The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-07-23
General BIair's Letter of Acceptance

YOU want. ManulaCIuIeu ny I' DUN
ing, No. / Odd Fellows Hall.
General BIair's Letter of Acceptance.
The following is a copy of General
BLAIR's letter of acceptance of the Dem
ocratic nomination for Vice President,
which has just been received:
General George ". Morgan, Chairman Of
the Committee Of the National Democrat
&c C0nreRtioR
GENERAL take the earliest oppOr-
tunity of replying to your letter, notify
ing me of my nomination for Vice Pres
ident of the United States, by the Ma
tional Democratic Convention 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.
81 have carefully read the resolutions
adopted by the Convention, and most
cordially concur in every principle and
sentiment they announce. My opinions
upon all the questions which discrimin-
ate the great contending parties have
been freely expressed on all suitable
occasions, and do not deem it neceSsa-
~ at this time to reiterate them.
"The issue upon which the contest
turns is clear, and can not be obscured
or distorted by the sophistries Of our
adversaries. They all resolve them
selves into the old and ever-recurring
struggle of a few men to absorb the po-
litical power of the nation. This effort,
under every conceivable name and dis
suise, has always characterized the OPP
ponents of the Democratic party, but at
ne time has the attempt assumed so
open and daring shape as in this con-
test.
"The adversaries of free constitution.
al government, in defiance of the ex-
press language of the Constitution, have
erected a military despotism in ten
States of the Union, have taken from
the President the power vested i'll him
by the supreme law, and have deprived
the Supreme Court of its jurisdiction:
and the right of trial by jury, and the
great writ of right, the haJeds corpus.
the shield of safety for every citizen,
and which has descended TO us from
the earliest traditions of our ances-
tors, and which our revolutionary
fathers fought to secure to their pos
terity forever in the fundamental
charter of our liberties, have
been ruthlessly trampled under
foot by q fragment of n Congress-.
Whole States and communities of peo-
pie, of our own race, have been attaint-
ed, convicted, condemned and deprived
of their rights as citizens, without pre-
sentiment, trial or witness, but by Cen
gressiOnal enactment of er post fdCfO
laws, aud in defiance of the constitu-
tiopal prohibition denying to full and
loyal Congress the authority to pass
any bill of attainder or er post tdcto
law; the same usurping authority sub
stituted as electors in place of men of
yeur own race, thus illegally attainted
and DISTINGUISHED, u host of ignorant
negroes, who are supported in idlencss
with the public money, and eombin-
ed together to strip the white race
of their birth.right through
the management of the Freed
mems Bureau, and emissaries of conspi-
rators in other States; and to complete
the oppression, the military power of
the nation has been placed 1T their dis
posal la order to make this barbarism
supreme, the military leader, under
whose prestige 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
year, aud whom they have selected rs
their candidate to shield themselves
from the result Of their wickeduess and
crime, has announced his acceptance of
the nomination and his willingness TO
maintain their usurpatiOns over eight
millions OF white people ut the South,
fixed to the earth with his bayenets,
He exclaims, Let us have peace,
Peace reigns in Warsaw was the an
nouncement which heralded the doom
of the liberties of nation. The En-
pire is peace exclaimed Boaaparte,
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 to restore the Constitution
by executing the will of the people,
condemning the reconstruction acts,
already pronounced in the elections of
last year, and which will, l am con-
WINGED, be still more emphatically ex-
pressed by the election of the Dem
ocratic candidate as President of the
United States, are denounced as revo-
lutionists by the partisans of this vim
dictiye Congress, Negro suffrage, which
the popular vote ofNew York, New Jer-
sey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan,
Connecticut, and other States, have
condemned as expressly against the let.
ter of the Constitution, must stand, be-
cause their Senators and Representa-
tives have willed it. If the people shall
again condemn these measures by the
election Of Democratic candidate for
President, they must not be disturbed:
although decided to be unconstitution.
al by the Supreme Court, and although
the President is sworn to support the
Constitution, the will of fraction
of Congress reinforced with
its partisan emissaries sent
to the South and supported
there by the soMiery, must stand
against the will of the people, and the