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Notification Of His Nomination.
His Letter of Acceptance.
To HoS. HORACE GHEELEY-Deas
SIR. is our pleasure, i'm compliance
with the instruction of the Democrat
ic National Convention assembled in
thisJeity, TO inform YOU that you have
been unanimously nominated as its
candidate for President Of the United
Stetes. - -, ''a
The Convention consisting of. 732
delegates, representing every State
and Territory in the Union. adopted
without amendment the declaration
of principles affirmed blythe Conyen-
tions of Liberal Republicans at Gin
Sinnatf,, and strengthened by, the in
idorsement of your letter of acceptance
The action of this great body ofdele-
gates proves that they are, with sim
'guiar unanimity, determined to enter,
under yonr leadership, upon the pat.
riotic duty of restoring to the admin
istration Of the Government purity
and Integrity and that Independence
to its departments which regards the
Constitution as alike the source and
the limit of federal power. g'-N
ugL Laying aside the differences of the
past abandoning all purpose1offmere
partisan advantages asking for no
pledge other than that of fidelity to
the principles to which they have Civ
en- their deliberate and resoiufe adlle-
5 !, ssa1, mil
command the approval ofa large ma
jority of the American people, they
tender you their nomination, confi-
dent that peace and good govefnfh fhent
win be inangufated and maintained
,underyour administration Respect
fully, your obedient servant T.;fs
H5I' j. Il. DooLITTLE.
Chairman Of the CoventioH at tBalti-
m more July 10, 1872, and member OF
the Committee of Notification nui,
.,;aa MR.! GREELEY's AooEPrGNeE. 10
% Is -H'ih New YoRk, July 1S, 1921
n GENTLEMEN Upon mature delib-
Grafton, it,seems fit that 1 should give
to your letter of the 10th inst, some
further and fuller response than the
hasty, unpremeditated words inwhich
/ acknowledged and accepted oyouf
nomiuation at your meeting on the
18TH s..o,f.r.s, lg...s.. a., ss.,;f
[ That your Convention saw fit to ac-
cord its highest honor to one who had
been prominently and apeintedly OPP
posed to your party innfhe<earnest
and angry controversies of the last
forty years, is essentially noteworthy.
That many of you originally prefer
red that the Liberal Republicans
should present another candidate for
President, and would have more rea-
dily have united with us in support of
Adams or Trumbull, Davis or Brown,
is well known Howe my adoption
at Baltimore whollyIto ffhe fact that
i had already been ncEninated at Gin
.cinnati. and that a concentration of
forces upon any new ticket had been
proved impracticable.. ,sipqslo bGo
% 0DGrateful as ] am at your concur.
renee in the Cincinnati nomination !;
certain as / am that you, would not
have thus aconcuEred had you not
deemed me upright and capable, / find
nothing I'M the cifcunlaIanee calculated
to inflame vanity, or nourish self-eOn-
conceit. But that your Convention
ob w III, III F1ifCis fO1AfSAhHdb4
ticket, to reaffirm the Cincinnati plat
form, is to me a source of the pro-
foundest satisfaction That body was
too take this important
step dbya no party necessity, real or
supposed, Itmight have accepted the
candidate of the Liberal Republicans
upon grounds entirely its own; orit
might have presented them as at the
frstd1 Whig }, National Convention,
did Harrison and Tyler without any
platform whatever. t'''t'
Il That 1t chose TO plant itself delibereI
ately, by "a dvote nearly unanimous,
uponGhe. fullest and clearest ,enppcia-
ton, OF principles, which are at once
incontestably Republican, and emphat-
ically Democratic, gives tiustw worthy
assurance thatia new and more anspi-
cious era is dawning upon our long
disturbed country. ,.,g, AZ a,.,
Some of the best years and best ef-
forts of my life were devoted against
ehattel pfopertyA-a struggle none the
less earnest or arduous9 because re-
spect for constitutional obligations
constrained me to act, for the most
part. on the defensive in resistance to
diffusion, rather than in direct efforts
for the extinction of. human bondage.
Throughout most of those years my,
vision was uncheered, my exertions
were rarely animated by even so
much as hope that I should live TO
see my country peopled by freemen
alone. The, affirmanoe, by Your Con-
vention- of the Cincinnati platform is
a most conclusive proof that not mere
ly is slavery abolished but that its
spirit is extinct THAT, despite the pro-.
tests of a respectable but isolated few,
there remains among us no party, and
no formidable interest which regrets
the overthrow or desires the lestab-
lishment of human bondage, in letter
or in spirit j am thereby justified in
my hope, and trust that the, first CEN
tury of American independence viii
not close before the grand elemental
truth on which its rightfulness was
based by Jefferson and the. Continen-
tai Congress of '76 will no longer be
regarded as glittering generalities,
but will have become the universally
accepted and hohored foundation of
our political fabric, si4 sIni sfal lau
l demand the pRompt application of
those principles to, our existing con-
dition. Having done what / could
for the complete emancipation Of the
blacks, 1now insist ON the full enfran-
chisement of all my white country
men. Let none say the bar has just
been removed from all but a few hum
dred elderly gentlemen to whom ELI
gibility TO office can be of little e'conse-
quence, !, My view. contemplated not
the hundred prescribed, but the mill
lions who are 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 who they are for
hidden to choose,
have q profound regard for the
people of that New England wherein
/ was borns and in whose common
schools l was taught. / rank no
other people above them in intelli-
gence, capacity and moral worth but
while they do many thugs well and
some admirably, there Is one thing
which. Lam sure, they cannot wisely
or safely, and that Is the selection for