Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-05-22
POLITICAL.
Horace Greeley's Letter of Acceptance
His version Of ClncLnnatl PIatfOrm.

His Version Of Cincinnati Platform.
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z NEW YORK, May 2l.-The following is
the official notice to Mr.. Greeley of the
Liberal Republican nomination:
Cincinnati, Mag 8, 1S72-Dear Sir:-The
National Convention of Liberal Repnbli-
cans of the United States have instructed
the undersigned, President, Vice. President,
and Secretaries of the Convention, to in
form you that you have been nominated as
the candidate Of the Liberal Republicans for
the Presidency of the United States. We
also submit to you the address and resolu-
tIons unanimously adopted by the Conven-
ton. Be pleased to signify to Us your ae-
ceptance of the platform and nomination,
and believe US,
Very truly yours,
G. ScHURZ, Pres't.
GEO. w. JULIAN, Y. Pres't.
VIM. E. MCLEAN,
JNo. G. DAVIDSON,
j. II. RHODES,
Secretaries.
E To. Hon. HORACE GREELEY, n. Y. City.
Mr. GreeIey's Reply.
Z New YoRK, May 20.-Gentlemen--I have
chosen not to acknowledge your letter of
the Sd inst, until could learn how the
work of your convention was received in
all parts of our great country, and more,
whether that work was approved and rati-
fed by the mass of our fellow citizens.
Their response from day to day reached me
through telegrams, letters and. .cOmments'ot
journalists independent of official patronage
and Indifferent to the smiles and favors Of
power. The number and character Of
these unconstrained, unpurchased, unsolic-
tied utteranees satisfied me that the move
ment which found expression at Cincinnati
has received the stamp of public approval,
and has been hailed by majority of our
country as the harbinger of better day
for the Republic. l do not misin-
terpret this approval as especially COM
plimentary to myself, nor even the
chivalrous aud justly esteemed gen.
tleman with whose name | thank
your convention for associating mine.
receive and welcome it as spontaneous
and deserved tribute to that admirable
platform of principles wherein YOU
convention so tersely, so forcibly
set forth the convictions which impelled
and the purposes which guided its course
a platform which, casting behind it the
wreck and rubbish of WORKOUT contentious
and by-gone feuds, embodies in fit and few
words the needs and aspirations of to-day
Though thousands stand ready to condemn
your every act, hardly syllable of criticism
or cavil has been aimed at your platform,
of which the substance may be fairly ex-
piomtized as follows:
1. All political rights and franchise
which have been acquired through our lat
bloody iconvulsion, must and shall be
guaranteed, maintained, enjoyed and re
spected evermore.
2. All political rights and franchises whicl
have been lost through that conVulsioI
should and must be promptly restored anC
re-established, so that there shall be hence
forth no prescribed class and no dsifranchis
ed caste within the limits of the Union
whose long estranged people shall reunit'
and fraterniZe upon the broad basis of uni
versal amnesty and impartial suffrage.
8. That, subject to our solemn consituI
tional obligation to maintain the equal
rights of citizens, our policy should aim a
local government and not Capitalization
that the civil authority shall be supreme ovel
military, the habeas corpus should be jaal
ously upheld as the safeguard of persona
! freedom: that the individual citizen shoul
enioy the largest liberty consistent wit
public order, and there shall be no f dera
dictation ofthe internal policy of the sever
al States, but that each shall be left free t.
enforce the rights and promote the well-be
ing of its inhabitants by such means as th
| Judgment of its own people shall prescribe
4. There shall 6e real and not merel
! a simulated reform In civil service Of the 4
plblic, to which end it is indispensable tha
the chief dispenser of its vast official pat
ronage shall be shielded from the meal
temptation, to use his power seldshl
bv a ruls ipexorably forbiddin
and precluding his reelection
5. That the raising of revenue whethe
| bv tariff or otherwise, shall be recognized
and treated as the peoples Immediate busi
ness. to be shaped and directed by then
| through their representatives in Congress
whose action the President must neithe
overrule by his veto, nor attempt to die
tate or presume to punish by besSoWin
office only on those who agree and with
drawing from those who do not.
@. That the public lands must be sacredl
reserved for occupation and acquisition
by cultivators and not recklessly squander
ed on the projectors of railroads for whic
our people have no present need, and th
prenlature construction of which is annual
1 iy plunging the United States into deepe
and deeper abysses Of foreign Indebtedness
Z. The achievement of these grand pun
poses of universal beneicence is expecte
and sought at the hands of all who approv
of them, irrespective of past affiliations.
! s. The public faith must at all hazard
be maintained, and the national credit pr
| served.
| 0. The patri otic devotedness and inest
mable services of our fellow citizens, VIII
as soldiers or sailors upheld the flag an
maintained the unity Of the republic, sha
ever be gratefully remembered and honori
bly, requited,
These propositions SO ably and forcibl
presented in the platform of your CONVEX
ton, have already fixed the attention an