The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-08-05
An0ersolr ynteQlgelrter.
The Democratic Nominations.
GEN. FRANK BLAIR's LETTER ACCEPTING THE
NOMINATION FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
OMAHA, NEBRASKA, July 13, 1868.

OMAHA, NEBRASKA, July IL, lS0S.
Gen. Geo. ". Morgan, Chairman Commit
Zee National Democratic Conoentaon
GENERAL: 1 take the earliest opportu
niev of replying to your letter, notifying
me @ of NV nomination for Vice President
of the United States by the Nationa
Democratic Convention, recently held II
the city of New York.
Z accept without hesitation the nomi
nation rendered in manner so gratifying
and give you and the COMMITTEES my
thanks for the very kind and compliment
tary language in which you have con-
veyed to me the decision of the Conven-
tion.
l. have carefully read the resolutions
adopted BY the Convention, and most
cordially concur in every principle ana
sentiment they announce
My opinion upon all OF the questions
. which discriminate the great contending
parties have been freely expressed on oil
suitable occasions, and do not deem it
necessary at this time to reiterate them.
Fhe issues upon which the contest
turns are clear, and cannot bo obscured
or distorted by the sophistries of our
adversaries. They all resolve themselves
into the old and ever-renewing struggle
of a few men to absorb the political pow
or of the nation. This effort, under
every conceivable name and 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 adverse
ries of free and constitutional govern.
ment, in defiance of the express language
of the Constitution, have erected mill
tary dospotism in ten of the States of the
Union, have taken from the President the
powers vested in him by the supreme
law, and havo deprived the Supreme
Court of its jurisdiction. The right of
trial by jury, and the great writ of right.
the habeas corpus-shields of safety of
every citizen, and which have descended
to us from the earliest traditions of our
ancestors, and which our Revolutionary
fathers sought to secure to their posterityi
forever in the fundamental charter of our
iberties-have been ruthlessly trampled
under foot by the fragment of a Congress
Whole States and communities of people;
of our r,own race have been attainted,
convicted, condemned, and deprived Of
their rights as citizens, without present
ment, or trial, OF witnesses, but by Con-
gressional enactment of er post facto
laws, and in defiance of the constitutional
prohibition denying oven to a full and
legal Congress the authority to pass any
bill OF attainder OF er post fucto law. The
same usurping authority has substituted
as electors in place of the men of our
own race, thus illegally attainted and dis
franchised, a host of 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 Freedmen's
Bureaus and the emissaries Of conspira-
tors in other States and, to complete
the oppression, the military power of the
nation has been placed at their disposal,
in order TO mako this barbarsm supreme.
The military leader under whose pres
tige this usurping Congress has taken
refuge since the condemnation of their
schemes by the free people Of the North
in the elections of tho last year, and
whom they have selected rs their candi-
date to shield themselves from the result
of their own wickedness and crime, has
announced his acceptance of the nomina-
ton, and his willingness to maintain
their usurpations over eight millions of
white people at tho South, fixed to the
earth with his bayonets. Ho exclaims :
"Let us have peace" peace reigns in
Warsaw was tho announcement which
heralded the doom of tho liberties cf q
nation. 'The Empire is peace" ex-
claimed Bonaparte, when freedom and its
defenders expired under the sharp edge
Of his sword. The peace 10 which Grant
;nvites us is the peace Of dospotism and
death.
Those who seek to restore tho Consti.
tuition by executing tho will Of the peo-
pie condemning tho reconstruction acts,
already pronounced in the elections of
last year, and which will, l am convinced,
be still more emphatically expressed by
the election Of tho Democratic candidate
as the President Of tho United States,
are denounced as revolutionists by the
partisans of this vindiotive Congress.
Nogro suffrage, which the popular vote
of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Michigan, Connecticut, and other
States have condemned as expressly
against the letter of the Constitution,
must stand, because their Senators and
Representatives have willed it. If the
people shall again condemn these afro.
aious measures by the election of the
Democratic candidate Tor President, they
must not be disturbed, although decided
to be unconstitutional by the Supreme
Court, and although the President is
sworn to maintain and support the Con.
stitution. The will of fraction of q
Cnnnress. reinforced with its partisan