The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1868-09-17
Established 1925.

MIN upon his lclter; hdt teller rs n
declaration Of w4r if he is eiectcd,
and Kentucky will be expected TO
furnish one hundred thousand
men"
"And she can luEnish them, TOO,
without II draft, replied the first
speaker.
One part Of their programme is
thus laid down by one man who
boasted OF his love for the Cousii.
tuition, and deelaked that he only
wanted to ''ge. back upon IL" 2,
"What course do yCu think IL
best to pursue I" get back upon
the Constitution | asked.
"There is but one couDse, sir.
and that Is pointed ont by General
Blairin his letter TO Mr.. Brodhead.
These carpet bog STATE govern.
ments have been forced upon the
Southern people by u revolution
ary Congress, without shadow 0i
law, which leaves their acts vo'd
and they should be set aside BY
force If they won't voluntarily
abdicatc and the old States as they
existed in 1869, started into opera
ton again" l1-
"But, then. only portion of the
wrong YOU charge upon Nr. Lin.
coin and Congress will be undono
Low about the rest 7" / asked.
"Treat every wrong in the same
way. Slavery is net abolished by
any law lit was done by force
Remove the force ard tho right re-
wives, and every man owns aga'n
the negroes that. were taken from
him, and has but TO take them into
his possession. Mr Lincoln had
the right, under the Constitution,
to send an army TO suppress the
revolution, but that army could
do nothing beyond enforcing gen.
cral laws of tie UGited States, and
seeing that resistance was offer.
cd 10 their execution. The States
remained intact, and every act
done by Mr. Lincoln with his army,
beyond the dispersion Of the ro-
volutionary army, was unconstitu
tioual and void; and was in fact
usurpation aud a crime, and every
soldier in his army was IL criminal
"a traitor, and deserved punish
ment with death. But the wrong
was done, and VIC want remedy,
and we only find it in nndoing
every thing that has been done by
the Federal Government since 1861
Slavery in Kentucky was abolished
by such scoundrels a. Rousseau and
Bramlette, and not by the people
of the State. If we succeed in the
contest, We will undo their work,
too"
"But suppose the people Of the
North should object to such II
course, then what ?"
ave would be carrying out the
supreme law of the land, and il
they attempted resistance it would
be treason, and we would soon take
that cut OF them. We would then
have the army and navy. Grent
could be put under arrest if he re.
fused to obey, 10 the letter, the
Presidents orders, and ifthe other
Federal Generals refused TO obey
orders, their places could be sup
piled with better men from the
South, who would obey orders"
"And have you no fears that the
: Senate will stand in the way in that
work ?"
What can the Senate do? ii
the negro governments are dis
persed, il will vacate the seats ol
the Senators from those States, aud
when we have started the old
State governments they can send
Senator'S there, and We will have Il
majority"
But suppose the Senate won'l
admit them 10 seats p queried
"The President can settle that
lie can call together the newly
elected Senators, and those from
) the North who take ii constitution
al view of the question, and they
; being majority of the whole, car
let the Radicals in or not as they
/ please"
! This idea seems TO be tho pre-
valling one among the Democrat
. in every place | have visited il
? tais State. None of them seem t
: to care anything about the platform
f of principles adopted at New York
they only see Frank Blair's letter
and thcy all seem determined Il
+, +, urge its practical adoption.
The letter of the correspondent
fills three columns 10 the CONNER
cial, and is made up almost entire
9 ly of conversations similar TO th'
d above, held indiscriminately will
9 the most intelligent persons he met
g 1t shows what n terrible state
j, affairs exists just across the rive
90 brought about by tho simple
Il nomination Of Seymour and Blair
V From these and hundreds Ct othe
n indications reaching us daily, le
~ ca IN and candid mon endoavor tt
form their conclusions rs 10 wha
& would be tho result OF the eLectlo
u of copperhead candidates.
n Nasty not Appreciated.