Year: 1868

The nreaAhsaA Letter.


! The most bitter and malignant Copperhead Of
the present Il to be found In the renegade Re-
publican Of years ago. What may have been
said BY ane Of this class in mere individual ca
pacty, might be possessed of bat little political
but when the opinions have been
endorsed by the unanimous nomination of the an.
thor, we have right to look upon these opiu.
ions as Democratic policy in the event of success.
We present extracts from the celebrated " Broad
head letter." written by Frank p. Blair, prior
to his nomination to the Vice Presidency. No
wonder that ex-rebel General Wise and ex-rebel
Governor Vance say that what the Confeder-
acy fought for would be won by the election of
Seymour and Blair" and denounced as false
hood the first Tammany resolution which alleged
the rebellion to be dead, that =" the principle of
secession Is more alive than ever" II the rebels
can gain, through the treachery of recreant
Unionists, the success Of those principles which
they lost BY the sword, we are not disposed to
blame them for so doing, But what Union man,
who sustained the Government when tried in the
fiery ordeal of the rebellion, can give support to
party which threatens thus to again raise the
bloody standard of insurrection and deluge the
land in blood7 Below are the extracts:


WASHINGTON, June 30.


Colonel James o. Broadhead-Dear Colonel ::
ln reply to your inquiries beg leave to say that
leave You to determine, on consultation with my
friends from Missouri, whether my name shall
be presented to the Democratic Convention, and
to submit the following, as what / consider the
real and only issue in this contest.


The Reconstruction policy of the Radicals will
be complete before the next election the States,
SO long excluded, will have been admitted me-
gro suffrage established, and the carpet-baggers
installed in their seats in both branches of Con-
gress. There is no possibility of changing the
political character of the Senate, even if the
Democrats should elect their President and
majority of the popular branch of Congress.
We cannot, therefore, undo the Radical plan of
by Congressional action the Sen
ate will continue bar to its repeal. Must we
submit to it? How can it be overthrowD? 1t
can only be overthrown by the authority of the
Executive, who is sworn to maintain the Consti-
tuition, and who will fail to do bis duty if he al
lows the Constitution to perish under series of
Congressional enactments which are in palpable
violation of its fundamental principles


1t the President elected by the Democracy en-
forces or permits others to enforce these Recon-
struction Acts, the Radicals, by the accession of
twenty spurious Senators and fifty Respesenta-
lives, will control both branches of Congress,
and his administration will be as powerless as
the present one of Mr.. johnson.


There is but one way to restore the Govern
ment and Constitution, and that is for the Presi-
dent elect to declare these acts null and void,
compel the army to undo Its usurpations at the
South, disperse the carpet-bag State Govern
ments, allow the white people to reorganize
their own Governments, and elect Senators and
The House of Representatives
will contain a majority of Democrats from the
North, and they will admit the Representatives
elected by the white people of the South, and
with the cooperation of the President it will
not be difficult to compel the Senate to submit
once more to the obligations of the Constitution
It will not be able to withs tand the public
Judgment, if distinctly invoked and clearly ex-
pressed, on this fundamental Issue, and it is the
ure way to avoid all future strife to put this is
ue plainly to the country.


And again, in the same letter he SAYS:


We must restore the Constitution before we
an restore the finances, and to do this we must
lave President who will execute the will of the
'eople by tramping into the dust the nsurpa-
ions of Congress, known as the reconstruction
lcts.


Such sentiments were rife among Democratic
eaders few years ago, when rebel victories
we're decimating our armies, and the "left wing
If Lees army was keeping upa FIRE in the
rear. But the day for the even temporary sue
cess Of such principles has passed, and Union
men, casting their ballots for one who says,
70 This is repu bile where the will of the people
is the law of the land" will repeat the lesson
they have so often taught the rebels and their
allies.


COOP TENPLARs-NEw OFFIcERs.-Sunday eve
ming, August I'd, the following named persons
were installed officers of Beacon Lodge, No. 300,
of the 1. o. G. T., for the ensuing quarter w.
Bachelor. Wet. Miss Emma Loots, W.R.H.S.;