The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-01-20
Greisiils State 9ouraat.
Election of U. s. senators.


Frank Blair (Democrat) has been elected
to the United States Senate from Missouri;
Henry Wilson lRepublican) from Massa-
chusetts, and Lot Y. .sfa-~a1.t 1.tR ~ -
from Maiuae7bott re-elections; Gsneral
John A. Logan (Republican) fronSzstipois,
and Hen. William Window (sepnslican)
from Minnesota !; and Hon. +. T. Freling-
huysen has been nominated in caucus by
the Republicans Of New Jersey.
The election of that rabd, radical, and
rantiog Copperhead, Frank Blair, is the
sorest infietion the country has been vis-
tied with since the cholera. Of 1882. The
following remarks made by him in the
House of the Legislature of Missouri the
day before his election, against a resolu-
tion which was introduced, approving the
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments and
the reconstruction laws, show the vindic-
tive spirit which animates this man since
he has fallen from the high estate he held
as one of Sherman's most trusted officers
Yesterday. Gen. Blair, on motion to re-
fer Major Pope's resolution to the Commit
tee on Federal Relations, of which Mr..
Blair is chairman, spoke on the question,
stating that he was in favor Of the thr-
teenth amendment, and believed the South
generally assented to it, but the reconstruc-
ton acts he declared unconstitutional, and
referred to the decision of the Supreme
Court in the case of Cummings against the
State of Missouri; also to the case of Mu-
ligan and Bowles, who were tried by mil
itary commission in Indiana during the
war. Referring to his letter to Col. Brod-
head, he used the following language;
Sir, my letter, which has been referred to,
contended that the military should be made to
undo their usurpations at the South. say so
still, and you have only to withdraw them
from the South and their work will be undone.
[ lApplsuse.] That carrion crew of carpet
baggers, who are gorged with the pluuder and
drunk with the blood of the vanquished pt O.
pie of the South, will disperse themselves in an
instant if not sustained by the bayone.s of the
Federal government. There is no item in that
letter that l take back. l stand by it. l
believe in the construction given to the
constitution of the United States by
the Supreme Court-that this reconstruc-
ton was unconstitutional. NY hope in
going to Congress, if l should attain
that high position, is, that may aid in with
drawing the troops from those Southern States |
which are held there to saddle upon the backs |
Of that people parcel of carpet-baggers and |
followed by an ignorant mass of |
negroes; and to prove to the people of the |
South who have shown disposition to abide |
in good faith by the arbitrament of arms and |
renew their allegiance tothe government, that |
they win be allowed to resume self government |
themselves, as we have done in Missouri, and |
whilst may not expect to carry with me the |
gentleman from st. Louis, believe that we |
can surely and certainly count upon the CO.
operation of the large body of liberal men who |
assisted us in relieving ourselves from similar |
tyrannies in the State Of Missouri.
We hope the Democrats will renominate |
Blair for 1872. With these sentiments,
be would not carry a single Northern
State. We would like to know where |
here are any soldiers in the South now.
We have understood that they were all
save few in the forts and
1t the arsenals to protect the property of
'he government.
We shall be rejoiced if the Democrats
inally determine to conduct the next can
7ass on the issue of slavery, the fifteenth
the reconstruction acts, and
he deadly animosities of the war. II
hey bring these things up again, we shall
rave an easy time of it in re-electing
President Grant. If the South is deter
nine to perpetuate the hates of the war;
he North will be forced to adopt sim
lar course.