doom of the liberties of a nation. "The empire is peace," exclaimed Bonaparte when freedom and its defenders expired under the sharp edge of his sword.

The peace to which Grant invites us is the peace of despotism and death. Those who seek to restore the Constitution by executing the will of the people condemning the reconstruction acts, already pronounced in the elections of last year, (and which will, I am convinced, be still more emphatically expressed by the election of the Democratic candidate as President of the United States,) are denounced as revolutionists by the partizans of this vindictive Congress. Negro suffrage which the popular vote of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Connecticut and other States have condemned as expressly against the letter of the Constitution, must stand because their Senators and Representatives have willed it.

If the people shall again condemn these atrocious measures by the election of the Democratic candidate for President, they must not be disturbed. Although decided to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, and although the President is sworn to maintain and support the Constitution, the will of a fraction of a Congress, reinforced with its partisan emissaries sent to the South, and sup ported there by the soldiery, must stand against the will of the people, and the decision of the Supreme Court, and the solemn oath of the President to maintain the Constitution. It is revolutionary to execute the will of the people. It is revolutionary to execute the judgment of the Supreme Court. It is revolutionary in the President to keep inviolate his oath to sustain the Constitution. This false construction of the vital principle of our government is the last resort of those who would have their arbitrary reconstruction sway, and supersede our time honored customs. The nation will say the Constitution must be restored and the will of the people again prevail. The appeal to the peaceful ballot to attain this end is not war-is not revolution. They make war and revolution who attempt to arrest this quiet mode of putting aside military despotism, and the usurpations of a fragment of a Congress asserting absolute power over that benign system of regulated liberty left us by our fathers. This must be allowed to take its course. This is the only road to peace. It will come with the election of the Democratic candidate, and not with the election of that mailed warrior, whose bayonets are now at the throats of eight millions of people in the South, to compel them to support him as a candidate for the Presidency, and to submit to the domination of an alien race of semi-barbarous men. No perversion of truth or audacity of misrepresentation can exceed that which hails this candidate in arms as an angel of peace.

I am very respectfully,

Your most obedient servant,

F. P. BLAIR.

FOURTEENTH ARTICLE OF AMENDMENT.

The following is the Fourteenth Article of Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which the Southern States were required to adopt previous to re-admission, and which is now adopted by the requisite number of three-quarters of all the States:

SECTION 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

SEC. 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the executive and judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

SEC. 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State Legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

SEC. 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States authorized by law, including debts incurred for the payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave: but all such'debts, obligations, and claims shall be held illegal and void.

SEC. 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provision of this article.

THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

The following is a summary of the laws and constitutional requirements in the election of a President and Vice President:

Electors elected on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.

The Governor gives notice to electors of their election, before the first Wednesday in December.

Electors meet on the first Wednesday in December, and cast their votes. They then sign three certificates -send a messenger with one to the President of the Senate, at Washington, before the first Wednesday in January-another by mail to the same person, and the third deliver to the United States District Judge, where electors meet.

Each State provides by law for filling any vacancy in the Board of Electors, occasioned by absence, death, or resignation. Such of the electors as are present are generally authorized to fill any vacancy.

On the second Wednesday in February, Congress shall be in session, and open the returns. The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the House of Representatives, open the certificate of returns, and count the votes. The person having the greatest number of votes for President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors, shall be the President. If no person has a majority as above, the choice is to be made from the highest returned. The members of the House, by States, form themselves into Electoral Committees, and the majority determine which is to be the choice of the State-each State having only one vote.

If neither of the candidates get a majority of the States before the 4th of March, then the Vice President shall act as President.

If no candidate for Vice President has a majority of the electors, then from the two highest candidates the Senate elects the Vice President, each Senator having one vote.

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