New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-10-17
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE SATURDAY, OCTOBER II. 1868.

the South and With the co0peraton Of the President Il
will BE- dnicuItt 10 tomvel tho Shate % srbnt once
,noe 10 The ohiitariohs Of the Constitution 1t Will not
he able 10 withstand the public Judgment II distinctly IN
voked and clearly expressed on this frudanenta issue
and t is the sure way 10 aVou an ile se 10 pun ehe
| Issue plainly TO the country :
Irepea that tins is the real and only question which
we should allow control us Shall we submit to the
usurpations by which the Government has been over
thrown shall We exert ourselves for it, fan and com
pete retoraton 1t idle TO talk Of bonds greenbacks
gold the public faith and the public credit What can
Democrac President do in regard 20 any Of these, with
a(ongress in both branches controlled by the carpet
bageers and their alliesi He will be powerless TO stop
| the supplies by which idle negroes are organized into
political clubs by when an army Is maintained 20 pro
iect these vagabonds IN their outrages upon the ballot
These things like these eat up the and re-,
the difference between gold and greenbacks We must
restore the Constitution before restore the
| finances and to this we have President who
| will execute the will OF the people by tramplng
Reconstruction acts wish TO stand before the Conven
tion upon this but II Is which embraces every
results II is the one thing that includes all that worth
contest aud without II there is nothing that gives dig
nifty. honor on value to tile struggle. Your friend;
| We offer no comment. The letter speaks
| for itself. We simply ask, What is "uncandid,
or unfair ia our own or other Republican
comments on itf Wherein does it differ from
Wade HamptOn's programme, as outlined in
his speech at Charleston ratifying Che Seymour
ana DIdDf UCkcJI w HeTcln uOtS IL uluci hVhi
b. II. Hilrs declaration that the election OF
Seymour would be understood at the South as
decision by the people that the new State
governments are "not established '"
| Wherein does it differ indeed from the Demo
cratic PLATFORM The trainers OF that docu-
ment, elected from among the delegates rs the
most iudicims and representative Democrats
from every State in the Union, prepared, and
the Tammany Convention, amid tho widest
demonstrations of universal approval, adopted,
rs a part of their National declaration OF prin-
ciples for their candidates in this campaign to
stand on. the following:
And we do declare and resolve that ever since the
people OF the United states threw on an sp2ec9n W
have belonged 20 the several states that we regard
the called) Of Congress rs usr
patons, aud unconstitutional revolutionary, and void"
This ought to be explicit enough to protect
Gen. Blair from any charge of party unsound-
ness, or Republicans from any charge of unfair
ness in accepting his utterances as authoritative.
But il has been made palmer still. Here is the
history, by one of the members OF the Platform
Committee, of the preparation and adoption o.
that plank. We quote from the speech of
Gen. Wade Hampton at Charleston on the 24th
of July, as reported in The Charleston Mercury:
at was my good fortune 10 be appointed one Of tho
Committee that framed that platform ana as IL may DO
interesting you 10 know how We arrived az the o0hou
Of the particnlar As YOU are aware there upon
that Committee delegate fiOm each state and when
Among other resolutions, there were offered some
whnh declared that tho night OF suffrage belonged To-
the states. announced to us that they embraced
good Democratic doctrine agreed With the Commit,
tee, but said II seemed 20 me that they had omitted
one very pOnt and that Is where the States;
that necessary to guard aud limit that declaration
that could tell ut what period OF our history We
gnu 40 hack au nd "a a
with view. then. TO meet this asked tAat they mght
under the Constitution up 1865. some Differences OF
opinion expressed among tho Committee IA 10 tho
policy Of this point bat all were united IN tho desire OF
producing harmony And must say that our fellow
citizens Of the North met VI IN mat Committee 49, every
where else, With the utmost co'iy ahd gvon viii ny
expressed their willingness 90 afford ne al thnt we might
desire IN restoring our safs 20 G umH rnt hn G
cprocate and knew that represented the FEELINGS OF
hvs The senator fro, Maryinnd which declared that
tie rights o suffrage belonged TO The political powers OF
simple words They agreed and took tho resolutions,
which you will ind embodied IN the platform, and
added 20 them. and We declare that the reconstruction
acts OF Congress unconstitutional revolutionary aud
void.' lCheersl That was my plank IN the plat
party had pledged themselves Ia tbat-when they
had declared that these acts were nnconstitntlonal
patience uHnl that PARTY would he triumphant, and
rI Re g nc Of .onfsse belonged Is The states believed
that u would e our policy !" regulate u hero as wond
we only wanted party pledge itself 10 the solemn
that 'unconstisnti"ns rcyo
every membor Of the Comntee land the wiumcst men
la IL from the North came forward ana pledged
themselves carry 10 out 90 tho end CheerH must
cay they met us IN spirit not only OF klndness ana
consider atOn but with the utmost msgnanimiiy. Aud
not only these sentiments prevail among the dele
gate. of convontion. but they animated 20 an
soldiers sailors OF tho Federal army ana navy VINO,
believing That they werr right ~ We believed We were
night, fought for thelr country as we did Tor onrs
The Democrats arc welcome to throw Frank
Blair overheard If they choose. 1t is not of
the slightest consequence, so far as the Vice
Presidency of the United States for the next
four years is concerned, what they do. But
we protest against this sncaking way ct doing
il under false pretenses. The trouble Is not
with their candidates--at least not with Blair.
lie honestly and manfuly says what they mean.
II the Democrats now wish, in the light OF
their October disasters TO abandon the revolution
ary position of their platform, we shall be glad
10 chronicle it-not as a fact OF present politl-
cal weight. but as cheering token OF deser-
tion from the ranks which still keep up the
fight for the Lost Cause. But they must not
make Blair scapegoat because he has not
been hypocrite; and they must not accuse
the Republican press of slandering them in
honestly quoting their own declarations. III
Blair ard his allies have been inexperienced,
please specify by whom and wherein!
OH TERMS ARE UNCONDITIONAL SUR
RENDER.
Loud and deep are the curses hurled from