Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1868-10-01
ARE THEY FoRGERIEs.

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The New York w orld says "Tb
Radical newspapers have forge
speeches and put themin the mouth
! of Southern Democrats by whor
. they were never uttered"
r. Is it a forgery that Frank I
Blair, the Democratic candidate 70
Vice President, wrote to Colonc
James 0. Broadhead, on the BOT
Of June ..,,
@There is but one way 10 tcstor
the Government and the Constitu
ton, md that IS for the Presiden
elect to declmethese acts Of Recon
struction null and void, compel th,
army to undo its uSurpations at tn,
Soutt, disperse the carpet bag Stat,
Governments, allow the white peo
pie to reorganize their own govern
ments, and elect Senators and Rep
rescntatives n .i' 1.|'" oAH
loIsitia forgery that Wade Hamp
/. tonHsaid at a Democratic ratification
meeting in New York:, A9a
4t'And / want you all to register
an oath that when they ('the white
| people of theSOuth without regart
to- the exceptions of the Recon
stpuction aetsf)do vote, that these
votes be counted !; and if there Is d
majority Of white votes, that you
will place Seymour and Blair IN the
White House in spite Of all the bay,
onets that shall be brought against
them 2" ea
Is tia forgery that Wade Hamp-
ton said at his reception in Charles
ton that lie proposed in the Com
mlttee on the Platform in the Dem
ocratic Convention to insert tile
words: "And we declare that the
Reconstruction acts are revolution,
ary, Unconstitutional and void p
and that he added: ..a' I' ".'
"When | proposed that, every
single member Of the Committee
and the warmest men in it were the
men OF the NorthAcame forward
and said they would carry it out to
the end ?" Ii # a'a z. '.,.
Is it a forgery that Mr. c. G.
Langdon, delegate to the Demo
cratic Convention, said in a pub.
lished letter before the Convention
that the reconstruction measures
arc unconstitutional, and of course
absolutely void, that this would be
the chief plank in the Democratic
platform; that the Supreme Court, |
probably at itsnext term, would SO
deeide and that he added:
"Then all We want is a President
whose views are accord With that
and who has the will and
the nerve to do his duty. 1t will
be his duty to enforce the decree of
the Court, if need be, at the point
Of the bayonet?' -
Is it forgery that John Forsyth
said, in the Mobile Register, speak
ing ofreconstruction:
"And here we may as well say
that the people Of the South do not
intend to submit to that permanent
rule, result as the Presidential elec
ton may?"
Is it 4 forgery that Raphael
Semmes said at Mobile:
II have come to declare that |
nave given in my allegiance to the
Did flag, provided we can restore
he old flag again to be the repre-
tentative Of the principles of the
Constitution which we will be able
o effect by the election Of Seymour
md Blair ?" '..
Tsit a forgery that Albert Pike
iaid: i' ''
"The South is our land the
North is foreign and hostile realm
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