Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-07-29

ole of a few men to absorb the political
Cover of the nation. This effort, under
every conceivable name and disguise, has al
ways characterized the opponents of the
Democratic party, but at no time has the
attempt assumed a phase SO open and daring
as in this contest. The adversaries of free
and constitutional government. in defiance
of the express language of the Constitution,
have erected a despOtism in ten of the States
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, the right of trial by jury, and
the great writ of right, the habeas corpus,
shields of safety for every citizen, and
which have descended to us from the earli-
est traditions of our ancestors, and which
our Revolutionary fathers sought to Sc
cure to their posterity forever in the fun
damental charter of our liberties, have been
ruthlessly trampled under foot by the frag-
ment of Congress. Whole States and Com
mittees of people of our race have been at
tainted, convicted, condemned, and deprived
of their rights as citizens without present
men or trial or witnesses but by Congress
sional enactment of er post factO laws, and IN
defiance of the constitutional prohibition
denying even to full and loyal Congress the
authority to pass any bill of attainder or er
ity has substituted as electors in place ofthe
men of our own race, thus illegally attaint-
ed and dsfranchised, a host of ignorant ne
groes who are supported in ideness with the
public money, and combined together to strip
the white race of their birthright through
the management of Freedmen Bureaus and
emissaries of conspirators in other States ;
and to complete the oppression, the military
power of the nation has been placed at their
disposal in order to make this barbarism SUI
preme. The military leader under whose
prestige this usurping Congress has taken
refuge since the condemnation OF their
schemes by the free people OF the North In
the elections of the last year, and whom they
have selected as their candidate, 10 shleld
themselves from the rnS'lt ef thoiI own WICK
edness and crime, has announced his accept
ance of the nomination, and his Willingness
to maintain their usurpations over 5000, 900
of white people at the South, fixed to the
earth with his bayonet. He exclaims Let
us have peace IS Peace reigns in War
SOW, - was the announcement which heralded
the doom of the liberties of "a nation 4" The
Empire is peace, exclaimed Bonaparte when
freedom and its defenders expired under the
sharp edge of his sword. The peace to which
Grant invites us, Is the peace of despotism
and death. Those who seek to restore the
people, condemning the reconstruction acts
already pronounced in the elections of last
wear land which will, | am convinced, be
still more emphatically expressed by the
election of the Democratic candidate as Pres
ident of the United States are denounced as
revolutionists by the partizans OF this yindic-
tive Congress. Negro suffrage (Which the
popular vote Of New York, New jersey,
PENNSYLVANIA, Ohio, Connecticut, and other
States, have condemned as expressly against
the letter of the CONSTITUTIONS must stand,
because their Senators and Representatives
have willed it. 1.-THE people shall again con
denim these atrocious measures by the election
of the Democratic candidate for President,
they must not be disturbed. Although de-
cidcd to be unconstitutional by the Supreme
Court, and although the President is sworn
to maintain and support the Constitution
the Will of a fraction of a Congress, re-en-
forced with its partisan emissaries, sent to
the South. and supported there by the sol
diery, must stand against the will of the
people, and the decision of the Supreme
Court, and the solemn oath of the President
to maintain and support the Constitution
1t is revolutionary to execute the will of the
people
1t is revolutionary to execute the judgment
of the Supreme Court. 1t is revolutionary
in the President to keep invlolate his oath to
sustain the Constitution. This false con
struction of the vital principle of our Gov
ernment. is the last resort of those who
would have their arbitrary reconstruction
sway and supercede our time onored inSti-
buttons. The nation viii say the Constitu
ton must be restored, and the will of the
people again prevail. They appeal 10 the
peaceful ballot to attain this, and is not war,
ia not revolution They make war and reyO-
tiSti VINO attempt 10 arrcet chic quiet inoue
of putting aside military despotism and the
of fragment of a Congress, as
serting absolute power over that benign sys-
TEN left us by our fathers. This must be al
lowed to take its course. This is the only
road to peace. 1t will come with the elec-
ton of the Democratic candidate and not with
the election of that mailed warrior, whose
bayonets now at the threats of 5 900 600
Of people in the South, to compel them to
support him az a candidate for the Presiden-
cy, and to submit to the domination of an
alien race of semi-barbarous men. No per
ye rsion of truth or audacity of misrepresent-
ton can exceed that which halls this candi-
date in arms an angel of peace | am,
very respectfully, your most obedient ser
want, FRANK =. BLAIR