The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-08-27

The following is the letter of acceptance OF
o. L. Spauding, who has just been nominated
to Congress in the 9th district or this State.
1t will be seen that it has the ring OF true
metal.
ST.. JOHNS, Aug. IL, 1880.
GENTLEMEN,-I beg to acknowledge the re-
ceipt Of your letter Of the 9th inst informing
me OF my nomination as candidate for Con-
gress in the 9th district by the republican
convention lately held at Owosso. For this
honor, coming unsolicited and unexpected,
extend to you and the convention you repre-
sent my sincere thanks. 1 appreciate, too.
! the generous action OF the gentlemen who
were so long candidates before the convention
IN the withdrawal OF their names in my favor.
Had either OF these gentlemen been nominated
should have been among the first to tender
hearty and cordial support, and when 1 con-
slider the duties and responsibilities devolving
upon your candidate 1 could wish that your
choice had fallen upon one OF them. Yet hav-
ing received the nomination with such marked
unanimity aud being assured by your letter
that can command the entire republican vote
Of the district, do not feel at liberty to decline
the candidacy, or to shrink from the response
bility it imposes.
My record as republican, take it, i'd well
known in the 9th district, and / need not now
enumerate all the articles CT my political faith.
I will take this occasion to say, however, that
l am profoundly impressed with the gravity OF
the pending polltica issues, ond believe that TO
continue in power the party that saved the ma
ton in its extremity is the part of wisdom and
patriotism. The democratic party once sol
emily declared that the war was failure, and
if it be returned to power there is reason to
fear that this declaration, though late in it's
fulfllment, may prove true.
The great issue then was between national
and State supremacy. The war settled it, as
we supposed, beyond review: but rehesring
is demanded, and 1t Is again to be passed upon
too, by packed jury, for we are told by one
of the trusted democratic leaders, that the 1873
electoral votes OF the south are pledged to the
old State rights doctrine.
We believe those votes in their solidty we're
acquired by fraud, intimidation and violence
but since they have been acquired, the vital
question is, shall the north supplement them
with AZ more. T. this be done, then indeed
was the war a failure. There are democrats in
the north, loyal, patriotic men, who profess
party in the south, but the record OF that party |
gives no warrant for their faith.
'By their fruits We shall know them" and
the time has not yet come when men gather
grapes OF thorns, or figs OF thistles
BY these records OF years, these men adver-
tise that they will vote as they shot. We
ought not to wait further challenge, to do the
same. 1t is not the part OF wisdom to keep alive
sectional issues, but it is not the part OF Wis
dom TO ignore them, when thrust ostentstious-
ly upon US by the democratic party.
The republican party asserts that this is no
mere confederacy of states, but nation. 1t
demands that the rights and interests of the
citizens shall be protected alike in Michigan
and South Carolina; that United States laws
shall be peaceaby and duly executed in the
south as well as the north; that levery citizen
entitled to vote shall exercise that right, with
out fear or favor, once and no more, at each
election; and that his vote shall be honestly
counted; that the nation shall not be starved
to death.
The cold south is on record, in the name Of
against all these demands, and,
strange to say, men in the north are found to
accept and glory in such companlonshp.
These are among the vital questions to which
we are to address ourselves in this campaign,
and / confidently believe they will be settled,
and settled right, by the election OF Garfield
and Arthur. This done, the country will have
peace from those questions that have vexed
1t and threatened It's integrity these many
years.
In conclusion ! beg TO say, that If elected, the
various interests of the district Will command
my earnest and watchful attention. 1t will be
my pleasure at all times to listen to sugges-
tons for the advancement CT those interests in
everysproper way. Among these, recognize
none as entitled to greater or more intelligent
than the agricultural interests of
the country and in which the people of tho die
trict are intimately concerned. need not add