The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-03

senJe0 10 the Democratic Convention, an TO
submit the following, as what consider the
real and only issue in this contest:-rhe recon
struction policy of the radicals will be CO nplete
before the next elections; the States so long eX-
cluded, will have been admitted; negro suffrage
established, and the carpet baggers Installed ia
their seats In both branches OF Congress. There
Is no possibility OF changing the political Guar
scter of the Senate, even if the Democrats
should elect their President and q majority OF
the popular branch of Congress. We caunOt
therefore, undo the radical plan of reconstruc
tion by Congressional action; the Senate will
continue 81 bar TO It's repeal. Must We submit
To iH How can IL be overthrowu? II clu only
be overtbrown by the authority of the Exesu
tive, who is sworn to maintain the COnstitu
tion and who Will fail To do his duty If n
allows the Constitution TO perish under a serie
of Congressional euactments which are iu pat
pable violation of its fundalnental principles.
III the President elected by the Democracy
enforce S, or permits others to enforce thess re-
construction acts the radicals, by the aGces
sion oftwenty spurious Senators and fly Repre-.
gtess, anu his administration will be as power
less as the present one OF Mr.. Johnson.
There is but one way to restore the Govern
ment and the Constitutions and that is for the
President elect to declare these acts null and
void, compel the army to undo its usur rpsttonS
at the South, dlsperse the carpet.bag state Gov
ernments, allow the white people to reorganize
Representatives. The House of Representa-
lives will contain a majority of Democrats from
the North, and they Will admit the Representa-
tives elected by tue white people Of the SJutn.
and, with the cooperation of the President, IL
will not be difficult TO compel the Senate to
submit once more to the obligations OF the Con.
stitution. 1t will not be able to Withstand tue
public Judgment, If distinctly invoked and
| clearly Expressed on this fundamental. issue;
and 1t is the sure way TO avoid all future strife
| to put this issue plainly 10 the country.
~ repeat that this is the real and only ques-
tion which we should allow to control US: Shall
| we submit to the usurpations by which tue Go
vernment has been overthrown? or shall we
exert ourselves for its full and complete restora
tton? II is idle to talk OF bonds, greenbacKs.
gold, the public faith, and the public credit.
! What can q Dem 0crattc President do in regard
to any of these with a Congress in both branches
controlled by the earpet-baggers and their
| allies? He will be powerless TO stop the sup
| plies by which idle negroes are organized into
| political clubs-by which an army is maintained
upon the ballot These and things like these.
| eat up the revenues and resources of the Go.
| yernment aud destroy It's credit. make the diff
| ference between gold aud greenbackS. We
must restore the Constitution before we can
| restore the finances, aud to do this we must
have President who will execute the will of
| The people by trampling into dust the usurpa-
tions OF Congress, known as the Reconstruction
acts. / wish to stand before the Convention
| upon this issue but it is one which embraces
everything else that Is of value in its large and
| comprehensive results. Ii is ahe one thing
that includes ali that is worth a contest, and
without it there is nothing that gives dignity,
"Your friend, FRANK P BLAIR"
The author of this manifesto is not merely
| the Democratic candidate for Vice-President-
he was made such by writing as above. Be-
fore his letter appeared, he had not a chance
OF nomination. Bat it was put forth just as
the delegates were coming together, and Wade
Hampton, Cobb Forrest Semmes & Co., at
once saw that here was their man. So they
had only to get into the Democratic platform
a declaration that the Reconstruction acts are
unconstitutional revolutionary and void, I"
ana nominate Blair, and they had the whole
party in their tolls. General Wade Hampton
has told us how he worked to get that decara-
tion into their PLATFORM and succeeded. Here
/ 1t is: -
."We do declare and resolve. that ever since
| the people of tne United States threw off all
| subjectioA to the British crown the privilege
and trust of suffrage have belonged to the seve
raj States and have been granted, regulated,
and controlled exclusively by the political
| power of each State respectively, and that any
attempt by Congress, on any pretext whatever.
to deprive any State OF this right. or interfere
power, which can find no warrant In The Con
| stipution and, II sanctioned by the people, will
snsvert T our form OF and can only
government, in which the separate existence OF
the States will be entirely absorbed. and an
| unqualified despotism be established in place
of "A Federal Union of coequaI States; and that
we regard the Reconstruction acts ESQ called of
Congress, as such usurpations, and unconstiCu-
tional, revolutionary, and void"
Here is the Rebel programme, more fully
elaborated in General Blair's letter above. The
election of Seymour and Blair commits them
to that programme, and they will be required
to execute it. Blair will do it joyfully; Sey-
mour haltingly but, after swallowing the
greenback swintle, he can stick at nothing.
See how he exposed the true character and
necessary effects of this swindle in his speech
in our city few weeks before the meeting OF
the Democratic Convention r-
"All the funds of savings banks and life insu
rance companies are not put In Government,
bonds, but they hold an amount which would
cripple or ruin them If the bonds were not paid
or II they are paid in debased paper. If we add
the trusts of widows and orphans, we find thai
2 800 900 persons are interested in Govern ment
bonds who are not capitalists. and who are com
pulsory owners at present prices under the ope
ration of our laws"
Men and brethren think of these things