Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1868-08-06
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BIaIr's Letter of Aeeeptauce.

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'7WAsItsG Gfoa, Bdly 2l.E 55Lnhe fnlloRing is
q copy Of General Blair's letter Of accept
ance of the democratic nofnination for
Wee President, which has just been re-
caiyed, here: .,s.a aitif ~
GeaerdI Geo. W. Morgan, Cidh7adn Of the'
Ida6oblgsanBpf Gieo dYdlIos.qd Dsrhotldte pRi
GasEAAf, ,lItaks ths6srIfsA opportunity
of replying to,yony letter notifying me 9f m,
lhohmation Tor Vice President OF the United
States by the Natiopal Democratic Conyen-
tiohi 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 Tor the
very kind and complimentary Language in
which you have conveyed to me the decision
OF tAd c0nyention f9r4 JIAJa
Ihaye carefully read the resolutions adopt
] ed by the convention, and most cordially con-
cur in every principle and continent they,
announce. My opinion upon all the questions
which divide tho great ,contending parties
have been fully expressed on all suitable &C.
casions, and do not deem it necessary now
TO feitefate them. The issue upon which the
contest turns is clear and cannot be obscured
or distorted by the sophispies Of our adverb
saries. They all lfesolve themselves into the
old and ever recurring struggle Of fow men
W uBpoAD NhN BbAAAAaA HONNA W WIZ
This effort in every conceivable name and dis
guise,h always characterised the opponents
Of the Democratic party, but at no time. has
the attempt assumed 80 daring q shape as IN
this contest. The adyersaries Of nee, consti7
tutional government in defanceo the express
language Of the Constitution, have erected
a military despOtiAm in ten Of the states Oh
the URion; have taken fr0m the President
the power vested in him by the supreme Jaw;
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Jurisdiction. The right OF trial by jury, the
great writ Of the habeas corpus, the shield
of safety for every citizen, which have de-
scended to US from the earliest traditions OF
our ancestors and which our revolutionary
fathers fought to secure to their posterity
ever in the fundamental charter Of our liber-
ties, have been ruthlessly trampled under
foot by the fragmet of,a Congress. Whole
states and communities ofpoople OF our race
have been attainted, convicted, condemned
and deprived of their rights as citizens, ,with-
out presentment or trial or witness, but by
conversational enactment or eG post tdcio
laws, and In defiance Of the constitutional
prohibition denying to full and loyal Con-
gress the authority to pass any bill OF attain
der or eI post fdct0 law. The same usurpat-
ing authority has substituted as electors, in
place of the men Of your own race thus llle-
gally attainted and DISTINGUISHED, host OF
ignorant negroes, who are supported IN idle
ness with the public money, and combined to-
gether to strip the white race Of their birth
right through the management OF the Freed
mems Bureau, and the emissaries OF the coa-
spirators in other states. And to complete
the oppression, the military power OF the ma
ton has been placed at their disposal, in or
der 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, and whom they have selected as their
candidate to shield themselves from tho re-
suit Of their Yickedness and crime, has an
pounced his acceptance of the nomination,
and his willingness to maintain their usrrpa-
tions over eight millions OF white people at
the south, fixed to the earth with his bayonet.
He exclaims, Let us have peace" "Peace
reigns in Warsaw" was the announcement
which heralded the doom of the liberties of a
nation. "The empire is peace" exclaimed
Bonaparte, when freedom and its defend
ers expired under the sharp edge OF the
sword. The peace to which General Grant in
vites us is the peace Of despotism and death.
Those who seek to restore the COnsti-
tuition by executing the will Of the people,
condemning the reconstruction acts already
pronounced in the elections Of last year. and
which will, am convinced, be still more em
phatically expressed by the election Of the
democratic candidate as President of the
United States, are denounced as revolution
lists by the partizans of this vi dictiye Con-
gress Negro suffrage which the popular
vote Of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Michigan Connecticut, and other states
have condemned as expressly against the
letter Of the Constitution, must stand be-
cause their Senators and Representatives
have willed it. II the people shall again con-
demn these atrocious measures blythe cleo
ton of the democratic candidate for Presi
dent, they must not be disturbed. Although
decided to be unconstitutional by the Su-
preme Court, and although the President is
sworn TO support and maintain the eConstitu-
ton, the will of a fraction Of a Congress,
reinforced with its partizan emissa-
ries, sent to the South and supported 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 President !
to maintain and support the Constitution
Is it revolutionary to execute the will OF the
people? Is it revolutionary in the President
to keep inviolate his oath to sustain the Con-
stitutiOn? The false construction OF the vital
principles of our government is the last re-
sort OF those who would sway and supersede
our time-honored institution. The nation
will say that the constitution must be re-
stored and the will of the people again pre-
vail. The appeal to the peaceful ballot to at
tain this end is not revolution. They are re-
volutionists who attempt TO arrest this quiet
mode of putting aside the military despoiism
and usurpation Of afrasment Of a Congress
asserting absolute power over that benign
system Of regulated liberty left us by our
fathers. S
This must be allowed TO take its course;
this is the only road to peace. 1t will como
with the election of the democratic candidate,
and not with the election of that mailed war
rior, whose ,bayonets are now at the throats
of eight millions Of people in the south to
compel them to support him as candidate
for tho Presidency, aud to submit to the
nomination of an alien race OF semi-bar-
barous men, No peryersion of truth or
audacity of Misrepresentation can exceed
that which halls this candidate in arms as an
angel of peace.
lam, very respectfully, your obd't seryt, 4
(Signed) r. ff', +, P. BLAIR.
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