The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-07-24
HORACE GREELEY.
His Letter or Acceptance OF His
Nomination by the Baltimore Con-
venffOn.

ventton.
New YORK, July 23.-The following
is the official notification Of Greeley:
nomination by the Baltimore Conveu.
ton, with his acceptance of the same
BALTIMORE, July 10, 1872.
DEAR SIR-It is our pleasure, il
com pliance with the instructions OF tn,
Democratic National Convention, ss
sembled in this city, TO inform you tia
you have been unanimously nominate
as its candidate for the Presidency oI
the United States. The Convention
consisting of 7S2 delegates, representing
every State ani Territory in the Union
adopted, without amendments, the de
clsrstiou of principles affirmed by the
Convention OF Liberal Republicans al
Cincinnati and strengthened by the in
dorsement contained in your letter o'
acceptauce. The action OF this great
body of delegates proves that they are
with singular uuanimity, determined 10
enter. under your leadership, upon the
patriotic duty OF restoring TO the ad-
ministration of the government that
purity and integrity and that independ
ence TO it's departments which
regards the Constitution as alike the
source and the limit OF federal power.
Laving aside differences OF the past
and abandoning all purpose Of mere
partisan advantage, asking tor no
pledge other than that Of fidelity TO
principles to which they have given
their deliberate and resolute adherance
and which they believe will command
the approval OF large majority OF the
American people, they tender you
their nomination. confident that peace
and good government will be iuaugura-
ted and maintained under your admin
istratiOn.
Respectfully, your ob't serv'ts,
GSigued1 J. Il. Doolitt,e, Chairman,
of Connecticut; Jas. w. Sykes, Ala
bsma; John O. McCabe, Arkansas
J. G. Downey. California; A. E. Burr
Connecticut E. L. Martin, Delaware
L. w. Jones, Florida; w. A. Hawkins
Georgia; A. NJ. Miller, Illinois; NJ. NJ
Ray, Indiana; J. D. Thompson, Iowa;
John Martin, Kansas; B. Magoftin
Kentucky G.. Campbell, Louisiana;
Jas. .. Madigan, Maine; John Lee
Carroll, Md; j. G. Abbott, Masss
cbuse,ts. Geo n Bruce. Michigan,
William Lee, Minnesota; E. o. Sykes
Mississippi; Henry B. Rokeneyer, Mis'
soure J. Crawford, Nebraska; 5. W.
Wymsn, Nevada; James 5. Thayer
New York; John S. Darcy, North
Carolina; J. A. Mcmahon, Ohio; Geo
w. Cass, Pennsylvania; 4. SPrague
Rhode Island; James Chestnut, South
Carolina; John c. Burch, Tennessee
A. Smith, Texas; Lucas Robinson
Vermont; J. II. Marie, Virginia; VIM.
H. Clements, West Virginia; B. 5,
We'll, Wisconsin; C. P. Clever, New
Mexico.
To Hon. Horace Greeley, New York.
Mr.. GRKELEY's ACCEPTANCE.
New YORK, July IS, 1872.
GENrLEMEy-Upon mature delibera-
ton, il seems fit that | should give to
YOUR letter OF the l0th inst some fur
ther and fuller response than the
hasty and unprecedented words with
which acknowledged and accepted
your nomination at our meeting on the
18th inst. That your convention saw
fit TO accord its highest honors to me,
who had been prominently and point
edly opposed to your party in the earn
est and sometimes angry controversies
that have occurred in the last forty
years, is essentially noteworthy. That
many Of you originally preferred that
the Liberal Republicans should pre-
sent another candidate for President
and would more readily have voted with
us in the support Of Adams or Trum-
bull, Davis or Brown, 10 well known.
owe my adoption at Baltimore wholly
TO the fact that had already been nom
mated q, Cincinnati and that concen'
tration OF forces upon any new ticket
had been proved impossible. Gratified
as | am at your concurrence 10 the
Cincinnati nominations certain as
am that you would not thus have con-
Cured had you not deemed me upright
and capable, | find nothing in the
circumstances calculated 70 Influence
vanity or nourish self-conceir but that
YOUR convention saw fit in adopting the
Cincinnati ticket 10 reaffirm the Gin
cinnati platform. is TO me q source oi
the profoundest satisfaction. That
body was constrained TO take this im
portaut step by no party necessity reaI
or supposed. 1t might have accepted
the candidates OF the Liberal Republi-
cans upon grounds entirely Of its own,
or it might have presented, as the
first Wing convention did Harrison
and Tyler, without adopting any
platform whatever; that it chose
to pIantit deliberately by vote nearly
unanimous upon the fullest and clesrest
enuDciation Of principles which are al
once incontestibly Republican aud EN-
phatically Democratic, gives trust
worthy assurance that new and morC
auspicious era is drawing upon our long
distracted country. Some Of the best
years and best efforts OF my life wer'
devoted to struggle against cbatteI
slavery, a struggle none the less earnes
or arduous, because respect for consti-
tutional obligations constrained me tc
act for most part on the defensive, in
resistance to diffusion, rather than ir
direct efforts for extinction, o'
human bondage. Throughout most oI
those yesrs my vision was uocbeered
my expectations were rarely animated
by 90 much as hope that l should live
to see my country peopled by freemer
alone. The sfirmsoce BY your con
vention OF the Cincinbsti platform is 9
most conclusive proof that not merely
is slavery abolished, but that its spin