Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-07-16

" eAAeSA ~ july
It has abolished the habeas cor
pas, that most sacred writ of liber-
ty.
It has overthrow the freedom
Of speech and the press.
1t has substituted arbitrary seiz-
ures and arrests, and military
trials and secret Star Chamber in
quis tons, for constitutional tribu-
mails.
1t has disregarded in time of
peace the right of the people to
be free from search and seizures.
1t has entered the post and
telegraph Offices, and even the
private rooms of individuals, and
seized their private papers and let
tiers, without any specification or
notice of affidavit, as required by
the organic law.
1t has converted the American
capitol into a Bastile.
1t mas established a system Of
spies and official espionage to
(which no constitutional monarchy
of Europe would now dare to re-
sort.
j 1t has abolished the right Of ap-
peal on important constitutional
questions to the SupremeJ Judiciary
tribunal, and threatens to curtail
or destroy its original jurisdiction.
which is irrevocably vested by the
Constitution, while the learned
Chief Justice has been subjected
to the most atrocious calumnies,
merely because he would not pros
ltitute his high Office to the sup.
port of the false and partisan
charges preferred against the Pres
lident.
/ Its corruption and extravaganza
( have exceeded anything known in
history, and by its frauds and
monoplies it has nearly doubled
}the burden of debt created du
ring the war.
1 1t has stripped the President Of
his constitutional power Of ap
|pointment, even Of his own Cabi
met.
i Under its repeated assaults the
pillars of the government are rock
ing on their base, and should il
succeed in November next and in
augurate its President we will meet
as subject and conquered people
amid the ruins Of liberty and the
scattered fragments OF the Consti
tuition !; and we do declare and re
isolve that ever since the people o.
the United States threw off all sub
Lection to the British Crown the
privilege and trust of suffrage have
belonged to the several States, and
have been granted, regulated and
controlled exclusively by the po
litical power of each State respect
lively, and any attempt by Congress.
on any pretext whatever, to de.
prive any State of this right, OF
interfere with this exercise, is a
fragrant usurpation Of power which
can find no warrant in the Consti.
tuition, and, if sanctioned by the
people, will subvert our form of
government, and can only end in
a centralized, consolidated govern.
ment, in which the separate exist
ence of the States will be entirely
absorbed, and an unqualified des-
potism be established in place of a
Federal Union of equal States.
That we regard the recon
struction acts of Congress so-called,
as usurpations, unconstitutional,
revolutionary and void, and that
our soldiers and sailors who carried
the flag of our country to victory
against the most gallant and deter
mined foe, must ever be gratefully
remembered, and all the guaran-
tees given in their favor must be
faithfully carried into execution.
That the public lands should be
distributed widely among the peo-
pie, and should be disposed either
under the presumption or home
stead laws, and sold in reasonable
quantities, and to none but actual
occupants, at the minimum price
as established by the government.
When grants Of the public lands
may be allowed, necessary for the
encouragement of important pub
lie improvements, the proceeds of
the sale of such lands and not the
lands themselves should be so ap-
piled.
That the President of the United
States. Andrew johnson. In eyer