The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1868-07-25


and official espionage TO which no mon
archy of Europe would dare TO resort.
1t has abolished the right Of appeal,
on important Constitutional questions,
to the supreme judicial tribunal, and
threatens TO eurtail or destroy its
original jurisdiction, which is irrevoca-
bly, vested by the Constitution; while
the learned Chief Justice has been SUBJ
jected to great and atrocious calumnies
merely because he would not prostitute
his high office to the support of the
false partisan charges preferred against
the President.
Its corruption and extravaganza
have exceeded anything known in his
tory, and by its frauds and monopolies
it has nearly doubled the burden of
the debt created during the war.
1t has stripped the President of his
constitutional power of appointment,
even of his own Cabinet.
Under its repeated assaults the pill
lars of the Government are rocking on
their base. and should it succeed in
November next, and inangurate its
President, we will meet it as subiec-
ted and conquered people, amid the
ruins of liberty. and the scattered
fragments of the Constitution.
| FURTHER DECLARATIONS.
And ace do Declare and. ResolUc,
That ever since the people of the Uni
ted States threw off all subiugation 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 political power of each State,
respectively. and any attempt by Con-
gress, or any pretext whatever, to de-
prive any State of this right, or inter-
fere with thir exercise, is fragrant
usurpation of power, which can find no
warrant in the Constitution, and il
sanctioned by the people, will subvert
our form of Government, and can only
end in single, centralized, consclida-
ted Government, in which the separate
existence of the States will be entirely
absorbed; and an unqualified despotisn
be established in place of Federal
Union of equal States.
/ That we regard the reconstruction
acts of Congress, so-called, as usurpa
tions, unconstitutional, revolutionary
and void.
That our soldiers and sailors who
carried the flag of our country to victo-
ry againsta most gallant and deter
mined foe, must ever be gratefully re-
membered, and all the guarantees Civ
EN- in their favor must be faithfully car
ried into execution.
That the public lands should be dis
tributedwisely among the people, ant
should be disposed of either under the
pre- -emption of homestead lands, ant
sold in reasonable quantities. and t.
none but actual occupants, at the mini
mum price, as established by the Gov
eminent; and that, when grants of the
public lands may be allowed, necessa
ry for the encouragement of importan
public improvements; the proceeds 0
the sale Of such lands, and not TIL
lands themselves. should be so applied
That the President Of the Unite,
States, Andrew johnson, in exercisin,
the power of his high office in resist
ing the aggressions of Congress ON tn
constitutional rights of the States an
, the people, is entitled 10 the gratitud
of the whole American people. and o.
{ behalf of the Democratic party we ten
der him our thanks for his patriot
3 efforts in that regard.
THE APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE.
Upon this platform the Democrat