The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-10-02


mis- nomination by the National Demo-
cratic Convention. air. tas
Blairin his letter says: 1Lit-al
There is but one way to restore the
Government and the Constitution, and
that is for the President elect to declare
| these nets null and void, compel the
army to undo its usurpation at the
South, dispense the carpet bag State
| governments, allow the white people to
| reorRanize their own governments and
elect Senators and Representatives.
| or course any attempt to subvert the
government of these Southern States
by force would lead to war, as the
Governor and all other State officers
are swornto obey, support and defend.
the constitution OF the State of North
Carolina,' and we WILL defendit. y
Further down Blair rays:
I'VE must restore the Constitution
before we can restore the finances, and
to do this we must have President
who will execute the will OF the people
by trampling into the dust the usurpa-
ton of Congress known as the recon-
struction acts. wish 10 stand before
the Convention on this issue, but II Is
one which embraces everything else
that is of value in its large and compre-
heusive results. 1t is the one thing that
includes all that Is worth a contest, and
without it there is nothing that gives
dignity, honor orvalue TO the struggle"
On this issue he was nominated. If
| any further proof were needed to show
the revolutionary spirit of the Conser-
| vative party, it could easily be found in
the violent harangues we daily hear
around us, their bitter persecution of
| Union men and their unrelenting ha.
tired of the North and its loyal people.
| This bitterness toward Northern men
who prove true to their principles and
who do not bow in slavish submission
to the opinions OF these naughty aristo-
Gratis, self-constituted judges OF honor
| and morality, 1 know from personal
experience. Though descended from
one of the oldest families of this State,
and born and partially raised in Rock
iDgham county, upon my return nearly
denounced as a Yankee and generally
received with all the GOODNESS and dis
trust due to that detested race. Not
withstanding my own nativity and the
position of my mothers family, they
could never forget the Puritan birth of
| my father, whose native State, Ver-
mont. with her 80. 600 majority, SO nobly
leads the van, and, i may add, could
never forgive his dying efforts in de-
Tense of his country.
| Speaking of him, and feeling that
whatever importance any words OF
mine may have is derived from the
| name bear, and the affection many
still feel toward one who through life
proved himself the peoples friend, a
lew words concerning my father may
not be deemed inappropriate. It was
with feelings of surprise-and must
add, of indignation-that I saw his
name inscribed upon one OF the trans.
parencies borne in the late ConserVa-
live procession. thought that COM
mon decency, Mt least, would have pre-
vented them from dragging from the
tomb the name of the man whom they
betrayed and denounced through life
and after his death, whose orphan chill
dren they had prosecuted.
While gazing upon that name re-
membered the time when these same
men declared him traitor to every
principle of honor, because he prefer
red his country to his party, and Bit
ter1y denounced him for his efforts to
rally the people of the West for the de-
fence OF the Union.
1 remember all these when am de-
clared degenerate son; and for every
quotation they give me from his speech.
es 1 will give them dozen. When the
Sentinel parades a sentence concerning
white mans government, 1 will re-
mind them OF his dying words. When
the wife bent over the scarce breathing
form of the expiring statesman, and
asked IL he had no message to send to
his children, "Ten Them" said he in a
low voice rendered almost inaadible by
the near approach of death, "to obey
and support the Constitution and the
laws of the land" This solemn iniunc-
toni intend to obey. When see my
self personally abused by the conser-
Yative press on account of my political
sentiments, and called traitor to the
State in whichiI was born, I.would re-
call to their recollection the time when
was declared an allen enemy. About
the year 1862 bill was filed sum
moning Thomas Settle (now Asso-
ciate Justice of the Supreme Court)
and r. A. Ellington to Green's.
boro, to show cause why they should
not surrender the property OF Robert
~: and stephen A. Douglas, alien enc
mics OF the ConfederAcy; and when L
am denounced as Yankee and carpet
Dagger, would remind them OF their
efforts to drive Ire an exile from NV.
naive State and render me a stranger
70 me SOIL that gave me birth. As,
however, have inherited nv fathers
name and his principles, il il nntnrsI
that should Inherit their aniTnnSity
Nevertheless, it is strange that theSe
men, his bittereSt enemies in life shnnI5
now claim to be the truest exponents OF
his principles; but not more STRANGE
than that they should now assert them.
selves the best friends of the Constitu.
| tlon OF the United States and the inialli-
BILE Interpreters of its provisions after
they have sacrificed hundreds OF thou
sands olives and thousands OF millions
of treasure to trample into the dust
| that sacred instrument.
Such is their consistency, and such 1t
is throughout all their political princi-
pies. II n white Republican addresses
a crowd OF colored men, expressing his
honest sentiments, instructing them in
their rights and duties, and advising
them as q friend, that action involves
social equality and Is disreputable,
High-born Conservatives, however. can
mtngle promiscuously among coIored
men at barbecues. eat from the same
sheep and drink from the same bottles,
and they deserve the praise of their fel.
low citizens. II a colored man, fol-
lowing his honest conviction, votes for
the best interests OF his race and as ali
his higher instincts prompt him, he is
totally unfit to dig bare Subsistence
from the bosom of-the common earth.
Ii, on the other hand, that colored man
proves traitor TO his race; votes 10
consign himself, his wife, and his chill
dren 10 condition worse than slavery.