Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-07-26
WHEELER's LETTER OF AccEP-
TAMCE
MALONE, July Is, 1876,

MALONE, July Is, 1876.
To Hon. Ed. MCPHERSON and Others
Of the Committee Of the National
Republican COnrention::
GENTLEMEN,-I received OH the 9th
inst. your communication advising
me that l had been unanimously nom.
mated by the National Convention oi
the Republican party, held at Cincin-
natl on the l4th ult., for the office OF
| ice-President of the United States
and requesting my acceptance of the
same, and asking my attention to a
summary of Republican doctrines
contained in the platform adopted by
the convention. A nomination made
with such unanimity, displays con.
fidence on the part of the convention
which inspires my profound graft
tude. 1t is accepted with q sense OF
the responsibility which may follow
If elected 1 shalf endeavor to perform
the dutiesof the office i'm the fear o1
the Supreme Ruler and in the inter.
est of the whole country. To the
summary of doctrines enunciated by
the convention l give my cordial as
sent.
The Republican party has entrench-
ed 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 that
principle by securing to every
American citizen complete liberty
and exact equality in the exercise OF
all civil, political and public rights z
These will be accomplished only
when the American citizen, without
regard to color, shall wear this pano-
oply of citizenship as fully and Sc
curely in the canebrakes of Louisi-
ana as on the banks of the st. Law
renee.
Upon the question of our Southern
relations my views were recently ex-
pressed as member of the committee
of the United States House of Repre-
sentatiyes 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
behind in many of the attributes OF
enlightened improvement and civili-
zation, are in brief period of 10 or
Is years to be transformed into our
model Northern communities. That
can only come through long course
of patient waiting to which no one
can now set certain bounds. There
will be good deal of unavoidable
friction, which will call for forbear-
ance, and which will have to be re-
lieved by the temperate, fostering
care of the Government. One of the
most potent, if not indispensable, ad-
vances in this direction, will be the
devising of some system to aid in the
education of the masses. The fact is,
there are whole counties in Louisiana
in which there is not a solitary school
house is full of suggestion. We COM
PEELED these people to remain in the
Union, and now duty and interest de-
mand that we leave no just means UNI
tried to make them good loyal citi-
zens. How to diminish the friction,
how to stimulate the elevation of this
portion of our country, are problems
addressing themselves to our best and
wisest craftsmanship. The founda-
ton for these efforts must be laid in
satisfying the Southern people that
they are to have equal and exact JUS
tice 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 every necessary means
to an exact and rigid observance OF
all their duties and obligations, under
the constitution and its amendments
to secure to all within their borders
manhood and citizenship with every
right thereto belonging. just obi
cations to public creditors, created
when government was in the throe.
of threatened dissolution, and as al
indispensable condition of its saliva.
ton, guaranteed by the lives ant
blood of thousands of its brave dc
tenders. are to he kept with religion
faith, as are all the pledges subsidiar
thereto and confirmatory thereof, il
my judgement, is the pledge of Con
gress of January l4th, 1875, fo
the RECEPTION of the notes of tn
United States i'm coin, is the plighte,
faith of the nation and national hon
or, simple honesty and justice to tn
people, whose permanent welfare ant
prosperity are dependent upon tru
money as basis of their pecuniar,
transactions. All demand the scrupu
lous observance of this pledge, and j
is the duty of Congress to supplement
it with such legislation as shall b,
necessary for its strict fulfillment
Il In our system of government, in
telligence must give safety and valu
|. to the ballot. Hence the common
schools of our land should be pre-
served in all their vigor, while, i
accordance with the spirit of TIL
Constitution, they and their endow
, ments should be secured by every pos
siblc and proper gl aranty again:
every form of sectarian influence @
control. There should be the stric1
: est economy in the expenditures {
J the government consistent with il
effective administration, and all Ill
necessary offices should be abolished
! Offices should be conferred only upo
the basis of high character and pal
| tieular fitness, and should be admil
| istered only as public trusts, and II,
r for private advantage.
> The foregoing are chief among Il
: cardinal principles of the Republics
r party, and to carry them into etie
> is the work it now has on hand to Il
0 completion of its great mission. "
4 address ourselves in hope and conf
dence, cheered and stimulated by til
|, recollection of its past achievement
remembering that under God it is
! that party that we are indebted
this centennial year of our existen
r for a preserved, unbroken Union fl
1 the fact that there is no master, l
g slave throughout our broad domi
= ions, and that emancipated millio
# look upon the ensign of the Republ
e as the symbol Of the fulfilled declar
n ton that ''All men are created fir
o and equal" and the guaranty of the
h own equality under the law with I
n most highly favored citizen in Il
v land, to the intelligence and co
e science of all who desire good go
d ernment, good will, good money, al
universal prosperity.
d The Republican party is not Il
a mindful of the imperfection and she
comings of human organization, y
with the honest purpose of its mass
l. promptly to retrieve all errors and
summarily punish all otlendt
y, against the laws Of the country, CO
IN 66antI,- snhnitS its claims for I