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 foot by the fragment of a Congress. Whole currency, or at the option of the holders, con- States and communities of people of our own verted into bonds bearing a low rate of interest; race have been attainted, convicted, condemned, that the national bank currency should be re- and deprived of their rights as citizens, without tired and its place supplied by legal tenders, so presentment, or trial, or witnesses, but by conas to save to the Government interest upon the gressional enactment of ex post facto laws, and amount of that circulation, and that the policy in defiance of the constitutional prohibition deof permitting banks to supply nearly half of the nying even to a full and legal Congress the aunational currency-allowing the five-twenty thority to pass any bill of attainder or ex post bonds, bearing, as they do, interest at the rate facto law. The same usurping authority has of nearly nine per cent. per annum, to run be- substituted as electors in place of the men of yond the date when they become redeemable, our own race, thus illegally attainted and disand of contracting the currency until it shall franchised, a host of ignorant negroes, who are rise to the value of gold, is a policy which favors supported in idleness with the public money, the few against the many, is oppressive to the and combined together to strip the white race of laboring and the debtor classes, and tends to their birthright, through the management of bring upon the country the dishonor of repu- freedmen's bureaus and the emissaries of condiation. spirators in other States; and, to complete the [He moved for the suspension of the rule re-oppression, the military power of the nation has quiring 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.

been 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 peo. OMAHA, 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.

I accept without hesitation the nomination tendered 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 convention.

I have carefully read the resolutions adopted by the convention, and most cordially concur in every principle and sentiment they announce. My opinion upon all of the questions which discriminate the great contending parties have been freely expressed on all suitable occasions, and I do not deem it necessary at this time to reiterate them.

The issues upon which the contest turns are clear, and cannot be obscured or distorted by the sophistries of our adversaries. They all resolve themselves into the old and ever-renewing struggle of a few men to absorb the political power of the nation. This effort, under every conceivable name and disguise, has always characterized the opponents of the Democratic party, bnt at no time has the attempt assumed a shape so open and daring as in this contest. The adversaries of free and constitutional government,

didate to shield themselves from the result of
their own wickedness and crime, has announced
his acceptance of the nomination, and his will-
ingness to maintain their usurpations over eight
millions of white people at the South, fixed to
the earth with his bayonets. He exclaims:
"Let us have peace." Peace reigns in War-
saw" was the announcement which heralded
the doom of the liberties of a nation.
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.

"The

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 Representatives have willed it. If the people shall again condemn these atrocious measures by the election of the Democratic candidate for President,

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

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

Amount of taxes

Rate per cent. Paid to and assessed Rate per cent. Taxes paid to U. S. Rate of tax (U. S.
paid United States. U. S. taxation. by State authorities. State taxati'n. and State authorities. & State) on capital

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