The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1868-07-24
IL EVOLUTION.
General Blair's Letter of Accept
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WAsHINGTos, July u.

WASHINGTON, July 81.
The following is a copy of Genera
BlaiT's letter of acceptance of tn,
Democratic nomination for Vic,
President, which has just been re
ceived:
General George w. Morgan Chair
man of'the Committee ofthe Nationa
Democratic COnpeution:
General take the earliest oppor
.aD,.y Q. reIlylSh y iS S fsds Tor wee n
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 SC
gratifying, aud 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.
l have carefully read the resolu.
tions adopted by the Convention and
most cordially concur in every prin-
ciple and sentiment they announce
My opinion upon all the questions
which discriminate the great contend.
ing parties have been freely express
ed on all suitable occasions, and do
not deem it necessary at this time to
reiterate them.
The issues upon Shich the contest
turns are clear and cannot be obscur-
ed or distorted by the sophistries OF
our adversaries. They all resolve
Themselves into the old, and ever re-
curing struggle Of few, to absorb
the political power of the nation.
This effort, under every conceivable
name and disguise, has always char
acterized the opponents of the Dem
ocratic party, but at no time has the
attempt assumed SO open and caring
a shape as in this contest. The ad-
versaries OF free Constitutional Coy
ernment, in defiance of the express
language of the Constitution, have
erected military despotism in ten
States of the Union; have taken from
the President the power vested in
him by the supreme law, and have
deprived the Supreme Court ofits ju-
risdiction. The right of trial by ju-
ry and that great writ of right, the
ha5eds corpus, the shields of safety
for every citizen, and which have de-
scended to the United States from
the earliest traditions of our ances-
ters, and which our revolutionary
fathers tonight to secure to their pos
terity forever in the fundamental
character of our liberties, have been
ruthlessly trampled under foot by
the fragment of Congress. Whole
States and communities of people of
our race have been attainted, convict
ed, condemned and deprived of their
rights as citizens, without present
ment, trial, or witness, but by Con-
gressional enactment of er post tacto
laws, and in defiance of the constitu
tional prohibition denying to a full
and loyal Congress the authority to
pass any bill of attainder or &c post
tacto law. The same usurping au-
thority substituted as electors in place
of the men of your own race, thus il
legally attained and DISTINGUISHED, q
host Of ignorant negroes, who are
in idleness with the public
money, combined together to strip
the white race of their birthright,
through the management of the
Bureau and the emissa-
ries of conspirators in other States.
And to complete the oppression, the
power of the nation has
been placed at their disposal in order
to make this barbarism supreme.
The military leader, under whose pres
.ige 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
'ear, and whom they have selected
IS their candidate to shield them
elves from the result of their wick
dness and crime, has announced his
Of the nomination, and