Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-07-24
THE CAMPAIGN KEYNOTE.

Gen. Garfield's Letter Accepting the
Republican Nomination.
MENTOR, o., July 12.-Gen. Garfield
has forwarded to Senator HOar, of Mas
sachusetts, the following letter of accept
ance of the nomination rendered him by
the Republican National Conventions:
MENTOR, o., July 10. 1880.
DEAR SIR: On the evening of the 9Th of
June last / had the honor to receive
from you, i'm the presence of the commit
tee of which you were Chairman, the
official announcement that the Republic
can National Convention at Chicago had
that day nominated me as their
candidate for President of the United
States.
accept the nomination, with graft
tude for the confidence it implies, and
with deep sense of the responsibilities
it imposes.
1 cordially 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 proceedings of Con-
gress.
venture, however, to make special
mention of some of the principal topics
which are likely to become subjects of
discussion. Without reviewing the con-
trOversies which have been settled dur
ing the last twenty years, and with no
purpose or wish to revive the passions
of the late war, it should be said that
while Republicans fully recognize and
will strenOusly defend all the rights re-
tanned 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 des-
tructiOn.
They insist that the United States is
nation with ample powers of self pres
ervatiOn; that its constitution and the
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 surrendered
without abdicating one of the funda-
mental powers of the government; that
the national laws relating to the cleo
ton of Representatives in congress
shall neither be violated nor evaded /;
that every electOr shall be permitted
freely and without intimidation to cast
his lawful vote at such election and
have it honestly counted, and that the
potency of his vote shall not be destroy
ed 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
efforts will soonest restore to perfect
peace those who were lately in arms
against each other, for justice and good
will will 0utlast passion.
But it is certain that the wounds of
the war cannot be completely healed,
and the spiri of brotherhood cannot
fully pervade the whole country until
every citizen, rich or poor, white OF
black, is secure in the free and equal
enjoyment of every civil and political
right guaranteed by the constitution and
the claws. Wherever the enjoyment of these
rights is not assured, discomfort will
prevail; immigration will cease, and the
social and industrial forces will con.
tinue to be disturbed by the migration
of labOrers and the consequent diminu-
ton of prosperity. The national gov.
eminent should exercise all its cOnstitu.
tiOnal authority to put an end to these
evils, for all the people and all the states