American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1868-08-01

which, by paying the public debt ii
legal tender notes, will lift from th'
shoulders of labor the burthen.
which oppress it, and, by tighten
ling the measure of taxation, will
secure it the just rewards of a cheer
full and contented industry. Ap
plause.l
The Nominees,
And the assertion of these princi
ciples was, also, by unanimous
vote, confided to one who is worthy
of the trust, by his age and expert
ence and intellect and cultivation
by his honesty, his patriotism, and
his unsullied reputation. BY the pos
session of every virtue which adorns
a public or a private life, HoratiC
Seymour stands the first Of stltes
men; and his explicit declaration
that he approves every line of thoSe
resolutions, that he will stand upon
them iD the contest, that he will
carry them out in the future, wher
ever he may be placed, gives full
assurance that he will make them
effective i'll his administration. Ire.
mendous applause
Mr.. Blair is an accomplished and
experienced statesman, a brave and
able soldier. His father was the
nearest friend of Gen Jackson-his
brother, the cOnfidante and adviser
of Mr.. Lincoln, and he himself the
disciple and protege of Benton. Ap-
plause.
What the Repablicaa Party is Respon-
sibie for.
If anything more were needed to
fire your hearts with the enthusiasm
which marked their nomination, let
it be drawn from the contrast which
our country today presents. The
Republican party has been for eight
years in absolute possession of every
department of the Federal govern
ment-it has had the executive and
the legislative and the judiciary o"e-
dient to its beheStS. 1t has had pos
session of every State government
in the Union, with very few excep-
tionS, so few that they scarcely
serve to illustrate the rule. 1t has
had every department Of govern
mental power, both State and Fede-
raj, entirely in its hands. If vetoes
have been interposed, they have
been Overridden by a two-tlirdS
vote. If adverse judicial decisions
have been expected, the court has
been reorganized by diminution Of
the Judges. or the case has been tax
Ell from its coghizance by change
of the law of appeal, If States have
interposed an obstacle, their assump-
tions have been derided, and their
efforts have been met by the strong
arm of the Federal power.
Having thus had absolute posses
sion of the government during four
years of the war, it has also had
possession of it during more than
three years of profound peace. 1t
has had the enjoyment of power, and
it is responsible for its use.
But in what condition do we find
the country to-day! Where is the
Constitution, which they Swore to
uphold ! Where is the Union which
they swOre to maintain ? Where
are the rights of the States, which
are essential to the maintenance of
that Constitution and Union!
How they hive Restored the Union.
We have had three years of pro-
found peace not a hostile arm has
been raised in opposition to the gov
ernment; and yet to-day ten States
are held by the strong arm Of mill.
tary power in acknowledged subju
cation, or else are compelled to sub.
NIT by that same power t" frames of
State constitutions and governments
which they abhOr, whose foundation
and sole purpose is the enfranchise
ment of the negro and diSfranchise-
ment of the white man. | know
they tell us that the work of recon-
Struction goes bravely on. 1t does,
forSooth, but it Is not the restoration
Of the South, not the restoration Of
the Union, not the reestablishment |
of civil government! Read your
dispatches to-day, and
you will see that in Georgia men
are being tried, by military commits
sion, upon charges of murder. Read
The dispatches of yesterday, and you
will see that the military commander
,f that State declines to recognize
,he validity of the Legislature, until
he House Of Representatives shall
urn out the Democratic members.
Peripateiic CoBgre.smen.
Read the dispatches of the day be-
ore, and you will see that one of the
newly elected Senators from Louisi-
ina was, six months ago, citizen of
Illinois, and the other a citizen of
Indiana; that the Governor of Flor
da was, year ago, the president of
IN agricultural society in Iowa. If
am not mistaken, the State of Vir-
yinia reioices in the possession of a
Governor fresh from the soil of Ohio;
laughter and, if the newspapers do
iot belle him, a citizen of our State
las declined to he candidate for
congress in the district in which he
ives; for the reason that he expects
o be Senator from Arkansas before !
he fall elections in Ohio shall take
'lace. Laughter and applause. l.
Congregational UsurpRtions.
Congress- has usurned tn itself all