Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-08-05

OMAHA, NEBRASKA, July Is, 1868.
General George w. Morgan, Chairman COM
mittee Nutionai Democratic Conuention:
GEEEnAL-I take the earliest opportunity
of replying to yoY letter, notifying ME OF my
nomination for Vice Pre:idcnt OF the United
States by the National Democratic Conven-
ton, recently held in the City Of New forF.
accept without hesitation the nomination
rendered in manner so gratifying, and give
YOU and the committee my thanks for the
very kind and complimentary language in
which YOU have conveyed to Inc the decision
of the Convention.
have carefully read the resolutions adopt
ed by the Convention, and most cordially con-
cur IN every principle and sentiment they a':-
nouncc.
Nv opinion upon all Of the questions which
discriminate the great eontending parties nave
been freely expressed on oil suitable occa'
siops. and do not deem it necessary at this
time to reiterate them.
The issues upon which the contest turns
are clear, and cannot be o5scured OR dlslort-
ed by the sophistries Of our adversaries. They
all resolve themselves into the-od and ever
renewing struggle of o few men to absorb the
political power of the natiou. This effort,
under every conceivable name. aud disguise,
has always characterized the opponents OF
the Democratic party, but at no time has the
attempt assumed shape 80 open and daring
as in this contest. The adversarles OF ire:
and constitutional government, in defiance OF
the express language of the constitution, haze
erected a military despotisn IN ten oi the
States of the Union, have taken from the
President the powers vested in him by the
supreme law, and have deprived the Supreme
Court of its Jurisdiction. The right of ,tria!
by Jury, aud the great writ of right, the ha
beas corpus-sbields of safety for every citi'
zen. and which have descended TO US from
the earliest traditions IF our ancestors, and
which our Revolutionary fathers sought to Sc
cure TO their posterity forever in the funda-
mental character Of our iberties-have been
.ruthlcssly tramped under foot by the frag-
ment Of Congress. Whole States arii CON-
muhities of people of our own race have been
attaintcd, convicted, condemned, ndsdepriv-
ed of their rights as citizens. without present
ment, or trial, or witnesses, but by congress
sional enactment of er post Jacto laws, and in
defiance of the constitutional prohibition de-
nync even to full and legal Congress the
authority to pass any bill OF attainder Or &c
post facto law. The same usurping authority
has substituted as electors in place OF the men
Of our own race, thus illegally attaIted aud
disf'.nchiscd, q host OF ignorant negroes,
who arc supported in idleness with the public
money, and combined together to strip the
white race Of their hirthright, through the
management of Freedmen's Bureaus and the
emissarics Of conspira.ors 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 barbarlsm su-
preme.
The military leader under whose prestige
this usurplug Congress has taken refuge since
the condemnation of their schemes oy the
free people Of the North in the ELECTIONS OF
the ,lnst; year, and whom they have selected
a, ;heir candidate to shield themselves from
the resul Of their own wickedness and crime,
has annourced his acceptance Of the nomina-
,iyn, and bis willingness to maintain their
usurpa' ions over eight millions OF white peo-
pie at the South, fixed to The earth with his
baYonets. Heexclaims: " Let us have peace"
{" Peace reigns in Warsaw" was the announce
ment which heralded the doom of the Liberties
of q nation. "Tbe Empire is peaee," cx-
claimed Bonaparte, when freedom and its de-
tenders expired under the sharp edge ot his
sword. Tie peace to which GTaptinvites us
is the peace Of despotiSm and death.
Those who seek to restore the constitution
by executing the will Of the people condemn
ing the Reconstruction acts, already pronounc.
IL, &c lag ND thl
will, am CO vinced, he still more empnati-
cally expressed by the election of the Demo-
cratic candidate as The President of the Unit
ed States are denounced as reVolutionists By
the parrisans of this vindlctive Congress. Ne.
gro suffrage, which tho popular vote of New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania Ohio,' Mich
igan, Connecticut and other States have con-
demned as expressly against the letter of the
constitution, must stand, because their sena.
tors and representatives have willed it. If
the people Shall again condemn these atroci-
Gus measures by the election of the Democrat
ic candidate for the President, they mustnot
be disturbed, although decided 10 be uncon
stitutional by the Supreme Court, and although
the President is sworn to maintain and sup
port the constitution. The will Of fraction
ofa Congress, reinforced with its partisan
cmssaries sent to the South and supported
there by the soldiery, must stand against the
will of the people and the decision Of the
Supreme Court, aud the solemn oath OF the
President to maintain and support the consti-
tuition.
1t is revolutionary to execute the will OF
the people 1t is revolutionary to execute the
judgment Of the Supreme Court! 1t is reyo-
lutlouary in the President to keep inviolate-
his oath to sustain the constitution This
false construction Of the vital principle OF our
government is the last resort of those who
would have their arbitrary reconstruction
8 way and supercedc our time-honored institu-
tions The nation will say the constitution
must be restored and the will of tho people
again prevail. The appeal to the peaceful
ballot to attain this end is not war, is not
revolution. They make war and revolution
who attempt to arrest this quiet mode CT put
ting aside military despotism and the usur-
pations of fragment of Congress, asserting
absolute power over that benign system of
regulated liberty left us by our fathera. This
must be allowed to take its course. This is
the only rogd to peace. 1t will come with
The election of the Democratic candidate, and
not with the election of that mailed warrior,
whose bayouets are now at the throat of
eight millions Ct people in the South, to com
pei them to support him as candidate for
the Presidency, and to submit to the domina-
ton of an alien race of semi-bsrbarous men.
No perversion of truth or andacity of mis-
representation cen exceed that which halls
this candidate in arms as an angel of peace.
am, very respectfully,
Your most obedient servant,
FBANK P. BLAIR.
nS~ Leavenworth held an immense meet
ing for Seymour and Blair Saturday night