Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-07-31
plair,s Revoiutlon.

OlugtOuaFy leb1er 1ANorlug tLo ONe1sAIOW
Of the. new Southern state governments
by Executive usurpation and violence
gave him bhe Democratic nomination
for the vice Presidency. Nor is there
any doubt or lack of evidence, that this
maladroit and reckless document, thus
by the New York Conven-
tion, has done more to reinvigorate the
beaten rebellion, to infuse boldness,
obstinacy and hate into the
or secession wing of Deinoe-
raey. and 70 fan the smouldering en- !
bers. Of discontent into the flame of
open revolt, than any other single
event since the usr closed. To the
Southern mind, intent upon the sub
stance and not the name of revolution,
the platform, designated as such, is
mere milk and water, an artful de-
Iusion Of glittering generalities to be
construed TO suit tbs. occasion, aud the
Blair manifesto, so signally. endorsed
by the convention is accepted as the
real platform Of the party and the true
exposition of Democratic pr inciples and
policy. What the platform conc eals
the letter reveals. The revolutionary
pnrpose which Turks under the speciOus
phrases of the one is laid bare by the
audacious ayowals OF the other. What
ever the platform signifies the Blair
letter means business. It is the sig
nal Of assault upon the loyal govern
ments erected by Congress, and now
that the secesh have something to make
war upon they go at it with zeal and
enthusiasm scarcely surpassed in the
incipiepcy of secession. To-day Fran
els p. Blair leads revolt which, if It
dares will not scruple to use force to
accomplish its purposes.
The utter overthrow of Congressional
reconstruction says Blair, IT consider the
real and only issue in this contest, . and
as ifrepetition were necessary to give
this idea SUFFICIENT prominence he says
in another place st repeat that this
is the real and only question which We
should allow to control rs.
z Is idle to taEk ef bonds, greea6aokS, gold he
ptl5lic faith and public credit -
We must restore the constitution be-
fore we can restore the finances and
to do this we must have a President
who viii execute the win of the people
5sf trans5Iigtg into ne zsest ne ltstrpotios Of
Congress, k7lol01a az tie reconstruction acts. Z
t0tsh to stand before the Convention aspon this
issae, but It is one which embraces
everything else that is of value in its
large and comprehensive results. 1t is
the one thing that includes all that is
worth a contest, and without it there is
nothing that gives dignity OF value to
the struggle.' sal s
Such was thelahguage of General Blair
to the New York Convention and sneh
the conditions upon which it made him
its nominee, We now know what the
Democracy mean, to accomplish when
they get into power. They mean to ov-
erthroW every vestige of the great fab
ric which the people have commission
ed Congress to erect. Just at the dawn
Of peace they mean 10 throw the eoun-
try back into anarchy.
By confession ofsAndreW Johnson
the rebellion, waged ''in the most vio-
lent form, swept away in its revolu-
tionary PROCESS "al1 civil government,
in the insurgent. States, BY the Con-
stitution tArt. 4, Sec. 4 ,lit is made the
duty Of the United States to restore q
republican form Of government in each
State 50 deprived. By the highest Judi
eial authority, (the Supl 3ne Court,
Luther vs. Borden, z Howard } it has
been determined that Congress mot the
Executivel rightful1y decides what
government is established in q State
and whether it is of the constitutional
form. BY the same authority it has
been declared that this decision of the
Legislature els binding upon every
other department of the governments,
and could not beIquestioned( (eVen3 in a
judicial tribunal" !" BY the constitution
thus explicitly interpreted by the iu-
dietary Il Is made the right and duty of
Congress to reconstruct. BY over
Whelming msjorities the people have
again and again rebuked Executive
usurpation and determined that Con-
gress shall reconstruct. In accordance
with that voice Congress has recon
structed civil governments where the
rebellion destroyed them. These gov
ernments Blair says shall be torn down.
This work is usurpation. It shall be
oYerthrown.
And how does he propose to over
throw it ? ''T5Here Is but one vdg,n - he
says, land that is for the President
elect to declare these acts null and void,
compel the army to undo its usurpa-
tfons at the South dlsperse the cdrpet-6a
State goVegHmeats, allow the white peo-
pie to reorganize their own govern
ments and elect Senators and represen-
tatives.n That is he will have hePres-
ident sit in judgment on certain Iegisla-
tive acts and after thus usurping judicial
authority assume the power ofa dictator
and "coDepeI the d7nsy'' to undo the work
of Congressi He will tear down with the
bayonet the loyal and legal govern
ments erected in ten States Of the Un-
ion, dlsperse their Legislatures by vio-
lsnee, and then say to the white rebel
omake governments to suit
This is revolution. It is
It is war. ss.
And when the anarchists and des-
truetives have completed their work,
reorganized 'their own g5vernments''
and elected Senators and Representa-
tives of their own liking what then p
Says Blair, 1.-THE House of Representa-
tives viii contain majority of Demo- |
Gratis from 9se North and tEey viii adj
init the Representative elected by the
l6Riee people Of tie SoSsEB, and with the |
Of the President it viii not /