The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-13 00:00:00

FRANK P. BLAIR'S ACCEPTANCE.

General George Morgan, chairman of the com-
mittee of the National Democratic Convention :

" General--I take the earliest opportunity of
•eplying to your letter, notifying me of my norni-

nation for Vice-President of the United States, by
the National Democratic Convention, recently held
in the city of New York. I accept without hesita-
tion the nomination tendered in a manner so gratify-
ing, and give you and the committee my thanks or
the very kind and complimentary language in which
you have conveyed to me the decision of the Conven-
tion. I have carefully read the resolutions adopted by
the Convention, and most cordially con cur in every
principle and sentiment they announce. My opi-
nions upon all the great questions, which discrimi-
nate the great contending parties, have been freely
expressed on all suitable occasions, and I do not
deem it necessary at this time to reiterate them.
Uhe issues upon which the contest turns are clear,
and cannot be obscured or distorted by the sophis-
tries of our adversaries. They all resolve themselves
into the old and ever-recurring struggle of a few men
to absarb the political power of the nation. This
effort, under every conceivable disguise, has always
characterised the opponents of the Democratic
party ; but at no time has the attempt assumed
a shape so open and daring as in this contest.
The adversaries of free and constitutional Govern-
ment, in defiance of the express language of the
Constitution, have erected a military despotism in
ten of the States of the Union, have taken from the
President the power vested in him by the supreme
law, and have deprived the Supreme Court of its
jurisdiction. The right of trial by jury and the
great writ of right, the habeas corpus, shields of
safety for every citizen, and which have descended
to us from the earliest tradition of our ancestors,
and which our revolutionary fathers struggled to
secure to their posterity for ever in the fundamental
charter of our liberties, have been ruthlessly
trampled under foot by the fragment of a Congress.
Whole States and communities of the people of
our race have been attainted, convicted, condemned,
and deprived of their rights as citizens, without
presentment or trial, or witnesses, but by the Con-
gressional enactment of ex post facto laws, and in
defiance of the constitutional prohibition, denying
even to a. full and loyal Congress the authority to
pass any bill of attainder or ex post facto laws. The
same usurping authority has substituted as electors
—in place of the men of our own race, thus illegally
attainted and disfranchised—a host of ignorant ne-
groes, who are supported in idleness with the pub-
lic money, and combined together to strip the white
race of their birthright through the management of
the freedmen's bureaus, and the emissaries of
conspirators in other States ; and to com-
plete the oppression, the military power of
the nation has been placed at their dispo-
sal, in order to make this barbarism supreme.
The military leader under whose prestige this
usurping Congress has taken refuge since the con-
demnation of their schemes by the free people of
the North, in the elections of the last year, and

whom they have selected as their candidate to shield

themselves from the result of their own wickeduesi
and crime, has announced his acceptance of the
nomination, and his willingness to maintain their
usurpations over eight millions of white people at
the South, fixed to the earth with his bayonets.
lie exclaims, ' Let us have peace.' Peace reigns
in Warsaw' was the announcement which heralded
the doom of the liberties of a nation. 'The empire is
peace,' exclaimed Bonaparte, when freedom and its
defenders expired under the sharp edge of his sword.
['he peace to which Grant invites us is the peace of
despotism and death. Those who seek to restore
the Constitution by executing the will of the people,
condemning the Reconstruction Acts, already pro-
nounced in the elections of last year, and which
will, I am convinced, be still more emphatically ex-
pressed by the election of the Democratic candidate
AS President of the United States, are denounced as
revolutionists by the partizans of this vindictive
Congress. Negro suffrage, which the popular vote

of New York,—New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Nlichigan, Connecticut and other States has con-

lenined as expressly against the letter of the Con-

3 titution, must stand, because their Senators and
R.,?presentatives have willed it. If the people
shall again condemn these atrocious in,,asures by

the election of the Democratic candidate for Pre-
sident, they must not be disturbed, although they
have been decided to be unconstitutional by the
Supreme Court, and although the President has
sworn to maintain and support the Constitution.
The will of a fraction of a Congress, reinforced with
its partisan emissaries, sent to the South and sup-
ported there by the soldiery, must stand against the
will of the people and the decision of the Supreme
Court, and the solemn oath of the President
to maintain and support the Constitution. It
is revolutionary to execute the will of the
people. It is revolutionary to execute the judg-
ment of the Supreme Court. It is revolutionary
in the President to keep inviolate his oath to sus-
tain the Constitution. This false construction of
the vital principle of our Government is the last
resort of those who would have their arbitrary re-
construction sway and supersede our time-honoured
institutions. The nation will say the Constitution
must be restored, and the will of the people again
prevail. The appeal to the peaceful ballot to
attain this end is not war, is not revolution. They
make war and revolution who attempt to arrest
this quiet mode of putting aside military despotism
and the usurpations of a fragment of a Congress,
asserting absolute power over that benign system
of regulated liberty left us by our fathers. This
must be allowed to take its course. This is the only
road to peace. It will come with the election of
the Democratic candidates, and not with the elec-
tion of that mailed warrior, whose bayonets are
now at the throats of eight millions of people la
the South, to compel them to support biui as a
candidate for the presidency, and to submit to the
domination of an alien race of semi-barbarous men•
No perversion of truth or audacity or misrepresen-
tation can exceed tLat which hails this candidate in
arms as an angel of peace.—l am, very re,spectfullif
your most obedient servant,
FRANK P. BLAIR.

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Births.
CAMDEN—On the 11th inst., at Bayham Abbey, the 11,3,ri;
chioness Camden, of a son, who only survived his bit"
a few hours.
HALL On the llth inst., at Sheerness Dockyard, the scfif:
of Captain-Superintendent W. King Hall, C. c).

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Sop)f--Onthe 9th inst., at Southsea, the wife of Captain

J. C. Soady, R.N., of t son.
Marriages.
CITAPMAN-ASTLEY- 011 the 11th inst., at St. 14- II
Knightsbridge, Ilillyar David, third son of
Chapman, Esq., of Tunbridge-Wells, to Ethel Greorge";,,
Mary, youngest daughter of Sir Francis D. Mll
Bart., of Everleigh, Wilts. Aral,
FAWCETT—WOOD—On the 12th inst , at the Cathe"." to
Ripon, Capt. Rowland Hill Fawcett,: 33d Regimenijo
Rose, only daughter. of F. 11. Wood, Esq., of 13°

DetLths.
Cum)Es—On the 21st July, at Buchan, Aberdoullsijr°l
Alexander Cruden, of London, aged 54. ore,
Lowt —On the 11th inst., at Hoddesdon, Hugger I,°-
aged 85.
ROBERTS—On the 12th inst., at Devonshire Villa, Strit9r;
herd's-bush, W.,.,
John Roberts, Esq Retired List, '
office, aged 78. 1 0
TICKNER—On the 11th hist , at Barton Lodge, Goda.roll3
Mr. James Ticknor, aged. 82. ~n,j(l,
VBRSON—On the 10th inst , at Coombe Banks, 'jot"- rt
Cecilia Louisa Emily, infant• daughter of Capt. garcou
Vernon, R.N.
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