Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-07-18
p1A1R AND Rrvo1ur1oN.

Gen. Frank p. Blair is the Democratic
nominee for Vice. President. Gen. Blair fcas
q Republican, but has for the last two or
three wears been a bitter Copperhead. The
following letter, of very recent date, en-
bodies Gen. Blair's bid for the honor he has
achieved. 1t will be seen that he takes
ground distinctly for overturning the new
state Governments at the South by force
and violence A Democratic president
electp is to treat those governments as null
lities, employ the Army to overthrow them,
and allow others to be set up wherein none
but whites are to have any voice. And
them Congress is to be RECONSTRUCTED" &C
cordingly. Hear him (:
From tho World Of July3.
GEN. FRANK r. BLAIR DEFINES HIS POSITION.
WAsntNaToN, June 3d.
Col. Jas. o. Broadhedd. f.
DEAR COLONEL. !: In reply to your inquir-
les, / beg leave to say that leave to you to
determine, on consultation with my friends
from Missouri, whether my name shall be
presented 10 the Democratic Convention,
and to submit the following, as what |
consider the real and only issue in this con.
test The Reconstruction policy of the
Radicals will be complete before the next
election the States, SO long excluded, will
have been admitted; negro suffrage establish.
ed, anG the carpet-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 Demo.
Gratis should elect their President and q
majority of the popular branch of Congress.
No f1, d.,
o. Reconstruction by Congressional action !;
the Senate will continue bar to its repeal.
Must we submit to it2 How can it be
overthrown 1t can only be overthrown
by the authority of the Executive, who is
sworn to maintain the Constitution, and
who will fail to do his duty if he allows the
Constitution to perish under a series of
Congressional enactmeIts which arc in
palapable violation of its fundamental prin
ciples. ... ...,...
If the President elected by the Democracy
enforces or permits Others to enforce these
Reconstruction acts, the Radicals, by the
accession of 20 spurious Senators and 80
Representatives, will control both branches
Of Congress, and his administration will be
as powerlcss as the present one of Mr.. John
son. ...-.-- ....
There is but one way to restore the Gov
eminent and the Constitution, and that is
| for the President-elect to declare these acts
null and roid, compel the army to undo its
usugpations at tile South, disperse the carpet
bag, State GOrernmehts aIJOu The White poo-
pie to reorganise their o,on gogernments, and
elect Senators and Representatives.. The
House of Representatives will contain ma
jority of Democrats from the North, and
they will admit the Representatives elected
by the White people of the South, and, with
the Cooperation of the President, it 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
the public Judgment, if distinctly invoked
and clearly expressed, on this fundamental
| issue, and it is the sure way to avoid all
futher strife TO put this issue plainly to the
country.
repeat that this is the real ami only
question which we should allow to control
us: Shall we submit to the usurpations
| by which the Government has been over
thrown, 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 n Democratic President do in regard
to any of these, with Congress in 10th
branches controlled by the carpet baggers
and their allies He will be power,ess to
stop the supplies by which idle negroes are
organized into political clubs-by which an
army is maintained to protect these vaga.
bonds in their outrages upon the ballot.
These, and things like these, eat up the
revenue and resources of the Government
and destroy its credit, make the difference
between gold and greenbacks. We must
restore the Constitution before we can re-
store the finances, and to do this we must
have President who will execute the will
of the people by tramping into dust the
usurpations, of Congress, known as the
Reconstruction acts. l wish to stand be-
fore the Convention upon this issue, but it is
one which embraces everything else that is
of value in its large and comprehensive re.
suits. 1t is the one thing that includes all
that is worth a contest, and without it there
is nothing that gives dignity, honor, or value
to the struggle. Your friend
FRANK p. BLAIR.
Americans IL you want another Civil
War inaugurated, vote the Blair ticket He
tells you just how he will set it going
Mark him .'J
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