Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-06-25
WARRINGTON.

II 10uiSvtLLt, June zo.-ihe So~''
Washington special says: "Gen. Blair
who 10 now here, is strongly urged BY biz
friends for President, and they profess
to be sanguine Of success. His views
are Of a most emphatic and pronounced
character; they are given with the point
terseness and vim of q positive and fear.
less nature, and are the application Of
fixed opinions to the existing situation
Blair now, as always, scouts the idea o.
giving the ballot to the negro Suffrage ne
regards as cardinal issue Of the canvass,
and his infexible opposition to the Rad.
ical doctrine Of negro suffrage is the
chief issue on which the Conservatives
must triumph. He holds the reconstruc.
ton acts establishing military despotism
in the South to be unconstitutional. null
and void, and that the National Conven-
ton should so declare them. That the
reconstruction acts being mere usur-
pations, sustained only by lawless
violence and the force of arms, that
the Government must withdraw this
coercion, correcti. wrong, and leave to
the white population the right TO regu-
late the question of suffrage. That the
bastard and spurious governments set up
at the South will fall as soon as the
military is withdrawn. Furthermore,
he asserts that it is the ddty
of the coming President to see
that justice is done by restoring the gov
ernments, which are. created and prop
erly constituted of the white population,
to those whom they belong Gen. Blair
says that the laws of Congress, disfran-
chising persons who were embraced in
the amnesty proclamations and special
pardons, are illegal, arbitrary and void,
as are also the test oaths for voters.
Gen. Blair is unwilling to accept
or acquiesce in anything done by
the Radical Congress on the subject of
reconstruction. He is for combining the
government Of the country exclusively to
the white men, and is confident Of an
overwhelming defeat of radicalsm if the
Democratic platform is bold and dead
issues are ignored. he predicts trs-
mendous uprising of the people, such as
has never been seen in America. He,
declares that if he were nominated and
elected the Radicals should. not cheat
him out of his election by frauds or vio-
lence." y fssa e .A'Al
WASHINGTON, June ga big fight is
pending over the nomination of Perry
Faller as Commissioner of Internal
Revenue. He claims that twenty-five
Radicals are pledged to him. E
Examiner Foote, Of the Patent Office,
win be sppoiated Commissioner of
Patents, and Cox, Chief Clerk of the
Interior Department, will be nominated
for Commissioner of Pensions.
The reconstruction Committee will re-
port bill to remove the political disabil-
tiles Of Gen. Young, elected Conserve
tive candidate for Congress from Georgia.
The President has pardoned NJ c.
Brewer, of Kentucky, who was charged
with violating the revenue laws.
The military officer sent by the Presi'
dent to Atlanta to investigate the Chip
ley case, is ordered to report forthwith,
and the prisoners will be released speed
lily. Twenty white men are imprisoned
there by the arbitrary authority of the
military. There are scaudalous hints
about the conduct Of the commander of
that Department. ~ f,.ff -h..,ail