Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-10-07
TELEGRANIS TO THE STAR,
This Afternoons Disp atches.
THE CAMPAIGN In OHIO.
Speech OF General II. p. Blair in Cinciu.
nati-He Defends his Brodhead Letter
Jhe Charge of being Revsluti snist.


he Charge of being Revsluti snist.
Especial Dispatch TO the Starl
CINCINNATI, Oct. 6.-There was very large
Democratic demonstration IN this city last night
which was addressed by General F. p. Blair
and Governor Bramlette. General Blair in
his address, dealt at length with the charges
against him of being revolutionIst, and
I'll the of his remarks he charged
that tie Radicals had every where desrised
and condemned the will of the people
Here IN the State Of OHIO negro suffrage was
voted down by 5000 majority. TApplause /
fet did the Senators from that State of Ohio re.
uace their steps-did the Radical Representa-.
uyts from The Stale of Ohio bow to the will OF
the pcople7 ICries OF mo, they didn't"l They
say now openly that even If fSeymour and Blair
should be elected by the people, and this poll
cy should receive another condemnation, that
they nave secured themselves for years and
years 10 come IL the Senate, which the people
cannot reach. They have brought in the car
pet,oaegeIs and reinforced themselves there
win two-thlrds majority, and they say
tney Will contin ne their policy, and it Will be
revolution If any one attempts to stop them.
ana because upon n recent occasion he de.
clared that the " i'll of the people should gov
ern this country; that II the people will it. these
States should wither and die under their
breath he had been proclaimed all over the
country rs reyolutIonist. He had been de-
ced as willing 10 renew this rebellion.
Yes, and by these Senators, and ex-Senators
and ex Secretaries who are perambulating the
country, and who kept their seats safely in
neld hghtng against this rebellion with the
best ability that he possessed. TGreat ap-
plause Yet he was q revolutionIst, willing
TO renew the rebellion, because he had declared
that the will of the people expressed under the
forms of the Constitution in this country was
me supreme law. and that no fragment of a
Congress-no rump Congress-could tie the
hanos OF this people, ana make policy for
them against their will.
The principles on which this reconstruction
policy stands have been declared to be uncon-
n { Gnlnra 10 nff Ian
several cases the principles on which this
measures rests have been declared TO be un-
constitutional by the body erected under the
Consultation to decide uron the validity and
constitutionality of acts OF Congress And vet
these men say that those wne are for executing
the decision OF the Supreme Court are reyolu-
tlonlsts; that those who are for maintaining
the President against this fragment of Congress
who ale attempting to trample the Constitution
under foot: those who are for executing the
will Of the people already expressed condemn
ing these laws, condemnng these acts, and
which VIII be again renewed in November
next, condemning them for a second and third
time, they who go for the execution of the will
OF the people in this popular Government, a
Government which belongs to the peOpIc-
they are denounced as revolutionists.
Now, these laws are uncon stitutional. null
and void, and they have been so proclaimed by
the supreme Court They commen ced by es-
tablishing military despotism, and subyert-
ing civil government in ten States OF this
Cnlop. Dos not every man of intelligence
military authority SHALL always be subordinate
TO this country And yet, in spite of that uu-
mlstakable provision of the Constitution, the e
men have suoverted all civil government in
the ten Southern States, and established a mill
tary despotism. I''Thats sC."l And if they
establish it in the ten southern States, why OF
In ten more Statesl Why not in all of the other
Statsi Ihey have shown The will 10 do il,
and IL you conflde 10 them again The power for
four years more in the Executive Chair and in
the Congress OF the United States, they Will ad-
furthpr a m la-
potism in ten more of the Southern States, and
perhaps in all of them. [Applause, and cries
of That's uue."1
General Blair claimed that the Democratic
party was the Union party ofthe country. The
Democratic party, he said, filled the army and
saved the Union in this last struggle IL was an
absolute fact that the quarrel which broke out
between Mr.. Seymour, the Democratic candi-
date for President, and Mr.. Stanton, arose from
this fact that he so manipulated his conscrip-
ton bureau as TO require the districts of New
1ork to supply to the army two men to one
that was supplied by the Radical State of
Massachusetts.