Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-07-14
Gen. GurOeId,s Letter Of Acceptance.

MENTOR, o., July IL, lSoO.-Dedr oIr
On the evening Of the 9TH Of June last.
I had the honor to receive from you, in
the presence of a committee of which you
were chairman, the official announcement
that the republican national convention at
Chicago had that day nominated me for
their candidate for president of the United
States. accept the nomination with
gratitude for the confidence it implies and
with deep sense of the responsibilities
it imposes. cordially indorse the prin-
ciples set forth in the platform adopted by
the convention. On nearly all subjects of
which il 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 the sub
iects 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
strenuously defend all rights retained by
the people and all rights reserved to the
states, they reject the pernicious doct-
rihe 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 sur
rendered withour abdicating one of the
fundamental powers of the government;
that national laws relating to tho election
of representatives in congress shall neither
be violated nor evaded; that every elector
shall be permitted freely and without
intimidation to cast his lawful ballot 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 we'll
being, in which all have common
interest, and to such efforts as will soonest
restore to perfect peace those lately in
arms against each other; for justice and
good will will outlast passion. But it is
certain that the wounds cannot be com
pletely healed and the spirit of brother
hood cannot fully pervade the whole
country, until every citizen, rich Or poor,
white or black is secure in the free and
equal enjoyment of every civil and poiti-
cal right guaranteed by the constitution
and laws Wherever the endowment of
This rioht is not assured. discomfort will
prevail. Immigration will cease and the
social and industrial forces will continue
to he disturbed bv the MIGRATION of labor
Gro and the CONSIGNMENT diminution of
nrosnnritv Tho national Government
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