Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-07-28
Mr.. Wheeler's Acceptance.

Mr.. Wheeler's Acceptance.
The following is the full text of
Mr.. Wheeler's letter accepting the
Republican nomination for the Vice
Presidency:
MALONE, N Y, July Is, 1876.
The Hon. Edward Mcpherson and others Of the
Committee OF the Republican National Con-
vention.
GENTLEMEN:-I received on the
9th inst. your communication advis-
ing me that l had been unanimously
nominated by the National Conven-
ton of the Republican party, held at
Cincinnati on the l4th ult., for the
Office of Vice President of the United
States, and requesting my acceptance
of the same, and asking my attention
to the summary of the Republican
doctrines contained in the platform
adopted by the Convention. A NOM
ination made with such unanimity
implies confidence on the part Of
the Convention which inspires my
profound gratitude. 1t is accepted
with a sence of the responsibility
which may follow. If elected, shall
endeavor 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 Conven-
ton give my cordial assent. The
Republican party has entrenched in
the organic law of our land the doc
trine that liberty is the supreme, un-
changable law for every foot OF Anne
rican soil. It is the mission of that
party to give full effect to this prin-
ciple by securing to every Ameri-
can citizen complete liberty and ex-
act equality In the exercise of all
civil, political, and public rights. >
This will be accomplished only when
the American citizen, without re-
gard to color, shall wear this panoply
Of citizenship as fully and securely
in the canebrakes of louisiana as on
the banks of the ST. Lawrence. Up
on the question of
OUR SOUTHERN RELATIONS,
m, views were recently expressed,
as member of committee of the
United States House of Representa-
tives upon Southern affairs. Those
views remained unchanged, and were
thus expressed: We Of the North
delude ourselves in expecting that
the masses of the South, so far be-
hind III many of the attributes of en-
lightcned improvement and civlliza-
ton, are, in the brief period of ten
or fifteen years, to be transform
ed into our model Northern commu-
mites that can only come through
long course of patient waiting, to
which no one can now set certain
bounds. There will be a good deal
of unavoidable friction, which will
call for forbearance, and which will
have to be relieved by the temperate
and fostering care of the government.
One of the most potent, if not indis-
pensable, agencies in this direction
will be the devlsing of some system
to aid in the education OF the masses.
The fact that there are whole coun-
ties in Louisiana in which there is not
a solitary school house is full of sug-
gestion. We compel these people to
remain in the Union, and now duty
and interest demand that we leave
no just means untried, to make them
good, loyal citizens. How to dimin-
ish the friction, how to stimulate the
elevation of this portion of our coun-
try, are problems addressing them
selves to our best and wisest states
manship. The foundation for these
efforts must be laid in satisfying the
Southern people that they are to have
equal and exact justice accorded to
them. Give them, to the fullest ex-
tent, every blessing which the gov
eminent confers upon the most favor
ed; give them no just cause for COM
plant; and then hold them, by every
necessary means, to an exact and
rigid observance of all their duties
and obligations under the Constitu-
ton and Its amendments, to secure to
all within their borders manhood and
citizenship, with every right thereto
belonging. The
JUST OBLIGATION TO PUBLIC CREDI-
created when the government was in
the throes Of threatened dissolution,
and as an indispensable condition of
its salvation, guaranteed by the lives
and blood of thousands Of its brave
defenders, are to be kept with reli-
gious faith, as are all the pledges sub
sidiary thereto and contirmatory
thereof. In my judgment the pledge
Of Congress of January l4th, 1875,
for the redemption of the notes of
the United States in com, is the
plighted faith of the nation, and ma
tional honor, simple honesty, and
justice to the people whose perma-
ncnt welfare and prosperity are de-
pendent upon true money as the ba-
sis of their pecuniary transactions,
all demand the scrupulous obser-
vance of this pledge, and it is the
duty Of Congress to supplement it
with such legislation as shall be nee
essary for it's strict tulfillmcnt. In
our system Of government intelli-
gence must give safety and value to
the ballot. Hence
THE COMMON SCHOOLS OF THE LAND
should be preserved in all their Wig
or, while in accordance with the
spirit of the constitution, they and
all their endowments should be Sc
cured by every possible snd proper
guaranty against every form of sec
tartan influences or control.
THE PUBLIC SERVICE.
There should be the strictest econ
omy IN the expenditures of the gov
eminent consistent with its effective
administration, and all unnecessary
offices should be abolished. Offices
should be conferred only upon the
basis of high character and particu-