The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-07-24
Gen.. BIaIr's Letter Of Acceptance

WASHINGTON, July 21.-The fol-
lowing is a copy of General Blair's
letter of acceptance of the Demo-
cratic nomination for Vice President,
which has just been received:
General George ". Morgan, Chairman No
tf01dL Democratic Central Committee.
SIR: I take the earliest opportunity
of replying to your letter notifying
me of my nomination for Vice Presi.
dent of the United States, by the Ma
tional Democratic Convention held
in the city of New York. 1 accept,
without hesitation, the nomination
rendered in a manner so gratifying,
and give you and the Convention my
thanks for the very kind and
complimentary language in which
you have conveyed to me the decision
of the Convention. | have carefully
read the resolutions offered by the
Convention, and most cordially concur
in every principle and sentiment they
announce, My opinion upon all the
questions which discriminate the
great contending parties have been
freely expressed on all suitable occa-
sions, and | do not deem it necessary
at this time to reiterate them. The
issues upon which the contest turns is
clear and cannot be obscured or dis
torted by the sophistries Of our adver-
%saries. They all resolve themselves
into the old and ever recurring
struggle of a few men to
absorb the political power of
the Nation. This effort under
every conceivable name and disguise
has always characterized the opponent
of the Democrat party, but at no
time has the attempt assumed so open
and daring a shape as In this contest.
The adversaries of a free constitu-
tional Government, in defiance of the
express terms of the Constitution,
have erected a military despotism in
ten States of this Union, and have
taken from the President the power
vested In him by the supreme law,
and have deprived the Supreme Court
of its jurisdiction, and the right Of
trial by jury, and the great writ of right,
the hd6eds corptS which insured safety
to every citizen of the United States,
and which have descended to us from
the earliest traditions of our ances-
tors, and which our revolutionary
fathers fought to secure to their pos
terIty forever. The fundamental char
ter OF our liberties has been tram
pied under foot by n fragment of a
Congress; whole States and eommu-
mites of the people of onr race have
been attained, convicted, condemned
and deprived of their rights "a c;ti-
Zens, without presentment trial or
Witness but by a Congressional enact
ment of er post fdcto laws. and II Ia
e. ma ~ *ka fNnHc%1k~~o-.I
ten denying TO a full and loyal Con-
gress the authority to pass any bill of
attainder &c post Jdcto law. The same
usurping authority substituted as
electors in the place of men of your
own race, illegally attained and
DISTINGUISHED, a host of igno-
rant negroes, who are supported
in idleness with public money, and
combined together to strip the white
race of their birthright through the
management of the Freedmen's Bu-
reau and the emissaries of conspira-
tors in other States, and to complete
the oppression, the military power of
the nation is placed at their disposal
Ia order to make this barbarism su-
preme, the military leader under
whose prestige this usurping Congress
has taken refuge since the condemna-
ton of their schemes by the free peo-
pie of the North, in the elections of
the last year. And the man they
have selected as their candidate
to shield themselves from the re-
suit of their wickedness and crimes,
has announced his acceptance of the
nomination, and his willingness to
maintain the usurpations over eight
millions of white people at the South,
fixed to the earth with his bayonets,
He exclaims, let us have peace. Peace
reigns in Warsaw. vas the announce
ment which heralded the doom of the
liberties of the nation. The Empire
wants peace, exclaimed Bonaparte,
Whe3 freedom and its defenders ex-
pred under the sharp edge of the
sword The peace to which Grant