Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-07-31
BLAIR,s LETTER,

General Frank Blair, in letter just made
public, accepts without hesitation the
nomination Of the National Democratic Con
yention for the Vice Presidecy. This is
surprising, in view of the efforts himself and
friends made to obtain it for him. He
cordially approves Of the platform laid down
at New York, reiterates the sentiments OF
his letter favoring repudiation and the armed
overthrow of the present Governments Of
the Southern States, thereby involving the
country again in bloodshed and civil war.
He states that having so often expressed his
views upon all suitable occasions, he does
not deem it necessary to reiterate them at
this time, and then he goes off into a
column letter again defining his position,
making the second very effective campaign
document for the Republican party he has
issued since the 4th instant. Herepudiates
his old friends of the Abolition party, and
eulogizes the Democracy; calls the Senate
and House of Representatives ''the frag-
ment of a Congress-, the usurping Con
gress, the vindictiye Congress, and charg-
es upon it all sorts of violations of law, and
particularly denoEnees the Reconstruction
acts Grant he styles the military leader, "
who has announced his willingness to shield
the usurping Congress, from the result
of their wickedness, and who in accepting
the Republican nomination is to maintain
their 'nsUrpations' over the white people
of the South Abiding to the expression
of Let US have peace" in Grant letter Of
acceptance, he says that the peace to which
he invites the country is the peace oi
despotism He medestly says that himself
and Seymour viii be elected, and that then
it becomes the duty of himself and Sey-
mour, as the representatives of the Demo
cratic party, to disperse, if needs be, the
Senate of the United States, because some
Of the States it represents, in the elections
of last year. condemned negro suffrage
naming New Jersey, New York, Con
nectiout, and others in this category The
will of faction of Congress, " as he styles
the law-making power of the Government,
shall not be recognized if be should be
chosen the presiding officer of one of its
branches-and that the highest Blair knows
that the reconstruction acts of Congress are
an accomplished fact, that they are laws oI
the land and that they cannot be repealed
for many years to come, as, no matter what
party may elect their candidates fol
President or Vice President, the Repub-
lican majority in the Senate viii be pre-
served, and it is not at all likely that they
viii consent themselves to undo the work
they have so successfully carried out. He
means war, ifeleoted. He meansrepudiation,
if he be successful. He means that the ''lost
cause of the present day shall be the
successful cause after March next We ask
the careful reading of this remarkable
document by each and every reader. 1t may
meet the appreciation of few of those en-
gagged in the late war against tie Union, but
the more sensible of the Southern leaders
will be thoroughly disgusted with its con
tents They have had enough of war, and
are not anxious that the Blair family,
Whose hands all appear in this documentJ
shall be placed in power at the expense Of
further shedding of blood. LET US have
Peace. Baltimore Anaercaa.