Year: 1868

We publish below the letter of Frank
Blair defining his position, and laying down
his programme if elected Democratic Presi-
dent of the United States If the real views
of tie revolutionary Democracy should find
expression in their Convention, Blair would
receive the nomination. All the Southern
delegations would support him to man,
and the Wood Vallandigham rebels of the
North would unite with them. IF Blair
does not receive the nomination, it will be
mainly owing to the fact that he has let the
cat out of the wallet too soon. He should
have remained quiet until after the election,
and then have proceeded quietly to execute
his purposes Blair's hasty disclosure of
the real purposes of the Democracy will
doubtless defeat his nomination. Butte is
understood that whoever does receive the
nomination will fight it out on Blair's line if
elected. Northern Democrats did not dis
tinguish themselves for fighting in the last
war after all their. bluster and bravado.
Southern rebels found that they had trusted
to the professions of their Northern friends
to their sorrow. They will find the same
thing again if they allow themselves to be
deluded second time. How different from
the language of Blair, the would-he Demo-
cratic President is the language of the noble
Grant. Blair thirsts for war, and would
bring dcsolation and anguish again to
million of homes which are just beginning
to be comfortcd. Grant says Let us have
peace" The rebel conclave now in session
in New York does not represent the masses
of our Southern people. They are desperate
politicians who would stop short of no
crime to plunge the country into ruin and
desolation, if they could succeed in regain
ing the power which has been wrcsted from
their wicked hands.


The following is the letter of Frank P.
Blair, to which we refer:


WASHINGTON, June 80, 1868.
Col. Ju,nes O. BrOdhead:


DEAR COLONEL : In reply to your in
quiries, beg leave to say that l leave to
Ill
friends from Missouri, whether my name
shall be presented to the Democratic Con-
veution, 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 negro suffrage established and
the carpet-baggers installed in their seats in
both branches of Congress. There is no
possibility of changing the political charac-
| ter of the Senate, even if the Democrats
should elect their President and majority
of the popular branch of Congress We
cannot Therefore, undo the Ratlical plan of
reconstruction by Congressional action the
| Senate will continue bar to its repeal.
| Must We submit to it How can it be over
thrown2 1t can only be overthrown by the
authority of the Executive, who is sworn to
maintain the Constitution, and who will fail
to do his duty if he allows the Constitution
to perish under series of Congressional en-
actnents which are in palpable violation of
its fundamental principles.


If the President elected by the Democra-
cy entorces or permits Others to enforce these
reconstruction acts, the Radicals, by the nc
cessi0n of twenty spurious Senators and fifty
Representatives will control both branches
of Congress, and his administration will be
as powerless as the present one of Mr.. John
son.


There is but one way to restore the gov
ernment and the Constitution, and that is
for the President elect to declare these acts null
and cold, compel the army to undo its usur-
pations at the South, disperse the carpet bag
State governments, allo~ the schite people to
reorganise their. own governments, and elect
Senators and Representatives. The House of
Representatives will contain majority Of
Democrats from the North, and they will
admit the Representatives elected by the
white people OF the South, and with the CO.
operation OF the President it will not be diff
cult to compel the Senate to submit once
more tn the obligations of the Constitution.
| 1t will not be able to withstand the public
| judgment, if distinctly invoked and clearly
expressed on this fundamental issue, and it
is the sure way to avoid all future strife to
put the issue plainly to the country.
repeat that this is the real and only cues
ton which we should allow to control us
Shall We submit to theusurpations by which
the Government has been overthrown, or
shall we exert ourselves tor its full and CON-
plete restoration9 1t is idle to talk of
bonds, greenbacks, gold the public faith,
and the public credit. What can Demo-
cratic President do in regard to any of these,
with Congress in both branches controlled
by carpet-baggers and their alies2 He will
be powerless to stop the supplies by which
idle negroes are organized into political
clubs-by which an army is maintained to
protect these vagabonds in their outrages
upon the ballot. These, and things like
these, eat up the revenues and resources of
the Government and destroy its credit
make the difference between gold and green
backs. We must restore the Constitution
before we can the finances, and to do this
we must have a President who will execute
the will of the people By trampling into dust
the usurpotions Of Congress, knOson us the re-
construction acts aoish to stand before the
Conuention upon this issue, but it is one which
embraces ece'ytting else that is of calue IN its
large aed comprehensive results 1t is the one
thing that includes all that is worth con-
test, and without it there is nothing that
gives dignity, honor, or value to the strug-
gle.


Your friend, FRANK BLAIR.
How the Ethiopian May Change hi


Skin.


If colored citizen is Republican, the
rebel Journals call him 6 nigger." But