Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-08-21
10 b. the beneficiary of the fraud and

what specthcie 'nese uhnshcuons
exhibit 10 tne world naving secrIeu
themselves power IN 'ne p,esen' Oon
gress by sysiemanc iaisehood ana I'S.p'
denying vociierous'y rom MAINE 70 "a
iiornia that tney Claimed or 'n'enueu ~
exercise power over suufage ~ .ne
states, they 'mmeo'a,ely usu.p 'nas VIZ
power; ana wnen tne peoP,e pe,SSe.se
!hey nave 1een peusyea' anu anu os s',Iam
tnem 10 tne e,ecuons wnlcn .ono".
instead OF pausing 10 .he,r Iaiee. ~
usurpauons, IN ae'eisnco W VI. ~
mspas Oh ,ne peop'e' hey nu,'y W ..e
WORK. ana tell tne peopie lney can'v'
undo ~, however ,ney %eg coaue ~
ana appeal 10 usnera, uran' anu mo
army 10 iasten /" upon 'nem'
General Grant was no favorite Of the
Republican party. He had no symps'
thy with them in the ideas on which the
party originated. He became q Demo.
crat on the slave question, believing that
party sustained the institution, and
scented negro suffrage scarcely more
than year ago, What, then, is the
bond between him and the party which
is so loud In proclaiming enfrancbise-
ment to the blacks, and their clamor
about anchisement is as false as their
other professions have recalled. Men
who deceive the people as they have
done, and disregard as they do the
remonstrances of the people they repre-
sent against their gross violations Of the
Constitution they have sworn to obey,
do not cherish the freedom or The rights
of any class of people, white or black.
Besides. their devotion to black suffrage
is confined to the South, where, by
bureau and army organization, it serves
to subject the free men of the North,
whom they have outraged, and now defy.
There is but one solution of this new
alliance. 1t is, that Grant and his new
associates concur in maintaining abso-
lutism by the sword, by which the white
race in the South is disfranchised aud
sham suffrage established TO control the
electoral college. .1 .sf
Two efforts were made by some of the
Radicals in the House of Representatives
during the last year to save themselves
and the country from falling under the
power of the sword, and yet to preserve
their party supremacy by the use of the
electoral vote of the Southern States.
One was proposition made in the July
session of 1867, to put the South under
civil commission elected by Congress
the other was made in the early part OF
the present session, and was proposir
ton to turn these States over to civil
provisional governments. But the sup
port OF General Grant and his army was
felt to be indispensable to the suppression
of free governments there, and to make
| good the fraud contemplated oy the y
against the whole alternative but to sur
render to Grant, and to fall into ranks
behind him, IN the hope OF sharing IN
the power conquered by his army, AIDED
by their frauds. party organizations, and
every sordid stfiaence which the uneon-
trolled use OF the wealth OF the nation
could command.
Their purposes are made still more
apparent by the temper with which they
now confront their adversaries.
The Democratic party inviting all who
adheres to the Constitution to unite with
them as equals in the effort to restore it,
has presented as candidate for the
Presidency the great statesman OF New
York, a man distinguished by his pro-
found knowledge Of the Constitution,
and bis lifelong reverence for 1t, and by
bis great ability as civil magistrate in
peace and in war, one well known fact,
is all shall pause to adduce to charac :
terize his political course. q
Although a political opponent of Pres
ident Lineoln's. he received the Presi.
for the yiror and energy with which, in
the discharge of his duties as Governor
to the State of New York. he had brought
the whole mower of his State to the sup
mort Of he federal ADMINISTRATION in
conducting the war for the preservation
of the TTnion. and to show that their inyi.
taf;on m ali who were true 10 the Consti
tution in this hour of its peril to unite
with them as equals was not an unneces-
sary phrase. thsy conferred the nom
;nation for Vice President upon Gen.
Rlair. who had been a Republican from
the organization of that marty until the
SIose Of the war.
Gen. Blair had been rendered the
nomination for the same Office by those
who had the power to confer it in the
Convention at Chicago in 1860; but he
aid not like the association proposed,
and. therefore. declined it he was the
verv first man in the United States to
take mn arms against accession. and had
served the country to. the end of the war
bnt when the Radical party turned the
mower given them by the people to pre-
serve the Union against the Constitu-
tion. he renounced all fellowship with
them. and united his efforts with the De-
mocracy. then in the minority, to save
N, Constitution. With these candidates
the Convention presented a declaration