The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-07-25
Gen. Frank Blafr,s Letter Acceptinr
sqs. the Deinocraffc Npnntnn fioza.,.EE -
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sldent which has just been received
Gea: George II. Norge Morgan, ,li,'csa ocgssair,.an las s
z of nsea CoDlnaittee, Of The National
y democratic Conuention. - -.
z sNERAL: take the earliest op-
portunity of replying to your letter
notifying me of my nomination for
Vice PRESIDENT of, the United States,
by the National Democratic Conven,
ton recently held in the city Of New
York. ii
4 accept without hesitation the
nomination rendered in manner so
gratifying, and give you and the
Committee my thanks for the yery
kind and complimentary language in
which you haYe conveyed to me the
decision of the Convention.
1 have carefully read the resolu-
tions adopted by the Convention,
and most cordially concur in every
principle and sentiment they an
nounce.
My opinion upon all the questions
which discriminate the great con-
tending parties have been freely ex-
pressed on all suitable occasions, and
do not deem it necessary at this
time to reiterate them.
The issues upon which the contest
turns are clear and cannot be OBJ
scured or distorted by the sophis-
tries of our adversaries. They all
resolve themselves into the old and
ever recurring struggle of few men
to absorb the political power of the
nation. This effort, under every
conceivable name and disguise, has
always characterized the opponents
OF the Democratic party, but at no
time has the attempt assumed q
shape so open and daring as in this
contest. The adversaries of free and
constitutional government, in de-
fiance OF the express language of the
Constitution, have erected O military
despotism in ten of the States of the
Union; have taken from the Presi-
dent the power vested in him by the
supreme law, and have deprived the
Supreme Court of its Jurisdiction,
the right of trial by jury and the
great writ of right, the ha6eas corpus,
shields of safety for every citizen.
and which have descended to us
from the earliest traditions of our
ancestors, and which our revolution
ary fathers sought to secure to their
posterity forever, in the fundamental
charter of our liberties, have been
ruthlessly trampled under foot by
the fragment of Congress; whole
States and communities Of people of
our race have been attainted, con-
victed, condemned and deprived of
their rights as citizens, without pre-
sentiment or trial or witnesses, but
by Congressional enactment of er
post fdcto laws, and in defiance of the
Constitutional prohibition denying
even to full and loyal Congress the
authority to pass any bill of attainder
or e:c posi- fdctO law. The same usurp-
ing authority has substituted as
electors, in place of the men of our
own race thus illegally attainted and
disfranchised, host of ignorant ne
groes, who were supported in idleness
with the public money, and combined
together to strip the white race of
their birth-right, through the ma
nagement of. Freedmen's Bureaus
and 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 this
barbarism supreme. The military
leader under whose prestige this
usurping Congress has taken refuge,
since the condemnation of their
schemes by the free people of the
North, in the elections Of the last
year, and whom they have selected
as their candidate to shield them
selves from the result of their own
wickedness and crime, has announced
his acceptance of the nomination and
his willingness to maintain their
usurpations. over the 100000 OF
white people at the South, fixed to
the earth with his bayonet. He ex-
claims: .Let us have peace" "Peace
reigns in Warsaw" was the an
nounoement which heralded the doom
OF the liberties of o nation. "The
empire is peace" exclaimed Bona
parte, when freedom and it's de.
tenders expired under the sharp edge
Of his sword. The peace to which
Grant invites us is the peace of
despotism and death. Those who
seek to restore the Constitution by
the will of the Deopla oon5opon;no