The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-07-17
WALHINGToN. June 30.
WCoL. Jameg b. Broqdbead..

- - w ALHlNGIoAI June oU'
"COl. James o. Broddkead.
"DEAR COLONEL: In reply to your
inquiries | beg leave to say that l leave
you to determine, ON, consultation with
/ my lffieBis from Missourii whether mB
name shah be presented to the Demo
cratic Convention, and to. submit the
following, as what ] consider the real
and only issueih this contest!
t'The reconstruction policy of the rad
icals win be complete before the next
election; the. States, so long excluded,
will have been admitted; negro suffrage
established, and the carpet -baggers INF
stalled in their seats in both branches
of Congress. There is no possibility Of
changing the political character of the
Senate, even if the Democrats Should
elect their President and a majority of
the popular branch of Congress. We
cannot, therefore, undo the radical plan
of rsc6nstructidh by Confessional ac-
ton; the Senate viii continue a bar to
its repeal. Must we submit to it2 q How
can it be. oyerthroWn? 1t can only be
oYerthrown by the, authority of the
Executive, who is sworn to maintain
the Constitution and who will fail to
do his duty if he allows the Constitu-
tion,to perish under series of Con
gressional enactments which are in
palpable violation of its fundamental
principles: '' ''i7 'p
"'F the President, elected by the De-
mocracy, enforces or permits otheIsito
enforce these reconstruction acts, the
radicals, by the accession of twenty
spurious Senators and fifty Representa-
tives, will control both branches Of
Congress, and his administration wiHbe
as powerless as represent one of Mr.,
Johnson, ar,e., sV -.rsd,. ,.,,,l
"There is but one way; to restore the
government and the Constitution, and
that is for the President-elect to declare
these acts null and void, compel the
army TO undo its usurpations at the
South, to disperse the carpet bag state
governments all white people to reor-
ganize their own governments and elect
Senators and Representatives. The
House of Representatives will contain a
majority of Democrats from the North,
and they will admit the Representatives
elected by the white people of the
South, and with the cooperation of the
President it will not be difficult to com
pei the Senate to submit once more to
the obligations of the Constitution. , It
will not be able to withstand the public
Judgment if distinctly invoked and
clearly expressed on this fundamental
issue, and it is the sure way to avoid
all future strife topdt this issue plainly
TO the country. I'm -rs Ell s-....
81 repeat that this is the real and
only question which we should allow
to control US. Shall we submit 70 the
usurpations- by9which7the government
has been everthrown, or shall we exert
ourselves for its full and complete res
toraion 1t is idle to talk of bonds,
greenbacks, gold, the public faith and
the public credit. What can Dem
ocratiGi President do in regard to any
of these, with a Congress in both
branches controlled BY the carpet bag
gers and their allies? lie will be
powerless to stop the supplies by which
the idle negroes are organized into pos
litical ,clubs-by which an army is
maintained 10 protect these vagabonds
in their. outrages upon the ballot,
These and things like these eat up the
revenues and resources Of the govern
ment and destroy its credit, make the
betReen goldland gneenbatks.
We must restore the Constitution be-
fore we-GaR-FestoFe the finances; and to
do this wermnsts have asPresident who
will execute the will of the people by
tramping into dust the usurpatiopsi of
known as the Reconstruction
acts. / wish to stand before the Con
vention upon this issue, but it is one
which embraces everything else that is
OF value in its large and comprehensive
results. It isothe one thing that in
cludes all that is worth 8 contest, and
without it thers-is nothing that gives
dignity, horor or value to the struggle
F. Your friend, + Franz P. BLAIR, y,