Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-07-23
General blair. Letter OF Accept

General Biair's Letter, of Accept
ance. -
The following is a copy of General
Blair's letter of acceptance of the Demo-
cratic nomination for Vice President,
which has Just been received: y y
"General George w. Morgan, Chairman of
the Committee of the National Demo-
cratic Convention:
s'GENERAL--I take the earliest opportu-
nifty of replying to your letter, notifying
me of my nomination for Vice President OF
the United States, by the National Demo-
cratic Convention recently held in the city
of New York. l accept without hesitation
the nomination rendered in a manner so
gratifying, and give you and the commit-
tee my thanks for the very kind and COM
plimentary language in which you have
conveyed to me the decision of the Con-
vention. -i rl.E -
81 have carefully read the resolutions
adopted by the Convention, and most cor
daily concur in every principle and senti-
ment they announce. My opinions upon
great contending parties have been freely
expressed on all suitable occasions, and L
do not deem 1t necessary at this time to re-
iterate them. ''
"The issue upon which the contest turns
is clear, and cannot be obscured or distort-
ed by the sophistries of our adversaries.
They all resolve themselves, into the old
aud ever-recurring struggle of q few men
TO absorb the political power of the nation.
This effort, under every conceivable name
and disguise, has always characterized the
opponents of the Democratic party, but at
no time has the attempt assumed so open
and daring shape as in this contest.
"The adversaries of free constitutional
government. in defiance of the express lam
guage of the Constitution, have erected a
military despotism in ten States of the Un-
ion, have taken from the President the
power vested in him by the supreme law,
and have deprived the Supreme Court of its
Jurisdiction ; and right OF trial by jury and
the great writ of right, the hdbeds corpus.
the shield of safety for every citizen, and
which has descended to us from the earliest
traditions OF our ancestors, and which our
Revolutionary fathers fought to secure to
their posterity forever in the fundamental
charter ofour liberties, have been ruthless
ly trampled under foot by fragment of q
Congress. Whole States and communities
OF people, of our own race, have been at
tainted, convicted, ,condemned,a ,and deprived
of their rights as citizens, without pre-
sentiment, trial or witness, but by Con-
gressiOnal enactment of e1 post fdcto laws,
and in defiance CT the constitutional pro-
hibition denying to a full and loyal Con-
gress the authority to pass any bill o1
same usurping authority substituted as
electors in place of men of your own race,
thus illegally attainted and disfranchised
host of ignorant negroes, who are sup
ported in idleness with the public money
and combined together to strip the white
race of their birthright, through the man.
agement OF the Freedman's Bureau, and
emissaries of conspirators in other States
and, to complete the oppression, the mill.
tary power of the nation has been placed
at their disposal. In order to make thi:
barbarism supreme, the military leader, un-
der 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, ane
whom they have selected as their candi'
date to shield themselves from the result
OF their wickedness and crime. has an.
nounced his acceptance of the nomination
and his willingness to maintain their usur-
pations over eight millions of white people
at the Sontb, fixed to the earth with MI
bayonets. He exclaims, Let us have
peace.' Peace reigns in Warsaw. wal
the announcement which heralded th'
doom of the liberties of nation. The
Empire is peace,' exclaimed Bonaparte,
when freedom and its defenders expired
under the sharp edge of the sword. Int
peace to which Grant invites us, is the
peace of despotism and death. 4Those VINO
seek to restore the Constitution by execu-
ting the will of the people, condemnini
the reconstruction acts already pronounced
= in the elections of last year, anG
which will, 1 am convinced, be still
more emphatically expressed by the cleo
tion OF the Democratic candidate as Presl'
dent OF the United States, are denounced a.
p. revolutionists by the partisans of this vim
dictive Congress. Negro suffrage, which
the popular vote OF New York, New jersey
%
and other States have condemned as ex
pressly against the letter of the Constitu
tion, must stand, because their Senators anC
Representatives have willed it, If the peo'
pie shall again condemn these measures by
the election of Democratic candidate FOL
President, they must not be disturbed: al
though decided to be unconstitutional by
the Supreme Court, and although the Pres
ident is sworn to support the Constitution
the will of a fraction of Congress, rein
forced with its partisan emissaries sent tt
the South and supported there by the sol
dlery, must stand against the Will OF tht
people, and the decision of the Supreme
Court, and the solemn oath of the Presi
dent to maintain and support the Constitu'
tion. 1t is revolutionary to execute thu
will of the people; it is revolutionary II
! the President to keep inviolate his oath t.
sustain the Constitution. This false con
struction of the vital principles of our Gov
ernment is the last resort Of those whit
would sway and supersede our time
honored institutions. The nation will say
: the Constitution must be restored, and th
will of the people again prevail. The ap
peal to the peaceful ballot to attain thi
end is not revolution. They make war ant
revolution who attempt to arrest this quie
mode of putting aside military despotisn
and the usurpations of a fragment of ;
Congress, asserting absolute power owe
that benign system of regulated liberty
left US by our fathers. This must be allow
ed to take its course. This is the only roat
to peace. 1t will come with the election o
the Democratic candidate, and not will
the election of that mailed warrior who's
bayonets are now, at the thrOats of eigh
millions of people in the South, to compe
them to support him as candidate for tn
Presidency, and to submit to the domina
tion of an alien race OF semi-barbarou
men. No perversion of truth or audacit.
of MISREPRESENTATION can exceed that whicl
halls this candidate in arms as an angel o
peace. I am, very respectfully, your mos
obedient servant. FRANK T. BLAIR"
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