principles
which are at once incontestably Re-
publican and emphatically Democrat
ic, gives trustworthy assurance that
a new and more auspicious era is
dawning upon our long distracted
country. see ~ si#ss @
Some of the best years and best eff
forts of my life were devoted to a
struggle against chattel slayery--a
struggle none the less earnest or ar
duous because respect for constitu-
tional obligations constrained me to
act for the most part on the defensive
-in.resistanee to the diffusion rather
than in direct efforts for the extinction
of human bondage. Throughout most
of those years, my vision was upcheer-
ed, my erertions were rarely animated
by even so much as a hope that /
should live to see my country peepled
by freemen alone. The atfirmance by
your Convention of the Cincinnati
platform is most conclusive proof
that not merely is slavery abolished,
but that its spirit is extinct--that,. de-
spite the protests of a respectable but
isolated few, there remains among us
no party and no formidable interest
which regrets the overthrow .or de-
sires the re-estabhshment of human
bondage, whether in letter or in spirit.
| am thereby justified in my hope and