The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1868-10-29
From Harper's Weekly.
ARE THEY FORG ERIESs

From Harper's Weekly.
ARE THEY FORGERIEss
The New York World says: The
Radical newspapers have forged speech
es and put them in the mouths OF South
ern Democrats by whom they were never
uttered"
Is it = forgery that Frank T. Blair
the Democratic candidate for Vice rres-
ident, wrote to Colonel James .. Broad
head. ON the 30th Of June:
There 10 but one way to restore the
Government and the Constitution, and
that il for the President elect to declare
these acts (of Reconstruction null ana
void. compel the army to undo its usur-
pasions at the South, disperse the carpet
bag State Governments, allow the white
people to reorganize their own govern
ments, and elect Senators and Repre-
sentatives 2''
Is it forgery that Wade Hampton said
at a Democratic ratification meeting IN
New York 7a
"And 1 want you all to register an
oath that when they ('the white people
of the South, without regard to the e1-
ceptions of the Reconstruction acts, do
vote. that these votes be counted and
if there is majority Of white votes, that
you will place Seymour and Blair in the
White House in spite Of all the bayonets
that shall be brought against them =
sit forgery that Wade Hampton
said at his reception in Charleston that
he proposed in the Committee on the
Platform in the Democratic Convention,
to insert the words, "And we declare
that the Reconstruction acts are revolu-
tionary. unconstitutional, and void ? y
and that he added:
.When proposed that, every single
member Of the Committee-and the
warmest men in it were the men Of the
North-came forward and said they
would carry it out to the eud p
Is it a forgery that Mr.. G. c. Langdon,
delegate to the Democratic Convention,
said in a published letter before the 4th
of July, that the reconstruction measures
are Unconstitutional and of course, ab
solutely void" that this would be the
chief plank in the Democratic platform
that the Supreme Court, probably at its
next term, would so decide; and he
added:
"Then all we want is a Presiden
whose views are in accord with that de
cisiou, and who has the will and thu
nerve to do his duty. 1t will be his du
ty to enforce the decree of the Court i
need be, at the point of the bayonet ?"
Is it a forgery that John Forsyth said
in the Mobile Register, speaking OF re
construction
"And here we may as we'll say tha
the people of the South do not intend tt
submit to that permanent rule, result q
the Presidential election may ?"
Is it q forgery that Raphael Semme
said ut Mobile
Ut have come to declare that I hav
given in my allegiance, heart and soul
to the old flag, provided we can restor
the old flag again to be the representa-
tive of the principles Of the Constitu
ton which we will be able to effect b,
the election Of Seymour ard Blair p
Is it forgery that the Charleston
Mercury said:
"Peace was made by General Sherma
in the spring Of 1865, in his terms o
capitulation with General Johnston
That was peace, and nothing else eve
will be peace p
Is it forgery that Albert Pike said
..The South is our land the North i
a foreign aud hostile realm = If tn
old Union can not be restored, we wi
hone to see the South independent b;
fore we die ?"
Is it forgery that General Battle,
the late rebel army, said at the Demt
cratic meeting in Mobile:
The Democratic party indorses pril
ciples for which you battled ?"
, Is it a forgery that the Richmond Ell
\ quirer says:
"The next Democratic House Of Rel
. resentatives, in case Of q contest, wi
: recognize, and only recognize, sue
, members as come there under legal col
q stitutions, and that have been adopte
: by the free consent Of the white peop
!. of the State p
Is it forgery that the Richmor
; Wing, speaking of the Blair letter, sal
5 "He declared without any hesitanc
and in terms too clear and decided to
: misund derstood, that, were he Presiden
: the whole Executive power should /
!, employed to blot out every vestige
Radical reconstruction ?"