The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1876-07-27
WHEELER'S ACCEPTANCE.
A Document that comes out Square-TOed
for the Platform and the Vital Issues.
MALONE, n. Y, July Is, 1876.

MALONE, n. Y, July Is, 1876.
To the Hon. Edward Nc Pherson, and 9TH
ers Of the COmmittee of the Republican
National COnUenttOn:
GENTLEMEN Il received on the 9th
inst. your communication advising me
that l had been unanimously nominated
by the National Convention of the Re
publican party, held at Cincinnati on the
l4th ult,, for the office of vice-President
Of the United States, requesting my ac-
ceptance of the same, and asking my at
tention to the summary of Republican
doctrines contained in the platform adopt
ed by the convention.
A nomination made with such unanim-
ity implies confidence on the part of the
convention which inspires my profound
gratitude. 1t is accepted with sense of
responsibility which may follow. If
elected shall endeavor to perform the
duties of the office in the fear of the Su-
preme Ruler and in the interest of the
whole country. To the summary of doc
trines enunciated by the convention, | give
my cordial assent.
LIBERTY AND DPoLTTICALEo EoJsaLITYFoR ALL.
The Republican party has incorporated
in the organic law of our land the doc
trine that liberty is the supreme, un-
changeable law for every foot of Ameri-
can soil It is the mission of that party
to give full effect to this principle by Sc
curing to every American citizen complete
liberty and exact quality in the exercise of
all civil, political, and public rights. This
will be accomplished only when the Amer
lean citizen, without regard to color, shall
wear his panoply OF citizenship as fully
and securely in the canebrakes of Louis
lana as on the banks of the St. Lawrence.
OUR SOUTHERN RELATIONS.
Upon the question of our Southren re-
lations, my views were recently expressed
as Il member of the committee of the
United States House of Representatives
upon Southern affairs Those views re-
manned unchanged as they were then ex,
pressed We of the North delude our,
selves in expecting that the masses of the
South, so far behind in many of the at
tributes Of enlightened improvement and
civilization, are in the breif period of ten
or fifteen years are to be transformed in,
to our model Northern communities
That can only come through long
course of patient waiting, to which no one
can now set certain bounds. s.f.
.. There Will be u good deal of unavoida,
BILE friction which will call for forbear,
ance, and which will have to be relieved
by the temperate fostering care of the
Government.
THE SOUTH NEEDS EDUCATION.
One of the most potent, if not indis
pensable agencies in this direction, will be
the devising of some system to aid in the
education of the masses. The fact that
there are whole counties in Louisiana il
which there is solitary school house, is
full of suggestion. We compelled these
people to remain in the Union, and nov
duty and interest demand that we leave
no just means untried to make then
good loyal citizens.
THE POLITICAL PANACEA.
How to diminish the friction-how tc
stimulate the elevation of this portion oi
our country-are problems addressing
themselves to our best and wisest states
menship. The foundation for these eff
forts must be laid in satisfying the South
ern people that they are to have equal and
exact justice accorded to them. Give
them, to the fullest extent, every blessing
which the Government confers upon the
most favored. Give them no just cause
for complaint, and then hold them by ev.
cry necessary means to an exact, rigid OBJ
servance of all their duties and obliga
tions under the Constitution and its
amendments; to secure all within their
borders, manhood and citizenship with
every right thereto belonging.
THE NATIONAL HONOR AND THE NATION.
AL DEBT.
The just obligation to public creditors,
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 religious faith, are all the
pledges subsidiary thereto and confrma,
tory thereof
In my judgment the pledge of Congress