Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-07-22
1,oear,s LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE.


nature of John A. Logan, accepting nomi-
nation rendered him by the republican party
for the Vice. Presidency of the United States.
The letter is not quite as long as
that of Mr.. Baine's, about as devoid OF
reasoning and contains numerous notions
and assertions paradoxical indeed when
compared with the we'll known history OF
its reputed author. 1t is evidently the pro-
duct of several parties, smells OF the lamp,
and its couceivers seem to have labored
hard to explain away the injurious leglsla-
ton of the party they represent, AS may
be expected, the author accepts the compll.
meut rendered him, and makes the usual
stereotyped promises in the improba-
BILE, if not impossible, event OF his being
called to assume the functions OF such an
office. The ridiculous assertion, that he
never sought the honor is made without
sham efacedness, after which he proceeds to
tell US that brevity prevents him from
treating OF the many issues involved in the
present contest, though the paper is of
sufficient length to fill four of these columns.
Several large paragraphs are devoted to a
plagiarism from Mr.. Blaine's letter of &C
ceptance in which the latter extols Amerl-
Can labor and expatiates upon the senseless
idea that the rapid growth of the country
in wealth and population is due to republi-
can legislation during the last twenty'od
years. After saying that American labor
must be protected aud depicting the mag
mary evils of America undertaking to COM
pete with other countries in manufactures,
| he remarks:
mo one realizes more fully than myself
| 4. 4 IL, md II n oHJnCt1nO
tariff so nicely and equitably as to protect
every home industry, sustain every class of
American labor, promote to the highest point
our great agricultural interests, and at the
same time to give to one and all the advan-
tages pertaining to foreign productions not
| in competition with our own thus not only
building up our foreign commerce, but TAX
ing measures to carry it in our own bottoms.
Difficult as this work appears and really s,
it is susceptible of accomplishment by pa,
tient and intelligent labor, and to no hands
can it be committed with as great assurance
of success as to those Of the republican
party"
In regard to carrying in our own bot
TOMS" and entrusting the building up OF
our merchant marine service to the hands
of the republican party, it is only necessary
to remark that during the past two decades,
under its sway, American merchantmen Oh
the ocean have become nearly as rare as
sea serpents.
The financial policy of the republican
party is the next subject treated, which, ac'
cording to Mr.. L., is perfection in every
particular. Then follow divers recommend
ations for the enhancement of the interests
of interstate commerce.
The foreign policy of the would-be Vice
President is identical with that expressed
by the "plumed knight" using the latter's
very words in recommending pacific atti.
tude on the part of this country toward all
the world, and appealing to arbitration in
stead of the barbed shaft. He assumes that
the south American republics are bosom
friends of this asylum of the oppressed Of
all nations" and dreams that they look
upon US as the model and great republic"
He can see no reason why this nation
with it's coast running thousands of miles
on the two great oceans Of the planct)
should have formidable navy Of iron clads,
and supposes "the great moral force of our
country is so universally recognized as to
render an appeal to arms by US, either in
protection of our citizens abroad or in re.
cognition of any just international right
quite improbable"
Equal rights Of citizenship" is a subject
which takes up much space in this labored
document, and in speaking Of the colored
race he says:
Theoretically we are in the enjoyment
of q government of the whole people; prac'
| tically we are almost as far from it as We
were in the ante belum days of the repub-
| lie. There are but few leading and indis.
putable facts which cover the whole state
ment of the case. In many of the South
ern States the colored population is in large
excess of the white The colored people
are republicans, as are also considerable
portion of the white people. The remaining
portion of the latter are democrats. In face
of this incontestible truth these States in
variably return democratic majorities. In
other States of the South the colored peo-
pie, although not majority, form a very
| considerable body of the population, and
! with the white republicans are numerically
in excess of the democrats, yet precisely the
same political result obtains-the demo-
cratic party invariably carrying the cleo
tions. 1t is not even thought advisable TO
allow an occasional or unimportant election
to be carried by tho republicans as blind
or as stroke fEesse. Careful and impair
tial investigation has shown these results to
follow the systematic exercise of physical
intimidation and violence, conjoined with
the most shameful devices ever practiced in
the name of free elections. So confirmed
has this result become that We are brought
face to face with the extraordinary political
fact that the democratic party of the South
relies almost entirely upon the methods
stated for its success in national elections.
The immense aggregation of interests en-
braced within, and the enormously greater
population of these other States of the I'm
ion ara suhiacted every four wears TO the
dangers of a wholly fraudulent show of MI.
mercial strength. Under this system mi
norties actually attempt to direct The course
of national affairs, and though up to this
time success has not attended their efforts
to elect president, yet success has been so
perilousy imminent as to encourage repe-
tition of the effort at each quadrennial cleo.
ton, and to subject the interests of an over
whelming majority of our people north and |
south, to the hazards of illegal subversion."
He thinks, therefore, "the negroes of the |