The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-08-13

left without children, the rebels will
finally triumph!
Ah my friends this same party was
responsible for the beginning of the war.
If they had not told the deuded people
of the South that the Government should
be held still while they carried on the
war OF secession, they never would have
| undertaken secession. Why, in this
State-in this very cid State house W
| here, the Democratic minority In the Leg
lslature of 1861 told the people of the
| South that if our army passed from the
| State of Indiana for the purpose of sub
| DUNG the rebellion then but commenced
1t must first pass over their dead bodies
and that was the language of the Demo
cracy of Indiana, of Ohio and all the
other States. Believing these declara-
tions they plunged into the war against
| the Union
But if further evidence is wanting in
| regard to the character of the Democrat
ic party and of its purpose, it is found in
| the nomination of General Frank Blair.
1t is found in that letter upon which he
was nominated, but without which he
| would not have been nominated. [ will
| ask my friends to read some extracts from
tHlS IoCuSl l. le llCCOIlSlTuCClOD DOIlcy
of the Radicals will be complete be-
fore the next election. The States so
long excluded will have been ad
United, negro suffrage established
and the carpet aggers installed in their
seats in both branches of Congress
There is no possibility in changing the
political character of the Senate, even if
the Democrats should elect their Presi-
dent and amajority of the popular branch
of Congress We cannot therefore undo
the Radical reconstruction by Congress
sional action The Senate will continue
a bar to this repeal. Must we submit to
it? How can It be overthrow 1t can
only be overthrow 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 Constitution to
perish under a series of Congressional
enactmcnts which are in palpable vic
lation of its fundamental principles. "
There is the remedy pointed out by
Frank Blair. They cannot change the
movement by electing President and
the Senate cannot be changed under four
years. He states the difficulty in the way
of the Democratic party, exactly accom-
plishing this thing by legislation. They
cannot undo it by legislation under four
years. How then do they propose to undo
what they have done To elect Presi-
dent who shall have command of the
army; by military power, and in defnce
of the action of Congress, reinstate the
Rebel State governments, return Rebels
70 power, and place the Union men of the
South in the hands of these Rebels who
brought on the war. This is the remedy
proposed by the Democratic candidate
for the Vice Presidency, aud | would
like to appeal to the honest Democracy
within the sound of my voice; Do you
approve of the proposition? Do you
prop ose never TO submit to the will ofthe
Government! DO you propose now again
to resort to war and bring upon us allth
horrors of revolution? | will ask my
friends to read again from Blairs letter
Il repeat that this Is the real and only
question which we would allow to control
us. Shall we submit to the usurpation
by which the Constitution has been over
thrown, or shall we exert ourselves for
It's full and complete restoration? 1t is
idle to talk of bonds, greenbacks, gold,
the public faith, and the public credit.
What can Democratic President do in
regard to any Of them, with Congress, in
both branches, controlled by the carpet
baggers and their allies? He will be pow
erless to stop the supplies by which Idle
negroes are organized into political clubs,
by which an army is maintained to pro
tect these, vagabonds in their outrages
upon the ballot. These, and things like
these eat up and destroy its credit, and
make the difference between gold and
greenbacks. We must restore the Con-
stItutlon before we can restore the fnan
ces and to do this we must have Presi-
dent vi no will execute the will of the
people by trampling into the dust the
usurpations of Congress, known as the
before the Convention upon this issue.
But it is one which embraces everything
else that is Of no value in its larger and
comprehensive results. 1t is the one
thing that includes all that is worth a
contest, and without, there is no thing
that gives dignity, honor, or value to the
struggle. But if there is any honest man
who wants peace, who wants the bleeding
wound of the country bound up, who
wants US to return to paths of prosperity
and power. aud development in every re-
spect, he must avoid that ticket. Frank
Blair was put in nomination because Of
that letter; he was put in nomination by
Rebel officer from Kentucky, "a member
of that Convention, Gen. Preston. His
nomination was seconded by a Rebel
officer from South Carolina-W
Hampton. He was nominated by the
Rebel element Of the South, and excep-
ted by the Rebels sympathyzing element
of the North. and he now stands as the
Democratic candidate for the Vice Presl-
dency and that letter is the platform in a
more geperal and perfect manner. And
now my friends, let me consider, for a
few moments, the character of that Con-
vention.
One thing is to be observed, and that
Is that the Southern men went into that
Convention and took possession of it with
just the same ease, the same assurance,
that they did In former Democratic con
ventlons. The Democracy in that Con-
ventlon submitted to them with the same
CELEBRITY that they had always done. And
now L k, my friends, who were the
Democratic delegates in that Convention
from the South? They were not the men
who had been Union men during the war,
but they We're the men who had COM
manded the Rebel army, and they were
the men who had filled the Rebel Con
gress, and been Senators and Represen
tatives. They were tie men who came
to that Convention to represent the Dem
ocratic party, and make the nomination.
Now, my friends, allow me to call your
attention very briefly to what would be
the inevitable consequences of the success
OF the Democrats In the approaching
election. One of the first consequences
would be the elevation of the rebel sol
der to the same position occupied by the
Union soldier In this Convention YOU
find the Rebel and the Northern Demo-
crat standing on the same platform
exactly. You find the most influential
men of the Convention to have been
Rebel officers and none 1rern mora inan