The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-08-21
VOL. 64.--WH0LE No. 5,456.


ignorant negroes who are supported in
idleness with the public money, and
combined together to strip the white
race of their birthright through the
management of Freedman's Bureaus
and emissarieS of conspirators in other
States, and to complete the oppression,
the military power of the nation has
been placed at their disposal in order
to make this barbarism supreme. The
military leader under whose prestige
this usurping Congress has taken ref
uge since the condemnation of their
schemes by the free people of the North
in the elections Of the last year, and
whom they have selected as their cam
didate to shield themselves of the re-
suit of their own wickedness and
crime, has announced his acceptance
of the nomination, and his willingness
to maintain their usurpations over
eight millions of whites at the South
fixed to the earth with his bayonets.
He exclaims LET US have peace"
''Peace reigns in Warsaw" was the
announcement which heralded the
doom of the liberties of nation. ''1'he
empire is peace" exclaimed Bonaparte
when freedom and its defenders ex-
pired under the sharp edge of the
sword. The peace to which Grant in
vites US is the peace of despotism and
death. Those who seek to restore the
constitution by executing the will of
the people, cOndemning the Recon.
structi0n acts already pronounced in
elections of last year, and which will
l am convinced, be still more emphati-
cally expressed by the election of the
Democratic candidate as President of
the United States, are denounced as
revolutionists by the partisans of this
vindictive Congress. Negro suffrage
(which the popular vote of New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Michigan, Connecticut and other States
has expressed against the letter of the
constitution must stand because their
Senators and Representatives have
Willed it. If the people shall again
condemn these atrOcious measures by
the election of Democratic candidate
for President, they must not be dis
turbed. Although decided to be un-
constitutional by the Supreme Court,
and although the President is sworn
to maintain and support the constitu-
ton, the will of a fraction of a Con-
gress, reinforced with its partisan
emissaries sent to the South and sup
ported there by the soldiery, must
stand against the will of the people
and the solemn oath of the President
to maintain and support the Constitu-
ton. 1t is revolutionary to execute
the judgment of the Supreme Court;
it is revolutionary in the President to
keep iaviolate his oath to sustain the
Constitution. This false construction
of the vital principle of government is
the last resort of those who have their
arbitrary reconstruction sway and su-
| persede our time-hOnOred institutions.
The nation will say the Constitution
must be restored and the will Of the
people again prevail. The appeal to
| the peaceful ballot to attain this is not
war, is not revolution. They make
war and revolution who attempt to
arrest this quiet mode of putting aside
military desp0tism and the usurpations
of a fragment of a Congress, asserting
absolute power over that benign system
OF regulated liberty left us by our faith
ers. This must be allowed to take its
course. This is the only road to peace.
1t will come with the election of the
Democratic candidate, and not with
the election of the mailed warrior
whose bayonets are now in the throats
of eight millions of people in the South
to compel them TO support him as
candidate for the Presidency, and to
submit to the domination of an alien
race of semi-barbarous men. No per-
version of truth or audacity of misrep-
resentation can exceed that which
halls this candidate in arms as an an
gel of peace.
am, very respectfully, your most
obedient servant,
FRANK p. BLAIR.