Natchitoches spectator., 1868-08-04
Gen. Blair's Letter Of Acceptance.

nifty of replying to your letter notifying |
me of my nomination for Vice-President
of the United States, by the Nationai
Democratic Convention, recently held IN |
the city of New York. / accept, with
out hesitation, the nomination rendered
in manner so gratifying, and give you
and the committee my thanks for the
very kind and complimentary language
in which you have conveyed to inc the
decision of the Convention, have care
fully read the resolutions adopted by
the Convention, and most cordially con.
cur in every principle and sentiment
they announce.
My opinion upon all she questions
which discriminate the great contending
parties have been freely expressed on
all suitable occasions, and do not deem
it necessary at this time to reiterate
them. The issue upon which the COLI
test turns is clear, and cannot be OBJ
scured or distorted by the sophistries of
our adversaries. They all resolve them
selves into the old and ever recurring
struggle of few men to absorb the po-
litical power of the nation.
This effort, under every conceivable
name and disguise, has always charac-
tarized the opponents of the Democratic
party, but at no time has the attempt
assumed so open and daring shape as
constitutional Government, in defiance
of the express language of the Consti-
tdtion, have erected military despotism
in ten States of the Union; have taken
| from the President the power vested in
him 10y the supreme law, and have de-
prive.l the Supreme Court of its juris-
diction.
The right of trial by jury, and the
great right of right-the habeas corpus
1 .I,. II l, E.fx fn.. nit
zen which have descended to the people
of the United States from the earliest
traditions of our ancestors, and which
our Revolutionary fathers fought to Sc
cure to their postcrity forever i'll tho
fundamental charter of our liberties,
have been ruthlessly trampled under
foot by the fragment of Congress.
| Whole States and communities OF peo-
pie of our race have been attainted, con
victed, condemned and deprived of their
rights as citizens without presentment,
trial or witness, but by Congressional
enactment of eD post .fitcto laos, and in
defiance of the Constitutional prohibi-
ton, denying even to full and legal
| Congress the authority to pass any bill
of attainder or er post .tacto daoS.
i The same usurping authority substi-
tuted as electors, in place of men of our
own race, thus Illegally attainted ana
disfranchised, host of Ignorant ne,
groes, who are supported in idleness
with the public money, and combined
!; together to strip the white race of their
birthright through the management oi
the Freedmen's Bureau and the emissa-
ries of conspirators in other States; and
: to complete the oppression. the military
power of the nation has been placed al
: their disposal, in order to make TINS
barbarism supreme, the military leader
under whose prestige this usurping Con
gress has taken refuge since the con
5 demnation of their schemes by the free
people of the North in the elections o
t the last year, they have selected as theil
Y candidate, to shield themselves from
: the result of their wickedness aud crime
4 has announced his acceptance OF th'
D nomination. and in his Willingness tt
maintain their usurpations over millions
Y lof white people at the South f1xed t.
t tho earth with his bayoncts, he ex
/ claims, "Let us havc peacer "Peac
reigns in Warsaw" was the announce
ment which heralded the doom OF th
: liberties of n nation.
/, "The Empire is peacei" exclaimed
L Bonaparte. when freedom and its defen
{ ders expired under the sharp edge Q
k the sword. The peace to which Gran
It invites us is the peace of despotism ant
C death.
It Those who seek to restore the Const
l. tuition by executing the will of the pee
; pie, condemuing the reconstruction acts
It have already pronounced the wish in til
5; elections Of last year, and will, L ai
d convinced, still moro emphatically g,
g press it by the election of the Democrat
re candidate as President of the Unite
he States. are denounced as revolutionist
le by the partisans of this vindictive Col
es gress.
Negro Suffrage; which tile populi
vote of New York, New Jersey, Penn
,. sylvaaia, Ohio, Michigan, Connection
s and other States had condemned as G.
pressly against the letter of the Const
= tuition, must stand, because their Sen
n tors and Representatives have willed
lg If the people shall again condemn the
in measures Gy the election of tue Dem
ve cratic candidate for President, they mu
h not be disturbed, althoy gh decided
of unconstitutional by thy Supreme Coul
is and the President is sworn to mainta
SIS aud support the Constitution, the will
in a fraction of Congress, reinforced WI
IL its partisan emissaries sent to the Sou
W and supported there by the soldier
IA must stand against the will of the pC