Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-07-24
BLAIR AND REVOLUTION.

Gen. Frank Z. Blair is the Democratic
nominee for Vice-President. Gen. Blair
'cds Republican, but has, for the last two
or three years, been a bitter Copperhead.
The following letter Of very recent date,
embodies Gen. Blair's bid for the honor be
has achieved It will be seen that he takes
ground distinctly for oYerturning the new
State Governments at the South by force
and violence. A Democratic President
elect is to treat those governments as null
lities, employ the Army to overthrow them,
and allow others to by set up wherein none
but Whites are to have any voice And
then Congress is to be reconstructed ac-
cordingly. Hear him:
WASHINGTON, june 30-CoL Jas. O.
Broddhedd-SR: in reply to your in.
quiTies, beg leave to say that / leave to
you to determine, on consultation with my
friends from Missouri, whether my name
shall presented to the Democratic Conyen-
ton, and to submit the following, as what |
consider the real and only issue in this con-
test: The Reconstruction policy of the
Radicals viii be complete before the next
| election; the States, so long excluded, will
have been admitted suffrage established,
and the caTpet-baggers installed in their
seats in both branches of Congress. There
is no possibility Of changing the political
character of the Senate, even if the Dem
ocrats should elect their President and a
majority of the popular branch of Congress.
| We cannot, therefore undo the Radical plan
| of Reconstruction by Congressional action;
| ~ rr,U aOpfspv,o bar N ffr roraal
Must we submit to it? How can it be
overthrow? Ii can only be overthrown by
! the authority of the Executive, who is sworn
to maintain the Constitution, and who viii
fail to do his duty if he allows the Constitu-
tion to perish under a series of CongressiOn-
al enaetments which are in palpable viola
ton of its fundamental principles
If the President elected by the Demo
cracy enforces or permits others to enforce
Reconstruction acts, the Radicals, by the
accession of 20 spurious Senators and so
Representatives, will control both branches
of Congress, and his administration viii be
as powerless as the present one of Mr..
johnson.
There is but one way restore the Govern
ment and the Constitution, an that is for the
Presidegt-elect to declare these acts null and
Uoid, compel the army TO undo its uSurpdtionS
at the South, disperse the carpet Bog State
Governments, alJOao the White people to re-
organize their O2cR gOUerHnlentS, and elect
Senators and Representatives.. The House
Of Representatives will contain a.maiority of
Democrats from the North, and they will
admit the Representatives elected by the
White people ofthe South, and, with the
cooperation of the President, it will not be
difficult to compel the Senate to submit once
more to the obligation, of the Constitution.
1t will not be able to, withstand the public
Judgment, if distinctly invoked and clearly
expressed on this fundamental issue, and it
is the sure way to avoid all future strife to
put this issue plainly to the country,
| repeat that this is the real and only
question which we should allow to control
us: Shall we submit to the usurpations by
which the Government has been overthrown,
or shall We exert ourselves for its full and
complete restoration? 1t is idle to talk of
bonds, greenbacks, gold, the public faith,
and the public credit. What can a Demo
cratic President do in regard to any of
these, with a Congress in both branches
controlled by the carpet baggers and their
allies? He will be powerless to stop the
supplies by which idle negroes are organi-
zed into political clubs-by which an army
10 ualntdlH6u W pEOlGCL lueSG NdgaDOHQS ID
their outrages upon the ballot These, and
things like these, cat up the revenue and
Of the Government and destroy It's
credit, make the difference between gold and
greenbacks. We must restore the Consti-
tuition before we can restore the finances,
and to do this we must have President
who viii execute the viii of the people by
into dust the usurpation of Con-
orrac5 tho RECOMMENDATION or
l wish to stand before the Convention upon
this issue, but it is one which embraces
49, :; IS ,el'-a IN its LARGE
thing that includes all that is worth con
test, and without it there is nothing that
gives dignity, honor, or value to the strug-
gle. Your friend,
FRANK P. BLAIR
Americans if you want another Civil War
vote the Blair ticket He tells
you just how he will set it going. Mark
him