The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-07-21
POLITICAL.

wHEELER'S ACCEPTANCE OF THE REPUBLICAN
NOMINATION FOR vICE-PREsIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES.
NEW YORK, July 20.-The following Is
Wheeler's letter OF acceptance:
Hon. Ed,oard Mcpherson and others, Of the
Committee Of the Republican National
Convention:
Gentlemen,-I received on the 9th instant
your communication advising me that had
been unanimously nominated by the Ma
tional Convention Of the Republican party,
held at Cincinnati on the 14th ultimo, for
the Office of Vice-President Of the United
States, and requesting my acceptance OF tne
same and asking my attention to the sum
mary of Republican doctrines contained III
the platform adopted by the Convention.
A nomination made with such unanimity
implies a confidence on the part OF the Con-
yention which inspires my profound graft
tude. It is accepted with sense Of the re-
sponsibilitiy which may follow. II elected,
shall endeayor to perform the duties OF
the office in the fear of the Supreme Ruler
and in the interest Of the whole country. ).
TO the summary Of doctrines enunciated
by the Convention / give my cordial assent.
The Republican party has intrenched In the
organic law Of our land the doctrine that
liberty is the supreme, Interchangeable law
for every foot OF American soil. 1t is the
mission OF that party to give full effect to
this principle by "securing to every Ameri-
can citizen complete liberty and exact
equality in the exercise OF all civil, political,
and public rights" This will be accom-
plished only when the American citizen,
without regard to color, shall wear this PAN
oply OF citizenship as fully and as securely
in the cane-brakes OF Louisiana as on the
banks of the ST.. Lawrence.
Upon the question of our Southern rela-
tions my views were recently expressed as
q member of the committee OF the United
States House of Representatives upon
Southern Affairs. These views remain un.
changed, and were thus expressed: =.
. "We OF the North delnde ourselves In
expecting that the masses OF the South, so
far behind in many OF the attributes OF on
lightened improvement and civilization, are
in the brief period Of ten or fifteen years TO
be transformed into our model northen
That can only come through
. long course Of patient waiting, to which
no one can now set certain bounds. There
will be n good deal OF unavoidable friction,
which will call for forbearance, and which
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fostering care of the Government. One OF
he most potent, IL notindispe agencies
n this direction will be the deyising of
,ome system to aid in the education OF the
masses. The fact that there are whole coun.
les i'm Louisiana in which there Is not sol
tary school-house, is full OF suggestion.
We compelled these people TO remain In the
Union, and now duty and interest demand
hat we leave no Just means nntried to make
hem good, loyal citizens. How to dimin-
sh the friction, how to stimulate the eleya-
,ation OF this portion Of our country, are
problems addressing themselves to our best
nd wisest craftsmanship. The foundation
or these efforts must be laid in satisfying the l
outhern people that they ara to haye equal
xact justice accorded to them. Give them /
. the fullest extent every blessing which
be Government eonfers upon the most fa-
ored rive them no just cause for com
laint. and then hold them by every neces.
ary means, TO an exact, rigid Observance oi
Il their duties and obligations under tue
constitution and its amendmen 10 secure
, all within their borders manhood and q