Year: 1872

piete emancipation OF the blacks, l now
insist on full enfranchisemcnt of all my
white countrymen. Let none say that the
ban has just been removed from all but
a few hundred elderly gentlemen, to whom
eligibility to Office eau be of little conse-
quence. My view contemplates not the
few hundreds prescribed, but the millions
who are desiring tho right to be ruled aud
represented by men Of their unfettered
choice.


have profound regard for the people
of that New England wherein l was born,
in whose common schools l was brought
up. l RANK no other people above them
in intelligence; but while they do many
things we'll, and some admirably, there is
one thing which l am sure they cannot
wisely and safely undertake, and that is
tho selection for States remote from and
unlike their own of the persons by whom
those State shall be represented in Con-
gress. If they could do this to good pur-
pose, the Republican institutions were
unfit, and aristocracy would be the only
true political system. Yet what have we
recently witnessed? Zebulon B. Vance,
the unquestioned choice of a large MAORI
ty of the Legislature of North Carolina,
backed by majority of the people who
voted at its election, refused seat in the
Federal Senate to which he was fairly
chosen, and the Legislature thus con.
strained to choose another in his stead or
leave the State unrepresented for years.
The vote of New Eng land thus deprived
North Carolina of the Senator of her
choice, and compelled her to send another
in his stead; another, who, in our late
contest, was, like Vance, rebel, and a
fighting rebel. but who had not served in
Congress before the war as Vance had.
though the latter had remained as faithful
to the Union until after his term.


l protest against the disfranchisemcnt
of State, presumptuously y of number of
States, on grounds so narrow and technical
as this. The fact that the same Senate
which refused Vance his seat proceeded to
remove his disabilities after that seat had
been filled by another, only serves to place
in stronger light the indigni,y to North
Carolina, and the arbitrary, capricious ty-
ranpy which dictated it.


l thank you that my name is to be con-
spicuously associated with yours in a
determined effort to render amnesty COM
plete aud universal, in spirit as well as in
letter. Even defeat in such cause would
leave no sting, while victory would rank
with those victories which no blood red.
dens, and which evoke no tears but those
of gratitude and joy. Gentlemen, your
platform, which is also mine, assures me
that Democracy is not henceforth to stand
for one thing and Republicanism another; /;
but that these terms arc to mean in poll
tics, as they always have meant in the die.
tionary, substantially one aud the same
thing-namely, equal rights to all, regard
less of creed or cline or color. l hail this
as genuine New Departure, from outworn
feuds and meaningless contentious. in the
direction of progress and reform. Whether
l shall be found worthy to bear the stand
ard of the great movement which the
American people have inaugurated, is to
be determined, not by words, but by
deeds. It's grand array moves on to
achieve for our country her glorious, ben
cficent destiny.


Ircmain, gentlemen, yours,


HORACE GREELEY.