The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-07-22
WASHINGTON.
MISSISSIPPI ELECTION.

WASHINGTON.
MISSISSIPPI ELECTION.
WASHINGTON, July 2l.-Gen. Gillem ha
submitted to Gen. Grant the report of his &C
ton as regards the condition of Mississippi
under the reconstruction acts He states tn
result of the late election: For the Constitu
ton 1921, against 63800, being a majorit,
against the Constitution of 1929. Gen. Gillen
says:-"As is generally tue case in elections
fraud is charged by both parties All report!
and complaints bearing on the subject are
herewith transmitted for the consideration o
the proper authorities, merely remark ing that
am satisfied the election was free and fair from
intimidation or the influence of fraud as il
would be possible to expect under existing cir.
cumstances, and that no undue influence was
exercised at the polls. If intimidation wa.
used at all it was beyond the power OF the mil
itary to reach it As the defeat of the Copsti.
tuition renders it possible that the State may
Tor time remain under military control, |
consider it my duty to call attention to the al
most impossbility of finding persons to fill va
cancies in the civil offices who possess the nee
essary attachments and who are qualified I'M
der existing laws 1 would therefore recon-
mend that section 8, of the act of July 49, 1867
be so modified as to render eligible to office
persons on the list of registered and qualified
voters to fill vacancies which exist or may oc-
cur in the State or municipal offices.
PATIENTS.
Two hundred and forty-four patents were is
sued from the Patent Office during tie week
ending to-day. Three hundred and twenty
five applications, and sixty caveats were filed
during the same period.
A@ ASSIGNMENTS.
Brevet Major Gen. Kicker, Quartermaster
General, is assigned to duty as Chief Quarter
master of the department of Philadelphia;
Brevet Maj. Gen. Ingalls, has been ordered 10
rpn0rt To RraVaf Mai Can MannWall
manding the Department of the East, as Chief
Quartermaster of that department.
o. .- NOMINATIONS.
The Presdet sent in the following nomina-
lions to the Senate to-day: James w. Weeks
OF New York, Consul at Nantes; Dorenee At
water, Consul at Sychelles; William b. Storm
of New York, Consul at Leeds; Moses E. Flan-
lgan, Assessor of thu 32d District of New York
In place of the nomination of Charles III. Hill
withdrawn; S. Ferguson Beach, U. S. Attor-
ney for Virginia. A large number of nomina-
tons were also made to fill post offices at un-
important points. less gf-afs
MIR. BURLINGAME AND CONGRESS-
New York, July 21-The Herald's Wash
ington dispatch says Mr. Burlingame contem-
plates giving grand reception to both Houses
of Congress and the leading officials of govern
ment as soon as the treaty between the Empe-
ror of China and the United States shall have
been ratified by the Senate. .+
Southern members and Senators are urging
Congress not to adjourn but to take recess
till October. 1t is not likely it will do so.
THE NEW NOMINATION FOR THE AUSTRIAN MIN
IsTRY.
The Tribune's dispatch says H. M Watts
the person selected for the Austrian mission is
a Philadelphian of whom no one appears to
know anything. He is said to be bitter Dem
ocrat with plenty of money, and it is surmis
ed the latter commodity secured his appoint
ment He is anxious to go abroad for his
health and would like the Austrian mission so
that he might make Vienna his headquarters
during his stay in Europe. His chances of
confirmation are very slim. The indications to-
night are that Congress will finally adjourn
this week or early next.
STEVENS ENTERS THE DEMOCRATIC DOORS"
The Worlds dispatch says that Mr.. Stevens
says in private " hat he has said in public that
he regards the New York platform and nomi-
nations as far stronger than the Chicago plat
form and nominations. He is disguised with
his party, their candidate and their pro-
gramme. a8se rsr ..s.
.ai4 A RECESS PROBABLE. 7.fa
A canvass OF the Republican members of the
House of Representatives to-day on the ques-
ton OF adjournment or taking recess till
September or October next showed that there
were 80 members for recess against % for ad-
journment.
GEN. BLARs LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE.
The following is copy of Gen. Blairs letter
of acceptance of the Democratic nomination
for the Vice Presidency, which has just been
received here by Gen. Morgan, chairman of
the National Democratic Convention:
General:-I take the earliest opportunity of
replying to your latter notifying me of my
nomination for Vice President of the United
States by the National Democratic Conven-
ton, recently held in the city of New York. L
accept without hesitation the nomination ten
dered in 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 care
fully read the resolutions adopted by the
convention, and most cordially concur ia every
principle and sentiment they announce. My
opinion upon all the great questions which d.
H Slae tne great e9ntendfng parties 1tI,s has
sions, and do not deem it necessary at this
time to reiterate them. Theissues upon which
the contest turns are clear and cannot be OBJ
scured by the sophistries of our adversaries.
They all resolve themselves into the old and
ever recurring struggle of few men 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 at
tempt assumed shape so open and daring as
IN this contest The adversaries of Tree and
constitutional government in defiance of the
express language of the Constitution have
erected military despotism in ten of the
States of the Union; have taken from the
President the power vested in him by the SUI
preme law, and deprived the Supreme Court
of its jurisdiction, the right of trial by jury
and the great writ of right-the hdbeds corpus,
the shield of safety for every citizen-and
which have descended to us from the earliest
traditions of our ancestors, and which our rev.
dictionary fathers sought to secure to their pos
terity forever. The fundamental charter
of our liberties has been tTampled under foot
IvO Ewnrx aAvNk nF ,n1o .H
our race have been attainted, convicted and
condemned OF their rights as citizens without
presentment or trial or witnesses but by Con-
gressional enactment of expost facto laws, and
IN defiance OF the constitutional prohibition,
denying even to full and loyal Congress the
authority to pass any bill of attainder or ex-
post facto law The same usurping authority
has substituted as electors in place of the men
OF our own race, thus Illegally attained and
disfranchised, host of ignorant negroes.
who are supported in idleness with the public
money, and combined together to strip the
white race of their birthright through the
management of Freedmen's Bureau and ennis
sarles OF the conspirators 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 acknowledgements. The
military leader, under whose prestige this
usurplng Congress has taken refuge since the
condemnation of their schemes by the free
people of the North in the elections of the last
candidate to shield themselves from the result
of their own wickedness and crime, has an
nounced his acceptance of the nomination and
his Willingness to maintain their usurpatOns
over eight millions of white people at the
South fixed to the earth with his bayonets He
exclaims Let us have peace" Peace reigns
in Warsaw" was the announcement which
heralded the downfall of the liberties of the
nation. THE empire is at peace" exclaimed
Bonaparte when freedom and its defenders
were exposed under the sharp edge of his
sword. The peace to which Grant invites us is
the peace OF despotism and DEATH Those who
seek to restore the Constitution by condemnins
the reconstruction acts already pronounced in
the elections OF last year, and which will, am
convinced, be still more emphatically express
ed by the election of the Democratic candidate
as President of the United States are de-
nounced as revolutionists by the partizans of
this vindictive Congress. Negro suffrage,
which the popular vote of New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan
Connecticut, and other States, have CON
demned as expressly against the let
ter OF the Constitution must stand be-
cause their Senators and Representatives
have willed it. Ii the people shall again con-
denim the atrOcOus measures by the election
OF the Democratic candidate for President
they must not be disturbed although decided
to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court
and although the President, sworn to ma in.
tain and support the Constitution. the will OF
fraction of a Congress reinforced with its
partizan emissaries sent to the South and sun
ported there by the soldiery must stand against
the will of the people and the decision of the
Supreme Court and the solemn oath of the