New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-10-17
FPAYK BLAIR ~ the CANVASS


The World is at last awake to the fact that
the Seymour and Blair ticket is wha. Mania
lini would term "a dem'd moist unpleasant
body" and would seem TO lay the blame OF
it's decease entirely to the second candidate ON
that ticket. This appears to us unfair Gen.
Blair wrote his famous letter on the 5Oth OF
June last. it was given to the public origin
ally by The World on the 3D. OF July following.
Up to that hour, Gen. Blair had not been seri'
ously thought of for place on the laInmany
ticket. The Democratic Soldiers Convention
that met directly afterward, proposed Gen,
Hancock, Gen. Ewing, and other OIL
GERS. but not Gen. Blair. 1t was the I'M
preston made by that letter on the minds
of delegates, and especially OF Rebel dele
gates that gave him the nomination. Nay:
il was the perfect accord OF the ruling idea OF
that letter with the assertion folsted into the
Democratic platform by Gen. Wade Hampton
that the Reconstruction acts OF Congress were
" unconstitutional, revolutionary, and void"
that melted the Rebel Gen. Preston TO nom
mate. and the Rebel Gems. Forrest &c, so
unanimously TO cheer that nomination. What
ever Significance the letter may bear as the
keynote of the canvass was given TO it far
of it's writer
The World more than insinuates that Gen.
Blair's letter has been perverted by Republican
speakers and writer's to the prejudice OF the De
mocracy. 1t admits that Gen. Blair has made
use of "inconsderate expressions" and says
"The Republican leaders, who doubtless good
iudges OF the kind OF appeals best calculated prevent
descrtons from their party have harped upon those er
pressons than al other topics put togethef
They have succeeded In lhng mid or creduous minds
with apprehensions that the election OF inc Demo
pioyment Of the army for the forcble election OF the
negro governments In rough Cromwelan style. There
@nS NO " %%& ecns b. 10 faa NE sS he
oeratie party hsltef hiatt ,co,d attempt 70 eat me gor
do,. Knot OF southern politics Nth he sicord The tise
made Of Gen Blars letter has, OF course been nneeD,d
and unfair but what caro- the unscrnpuons Radicals for
fairness or Enough had been said 10 give acolor
10 their perversons and in point OF fact they have de-
nded thousands OF weak minds into the absurd belief
that the Democratic party IL asking the county 10 IN
dorse Revolutionary prog anime. The mischief Of such
representations does not depend upon Their being bs
but upon their being beered They carry an lmputa0n
which tho party cannot stand under and unless they
be efecually rebntted we shall again come
lust near enough 10 success TO wonder that We iaied
Now tho best defense against these impu-
tations is the letter itself. Here is that letter,
precisely as Gen Blair wrote and The World
originally printed it,
o''s' WASHINGTON, June so, 1863
DyIR COLONEL: In reply 20 your inquiries beg leave
IA say that leave 10 you 10 determine on consultation
with nv friends from Missouri. whether my name shall
he presented 10 tho Democratic Convention ana 10 sno
nit the following what consider the real ana only
issue In this contest. -. III, =. .o,.
The reconsruction policy OF the Radicals Will be com
ree before the election the states 20 long eh
cuded will have been admitted, negro suffrage esap'
Ushed and the carpe tbaggers Installed In their seats IN
both branches OF Congress There Is no possibility OF
changing the political character OF the Senate even u
te Democrats should elect their President and MA
io,ity of tho popular branch Of Congress We clhnoi,
therefore, undo the Radical plan OF recoDsructon ny
conversational action the Senate VIII continue par 10
its repeaj Must we submit ~ How can " ne over
trowni II can only be oycthrown by the authority Oh
fhe Executive who Ia 10 maintain the ,ohstI,u
ton and who will fail 10 do his duty II he allows me
Consultation to perish under series ~ tohgIessloa
enactmens which in papabe violation OF lie iuhds
mental principles. -. -
II the President elected 10y the Democracy enforces or
permits others enforce these reconstruction acts tho
adioas by tho accession OF twenty spurious senators
and nifty Representatives will control both branches or
Congress aud his administration Will be as pOworess as
| tile present ons OF Mr.. Johnson.
There Is but one way 10 restore the Government ana
the Constitution aud that for the President elect 10 de-
clare these acts null aud void compel the army To undo
its usurpatiOns at the South, disperse tie carpetag
State Governments allow the whtc people to reorganirc
their own Governments, and elect Senators ana Repre-
hentntiyes. The House of Representatives VIII contnn
minority of Democrats from the North. and they VIII
adult tic Representatives elected bg tua Whtr p00ua or