The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-07-30
General Frank Blair'S Letter
Accepting the Nomination
for vice President.
OMAHA, NEBRASKA, July II, '6s

GENERAL: take the earliest opportuni-
| ty of replying to your letter, notifying me of
| my nomination for Vice President of the
| United States by the National Democratic
| Convention, recently held in the city of New
York.
| accept without hesitation the nomina-
| ton rendered in a manner so gratifying, and
| give you and the committee my thanks for
| the very kind and complimentary lam
guage in which you have conveyed to me
| the decision of the Convention
| I have carefully read the resolutions
adopted by the Convention, and most cord
tally concur in every principle and senti
ment they announce.
| Ny opinion upon all of the questions
| which discriminate the great contending
| parties have been freely expressed on all
suitable occasions, and do not deem it ne
cessary at this time toreiterate them.
The issue upon which the contest turns
| are clear and cannot be obscured or distort-
ed by the sophistries of our adversaries.
| They all resolve themselves into the old and
| eyer-renewing struggle of few men to alb
sorb the political power of the nation. This
effort, under every conceivable name and
| disguise, has always characterized the oppo-
! nents of the Democratic party. but at no
| time has the attempt assumed a shape so
1 open ana UaTlHR DIS III buIS COuboSU. 1ne al
| versaries of free and constitutional govern
ment, in defiance of the express language of
| the Constitution, have erected a military
| despotlsm in ten States of the Union, have
| taken from the President the power vested
| in him by the supreme law, and have depriv-
ed the Supreme Court of its Jurisdiction
| The right of trial by jury, and the great
writ of right. the habeas corpus-shields of
safety for every citizen, and which have de-
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| our ancestors, and which our Revolutionary
| fathers sought to secure their posterity for
ever in the fundamental charter of our lib
ertes-have been futhlessly trampled under
| foot by the fragment of Congress. Whole
States and communities of people of our
| own race have been attained, convicted con-
demned, and deprived of their rights as citi-
zens, without presentment, or trial, or wit
| nesses, but by Congressional enactment of
er post fdctO laws, and and in defiance of the
constitutional prohibition denying even to
| a full and legal Congress the authority.to
| pass any bill of attainder or er post fdcto
| law. The same usurping authority has SUBJ
stituted as electors in place of the men of
| our own race, thus illegally attainted and
DISTINGUISHED. host of ignorant negroes,
| who are supported in idleness with the pub
| lie money, and combined together to strip
| the white race of their birthright, through
| the management of Freedmen's Bureaus and
| the emissaries of conspirators in other States
| and to complete the oppression, the military
power of the nation has been placed at their
| disposal in order to make the barbarism su-
preme.
The military leader under whose prestige
| this usurping Congress has taken refuge
sincethe condemnation of their schemes by
| the free people of the North in the elections
| OF the last year, and when they have select
ed as their candidate to shield themselves
| from the result of1their own wickedness and
| crime has announced his acceptance to the
nomination, and his willingness to maintain
| their usurpatiOns over eight millions of
white people at the South, liked TO the earth
with his bayonets He exclaims: Let us
! have peace Peace reigus in Warsaw"
was the announcement which heralded the
doom of the liberties of a nation. 1.-THE
Empire is peace" exclaimed Bonaparte,
when freedom and it's defenders expired IN
der the sharp edge of his sword The peace
to'which Grant invites us is the peace of des-
potism and death.
Those who seek to restore the Constitu
tion by executing the will of the people con-
demning the reconstruction acts already
pronounced in the elections of last year, and
which will, l am convinced be still more
emphatically expressed by the election of |
the Democratic candidate as the President |
of the United States are denounced as rev. |
tive Congress. Negro suffrage. which the |
popular vote of New York, New Jersey, |
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Connecticut, |
and other States have condemned as ex-
pressly against the letter of the Constitution |
must stand because their Senators and
Representatives. have willed it, 1t the peo-
pie shall again condemn these atrocious |
measures by the election of the Democratic
candidate for President. they must not be
distur bed, although decided TO be unconsti-
tutional by the Supreme Court, and al
though the President is sworn to main tain
and support the Constitution. The will of
a fraction of Congress- reinforced with it's |
partisan emlssaries sent to the South and
supported there by the soldiery, must stand
against the will of the people and the de-
cisiOn of the Supreme Court, and the solemn |
oath of the President to mai ntain and sup
port the Constitution
1t is revolutionary to execute the will of
the people! 1t is revolutionary to execute
the Judgment of the Supreme Court 1t is
revolutionary in the President to keep in
violate his oath to sustain the Constitution |
This false construction of the vital principle
of our Government is the last resort of those
who would have their arbitrary reconstruc-
tion away and supercede our time honored
Institutions The nation will say the Con-
stitution must be restored, and the will of
the people again prevail. The appeal to the
peaceful ballot to attain this end is not war,
is not revolution. They make war and revo-
luton who attempt to arrest this quiet mode
of putting aside military despotism and the
usurpations of fragment of a Congress, as
sorting absolute power over that benign sys-
tenn ofregulated liberty left us by our fathers
This must be allowed to take its course This
is the only road to peace 1t will come with |
the election of the Democratic candidate,
and not with the election of that mailed
warrior. whose bayonets are now at the
throats of eight millions of people in the |
South, to compel them to support him as a !
candidate for the Presidency, and to submit ,
to the domination of an alien race of semi.
lorharons men No nerversiou of trutb nv II