Natchitoches spectator., 1868-07-28

learned Chief Justice has been subjected
TO great and atrocious calumnies merely
because he would not prostitute his
high office to the support OF the false
and partisan charges preferred against
the President
exceeded anything known in history anu
by it's frauds and monopolies IT has near
w doubled the burden of debt created
during the war. 1t has stripped tho
President of his constitutional power OF
appeintment even of his own cabinet.
| Under its repeated assaults, the pillars
of the Government are rocking on their
base, and should it succeed in Noyem-
ber next, and inaugurate its President,
| we will meet as a subject and conquered
lpeople amid the ruins of liberty and the
scattered fragments of the constitutions
and we do declare and resolve. that,
lever since the people OF the uhlte0
/ States threw off all subiection to the
British crown, the privilege and trust OF
suffrage have belonged to the severai
q States, and have been granted, regula-
teu and controlled exclusively by the
political power of each State, and any
, attempt by Congress, on any pretex1
whatever, to deprive any State OF TINS
right, or interfere with this exercise. IS
: fiagrant usurpation of power which
= can find no warrant in the constitution,
!. . and. if sanctioned by the people, will
- subyert our form OF governments, ana
= can only end in a single, centralized,
4 consolidated government, in which the
% separate existence OF the States VIII oe
- entirely absorbed and an unquaiified
e despotism be established in place of a
g Federal Union of equal States.
- That we regard the reconstruction
- acts pf Congress, so-cailed, as usurpa-
. tions unconstitutional, revolutionary
~ and void.
~ ~ That our soldiers and sailors. who
II = rarried the flag of our country to victory
- AGAINST a most gallant and determined
81 foe, must ever be gratefully remember
oa ed. and all the guarantees given in their
~ favor must be faithfully carried into
III execution.
~ That the public lands should be dis
- tributed as widely among the people as
of possible, and should be disposed oil ell
,,d ther under the pre-. emption or nome
p,a stead law, and sold in reasonable guam
nd titles and to none but actual occupants
-, at the minimum price as established ps
II tI,e Government When grants OF pub
% mo lie lands may be deemed necessary fo
IS, the encouragement of important puoii'
me- improvements, the proceeds OF the SAL
,ol of such lands, and not the lands them
no selves, should be so applied.
;on That the President of the Unite
~ States, Andrew johnson, in exercisin
ose the power of his high Office in resistin
OTTO the aggressions of Congress on the COZ
ter stituIlonai IisS -. % st;.,,da ~ ~,
od- whole American people, and ON beha
mt of the Democratic party we tender hll
,seD our thanks for his patriotic efforts
tfnl that regard.
e of Opoh thls P';. PiaDiolm .no ;,,es',d;,
lent party appear W SNeiS Ps.a, - III -,
the desire to support the constitution al
rosS o restore Union, forgetting all past diffe
nav nav enccs of opinion, to unite with us in q
present struggle for the liberties of t
for people, and that to all such, to whatev
uens party they may have heretofore belou
IN of ed, we eXtenu S,ie nonu ~ -;
F,,r- MS as friends and brothers.