Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-10-09
BLAIR in Columbus.

b4alf IN GotumDus.
Happening to be in Columbus on
Monday, we had the privilege Of hear /
ing Mr.. Blair, the Democratic candi-
date for Vice Presi dent. deseant to al
crowd of about 200 people, half or
whom seemed to be Republicans.
Frank retains, ina healthy degree, the
peach blow tint, which. beautifed his
face in army life, and in other respects
looks about the same as when fighting
against instead of fighting for South
ern Democrats,
Blair's forte as a speaker, lies chief
ly in INSCRIPTIONS assertion, and
bolder and more reckless falsifer we
never heard.
One of his pFominentstatements was
that the Supreme Court has decided
the Reeopstruction Acts une6nstitu.
tional. Blair must have supreme conf
den6e in the5gnorauee and stupidity Of
his constituents, if be expects them to
believe this. "A more downright false
hood never was uttered, and Blair
and the whole Democratic party may
be safely .aefed to point out a single
instance in which the Court has made
any such decision.
He next asserted that the Republi-
cans had supplanted all civil govern
pent-in the rebellious STAGES. Blair
knows this Is false. Andrew johnson
tells as in his North CatoIina pracla-
nation how civil government in the
South was destroyed when h6says
ssWhereas f1s rebellion, which has
been waged by a portion of the people
Of the United States against The prop
eTLy constituted. dutb0ltses of the gev-
ser1ment thereof, in the mast UioIent and
reU0Iting form. but whose organized
aud armed forces have now. been al
sssost eIiei1 ers5i60HJe, hlls, "a It's
fevoElttt3nazg progress, olepTiUed the
people eff tlle iState Of. North Carolina
Of al c{pak goUerpple9lt. a. :
The Rebel friends of Blair and Sey-
.moar,n the Republicans, destroyed
civil government not only in North
Carolina. but the entire South. The
Republicans, instead of destroying.
have been ,sedpIously engaged, ever
since the implements of treason were
wrested from rebel hands, in trying to
reconstruct the fabric Of civil law,
where these mad men created anarchy
and ruin. aud il, spite Of rebel obsti-
macy and eopperhead encouragement,
have met with encouraging success.
! Aided by hundreds of thousands Of
the .ighits population, they have re-
storedsaoivH governments in all but
three of the insurgent States; and it is
simply their own default that these al
so are n0trestored Hr aas 4 .
These governments Blair and the De-
mocracy1 propose to destroy. 1t is they
and not the Republicans who propose
to tear down civil government, restore
disorder and anarchy, trampIe upon
the Constitution, and revolutionize
+ the country. tits they and not we.
who propose to resort to the bayonet
to accomplish desperate schemes of op5
preston and. military despotism. Says
Blair in his letter, which is the Demo-
cratic platform and programme
I'VE cannot, therefore, undo the
Radical plan of. reconstruction by
Congressional action; the Senate will
continue a bar to its repeal. It can
only be overthroWn By the authority
Of the. Executive * There is one
way to restore the Governments and
the Constitution, and that is for the
President to declare these acts null
and void, compel the army to undo its
usurpatioTs at the South, disperse the
tcarpet-bag State governments, ALLOW
the white people (Rebels) to reUrgaa-
| lie their own governments and elect
Senators and Representatives. The
II ouse of Representatives will contain
majority of Democrats from the
North, aud they will admit the Repre-
| sentatiyes elected by the white men
(Rebelsl of the South. and with the
co-operation of the President, it will
not be difficult to compel the Sen
ats to submit once more to the Obli-
cations of the Constitution. we
This is the scheme of the. Radical fire.
eaters and wild fanatics who now lead
land control the Democrats party.
They will net wait for the Courts to
say whether Reconstruction is oonsti-
tutional they will not heed Congress;
they will not consult the loyalists of the
South; but placing the whole political
power of the South in the hands Of
unregsnera6e conspirators, they will
use the bayonet to overturn civil law,
to bring back bloodshed and anarchy,
to put loyal men, white and black,
again under the heel Of JEFF Davis; to
ff5rce an unwilling Senate-to trample on
Ethe laws, to put the balance of power
in this nation in the hands Of the in
famous crew whose hands, black with
treason, are daily. Redeemed with fresh
loyal blood.
And this is what the Northern peo-
I pie, whose sacrifices have preserved
this country. are called upon to vote
for as Conservative Men of fOhio, it
is villainy 1t is bloodshed It is
war Be warned in time
Democratic retrenchmeut refusing
to appropriate S. 600 to complete the
soldiers record and appropriating $780,
600 to pay for unnecessary and un-
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