Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1865-1872, 1868-08-14

perse the carpet-bag State govern
menis allow the white people to re /.
orginize their own governments and
elect Senator'S and Representatives.
The House Of Representatives will con.
tain "a majority OF Democrats from the
North, aud they will admit the Represen-
,aiives elected by the white people OF the
South, aud with the co-operation of the
President IL will not be difficult to compel
the Senate to submit once more to the OBJ
legations of the Constitution. IL will not
be able to Withstand the public judgment,
if distinctly invoked aud clearly express
ed on this fundamental issne, aud il is
the sure way to avoid all future strife to
get this issue plainly to the country.
II repeat that this is the real and only
question which we should allow to control
us; Shall we submit TO the usnrpations by
which the Government has been over
thrown, or shall we exert ourselves for It's
full aud complete restoration? Ii il idle
to talk OF bonds. greenbacks, gold, the
public faith aud the public credit. What
can Democratic President do In regard
TO any ofiheso with a Congress In both
branches controlled by the carpet baggers
aud their allies2 lie will be powerIess to
stop tho supplies by which idle negroes
are organized Into political clubs, BY which
. an army Ia maintained 10 protect these
vagabonds In their ou,rages upon the bal.
lot
"Theso, and things like those, cat up
the revenue aud resources of the Govern.
ment and destroy Its credit, make the dill.
ference between gold aud groonbacks,
We must restore tho 0nances, aud to do
this we must have u Presideut who will
execute the will Of the people by tramp
ling into the dust tho usurpstions OF Con.
grers, known as the reconstruction acts.
| wish 10 stand before the convention upon
this issue, but IL IL ono which embraces
everything else that IL OF value In It's large
and comprehensive results. Ii is the Que
thing that includes all that Is worth u
contest. and without II there II nothing
that gives digni,y, honor or value to the
struggle
lie says that he wants to stand before
the Convention upon this proposition to
renew the rebellion. lie did go before
the Convention upon that proposition, and
he was nominated on the frat ballot, while
Horatio Seymour, | believe, was not nom
mated under some twenty-five or thirty
ballots. Here Is the direct proposition.
lie Is 10 be nominated, IL at all upon the
proposition to overturn those State Gov
ernments by military force; again TO bring
war upon u.s. You who want war, vote
for Frank Blair. but you who want peace
vote for Grant, for he said "let US have
peace" Loud applause No man now
need 10 bo deceived. II any man Is do.
ceived Il is because he intends TO be aud
desires 10 be; but if there is an honest
man who wants pence, who wants the
bleeding wounds Of the country bound up.
who wants us 10 return TO the paths of
pr. r.spcriiy and power, aud development In
every respect he must avoid voting for
that ticket. Frank Blair was put In nom
ination because OF that letter. lie was
put in nomination By robol officer from
Kentucky, a member OF that Convention.
General Preston. Ills nomination was
seconded bv q rebel officer from South
Carolina, Wade Hampton. iIc was nom.
mated by tho rebel element Of the South,
accepted by The rebel sympathizng clio
ment of the North aud hc nov stands as
the Democratic candidate for the Vice
Presidency, and that letter n tho DEM
oeratc platform II expressed fully and
directly what IL contained-in the regular
platform In more general way; and now
my friends let me consider for u few mo-
men,s tho character Of that convention
Oae thing Ii TO be observed. AID that Il
that the Southern men went into that con
yention and took possession Of II with
just the sams case and tho same assurance
that they did In former Democratic con-
vonilons, The Democracy In that con,
vention submitted TO thom with the same
facility that they had always done, aud
now ask my friends who were the Demo-
cratic delegates In that convention from
tho South, They wcro no, the men VIII,
! had been tho Union men during tho war
bu, they were the mon who had command
cd the rebel armies, and dllcd the rcbe
Congress, aud becp Senators aud Repre-.
sontatives; these were tho men who came
TO that convention aud represented The
Democratic party, and made tho nomina
tions.
Now, my friends, allow me 10 call YOU
attention worry briefly to what would b'
the inevitable consequence OF the sue
cess OF tho Democratic party In the ap-
proaching election. One Of the first con
sequences would bc the elevation of III,
rebel soldier to the same platform occu
pied by the Union soldier. Ia this Con
! yention you find tho rebel and tho North
crn Democrat standing on the same plat
form exactly; you hnd tho most inhuen
tial men Of that Convention to have beor
: rebel officers, and none was more inhaen
7 tiai than Gen. Forrest. Of Memphis, th,
butcher. who had colored soldiers ant
even children murdered Ia cold blood af
: tor they had surrendered; but yet thii
man was received into fellowship in th'
] Democratic Convention. and no voice wa
/, moro powerful thore than his If yo,
: bring this Democratic party into power
the rebel soldier must be ponsionod lik
tho Union soldier, his widow aud his or
b phan must DO provided for as We provid
I for the widow and the orphan of the Un
y ion soldier. They must be placed upo'
. the same level. for ask you IL the rebel
o Of the South get into power through III
D medium of tho Democratic party, vii
Q they consent TO tax themselves ia common
Y with the nation 20 pay pensions TO Uuio
: soldiers while theirs are unprovded for
\ Never. That Is against human natur,
aud tho first thing they will do whom tho
shall come into power by the election 0