Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-23
wHEELER's LETTER OF &C
CEPTANCE.

WHEELER'S LETTER OF AC-
CEPTANCE.
Following is the main portion of Mr..
Wheeler's letter accepting the Cincin-
natl nomination for the Vice Fresi-
dency:
"To the summary of the doctrine
%enunciated by the convention l give
my cordial assent. The Republican
party Is %intrenched in the organic law
of our land, and its doctrine is, that
liberty is a supreme, Interchangeable law
for every part of the American SOIL.
The mission of that party is To give full
effect to that principle, by securing to
every American citizen complete llber-
ty and equality in the exercise OF all
civil. political and public rights. This
will be accomplished only when cisi-
zens, without regard to color, shall
wear this panoply of citizenship, as
fully and securely in the or
Louisiana as on the banks OF the st.
Lawrence. Upon the question OF our
Southern relations my views were re-
Gently expressed as a member of the
| committee of the United States House
| of Representatives upon Southern At
fairs.
These views remain 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 civilization, are, in
the brief period OF ten or fifteen years,
to he transformed into our model
Northern communities. That can only
come through a long course OF patient
waiting, to which non can now set
certain bounds. There will be a good
deal OF unavailable friction, which will
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 in this direction will be the
devising of a system to aid in the ele-
walton of the masses. The fact that
there are whole counties in Louisiana
in which there is no public school is
full of suggestion. We compelled these
people to remain in the Union, and
now duty and interest demands that
we leave no Just means untried to make
them good legal citizens. How to di-
minish the triction; how to stimulate
the elevation of this portion of our
country, are questions addressing
themselves 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 extent
every blessing which the Government
confers upon the NEST favored; give
them no just cause for complaint; and
then hold them by every necessary
means to an exact and rigid observ-
ance of all their duties and obligations
under the Constitution and its amend
ments. to secure to all within their bor-
ders, manhood and citizenship, with
every right thereto belonging.
Just obligations to public creditors,
credited when the Government was in
the throes of threatened dissolution,
are indispensable to the condition OF
it's salvation, guaranteed by the lives
of brave defenders, and are to be kept
with religious faith, as are all pledges
subsidiary thereto, and conformed
Herewith. In my judgment, the
pledge of the Congress of January IA,
1875, for the redemption of the notes OF
the United States, in coin, isthe plight
ed faith of the nation and the national
honor. 1t is simply honesty and JUS
tice to the people, whose permanent
welfare and prosperity are dependent
upon true money as the basis of Pc
cuniary transactions. All demand
a scrupulous observance of this
pledge, and the duty of Congress is to
supplement it with such Legislation as
shall be necessary. The ballot, the
common school system and the public
land system should be preserved in all
their vigor, while, in accordance with
the spirit Of the Constitution, all the
public school endowments should be
secured by every possible and proper
guaranty against every form of secta-
rian influence or Capitalization. There
should be the strictest economy in the
expenditures of the Government con-
sistent with the effective administra'
ton, and unnecessary offices should
be abolished. Office should be con
ferred only on the basis OF high char
ter 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 land
to carry them into full practical effect
is the work it now has on hand. To
the completion of its great mission we
address ourselves in hope and conf
dence, cheered and stimulated by the
~recollections of its past achievements
remembering that, under God, it is tc
that party that we are indebted, in
this centennial year of our existence,
for an unbroken union, for the fact
that there is no master or slave
throughout our broad dominions, and
that emancipaled millions look upon
the Republic as the symbol of a full
filled declaration that all men are ere.
ated free and equal, and a guaranty OF
their own equality, under the law,
with the most highly favored citizen
of the land. To the intelligence and
conscience of all who require good
government, with good money and uni.
versal prosperity, the Republican par
ty, not unmindful of the imperfec-