Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-08-05

even to full a1d loyal Congress the au-
thority 10 pass any bill of attainder or er
post facto law. The same usurping author
ity has substituted as electors 10 place Of
the men of our race, thus illegally attaint-
ed and disfranchised, host of ignorant
negroes who are supported in idleness
with the public money, and combined to-
gether to strip the white race of their
birth-right though the management of the
freedmen's bureaus and emissaries of con-
spirators in other States, and, to complete
the oppression, the military power of the
nation has been placed at their disposal
in order to make this barbarism supreme.
The military leader under 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, and whom they
have selected as their candidate to shield
themselves from the result Of their own
wickedness and crime, has announced his
acceptance of the nomination, and his
willingness to maintain their usurpaions
over eight millions of white people of the
South, fixed to the earth with his bayo-
nets. He exclaims-"Let US have peace;"
Peace reigns in Warsaw" was the an
nouncement which heralded the doom ofa
nation. "The empire is peace, exclaim-
ed Bonaparte when freedom and its de-
tenders expired under the sharp edge of
his sword The peace to which Grant in
vites US is the peace of dcspotism and
death. Those who seek to restore the
Constitution by executing the will OF the
people, condemning the Reconstruction
acts already pronounced in the elections of
last year and which will, am convinced,
be still more emphatically expressed by
the election of the Democratic candidate
as President of the United States,) are
denounced as rcvolutionlsts by the parti-
sans of this yindictive Congress. Negro
suffrage { which the popular vote of New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Michigan, Connecticut and other States
has condemned expressly against the let
ter of the constitution) must stand, be
cause their Senators and Representatives
have wilIed it. If the people shall again
condemn these atrocious measures by the
election of Democratic candidate for
President they mnst not be disturbed
Although decided to be unconstitutional by
the Supreme, court and although the Presi-
dent has sworn to maintain and support
the constitution, the will of fraction Of a
Congress, reinforced with its partisan ennis
ssries sent to the South and supported
there by the soldiery, must stand against
the will of the people and the decision OF
the Supreme Court and the solemn oath
of the President to maintain and support
the constitution Is it revolutionary to
execute the will of the people is 1t 'revo-
lutionary to execute the Judgement of the
Supreme Court is it revolutionary in the
President to keep inviolate his oath to
sustain the constitution This false con-
struction of the vital principle of our gov
ernment is the last resort of those who
would have their arbitrary reconstruction
sway and supersede our timc-honored in
stitutions. The nation will say the con,
stitution must be restored and the will of
the people AGAIN prevail. The appeal to
the peaceful ballot to attain this is not
war, is not revolution. They make war
and revolution who attempt to arrest this
quiet mode of putting aside military des
potism and the usurpstons ola fragment
of Congress, asserting absolute power
over that benign system of regulated lib
erty left us by our fathers. This must be
allowed to take its course. This is the
only road to peace. 1t will come with the
election of the Democratic candidate, aud
not with the election of that mailed war
rior whose bayonets are now at the throats
of eight millions of people in the South to
compel them to support him as a candi-
date for the Presidency, and to submit TO
the domination of an alien race of semi
barbarous men. No perversion of truth
or audacity of Misrepresentation can ex-
ceed that which halls this candidate in
arms as an angel of peace.
Yours Respectfully
FRANK p. BLAIR