The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1876-08-10

RS. Lyon, and others.
7 Governor Hendricks E.ettcr.
~ following is Governor Hem
bricks letter: 0"
lNDiANAroL1s, July q, 1876.
GenIemea:-l have the honor IN
acknowledge the receipt Of your com,
munIcation, in which You have form
ally notified me OF my nomination by
the National Democratic Convention.
at 81. Louis, as their candidate for The
) Office OF Vice. President of the United
States. 1t is n nomination which /
had neither expected nor desired, and
yet ! recognize aud appreciate the
high homer lone me by the Conypn-
lion. The choice of such a body, and
pronounced with snch unusual unau-
unity, and accompanied with so zen
crous al expression OF esteem and
confidence, ought TO outweigh all
mere personal desires aud preferences
OF my own. II is with this feeling,
and | trust also from IA deep sense of
public duty, that
I NOW ACCEPT TIE NOMINATION.
And abide by the Judgment Of NV
cOuntrymen. II would have been
impossible for me TO accept the nOmi-
nation if could not
HEARTILY ENDORSE THE PLATFHRM
or the Convention. | am gratitied,
therefore, 10 be able, uuequivocally,
to declare that ] agree in the princi-
pies. approve The policies, and SYM
rati'izc with the purposes enunciated
in that platform. Tho institutions Of
our country have been sorely tried by
the exigencies Of civil war, and since
the peace by a selfish and
CORRUPT MANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC
AFFAIRs
which has shamed us before civilized
mankind. BY unwisc and partial
legislation every industry and inter-
est of the people has been made TO
suffer. and in the executive depart
mcnte of the Government dishonesty.
rapacily and vcnality have ~debauched
the public service. Men known to be
unworthy have been promoted, while
Others have been degraded for fideli-
ty to official duty. Public office has
been made the means of private profit,
and the country has been offended to
to zee II class of men who boast the
friendship of The sworn protectors of
the State. 8massing fortunes by
D~EFRAUDING Till PUBLIC TREASURY
And by corrnpiing the servants of
the people. In such a crisis of the
history Of the country | rejoice that
the Convention at st. Louis has so
n0bly
RAISED THE tTANDARD OF REFORM.
Nothing can lie well with ms, or
our affairs. until the public conscience,
shocked by the enormsuS evils and
abuses which prevail, shall have de-
mandcd and compelled an unsparing
reformation of our National Admin
istration, Sin lis head and in its MEM
bcrs." In such n reformation the re-
m0val of a single officer, even the
President, is comparatively n trifinG
matter, if the system which he repre-
scnts, and Which has, tostcred him rs
he has fosierrd it, is suffered to re-
main. The President alone must not
be made the scapc-&Oat for the cnor-
mites of the system which infects the
public service and threatens the de-
siruction of oUr institutions. In some
''SPec's hoi" '"''
lie fhEohNl hAEoClI'A MAS BEEN
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man can amend it. 1t is thoroughly
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