The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-21

restore peace and good order to the South,
rule to both. The great prize is worth your
mos strenuous ndeavor.
Our ranks are unproken. our courage is un-
abaU d. Once more to the breach, and this time
victory.
For the Dem ocratic National Committee.
AUGUST BELMONT, Chairman.
APPEAL OF SAMUEL ]. TILDEN.
New YORK. Oct. 20. lS8S-To the Democracy
Of the State of New York:-Tne results OF the
| October elections demonstrate the fact that
| large acc essions 10 the Democratic party nave
been made since the last Congressional election,
| In 1865.
In Indiana we have reduced the Republican
majority from 1853 to doubtful claim OF 800
| msjority. We have done this on the largest
| aggregate vote ever given in that State, and in
| what Schuyler Cofax confesses to be "the Sc.
verest political contest ever fought in indiana"
| Even by the showing of the Republicans q fur.
| ther change OF one vote in 750-of one-eighth OF
| one per cent-would have completed a political
| revolution. We have also gained one member
In Pennsylvania we have reduced the Re-
| publican majority in 1866 about one-half A
further change of one vote in lao would have
| given us a complee victory in that great Com.
vast patronage and means OF corruption, syste-
matte frauds, skilfully orgenized by TIE best
rs In that arr ana Ia spite OF me HnJns, Just
| German birth by party which claims the
| suffrage for the negro as a natural and sacred
| right, and practically gives him supremacy
| over the white man in a large portion of the
Republic. We have also gained several mem
In Ohio, In the Congressional election just
| held, we have reduced the Republican maio'
rity more than one. half-from 40 900 TO 10, 600
| from the Congressional election of 1865, and
have gained three members OF Congress.
Never has the tndomitable spirit aud heroic
energy OF the Democratic party been more
nobly manifested.
You have driven in the Republicans to their
haggage-wagons You have almost routed
Fellow-Democrats! Is this moment for
ment in which even TO be counting the chances
of the struggle to which we are advancing? We
know that we Will deserve victory. We Will
Fellow. citizens, 1t is a false calumny that we
desire TO over throw the perniclous systems of
our adversaries-their government, by force or
by fraud, in the Southern States, their supre.
macy of the negro over the white cltizen-by
We resist by peaceful and lawful measures the
practical revolution which the Republicans are
gradually accomplishing. We and our candi-
dates are pledged to restore and not to destroy
| the Republic
Fellow Democrats of New York, we call on
| standard bearer In the national contest, who
| would gladly have laid down the honor of q
! victory already achieved, advances to the fore
front Of the battle. We appeal to the 100000
| Democrats OF New York-one and ALTO gather
GROUND u an nim our re example s VIII animate 70 new
| half millions of Democrats, under our chosen
| leaders. with our organizations unbroken, with
our masses compact. with our old and honored
| flag floating proudly over us, will join in our
| final and, we trust, victorious struggle for con-
stitutional government and civil liberty
SAMUEL j. TILDEN
Chairman Of the State Committee.
VIM. CASSIDY, Secretary.
BLAIR's EXPLANATORY LETTER.
The following letter has just made It's appear.
nee In the Laiay ette Und.) Courier:
FORT SANDERS, Wyoming Territory, August
"A, 1S6S.-To Mr. James Howes. Lafayette, Ind
Dear Sill have received your letter in which
You ask me II l would endeavor TO have the
tested by the Supreme Court before proceeding
TO treat them as null and void. In answer
as 5 a
s.itutional, null, and void by the Supreme
Of Miiligan % and BoWles' Bowie Which Went up @ from rom
the State OF Indiana on writ of habeas corpus.
In that case 1t was decided, in the plain lam
| guaReof the Consttl ution, that the Government
could not establish martial law in time of peace
or try citizen by military commission or
called, stand on martial law and nothing else.
1t is the essence of these acts. They were pre-.
peace, in defiance of the unanimous decision of
the Supreme Court, to which l have referred.
and they and all that has been done under them
are null and void.
A case was made under these acts-the case
of McArdle. of Mississippi-and brought before
the Court was ready to declare these acts un-
constitutional, when Congress passed another
act to deprive the Supreme Court of its juris.
diction. and openly attempted to intimidate
the Judges by threats of remodelling the Court.
Cnmmings e Of Missoar-decided S that the dis 9.
francnisement Of the white people of the
Southern States by an act OF Congress was a
which were forbidden in express terms by the
Constitution. Even the radicals admit, in their
the right to decide who shall be entitled to suf-
frsge within the States; and yet Congress has
assumed to take the right from the white people
and give 1t to the negroes within the Southern
States.
The Reconstruction acts violate the Constitu.
tion in all these particulars, and 1t has been
already SO decided by the Supreme Court. The
Constitution says the military shall always be
subordinate to the civil authority, but these
acts have superseded all civil authority, and
you want decision OF the Supreme Court to
show that this is unconstitutional? Are those
military authority revolutionists? Are those
who demand the restoration of tho trial by
jury, which has been suppressed In the South
Are those who claim the benefit of the great
writ ofright, the habeas corpus, which is denied
TO eight millions of our people by the Infamous
Reconstruction acts. to be branded as revolu.
tionists?
Shall we be called revolutionists because we
proclaim, IN the very language OF the Constitu-
ton, that Congress shall pass no bill Of attain
der or eG post Jdcto law or shall we be thus
branded for claiming what the Constitution
comedies in express words-that the States
shall regulate suffrage for themselves? Do we
want more decisions OF the Supreme Court on
ns rsa Is tns sns
fundamental principles of our Government
and converted 1t into q mean and malignant
oliearchy, sure to relapse into military des
TO restore the Government and the great
guarantees Of freedom contained in the Consti
tuition and inherited from our ancestors Ii
revolution" To execute the will of the people
whom the 1ragmentary Rump Congress has pu
at defiance, Is "revolntlon;" 10 carry ont IN,
This revolution is at hand. The peoples will
the Judgment of the court of the highest juris
diciion, will be enforced against usurpinl
/ am. most respectfully, your obedient servant
FRANK p BLAIR.