The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-07-16
GAgrlELD's ACCEPTANCE.

MENTOR, o., July 12.--Gen. Garfield |
has forwarded 10 Senator Hoar, of
Massachusetts, the following letter,
accepting the nomination rendered him
by the Republican National conven-
tlon: -.
MENTOR, o., July ~, 1880.
DEAR SIR:-On the evening of the
9Th of June last, had the honor to
receive from you, In the presence of the
committe of which you are chairman,
the official announcement that the
Republican National Convention, ut
Chicago, had that day nominated me
for their candidate for President of the
United States. accept the nomina-
ton with gratitude for the confidence
IL implies and with a deep sense of
the responsibilities 1t imposes. cor
daily endorse the principles set forth
in the platform adopted by the conven-
ton. On nearly all the subjects Of
which it treats my opinions are on
record among the published proceed
| ings of Congress. / venture, however,
tn make special mention of some of the
principal topics, which are likely to be-
come the subject of discussion.
without reviewing the controversies
which have been settled during the last
twenty years, and with no purpose or
wish to revive the passions of the late
war, it should be said that while the
Republicans fully recognize and will
strenously defend all the rights retain
ed by the people and all the rights
reserved to the States, they reject the
pernicious doctrine of state supremacy,
which 30 long crippled the functions
of the National Government, and at
one time brought the Union very near
to destruction. They insist that the
| United States is q nation. with ample
power of self-preservation; that its
constitution and laws made in persu-
ance thereof are the supreme law of the
land; that the right of the nation to
determine the method by which its
own legislature shall be created, can
not be surrendered W ithout abdicating
one of the fundamental powers of gov
eminent; that the national laws relat.
. ing to the election of representatives in
evaded; that every elector shall be
permitted, freely and without intimi.
dation, to cast his lawful ballot at such
, election and have it honestly counted
and that the potency of his vote shall
nOb DC ucStrUyCu ny tuc IuuuulOut
, vote of any other person. The bes
, thoughts and energies of our people
should be directed to those great ques
tions of national well-being in which
all have common interest. Sucl
efforts will soonest restore perfect
peace to those who were lately in arm
I against each other, for justice ant
D good will will outlast passion. But i
Is certain that the wounds of the wa
, cannot be completely healed, and thu
spirit of brotherhood cannot fully per
. wade the whole country until every cit
izen, rich or poor, white or black, !
secure in the free and equal enjoymen
of every civil and political right guar
' anteed by the constitution and tn
!. laws. Wherever the enjoyment o
these rights is not assured, disconten
will prevail, immigration will cease an
:. the social and Industrial forces vii
\ continue to be disturbed by the migrs
: ton of laborers, and the consequer
diminution of prosperity. The nation
al government should exercise all il
!. constitutional authority to put an en-,
d to these evils, for all the people and a
IS the states are members of one body
J. and no member can suffer without in
Jury to all.
The most serious evils which no,
:, afflict the South arise IfrOm the fat
/" that there is not such freedom and to
= Grafton of political opinion and actio
=, =, that the minority party can exercise a
, effective and wholesome restraint upo
the party in power. Without sue
g restraint, party rule becomes tyrranic,
= and corrupt. The prosperity which
% made possible in the South by I'll
j. great advantages of soil and climat,
l. will never be realized until every vote
j. can freely and safely support any part
he pleases. Next in importance
= freedom and justice is popular educ;
, ton, without which neither justice nc
!, freedom can be pcrmantly maintained
= Its interests are entrusted to the stat
W. and to the voluntary actions of the pc,
20 pie. Whatever help the nation ca
!, Justly afford, should be gcnerousl
IN given to aid the states in supportin
n common schools, but it would be III
=. just to our people and dangerous to OF
Institutions to apply any portion of Il
revenues of the nation, or of the state
to the support of scctarian school
f The separation of the churh and Il
A state in every thing relating to tax
h ton, should be absolute.
Y On the subject of national finance
y. my views have been so frequently ar
IA fully expressed, that little is needed
'e the way of additional statement. I'll
l. public debt is now so we'll secured, an
y the rate of annual interest has been {
"a reduced by refunding, that rigid econt
a. my inIexpenditures, and the faithful al
d plication of our surplus revenues to Il
"a payment of the principal of the deb
l. will gradually, but certainly, free u
= people from its burdens, and close wit
s. honor the financial chapter of the wal
n At the same time the government ca
l. provide for oil its ordinary expend
s. lures and discharge its sacred obligs
2. tons to the soldiers of the union and [
% the widows and the orphans of thos
i who fell in its defense. The resumy
s. ton of specie payments, which Oh
Republican party so courageously an
D. successfully accomplished, has reno,
L ed from the field of controversy man
u questions that long and seriously di
=, turbed the credit of the governmer
IL and the business of the country. On
paper currency is now as national O
the flag, and resumption has not onl
9 made II everywhere equal 10 coin, bt
# has brought into use our share of gol
y and silver. The circulating medium
n more abundant than ever before, an
! we need only maintain the equality {
y all our dollars TO insure to labor an
capital measure of value from tn
T use of which no one can suffer los
y The great prosperity which the countr
y is now enjoying should not be endar
y gered by any violent changes or doub
!. full financial experiments.
= In reference to our custom laws,
v policy should be pursued which wi
u bring revenues to the treasury, an
| will enable the labor and capital en-
i. ployed in our great Industries TO con
II pete fairly in our own markets wit
j. the labor and capital of foreign produ
d GERS. We legislate for the people {
h the United States, not for the Who'll
q world, and il is our glory that th
!, American labOrer Is moro infellioeu