The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-07-27
NHEELERS ACCEPTANCE.
MALONE, July Is, 1876.

INST your communication auVlSInS me
that | had been unanimously nominated
by the National Convention OF the Re
publican party, held ut Cincinnati on
the 18th ult, for the office OF Vlce-Pres-
i6,ent of the United States, and request
ing my acceptance OF the same, and ask
ing my attention to the summary Of Re
publican doctines contained III the plat
form adopted by the Convention. A
nomination made with such unanimlty
implies confidence on the part of the
Convention which inspires my profound
gratitude. It is accepted with o sense
of the responsibility which may follow.
Ii elected, / shall eudeavor 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 enun-
ciated by the Convention L give my
cordial assent. The Republican party
has intrenched in the organic law of our
land the doctrine that liberty is the su-
preme, interchangeable law for every foot
of American soil. It is the mission of
that party to give full effect to this prin-
ciple by securing to every American
citizen liberty and exact equality i'll the
exercise of all civil, political and public
rights" This will be accomplished
only when the American citizen with
out regard to color, shall wear this pan
oply of citizenship as fully and as Sc
curely in the canebrakes of Louisiana as
on the banks of the st. Lawrence.
Upon the question Of our Southern re-
lations. my views were recently express
ed as member of the United States
House of Representatives upon South
ern Affairs. Those views remained I'M
changed, 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 civil
tation, are, IN the brief period OF ten or
fifteen years, to be transformed into our
model Northern communities. That
can come through long course OF pa
| tent waiting, to which no one can now
set certain bounds. There will be a
good deal of unavoidable friction, which
| viii call for forbearance, and which Will
| have to be relieved by the temperate,
| fostering care of the Government. One
of the most potent if not indispensable
agencies inthis direction, will be the devils
ing of some system to aid in the educa-
| ton of the masses. The fact that rhere
are whole counties in Louisiana i'll
which there is not 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 un
tried to make them good, loyal citizens
How to diminish the friction, how to
stimulate the elevation of this portion
of our country, are problems addressiI
| themselves to our best and wisest states
manship. The foundation for these eff
forts must be laid in satisfying the South
ern people that they are to have equal,
exact justice accorded to them. Give
them to the fullest extent every blessing
which the Government confers upon
the most favored-give them DO just
cause for complaint, and then hold
them, by every necessary means, to
an exact, right observance of all thei1
| duties and obligations under the Con
stitution and its amendments to secure
to all within their borders manhood and
citizenship, with every right thereto be-
| longing.
The just obligations to public credi-
tors, 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 it's brave dofon dore
are to he kept with religious faith, as
are all pledges subsidiary thereto and
cofrmatory thereof. In my judgment
the pledge of Congress of Jan. Il. 1875,
for the redemption Of the notes of the
| United States in coin is the plighted
faith OF the nation, and national honor,
simple honesty, and justice to the peo-
pie whose permanent welfare and pros
-. In.,
the basis of their peouniary transactions,
all demand the scrupulous observance
of this pledge and it is the duty of
such legislation as shall be necessary for
its strict fulfllment.
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
vigor, while in accordance with the
spirit of the Constitution they and all
| their endowments should be secured by
every possible and proper guaranty
against every form of sectarian inhu-
ence or control. There should be the
strictest economy in the expenditures of
the Government with its effective adj
ministration, and all unnecessary offices
should be abolished. Offices should be
conferred only upon the basis of high
character and particular fitness, and
should be administered only as public
trusts, and not for private advantage.
The foregoing are chief among the
cardinal principles of the Republican
party, and to carry them into full practi-
| cal effect is the work it now has in hand.
| To the completion of its great mission we
| address ourselves in hope and conf
dence, cheered and stimulated by the
recollection Of its past achievements
remembering that, under God, it is to
| that party that we are indebted in this
Centennial year of our existence for a
preserved, unbroken Union for the
fact that there is no master or slave
| throughout our broad domains, and
| that emancipated millions look upon the
| ensign of the Republic as the symbol Of
| the fulfilled declaration that all men are
| created free and equal, and the guaran-
| ty of their own equality, under the law,
with the most highly favored citizen of
the land. To the Intelligence and con-
science of all who desire good govern
ment, good will, good money, and uni
versl prosperity. the Republican party,
| not unmlndful of the imperfection and
| shortcomings of human organizations,
| yet with the honest purpose of its mas
| ses promptly to retrieve al errors and to
F! summary punish all offenders against
| the laws of the country, confidently
| submits Its claims for the continued sup
| port of the American people.
Respectfully,
WILLIAM a. WHEELER
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