Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-07-15

when MIR. Lincoln anu inc RcPupie"h P"A'J
concluded they could administer the govern
ment without recognising the Blair family as
having prior right to dictate the policy of
the administration and fill all the offices, the
blair family seeded from the Republican
party, leaving it much improved In ever res
pect bv their absence. Since that time the
Rla;rs have been hard at work to overthrow
the Republican party and It's principes.
Frank p. Blair has endeavored locally to adj
vance this work in Missouri, but as yet W tn
no encouraging success. He and Montgomery
have stumped various states III aid OF ihe
Democrats, and have otherwise contrlbu ed
their support to that party. And now, as
might have been expected, Selling the fist
opportunity, Frank P. Blair appears at. a
candidate for Vice President in the Nav
York Convention This is his bid for the
nomination
From the World of July ).
GEN FRANK P BLAIR DEFINES HIS POSITION.
WASHINGTON, June 80.
Col. James O. BrOadhead.
| DEAR COLONEL In reply TO your in
quiries, | beg leave to say that leave to you
to determine, on consultation with my friends
! from Missouri, whether my name STALL be
presented to the Democratic Convention
and TO submit the following, as what con
slider the real and only issue in this contes.
The Reconstruction policy of the Radicals
will be complete before the next election tie
States, so long excluded, will have been al
mitted negro suffrage established, and tie
carpet baggers installed in their seats N
both branches of Congress. There is no pos
sibility of changing the political character Of
the Senate even if the Democrats should
elect their President and a majority of the
I popular branch of Congress. We cannot,
/ therefore, undo the Radical plan Of Recon
struction by Congressional action the Senate
| will cnntinne a bar To its 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 series of Congressional enac-ments
which are in palpable violation of it's funda-
mental principles.
If the President elected by the Democracy
enforces or permits others to enforce these
Reconstruction acts, the Radicals, by the ac-
cession Of 20 spurious Senators and % Rep
resentatives, Will control both branches OF
Congress, and his administration will he As
powerless the present one of Mr.. johnson.
There is but one way to restore the Gov
eminent and the Constitution, and that's for
I the PresideHt-eeCt 10 declare thcSe acts nUh
and reid, compel the army 10 ttldO its uSarpd-
tonS At the South, disperse me carpef-baq STAR
Governments, dlIo,c tie Uhite people Il re-
organize their Oirn governments. and elect Sen
dtOrS and Representatives,. The House OF
Representatives will contain majority OF
Democrats from the North and they will ad-
NIT the Representatives elected by the W hite
people of the South, and, with the co-opcra-
ton of the President it will not he difficult
to compel the Senate to submit once more to
the obi cations of the Constitution. 1t viii
not be able to Withstand the public Judgment
if distinctly invoked and clearly expressed
on this fundamental issue, and it is the sur,
way 10 avoid all future strife t. put thi'
issue plainly to the country.
| repeat that this is the real and envy
question which we should allow 10 contr,l
Shall We submit TO the usurpation y
which the Government has been oYerthr0wl,
or shall We exert ourselves for its fall ard
complete restoration? 1t is idle to talk +
bonds, greenbacks, gold, the public tait,
and the public credit W hat can "a pcm,-
cratic President do in regard to any of these,
with a Congress in both branches controlled
by the carpet baggcrs and their allies T.
Will be p0werless u stop the supplies b.
which idle negroes are organized into Volit-
cal clubs-by which an army is maintained
to protect these vagabonds in their outrage,
upon the ballot. These. and things Xix
these, eat up the revenues and the resource,
Of the Government and destroy its credit
make the difference between gold and green
backs. We must restore the Constitution
before we can restore the finances, and to 10
this We have D-,-FI.,+ l..
cute the will of the people by tramulinr in
TO dust the usurpatiou Of C6n5ress known
as the Reconstruction acts. | wish to stand
before the Convention upon this issue, but il
is one which embraces everything else that
is of value in its large and comprehensive
results 1t is the one thing that includes all
that is worth contest, and without it there
is nothing that gives dignity, honor, or value
to the struggle.
Your friend, FRANZ p. BLAIR.
The letter was entirely satisfactory t. the
convention, and F. p b. was unanimously
nominated upon the first ballot His name
was first presented to the Convention by The
rebel Gen Preston Of Kentucky. Gen Wade
Hampton of South Carolina. ten. Kemrer
Of Virginia. Gen. Forrest OF Tennessee. ten
Smith Of Texas, all = distinguished Southern
soldiers that is. rebels-supporte Blair,
and he was, of course. irresistible. notwith-
standing the conservative soldiers and sail
requested the convention to nominate
Gen. Ewing of Kansas. Blffrs letter fired
the Southern heart as we'll as the Demo-
cratic heart generally. Ills opposition to
carpet baggers, he has probably for
gotten the . carpet baggers'' who attempted
to fire the New York Hotels-called out what
little enthusiasm there was left in the dele
tgation,s on.the sixth day Of the convention,
and his promise of violent executive measures
to restore the Democratic party to power at
the South, completed his conquest Of the con
vention. So the Democratic party have got
the Blairs, or rather the Blairs have got the
Democratic party,-and they are likely to
have good time of it. We certainly could
not have wished our political adyersaries any
more troublesome alliance, or one less likely
to being the party any accession of respectable
voters, or any assurance of success. The
party that ties the Blair family about It's
neck, ought to sink deeper than plumnet ever
sounded, and the people Will take care, next
November, that it does
MI. BecChcT's opinion of Grant and
Chase.