The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-07-22
THE PRESIDENCY.
Letter Of General Frank p. Blair Accepting
the Nomination for Vice President.
WAsUIN1TON I'M


Letter Of General Frank p. Blair Accepting
the Nomination for Vice President.
WASHINGTON, July 81 1858.
The following is copy OF General Bairs letter OF
acceptance Of the democratic nomination for Vice
President which has just been received here-
General GEORGE W. MORGAN, Chairman OF the Com.
mittee Of the National Democratic Convention
plying to your letter notifying me Of my nomination
FOR Vice President Of the United States by the Ma
tional Democratic Convention recently held in the
I accept without hesitation the nomination ten.
dered IN manner so gratifying and give you
complimentary language In which you have con.
veyed to me the decision Of the Convention.
6an Carefully read osE s cd,ss1 By
principle and sentiment they announce.
My opinion upon all the questions which discrimi-
nate the great cOntendng parties have been fully
pressed on all suitable occasions, and do not deem
1t necessary at this time to reiterate them.
and p toe hv b are
tries OF our adversaries They all resolve themselves
into the old and ever recurring struggle
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 q shape SO open and daring as In this
contest The adversaries Of free and constitutional
government in defiance Of the express language OF
in ten OF the States of the Union have taken from
the President the power vested in him by
supreme Court OF It's jurisdiction the right
OF trial by jury and the great writ Of right, the
habeas cOrpu5Shelds OF safety for every citizen and
which have descended to from the earliest tradi-
tiOns OF our ancestors, and which our Revolutionary
e enae 20 Of 'er r IN
ruthlessly trampled under foot by the fragment
of Congress; whole states and communities
OF people Of our race have been attainted convicted
condemned and deprived OF their rights as citizens
without preseniinent or trial or witnesses, but by
Congressional enactments OF ey post dtcto laws and
defiance
ing even to a full and loyal Congress the authority
to pass any bill Of attainder or er post focto law
The same usurpng authority has substituted as cleo
tors III place OF the men OF our own race, thus
illegally attainted and dlslranchised host of ignO
rant negroes who are supported In idleness with the
publican and combined togetherto strip the white
race Of tneir blrthrght through the management OF
freedmen's bureaus and emssares OF consprators III
otncr states, and to complete the oppression the
military power OF the nation has been placed at their
disposal III order TO make this barbarism supreme.
The military leader under whose prestige this usurp
ing Congress has taken refuge since the cOndemna-
ton OF their schemes by the free people OF the North
in the elections OF the last year. ana they have
selected their candidate TO shield themselves from
the result of their own wickedneSs and crime, has
announced his acceptance OF the nomination. and his
willingness to maintain their uSurpatl0nS over eight
millions OF white people III the South, fixed 20 the
earth with his bayOnets. lie eXcias.'i.et us have
peace.n ''Peace reigns in warsaw was the an
noGncement winch hcralded the doom of the liberties
of a nation. "fhe empire Is peace exclaimed B0-
naparte when freedom and It's defenders expired I'M
der the sharp edge OF hS sword The peace TO which
Grant invites us IL tie peace OF despotsm and DEATH
Those who seek to restore the constitution by exc
cutting the VIII OF the people, c0ndemning the Recon-
structon acts already pronounced In the
elections OF last year tand which will l
am convinced, be still more emphaticaly eX-
pressed by the election of the democratic candidate
AS President OF the United States), are denounced
a. revoiutonsts by the partisans of this vindctve
Congress. Negro suffrage (Which the popular vote Of
New lOrk, New Jersey, pennsylvania, ohio Mich-
gan, Connecticut ana other states has condemned
expressly against the letter of the constitutIon
must stand, because their senators and representa-
tNes nave willed It, II the people shall again con
denim these atrOcious measures by the election OF
democratic candidate for President, they must not
be disturbed Although decided TO he uncOnstitu-
tlonal by the Supreme Court and although the Presi
dent Is sworn to maintain and support the
constitution, the will OF a fraction OF Congress,
reinforced with $ partisan einissarles sent to the
South and supported there by the soldery, 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
IL Is Revolutionary to execute the WIZ OF the people,
IT Is revolutionary to execute the Judgment OF
the Supreme Court; 1t Is revolutionary In the
President to keep invlOlate his oath to sus-
tain the constitution. This false construction
OF the vital principle OF our government
Ii the last resort OF those who would have their arb
trary reconstruction sway and supersede our time
h0nOred institutions. The nation viii say the con-
stution must be restored ana the will of the people
again prevail The appeal 10 the peaceful ballot TO
make war and revolution who attempt TO arrest this
quiet mode Of putting aside military despOtism and
the usurpatiOns Of fragment or Congress, assert
ing absolute power that benign system Of regu
lated liberty left us by our fathers. This must be
allowed to take its course THIS Is the
only road TO peace. 10 Will come with
the election OF the democratic candidate, and not
with the election OF that mailed warrior whose bay
onets are now ut the throats of eight millions OF
people In the South TO compel them 10 support him
AS "a candidate for the Presidency, and TO submit to
the domination OF an alien race OF semi-barbarous
men. No Derversion OF truth audacity of misrep-
resentation exceed that when nails this candi-
date in angel OF peace.
! am very respectfully, your most obedlent SER
want, FRANK T.. BLAIR.