The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-25

The following is a copy Of Gen. Blair's letter of
acceptance of the Democratic nomination for
vice-president, which was received in Washington
on the 2lst:
Gen George Morgan Chairman Of the Committee Of the
National Democratic Convention:
Gendeme1s-I take the earliest opportunity of
replying TO your letter notifying me of my nOm
nation for ce-president of the United States by
the National Democratic Convention, recently
held in the city of New York.
/ accept, without hesitation, the nomination
rendered in a manner so gratifying, and give you
and the committee my thanks for the very kind
and complimentary language in which you have
conveyed TO me the decision OF the convention.
/ have carefully read the resolutions adopted by
the convention and most cordially concur in every
principle and sentiment they announce. My Opin-
ions upon all the questions which discriminate the
great contending parties have been freely ex-
pressed on all suitable occasions, and l do not
deem il necessary at this time to reterate them.
The issues upon which the contest turns are
clear and can not be obscured or distorted by the
sophistries of our adversaries. They all resolve
themselves into the old, and ever recurring strug.
gle of few, to absorb the political power of the
nation. This effort, under every conceivable
name and disguise, has always characterized the
opponents of the Democratic party, but at no
time has the attempt assumed so open and daring
shape as in this contest. The adversaries OF free
constitutional government, in defiance Of the ex-
press language of the Constitution, have erected
military despotism in ten States OF the Union
in him by the supreme law, and have deprived
the Supreme Court OF its jurisdiction. The right
of trial by jury and that great writ of right the
habeas corpus, the shields Of safety for every
citizen, and which have descend to the United
States from the earliest traditions Of our ancestors
and which our revolutionary fathers fought to Sc.
cure to their posterity forever in the fundamen-
tai charter of our liberties. have been ruthlessly
trampled under foot by the fragment of Con-
gress. Whole States and communities Of people
of our race have been attanted, convicted. con-
demned and deprived Of their rights as citizens,
without presentment, trial or witness, but by
Congressional enactment of er post fdct0 laws,
and in defiance of the constitutional prohibition
denying to full and loyal Congress the authority
to pass any bill of sttsinder or post fdcto law
The same usurping authority substituted as cleo
tors, in place Of the men of your own race thus
illegally attained and disranchissd, host Of ig
norant negroes, who are supported in idleness
with the public money, combined together to
strip the white race OF their birthright, through
the management OF the freedmen's bureau and
the emssares OF consplrators 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 mill
tary lee3er, under whose prestige this usurping
Cons ress has taken refuge since the condemna.
ton 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 wickedness
aud crime has announced his acceptance of the
usurpatons over eight millions of white people at
the South fixed to the earth with his Oayonets. He
exclaims let rs have peace. peace reigns In War
saw" Tas the announcement which heralded the
doom of the liberties of a nation. The Empire
is peace" exclaimed Bonaparte, when freedom
and its defenders expired under the sharp edge of
the sword The peace to which Grant Invites us
is the peace of despotism and death. Those who
seek 10 restore the Constitution by executing the
will of the people, condemniDg the reconstruction
acts, already pronounced in the elections Of last
year, and which will, l am convinced, be still
more emphaticaly expressed by the election of
the Democratic candidate as president Of the
United States, are denounced as revolutonists "
by the partisans Of this vindctve Congress. Me-
gro suffrage, which the popular vote of New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan,
Connecticut, and other States, has condemned as
expressly against the letter of the Constitution,
must stand because their senators and represen-
tives have willed it. If the people shall again
condemn these measures by the election of the
Democratic candidate for president they must not
be disturbed, although decided to be unconsttu-
tional by the Supreme Court, and although the
president is sworn to maintain and support the
Constitution. The will of fraction OF Con-
gress, reinforced with its partisan emissaries sent
to the South, and supported there by the
soldiery, must stand again 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. 1t Is revolutionary"
to execute the will Of the people. IL is "revo-
lutionary" in the president to keep inviolate his
oath to sustain the Constitution. This false con-
struction of the vital principles of our govern
ment is the last resort Of those who would sway
and supersede our time honored institutions. The
nation will say the Constitution must be restored
and the will of the people again prevail. The
appeal for the peaceful ballot TO attend this end
lie not revolution. They make war and revolution
who attempt to arrest this quiet mode Of putting
aside military despoiism and the usurpations Of
fragment of Congress asserting absolute power
over that benign system of regulated liberty left
us by our fathers. This must be allowed to take
its course. This is the only road to peace. Il
will come with the election Of the Democratic
candidate and not with the election of that model
warrior whose bayonets are now at the throats OF
eight millions of people in the South TO compel
the 10 support him as q candidate for the presi-
dency, and to submit to the domination of an
alien race of semi. barbarous men. No perverson
Of truth or sudscity of misrepresentation can
exceed that which halls this candidate in arms
as an angel Of peace.
am, very respectfully, your most obedent
servant, FRANK P. BLAIR.
ANECpoTE OF A PRNCE.-A Vienna paper gives
a singular snecdote respecting Prince Napoleon.