The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-07-23


at home and abroad; the assertion o
American nationality which shall com
mand the respect Of foreign powers ant
furnish an example and encouragement
to the people struggling for national in
tegrity, constitutional liberty and indi
vidual rights of naturalizcd citizens
against the absolute doctrine of immutablc
allegiance and the claims of foreign pow
ers to punish them for alleged crimes
committed beyond their Jurisdiction.
[Applause.
In demanding these measures and re-
forms We arraign the Radical party for
its disregard OF rights and the unparalel-
led oppression and tyranny which have
marked its career, after the most solemn
and unanimous pledge of both Houses of
Congress to prosecute the war exclusively
for the maintenance Of the Government
and the preservation of the Union under
the Constitution. 1t has repeatedly vic.
lated that most sacred pledge, under
which alone was rallied that noble volun-
teer army which carried our flag to VIC
tory. Instead of restoring the Union, it
has so far as is in its power dissolved it
and subjected ten States in time of peace
to military despotism and negro supre-
macy. 1t has nullifed there the right
of trial by jury; it has abolished the ho-
6eas corpus, that most sacred writ of lib
erty; it has overthrown the freedom of
the press; it has substituted arbitrary
arrests and military trials and secret
star chamber inquisitions for consti-
tutional tribunals; it has disrcgarded in
time of peace the right of the people to
be free from searches and seizures; it has
entered post aud telegraph Offices, and has
entered the private rooms of individuals,
and seized their private papers and let
tcrs, without any specification or notice
of afhdavits, as required by the Constitu-
ton; 1t has converted the American
Capitol into Bastilc; it has established
a system of spies and official espionage to
which no constitutional monarchy of Eu-
rope would now dare to resort; it has
abolished the right of appeal on import
ant constitutional questions to the su-
prcmc judicial tribunals, and threatens to
curtail or destroy its original jurisdiction,
which is irrcyocably vested by the Con-
stitution, while the learned Chief Justice
has been subjected to the most atrocious
calumuies, merely because hc would not
prostitute his high Office to the support
of the false aud par.izan charges prefer
red againt the President
Its corruption and extravaganza have
exceeded any thing known in history,
and by its frauds and monopolics 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 pillars Of
the government arc rocking on their base,
and should it succeed in November next
and inaugurUte its President, VIC will
meet as 4 subjected and conquered peo-
pic, amid the ruins of liberty and the
shattered fragments of the Constitution.
And We do declare and resolve that
ever since the people of the United States
threw off all subjection to the British
Crown, the privilege and trust of suffrage
have belonged to the several States and
have been granted, regulated aud con
trollcd exclusively by the political power
of each State respectively, and that any
attempt by Congress, on any pretcxt
whatever, to deprive any State of this
right, or interfere with its exercise, is a
fragrant usurpation of power, which can
find no warrant in the Constitution, and
if sanctioned by the people will subvcrt
our form of government and end in a
single centralized and consolidated gov
crnmcnt, in which the separate existence
of the States will be entirely absorbed
and an unqualified despotism be estab-
lishcd in place of federal union of CO.
equal States; and that VIC regard the re-
construction acts, SO called of Congress,
as such, arc usurptory and unconstitu
tional, revolutionary and void that our
soldiers and sailors who carried the flag
of our country to victory against most
gallant and determined foe, must ever be
gratefully remembered, and all the guar
antecs given in their favor must be faith
fully carried into execution; that the
public lands should be distributed as
widely among the people and should be
disposed OF either under the pre-emption
or homestead lands and sold in reasonable
quantities, and to none but actual occu-
pants at the minimum price established
Wy luS ooFCiunhcuI, "hcu SiduoS VI pun
lie lands may be allowed, necessary for
the encouragement of important public
improvements, the proceeds of the sale of
such lands, and not the lands themselves,
should be so applied; that the President
of the United States, Andrew johnson
(applausc), in exercising the power Of
his high Office in resisting the aggrcssions
of Congress on the constitutional rights
of the States and the people, is entitled
to the gratitude Of the whole American
people, aud on behalf Of the Democratic
party we tender him our thanks for his
patriotic efforts in that regard. [Grcat
applause
The dearest word in our language is
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