The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1868-09-24
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/ Mr. Robert Toombs in his lateGeOrgia
speech, argued that all the action of the
Government in reference to the South for
! the last three years was void and OF no
effect. ss os aba 5=crsal 5,.-.
| The st. Louis Times declares ,a.1a
"If Mr.. Blair become President, ard
swear 70 oLey tiIo Constitution, and faH 10
overthrow the oligarchy established by
Brownlow in Tennessee, Blair would be
| perjured." .aa Hk
There is but one way to restore the
| Government and the Constitution, and
that is for the President to declare these
| reconstruction acts null and void, COM
pei the army to undo its usurpations at
the South, disperse the carpet-bag State
governments, allow the white people to re-
organize their own governments, and elect
| Senators and Representatives. ."-BLair'S
| Letter. -...- re. at.E
'eWhat the Confederacy fought for would
be won by the election OF Seymour and
Blair" Governor Vance. O.,
A. H. Stephens said, when the Confed-
eracy was organized, that it was to estab-
| lish a government whose cornerstone was
slavery. That is what the Confederacy
| fought for, and it is what Vance says they
will gain by the election of Seymour and
Blair.
In his last veto message, Andrew john
son says:
"All the State governments organized
in those States under acts of Congress,
and under military control, are illegitimate
and of no validity whatever and the votes
cast in those States for President and Vice
President, in pursuance of acts passed
| H. a., e nho
dience to the so-called reconstruction acts
of Congress, cannot be legally received
and counted while the only votes in
those States that can be legally cast and
counted will be those cast in pursuance of
the laws in force in the several States
prior to the legislation by Congress upon
! the subject of reconstruction"
Will Mr.. johnson, as General Blair
suggests, use the army to abolish the reor-
ganized States He has by solemn proc
lamation declared that the governments
, found in the rebel States when the war
closed were usurPotions and void, and he
abolished them by military edict He
e now declares that all the governments or
3 ganized under acts of Congress are iIle-
gitimate and of no validity. What then
Only this, that the governments organized
by the military without authority of law
are legal and must be counted, while gov
ernments organized under military rule,
and under authority of law, are of no va
lidity, and votes cast under them must not
be counted.
So that, in the mind of Mr. johnson,
General Blair, and the Democratic party,
it is the law enacted in pursuance of the
Constitution which vitiates the Govern
ment and the absence of law which vail
dates them.
This is precisely the position assumed
in the Democratic platform, only the Con-
vention was too cowardly to state it as
clearly as have Mr. johnson, Gen Blair,
and Governor Vance.
The ex-COnfederate Gen A. R. Lawton
said in a speech at Savannah, Ga.
"NoW, for the first time, we have plat
form of principles and leaders around
whom we could rally. 1t was the noblest,
best, boldest declaration of principles ever
laid down in the United States, and the
demonstration here tonight shows it was
In unison with the feelings of the people
There was nothing that the South wanted
that was not there The military despo-
tism which has held us in thraldom was
there set in its proper light For the first
time, we have platform we can adhere to.
We have work to do which can be ac-
complished. We have leaders to represent
those principles who will carry us out of
the Slough of Despond.' Peace has it's
| victories as well as war those great prin-
ciples for which we fought, and which we
feared were lost, may yet be achieved"
The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, bitter
anti-reconstruction journal, quotes Sey-
mours speech delivered on his election as
/ permanent President of the New York
! Convention, and Blair's infamous letter,
and says:
"The sentiments expressed by both can
didates are consonant with the views and
wishes of the Southern people, who only
seek for that measure of justice which the
Constitution and laws guaranty to every
State and citizen. General Blair has only
one way in which these outrages on the
| Constitution can be checked and remedied
and the Government restored. 1t is this !:
| The President shall declare the recon
struction acts null and void, compel the
army to undo its usurpations at the South,
disperse the carpet-bag State governments,
allow the white people to reorganize their
own governments, and elect Senators and
Representatives
The Mobile Tribune asserts
''The great Democratic party will rise
in its might and majesty, and pulverize
and purge the Congress, just as Cromwell
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