The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-09-30
POLITICAL
]. Morrison Harris Letter Of Acceptance

The committees appointed by the Reform
and Republican Conventions to inform
Hon. J. Morrison Harris of his nomination
for Congress from the Second Congressional
District, of Cecil, Hartford, Car
roll and a portion of Baltimore counties, -
having performed their duty, Mr.. Harris
has written letter accepting the nomina,
ton. He says:
| should be indeed insensible if failed
to appreciate very highly, not only the
honor you have done me, but the very
tlattering terms in which you have ex-
pressed the wishes of those whom you rep
resent.
am not a partisan, and feel but slight
interest in politics, except upon broad,
conservative and national line. Your de-
sire, therefore, that | should serve the peo-
pie of the district in this connection-un-
trammeled by pledges and with your reli-
ance on my past record and your opinion
of me, SO kindly xpressed-increaseS the
compliment, and should the opportunity be
afforded me, would greatly stimulate the
earnestness of my effort faithfully to pro
mote the interest of the district; and |
may NC diloNett, utIe, " tApleSS my
full acknowledgment of the cordial support
given to me in the late canvass for the Ex-
ecutive Office of the State, in all parts of
the district, and especially in that county
in which | have been for a quarter of a
century resident, and by voters of both
political parties, and for which | will al
ways remain their debtor in grateful reco-
lection.
In asserting to your wishes feel that it
is due both to you and to the constituency
of the district that should indicate, briefly,
my views upon the measures now chiefly
claiming the attention of the people, which
| would advocate and support in the event
of election.
| believe that return to a specie basis
at the earliest practicable day, with due
reference to the business interests of the
country, will greatly promote the general
prosperity, and that the assignment of a
fixed time for such resumption should be
adhered to.
| hold that all Government officers should
be held to strict accountability for the
honest and faithful performance of public
duty, and that while investigation into
their acts should not be made upon trivial
grounds, or merely in the interest of party,
that in all proper cases it should be thor
Government and the interests of the peo-
pie may be fully indicated and conserved.
| am in favor of all wise and judicious
curtailment in the expenditure of the Gov
eminent and all measures of reform really
calculated to promote its efficiency and
purity.
| am cordially in favor Of return in all
public appointments to the old Jetf-rsonian
doctrine that honesty, fidelity and capacity
should be the rule of qualification, and
that the truest interests of the people will
be secured by any system that destroys in
our political organizations "the cohesive
power of the public plumber"
| regard the recent amendments to the
Constitution as absolute iinalties upon all
the subjects to which they relate, and
should earnestly oppose anything that
tended to affect them as such.
regard with the deepest soicitndc and
interest the present disordered condition
OF the Southern States, and cherish the