The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-31
THE VICE PRESIDENCY.
Gen. Blair's Letter of Acceptance

Gen. Blair's Letter of Acceptance.
The following is a copy of General
BLAIR's letter of acceptance of the
Democratic nomination for Vice Presi-
dent, which has just been received
Gen. Geo. w. Morgan, Chairman Committee
National Democratic Convention:
1 take the earliest opportunity ofre-
plying to your letter notifying me ofmy
nomination for Vice President Of the
United States by the National Democra-
tic Convention, recently held in the city
of New York.
Iaccept, without hesitation, the nomi-
nation rendered in manner so crafty
ing, and give you and the committee
my thanks for the very kind and COM
plimentary language in which you have
conveyed to me the decision of the con-
vention. have carefully read the reso-
lutions adopted by the convention, and
most cordially concur in every princi-
pie and sentiment they announce. My
opinion upon all questions which dis
criminate the great contending parties
have been freely expressed on all suita-
bic occasions, anG l do not deem it ne
cessary at this time to reiterate them.
The issue upon which the contest
turns is clear, and cannot be obscured
or distorted by the sophistries Of our
adversaries. They all resolve themselves
into the old and ever recurring strug-
gle of few men to absorb the political
power of the nation. This effort under
every conceivable named disguise, has
always characterized the opponents of
the Democratic party, but at no time has
the attempt assumed so open and dar-
ing a shape as in this contest.
The advcrsaries of free constitutional
government, in defiance of the express
language of the Constitution, have
erected a military despotism in ten Sta
ties of the Union; have taken from the
President the power vested in him by
, the supreme law, and have deprived the
Supreme Court of its jurisdiction, and
the people of the right of trial by jury,
and the great writ of hdbcdS corpus,
which should be the right of every citi-
zen, and which have descended to us
from the earliest traditions of our anccs-
tors, and which our revolutionary faith
ers fought to secure to their posterity
forever.
The fundamental charter of our liber-
ties has been ruthlessly trampled under
foot by q fragment of Congress-
Whole States and communities Of peo-
pie of our race have been attaintcd,
convicted, condemned and deprived OF
their rights as citizens without present
: ment, trial or witnesses, but by Con.
! gressional enactment of ca post .tdctC
! Jaws, and in defiance of the constitu
n tional prohibition denying to full and
: loyal Congress the authority to pass any
. bill of attainder OF e,r post .tacto law.
The same usurping authority has sub
n stituted as electors in place of lner
y of our own race, thus illegally at
tainted and DISTINGUISHED, host of ig
! norant negroes, who are supported il
a idlcncss with the public money ant
= combined together to strip the white
i, race of their birth-right through TIT
9 management of the Frecdmen's Bureau
:. and emissaries of the conspirators il
other States, and to complete the oppres
q sion, the military power of the IA
y ton has been placed at their disposal
In order to make this barbarism s,l
y preme, the military leader under who's
}. prestige this usurping Congress has ia
n ken refuge since the condemnation o
the free people Of the North, in the cleo
81 tons of last year, and whom they hav
II selected as their candidate, to shiel,
Y themselves from the result of thei
It wickedncss and crimes, has announc
ed his acceptance of the nomination
" and his willingness to maintain thei
; usurpatiOns over the eight millions @
n white people in the South, who are fix
i ed to the earth with his bayonets.
He eXclaims, "Let us have peace
q Peace reigns in Warsaw" was the an
" nouncement which heralded the door
IS of the liberties of nation. "Peace
t. exclaimed Bonaparte, when freedom
and its defenders expired under tn
sharp edge of the sword. The peace t
which Grant invites us is the peace G
despotism and death. Those who see
to restore the Constitution by executin
the will of the people, condemn the re
le construction acts already pronounce
It, in the elections Of last year, and whic
d. will, | am convinced, be still more en-
% phatically expressed by the election c
- the Democratic candidate as Presider
of the United States. The Democrat
~ are denounced as revolutionists by til
I'd partisans of this vindictive Congress-
y, Negro suffrage, which the popular vot
oh of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Con
y. necticut, and other States have empha
81, ically condemned as expressly again
sc the letter of the Constitution, mu
ed stand, because their Senators and Rel
t. resentatives have willed it. If the pee
p pie shall again condemn these measure
d. by the election of Democratic Pres
40 dent they must not be disturbed, a
CHI though decided to be unconstitution
or by the Supreme Court, and although Il
hy President is sworn to protect and mail
ed tain the Constitution, the will of a fra
to ton OF Congress, reinforced wit
IL with its partisan emissaries sent to tt
South and supported there by the so
diery, must stand against the will of Il
people and the decision of the Suprcn
er Court and the solemn oath of the Pres
e. dent to maintain and support the CO.
.s stitution. 1t is revolutionary to execu
)" the will of the people; tits revolution
airy to execute the Judgment of the s
IN preme Court; it is revolutionary in Il