suspension of the rule requiring the reference of all resolutions to the committee on resolutions.] Pending the resolutions reported from the committee above, General Thomas Ewing, jr., of Kansas, offered this resolution :

in defiance of the express language of the Constitution, have erected a military despotism in ten of the States of the Union, have taken from the President the powers vested in him by the supreme law, and have deprived the Supreme Resolved, That the faith of the republic to its Court of its jurisdiction. The right of trial by creditors, as pledged in its laws, is inviolable, jury, and the great writ of right, the habeas and the public burdens should be lightened by corpus-shields of safety for every citizen, and vigilant economy in expenditures, and never by which have descended to us from the earliest repudiation; that all the bonds of the United traditions of our ancestors, and which our revoStates issued after the passage of the legal ten-lutionary fathers sought to secure to their posder act, and not by law expressly payable in terity forever in the fundamental charter of our coin, should be paid when redeemable in legal-liberties-have been ruthlessly trampled under tender notes, but without undue inflation of the currency, or at the option of the holders, converted into bonds bearing a low rate of interest; that the national bank currency should be retired and its place supplied by legal tenders, so as to save to the Government interest upon the amount of that circulation, and that the policy of permitting banks to supply nearly half of the national currency-allowing the five-twenty bonds, bearing, as they do, interest at the rate of nearly nine per cent. per annum, to run beyond the date when they become redeemable, and of contracting the currency until it shall rise to the value of gold, is a policy which favors the few against the many, is oppressive to the laboring and the debtor classes, and tends to bring upon the country the dishonor of repudiation.

[He moved for the suspension of the rule requiring reference to the committee, which was lost-yeas 78, nays 197; and the resolution was accordingly referred, and not again considered.]

General Blair's Letter.

foot by the fragment of a Congress. Whole States and communities of people of our own race have been attainted, convicted, condemned, and deprived of their rights as citizens, without presentment, or trial, or witnesses, but by congressional enactment of ex post facto laws, and in defiance of the constitutional prohibition denying even to a full and legal Congress the authority to pass any bill of attainder or ex post facto law. The same usurping authority has substituted as electors in place of the men of our own race, thus illegally attainted and disfranchised, a host of ignorant negroes, who are supported in idleness with the public money, and combined together to strip the white race of their birthright, through the management of freedmen's bureaus and the emissaries of conspirators in other States; and, to complete the ppression, the military power of the nation has beer placed at their disposal, in order to make this barbarism supreme.

The military leader under whose prestige this usurping Congress has taken refuge since the condemnation of their schemes by the free peoOMAHA, NEBRASKA, July 13, 1868. ple of the North in the elections of the last General GEORGE W. MORGAN, Chairman Com-year, and whom they have selected as their canmittee National Democratic Convention. GENERAL: I take the earliest opportunity of replying to your letter, notifying me of my nomination for Vice President of the United States by the National Democratic Convention, recently held in the city of New York.

didate to shield themselves from the result of their own wickedness and crime, has announced his acceptance of the nomination, and his willingness to maintain their usurpations over eight millions of white people at the South, fixed to the earth with his bayonets. He exclaims:

I accept without hesitation the nomination"Let us have peace.' Peace reigns in Wartendered in a manner so gratifying, and give you and the committee my thanks for the very kind and complimentary language in which you have conveyed to me the decision of the con

saw" was the announcement which heralded the 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 peacc 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 the President of the United States, are denounced as revolutionists by the partisans 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 Representa tives have willed it. If the people shall again condemn these atrocious measures by the elec tion of the Democratic candidate for President,

The nomination of Ex-Governor Seymour was made, July 9, on the 22d ballot, as follows:

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Statement showing the amount and rate of taxation (U. S. and State) of the National Banks, for the year ending December 31, 1867.

Receipts of Internal Revenue for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1867, and June 30, 1868.