The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-07-25
Francis p. Blair.

The Democratic candidate for Vice.
President is the son Of his namesake OF
the Washington Globe, the lifelong
friend and confidential adviser of Andrew
jackson. He was born in Lexington,
Kentucky, February 10, 1921; gradua.
ted at Princeton College; adopted the
profession of law; was elected q Repre-
sentative from Missouri to the Thirty.
fifth Congress. Reelected to the Thir.
ty-seventh Congress, and was Chairman
of the Committee on Military Affairs
He was Colonel Of Volunteers in 1861,
and in,1SG2 was appointed Major Gen.
eral in the drmy, and served with distinc.
ton throughout the war. lie was re.
elected to the Thirty eighth Congress.
but resigned his seat at the first session
to resume his position in the army. Tn
1866 he was appointed by President
johnson Collector Of Customs for the
port of st. Louis, and to his credit be /,
said that the Senate rejected the appoint.
mc0t
Mr.. Blair politically, has always been
an anti-slavery man upon general prin-
cipIcs and every other question and meas
ure presented, he has agreed with the
State Rights Democracy. He held the
same position as Doolittle, Dix. Randall
and many others who left the Democratic
party on the issue of slavery in the Ter
rltorles, and since that question was dis.
posed Of are in entire accord with the
Democracy upon every living issue and
every time.honored principle of the par
ty. They favored the exclusion of slave.
ry from the Territories they consented
to the abolition of slavery as war meas.
ure; but they reject the doctrine Of ne.
gro equality and oppose with all their en-
ergy the interference of the General Gov.
ernment IN the domestic affairs of State
and every measure Of Capitalization. The
Democratic party of to-day has no issue
with the " Free Soil Democracy :" all
such differences have been forever and
finally settled by removal of the cause
AS early as 1864 Dir. Blair avowed
that opposition to the policy Of the Rad.
ical party, though he supported Dir. Lin.
coin as against the Radicals of his own
party. He has warmly supported the
policy Of President johnson and opposed
the Radical measures of Congress, and
Tor that reason his nomination as ColIec-
tor of the port Of St. Louis was not con.
firmed in 1866. No man in Missouri
has taken more active part against the
Radical party in that State than Gen.
Blair. He refused TO take the test oath
prescribed by the Radical Constitution
aud advised all his friends to contest its
legality. 1t was upon his motion that an
appeal was taken against the test oath tc
the Supreme Court of the United States
land declared by that body an unconstitu
tional act. 1t is an unconstitutional act
Ii is an undoubted fact that there is 1
prejudice among old Democrats acains
Frank Blair on account of his free
soil autecedents, but all such preiudicel
should be dispellcd by the circumstance.
of his nomination. He was the unani
nous choice of the entire Convention OF
ton on the first ballot, Gen. Preston. O
Kentucky, and the entire Southern dele
CATION leading off in expressions of thi,
preference, immediately followed by tn,
dee "a ! from California. The courage
zeal and persistence with which Gen
Blair has fought Radicalism in Missouri
for the past three years has endeared hin
to the Democracy of that State and enti
tied him to the support of all conserva
tive men throughout the country. II
natural ability, early training, education
and all the elements of craftsmanship
he is as far the superior of Colfax as
the latter is the superior of George L
Woods.
h His pluck is as we'll established a,
his magnanimity; he fought the bat
ties of tn free soil +" party in .
slave State when there was neitheI
honor nor profit to be gained in tn,
fight; he proved his devotion to thu
Union by rendering his life in its de
fence; he left victorious party il
his State and in the nation when that
party proved false to its pledges an6
recrcant to the principles upon wnicl
the war was waged. The South re
Ispect him for his courage and magma
nimity, the North will honor him foI
his fidelity to principles Oregon
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