Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-13

BaFkis is villa. Gon. Garfield Accepts tho
Republican Presidential Nomination.
General Garfield has forwarded to Sena-
tor Hoar the following letter Of acceptance
of the nomination rendered him by the
Republican national convention:
Mentor, July 10-Dear Sir: On the
evening Of the 18th Of June last l had the
honor to receive from you, in presence of
man, the official announcement th:t the
Republican national convention, at Chica-
20, had that day nominated me for their
candidate for president of the United
States. Iaccept the nomination with graft
tude for the confidence it implies, and
with deep sense of the responsibilities it
imposes. l cordially endorse the princi-
pies set forth in the platform adopted by
the convention ON nearly all the subjects Of
which it treats. My opinions are on record
among the published proceedings of Con-
gress. venture, however, 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 review the late war. 1t
should be said that the while Republicans
fully recognize and will strenuOusly de-
fend all the rights retained by the people
and all the rights reserved to the states,
| they reject the pernicious doctrine of state
| supremacy which so 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 nation with ample power Of
self preservation that its constitution and
laws made in pursuance 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
cannot be serrendered without abdicating
one of the fundamental powers of the
government that the national laws re-
lating to the election of representatives i'll
Congress shall neither be violated or
evaded that every elector shall be per-
mitted freely and without intimidation to
cast his lawful ballot at such election and
have it honestly counted and that the-pO-
tency of his vote shall not be destroyed by
the fraudulent vote of any other person.
The best thoughts and energies Of our peO-
pie should be directed to those great
questions of national well-being in which
| all have a common interest. Such efforts
will soonest restore perfect peace to those
who lately were in arms against each
other, for justice and good will Outlast
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 cit
izen, rich or poor, white or black, is Sc
cure in the free and equal enjoyment of
every civil and political right guaranteed
by the constitution and the laws. When
ever the free and equal enjoyment of this
right is not assured discomfort will pre-
vail, immigration will cease and the social
and industrial forces will continue to be
disturbed by the migration of laborers and
consequent diminutiOn of prosperity. The
national government should exercise all
it's authority to put an end to these evils,
for all the people and all the states arc
members Of one body, and no member can
suffer without injury to all.
The most serious evils which now afflict
the South arises from the fact that there
is not such freedom and liberation of po-
litical opinion and action that the miuOr-
ity party can exercise an effective and
wholesome restraint upon the party in
power. Without such restraint the party
rule becomes tyrannical and corrupt. The
prosperity which is made possible in the
South by it's great advantages of soil and
climate, will never be realized until every
voter can freely and safely support any
party he pleases. Next in importance to
freedom and justice is popular education,
without which neither justice nor freedom
can be permanently maintained. Its in
terests are entrusted to the states and the
involuntary action Of the people. What
ever 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 seOple and
dangerous to our institutions to apply any
portion of the revenues of the nation or OF
the states to the support of sectarian
schools. The separation of the church and
the state in everything relating to taxa
ton should be absolute.
, On the subject of national finances my
views have been so frequently and SO fully
expressed that little is needed in the way
of any additional statement. The public
debt is now so we'll secured and the rate
of annual interest has been SO reduced by
refunding that rigid economy in expendi
lures, and the faithful application of oul
surplus revenues to the payment of the
principle of the debt, will gradually. but
certainly, free the people from its burdens
) and class with honor the financial chapter
of the war, at the same time the govern
, |
penditures and discharge its sacred obliga
tions to the soldiers of the Union and t.
widows and orphans of those who fell il
its defense. The resumption of specie
payments, which the Republican party 81
> courageously and successfully accom-
plished, has removed from the field of con
troversy many questions that long and sc
riously disturbed the credit of the govern
. ment and the business of the country.
Our PAPER currency is now as nationa
as the flag, and resumption has not only
made it everywhere equal to coil, but il
J has brought into use our store OF gold ant
j.. silver, circulating medium is more abund
,, ant than ever before, and we need only t.
maintain equality Of all our dollars tt
5 insure labor and capital, a measure o.
value from the use of which no one cal
suffer loss. The great prosperity which
! the country is enjoying should not be en-
D dangered by any violent changes, o.
doubtful financial experiments.
In reference to our customs laws, :
policy should be pursued which will bring
= revenues to the treasury and will enable
8 the labor and capital employed in Oul
, great industries to compete fairly in Oul
own markets with the labor and capital O
foreign producers. We legislate for tht
people of the United States, not for thu
: whole world, and it is our glory that ths
American labor is more intelligent ant
better paid than his foreign competitor
Our country cannot be independent unles
: its people, with their abundant natura
resources possess the requisite skill al
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