Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-07-15
Gen. 9arheld's Letter Of Acceptance.

has AO4 al ueQ W oeDdtOF I1OdT. Oh
N .ssachusetis, the following letter of
acceptance Of the nomination ter
dered him by the Republicans at
Chicago at the National Convention:
MENTOR, o., July l0.-Dear Sir {:
On the evening of the 18th of June
last, | had the honor to receive from
you in the presence of the committee
Of which you were chairman, the Of
fetal announcement that the Repub
lican National Convention at Chicago
had that day nominated me as their
candidate for President of the United
States. | accept the nomination with
gratitude for the confidence it i'm
plies, and with a deep sense of the
responsibilities it imposes. / cor
daily endorse the principles set forth
in the platform adopted by the Con.
vention. On nearly all the subjects
of which it treats, my opinions are on
record among the published proceed
iDgs of Congress. | venture, how
ever, to make
SPECIAL MENTION
of some of the principal topics which
are likely to become subjects of dis.
cussion.
Without reviewing the controver.
sizes which have been settled during
the last twenty years, and with no
purpose or wish to revive the pas.
sions of the late war, it may be said
that while the Republicans fully rec
ognize and will strenuously defend
all rights retained by the people and
all rights reserved 10 the States, they
reject the pernicious doctrine Of
State supremacy which so long Grip
pied the functions Of national govern.
ment and at one time brought the
Union very near to destruction. They
insist that the United States is a ma.
ton with ample powers of self-pres-
ervation that its constitution and
laws made in pursuance thereof care
the supreme law Of the land )" that
the right of the nation to determine
the method by which its legislature
shall be created cannot be surren.
dered without abdicating one of the
fundamental powers of the govern
ment; that the national laws relating
to the election of representatives in
Congress shall neither be violated
nor evaded; that every elector shall
be permitted freely and without in.
timidation 20 cast his lawful vote at
such election and have it honestly
counted, and that the potency of his
vote shall not be destroyed by the
fraudulent vote of any other person.
The best thoughts and energies OF
our people should be directed to
those great questions Of national well
being in which all have a common
interest Such effort will soonest
restore to perfect peace those who
were lately in arms against each
other, for justice and good will will
outast passion, but it is certain that
the wounds of the war cannot be
completely healed and the spirit of
brotherhood cannot fully pervade
the whole country until every citizen,
rich or poor, white or black, is Sc
cure in the free and equa! enjoyment
of every civil and political right
guaranteed in the constitution and
laws. Wherever the enjoyment of
these rights is not assured discomfort
will prevail, immigration will cease,
and the social and industrial forces
will continue to be disturbed by the
migration of laborers and consequent
dimunition Of prosperity. The ma
tional government should exercise
all its constitutional authority to put
an end to these evils, for all people
and all States are members of the
one body, and no member can suffer
without injury to all.
THE MOST SERIOUS EVILS
which now affect the South arise
from the fact that there is not such
freedom and liberation of political
opinion and action that the minority
party can exercise an effectual and
wholesome restraint upon the party
in power. Without such restraint
party rule becomes tyrannical and
corrupt. The prosperity which is
made possible in the South by its
great advantage of soil and climate
will never be realized until every
voter can freely and safely support
any party he pleases. Next in i'm
portanco to freedom and justice is
POPULAR EDUCATION,
without which neither Justice nor
freedom can be permanently main.
tanned its interests are intrusted to
the States and to the voluntary &C.
ton of the people. Whatever help
the nation can justly afford should
be generously given to aid the States
in supporting the common schools,
but it would be unjust to our people
and dangerous to our institutions TO
apply any portion Of the revenues of
the nation or of the States to the
support of sectarisn schools the
separation of the church and the
state relative TO taxation should be
absolute.
on THE SUBJECT or THE NATIONAL
FINANCES,
My views have been so frequently
expressed that little is needed in the
way OF additional statement. The
public debt is now so well secured
and the rate of the annual interest
has been SO reduced by refunding
that rigid economy in the expendi,
lures and the faithful application of
our surplus revenues TO the payment
Of the principal of the debt will grad
ually but certainly free the people
from its burdens and close with
honor the financial chapter of the
war, at the same time the Govern.
ment can provide for all its ordi
nary expenditures and discharge its
sacred obligations to the soldiers of
the Union and to the widows and
orphans Of those who fell in its de.
Tense
THE RESUMPTION OF SPECIE PAYMENT
which the Republican party so
courageously and successfully ac.
complished, has removed from the
field OF controversy many questions
that long and seriously disturbed the
credit OF the Government and the
husinpls Cf tho OOuptrv Our pa4ar