The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1872-08-08
Greeley Notification of his Nonlin'
alton His Letter Of Acceptance.

10 Hon. Horace Greeley:
DEAR Sin: 1t is our pleasure, in CON.
pliance with the instruction of the Demo.
cratic National Convention assembled in
this city, to inform you that you have
been unanimously nominated as its can.
didate for President ofthe United States.
The Convention, consisting of 1872 dele
gates, representing every State and Ter
ri,ory in the Union, adopted without
amendment the declaration of princi pies
affirmed BY the Convention Of Liberal Re-
Putlicans at Cincinnati, aud strengthened
by the Endorsement contained in your Jet.
ter Of: accep.anc6, Tho. astisa efs iAis
|great body of- delegates 4 proves That {key
are, with singular unaniuity determined
to enter, under your leadership, upon the
patriotic duty ofrestoring toAhe Admins.
'trstion Of The Government purity and in.
tegrity, aud that independence to Us do
parlments which regards the Constitution
as alikethe source and the limit Of federal
power.
Laying aside the differences Of the past;
abandoning all purpose of mere partisan
advantage. asking 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 large ma:
iority of the American people. they tender
you their nomination, confident that peace
and good government will be iuaug-
urated and maintained under your Admin
istration. "a K,
Respectfully,
Your obedent servant,
j. R DoQLITrLE,
Chairman of the Conventionla Baltimore
July 10, 1S72,. and Member Of the
Committee Of Notification.
MIR. GREELEY's ACCEPTANCE.
New Yonr, JY'y IS. .
:. Gentlemen Upon mature delibera'ion, it
seems ct that | should. give to your letter
ofthe 10th inst, some further'pnd fuller
response than the the TASTY, uupremeditat-
ed words in which l Acknowledged aud
accepted you, nomination at your meeting
on the l4th.'
That your Convention saw6t to accord
tits highest honor to one kho had beep
prominently and pointcdly opposed
to your party in the earnest aud angry
controversies of the last forty years.. is es.
sentially noteworthy. That many Of you
originally preferred that the Liberal Re-
publicans should present another candidate
for President, and would more readily
have united with US in support Of Adams
or Trumbull, Davis or Brown is well
known. owe my adoption at Baltimore
wholly to the fact that had already been
nominated at Cincinnati, aud that con-
ccntration Of forces upon any new ticket
had been proved mpracticable. ~
Grateful as | am at your concurrence in
the Cincinnati nomination; certain as am
that you would not have thus concurred
had you not deemed me upright and capa.
bic, Gud nothing in the circumstances
calculated to inAame vanity or nourish
self.conceit. But that your Convention
saw fit, in adopting the Cincinnati ticket,
to reaflirm the Cincinnati platform. is to
me source of the profoundest satisfaction.
That body was constrained to take this i'm
portaut step by no party necessity, real or
supposed. 1t might have accepted the
candidates Of the Liberal Republicans upon
grounds entirely its own; or it might have
presented them as at the first Wing Nation
al Convention, as did Harrison and Tyler,
without any platform whatever.
That it chose to plant itself deliberately,
by q vote nearly unanimous. upon the full.
est aud clearest enunciation of
principles, which are OF once iucontcstably
R,r,hl;oor and ompbo,;o.llv Domooral;o