The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1868-07-31

Taking every treasure
As gift divine.
Gen. Blair's Letter of Acceptance.
The following is copy, of Gen. Blair 5
letter of acceptance Vt the Democratic NOM
ination for Vice President
Gen. Geo. W. Morgan, Chairman of the
Committee Of the National Democratic
Conrcntion
GENERAL Il take the earliest opportu-
nifty of replying to your letter notifying me
of my nomination for ice President Of the
United States by the National Democratic
Convention recently held in the city of New
York i accept without hesitation the
nomination rendered in manner so gratis
flying, and give you and the committee my
thanks for the very kiId and compliment
airy language in which you have conveyed
to me the decision Of the convention.
l have carefully read the resolutions
adopted by the convention, and most cor
daily concur in every principle and senti>
ment they announce. My opinion upon
all the questions with divide the great
Icontending, parties have been fully express
ed on all suitable occasions. and [ do not
deem it necessary now to reiterate them.
The issue upon which the contest turns is
clear and cannot be obscured or distorted
by the sophistries of our adversaries.
They all resolve themselves into the old
and ever recurring struggle Of few men to
absorb the political men of the nation.
This effort In every conceivable name aud
disguise has always characterized the op-
,pOnents of the Democratic party, but at
no time has the attempt assumed SO daring
a Ishape as in this contest. The adverse
ries of free, constitutional government in
defiance of the express language Of the
constitution, have erected a military des-
potism 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 it's
jurisdiction. The right of trial by jury.
shield Of safety for every citizen, which
have descended to us from the earliest ira
ditions of our ancestors and which our rev.
olutionary fathers fought to secure to their
posterity ever in the fundamental charter
Of our liberties, have been ruthlessly
trampled under foot by the fragment of
congress- Whole states and communities
Of people Of our race have been attainted
convicted, condemned and deprived of their
rights as citizens, without presentment or
trial or witness, but by congressional en-
actment or ec post .fircto laws, and in def
ance of the constitutional prohi biton de-
nying to full and loyal Congress the AT
thority to pass any bill of attainder or er
post facto law. The same ururpating au-
thority has substituted as electors, in place
OF the men of your own race thus illegally
attalnted and DISTINGUISHED, a host of ig>
norant negroes, who are supported in idle
| ness with the public money, and combined
together to strip the white race of their
birth-right through the management of the
freedmen S Bureau, and the emissaries of
the consplrators In other states. And to
complete the oppression, the military pow>
| er OF the nation has been placed at their
disposal, in order to make this barbarism
supreme. The military leader under whose
pres tige this usurping Congress has taken
refuge since the condemnation of their
schemes by the tree people of the north in
the elections OF the last year, and whom
they have selected as their candidate to
shield themselves from the result of thei,
wickedness and crime, has announced his
I; cceptance OF the nomination., and his
Willingness to maintain their usurpations
oven eight millions of white people at the
south, fixed to the earth with his bayonet
| He exclaims, LET US have peace
peace reigns in Warsaw" was the an,
nouncement which hcralcd the doom OF
the liberties of nation. 1.-The empire i.
peace" exclaimed Bonaparte, when free
doom and its defenders expired under the
sharp edge of the sword, The peace tc
which General Grant invites us is the
peace of despotism and death Those whe
fseek to restore the Constitution by execut
ing the will of the people, condenniDg the
reconstruction acts already pronounced II
the elections of last year, and which will,
am convinced, be still more emphaticall,
expressed by the election of the Democratic
candidate as President Of the Uniiec
States, are denounced as revolutionists by
the par tizans of this vindictive Congress
Negro suffrage, which the popular vote o
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
Ohio, Michigan, Connecticut, and othel
states have condemned as expressly
against the letter of the Constitution, mus
stand because their Senators and Repre-
sentatiyes have willed it. If the peopl,
shall again condemn these atrocious meas
ures by the election of the democratic can
didate tor President, they must not be dis
turbed. Although decided to be uncon sti
tutlOnal by the Supreme Court, and al
though the President is sworn to supper
and maintain the Constitution, the will o
a fraction of Congress, reinforced with it
partlZan emssaries, sent to the south ant
supported there by the soldiery, must stane
against the will OF the people and the de
cision of the Supreme Court, and the sol
emu oath of the President to maintain ant
support the Constitution. Is it revolu
tionary in the President to keep inviolat
his oath to sustain the Constitution Is
revolutionary te execute the will of tn
people? Is it revolutionary in the Pres
dent to keep violate his oath to sustain tn
Constitution The false construction o
the vital principles of our government
the last resort of those who would sway an,
supersede our time honored institution
They are revolutionists who attempt to ar
rest this quiet mode of putting aside tn
| military dpspofISn~ and incarnation Of