The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1868-08-05
Con Hlsir's Letter Of Acceptance.
SOUND DEMOCRATIC DOCTRINE.


SOUND DEMOCRATIC DOCTRINE.
NIL c,,,owino is the letter of Gen Blairs accept
,a, the nomination of the Democratic party tor VIC
PRESIDENT
Cen Geo W Morgan, Chairman Of Committee OF tn
National Democratic Convention:
Eenerni-I take the earliest opportunity Of replying
to YOUR letter notifying of my nomination tor Vic
President of the United States by the National Dem
ocrstc Conventions recently held in the city of New
YORK | accent without hesitation, the nomination
rendered in manner gratifying, and give you anc
the committee my thanks for the very kind and com
planetary language in which you have conveyed 10
me tire decision Of the ConveHtion. have careiuh!
read the resolutions adopted by the Convention, ana
most cordially concur in every principle and sehtimen
esley announce
NV opinion upon all the questions which discriminate
the great contendng parties have been eclS express
ed on all suitable occasions, DO not deem IL nee
ssary this time to reiterate them Inc issue upon
which the contest turns is clear, and cannot be OBJ
fcured or distorted by the sophstres OF our adverse
ries They all resolve themselves INTO the old and
everrccurring struggle OF ie" hea 70 ABSORB the Po
ltcal power Of the nation.
This effort under every conceivable name and dis
oujse has always characterised the opponents of the
democratic party, but at no time has the attempt as
euned so open and daring shape in this contest
The adversares of free constitutional Government
def,nce of the express language of the Constitution
have erected military dcsposm in ten States of the
ed 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
rght-the ha6eaS corpus-those shields of safety tor
every citizen which have descended to the people OF
the United States from the earliest traditions of our
ancestors and which revolutionary fathers fought
to secure to their postery forever in the fundamental
charter of our liberties have been ruthlessy trampled
under foot by the fragment of Congress. Whole
States and communities OF people of our race have
i, q
their rights citizens without presentment trial or
witness but by Congressional enactment of or 4ost
fcto lars and in defiance of the Constitutional pro-
hibton, denying even to full and legal Congress
the authority to pass any bill of attaindcr or er post
facto lars.
The same usurping authority substituted as electors
in place OF men OF our race thus Illegally attaint-
ID and DISTINGUISHED, host of ignorant negroes who
are supported in dleness with the public money and
combined together 10 strip the white race of their
brttEight through the management of the Freedmen s
Bureau and the cmissaries of consprators in other
States; and to complete the OPPRESSION the military
mower of the nation has been placed at their disposa
in order to make this barbarsm supreme, the military
leader urder whose prestige this usurping Congress
Las taken refuge since the condemnation of their
schemes by the free people of the North in the cleo
ons Of the last year. they have selected their can
Iidate TO shield themselves from the result of their
wckedness and crime, has announced his acceptance
Of the nomination, and his willingness to maintain
their Isurpations millions of white people at the
South fixed to the earth with his bayones he excaims
LET us have peace!" peace reieus in Warsaw"
was the announcement which hcradcd the doom of
the liberties of nation
THE Empire is peace !" exclaimed Bonapartc when
freedom and its defenders expire under the sharp edge
of the sword The peace to which Grant invites US is
the peace of despotism and death.
Those who seek to restore the Constitution by ex-
ecutng the will of the people, condemning the recon
have alrpadv wis in H.,
elections Of last year, and will am convinced still
more cmphatically express it by the election Of the
Democratic candidate President of the United
States are denounced reVouonists by the partsans
d this vndictive Congress-
Negro suffrage, which the popular vote of New
York. New Jersey, Pennsylvania Ohio, Michigan, Con-
ncccut and other States had condemned as expressly
against the letter of the Constitutions must stand be-
their Senators and Representatives have wiled
ii. If the people shall again condemn these measures
by the election of the Democratic candidate for Presi-
dent, they must not be disturbed although decided to
be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, and the
President is sworn to maintain and support the Con-
StutiOn, the will of fraction of Congress- rein
forced with its partisan enissacs sent to the South
and supported there by the soderv stand against
the will of the people, and the decision of the Sl-
preme Court and the solemn oath Of the President to
support the Constitution 1t is revolutionary in the
President to keep involae his oath to sustain the Con-
8tituion.
This false construction Of the vital principles of our
Government is the last resort of those who would
sway and supersede tme-honored institutions
The nation i" i'll Say that the Constitution must be
restored aud the will of the people again prevail The
appeal to the peaceful ballot to attain this end is not
revolution.
They alone make war and revolution who attempt to
arrest this quiet mode of putting aside willy desposm
and the usurpaons of fragment of Congress as
serng absolute power over that benign system of reg
uIated liberty left us by our fathers.
This must be allowed to take its course This is
he oIy road to peace 1t will with the election
Q the Democratic candidate, and with the election
Of that mailed warrior whose bayonets are now at the
threats of eight millions of people in the South, to
compel them to support him for the Presidency, and
to submit to the determination of an alien race of
semibarbarous men. No peryersoR Of truth or au-
Iacity of Misrepresentation can exceed that which
balls this candidate in arms as an angel of peace
. am respectfully your obedient svt
FRANK P. BLAIR,