Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1868-10-08
Next Tuesday is Election Day

fore undo the Radical plan Of recon
/ structiOn BY Congressional action. -
Here is a plainland frank admission
that under no possible cOntingencl
Il can the present plan Of FecOnstructi0I
I be changed g 6y Congressional action
that is by repealing, underthe fOrm
of the constitution. any reconstruction
! acts. so that as far as the mere form.
Of law are concerned nothing could
I possibly be gained even to the friends
( Of {" Seymour and Blair, " by theil
4 election, but the power to inauguTate {
revolution. 7 shall not stop to inquire
of the constitutiOnality of the recon
structiOn acts. 1t is not necessary tC
Y do 50 here Until they are disposed OF
I by repeal, or are pronounced by the
4 proper judicial tribunal uRcOnstitu-
/ tiOnal. the are 5indingupona all NOu
say they cannot be repealed-yOu adj
NIT the question is so complicated the
\ court cannot pronounce them uncOn-
stitutiOnal and the remedy yOu upropOse
Is that the President shall openly dis
regard them. What is this, sir, but
anarchy What is il but War2 What
/ Is It but a disregard Ofall constitutional
restraint? What is it but doing, in
the most dangerous and revolving way
just what you accused the Radical
Republicans of doing? For fear I
may be accused Of misquoting you, let
me give your very words and see if
: they do not startle even gOu
Must We submit to it2 (the recon-
structiOn plan of Congress- You say,
How can 1t be OverthrOwn2 II can
Z only be OUcrtlrOJU1 by the authority Of
the Executive, tUhO IS slUOFH TO main
tain the constitution. Was there ever
before in this county such subversive
and daInnable doctrine promulgated?
1t is the cOnsumatiOn of anarchy and
treason combined. 1t marks an epoch
in the history of party action too ter
rible to contemplate. If the people
are ready to throw away their govern
ment, let it be so; but unless they are,
they had better never entrust it 10 you
and your supporters. It really seems
incredible that there can be found in
the United States, outside Ofthe South,
a half dozen men who pin their faith
to such infamous doctrine.
The authority nin the hands of the
Executive indeed to set a law of
Congress at defiance. / shall consider
further of this in my next letter, con-
sciOus / shall make this too long if ]
60 on with the subject now. I close by
quoting the following gresOlutiOn of the
New York convention, which fully
sustains you, General in the sentiment
Won put forth, and which is destructive
of all law, order, and government
itself. No government, except a des-
DOtic one, could live under its effect
an hour, for it makes the Executive
the government. Yet this is the doc
trine said to be held by democrats, in
1868, to sustain free government on
Have men gone crazy, or are they less
weak than wicked? Truly, we are
living in fearful times. Party zeal has
blinded the eyes of the people, and
they must wake up to a realizing
sense Of the misfortune upon them,
or lose their free institutions.
RESOLUTIONS OF THE CONVENTION.
'sThat we regard the reconstruction
acts $50 called of Congress, as such,
as usurpatiOns, and unconstitutional.
REVOLUTIONARY and VOID"
To this resolution Seymour and
Blair have sOlemnly committed
themselves in their letters of accept
ance. They declare in favor of treat
ing the acts Of Congress as VOID
not vOidable, and thus lift the food
gates of blood upon the country. You
have undertaken, gentlemen, a bigjOb,
and we will see how you perform it, If
we encounter so great a calamity as
your election. 1. y. MORRIS.
Quincy, September 23d, 1858,