The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1868-08-29
THE JOURNAL.
THE
OF TIE
Democratic National Convention.
ADOPTED JULY 7, 1868.

i tiS DGIIJtlt PH
vention assembled, reposing its trust in the
intelligence, patriotism and discriminating
Justice of the people, standing upon inc
C0nsiitutiOn as the foundation and llinlta
ton of the power Of the government, and
the guarantee Of the liberty Of the citizen,
and recognizing the questions Of slavery ano
secession as having been settled Tor all time
TO C. me by the war or he vol ntary actor
of the Southern States in CON TIT tt0ual con
y~entions assembled, and never to be re
newed or reagit ted, do, with the return d
peace. demand:
First-Im tcdilte restoration Of all the
States to their rights in the Onion under
the Constitution, and of civil government
to the American people.
Sec nd-Amne>ty for ali the past poIiti
cal o~tfenseS, and the regulation of the elect
i've franchise in the States by their citizens
Third-P.yn-nt Of the public debt q
the y iited States as rapidly as practicable,
all money drawn from he PEG lie by taxa
ton, except so much as is requisite ior tht
necessities ofthe government, economically
administered, being applied to such pay
ment; and where the obligations OF the
government do not expressly state, upon
their face, or where the law under which
they were issued does not provide that they
shall be pail in coli, they ought in right
and justice be pad in the lawful money OF
the United States. ~(Thunders ofapplause
Fourth-Eqnal taxation of every species
Of property acco. ding to its real value, in
Guiding govern ment bonds and "ther public
securities. Rencwcd cheering, and cries
Of Read it again.')
Fitth-One currency for the government
and the people, the laborcr and the Office
holder, the pensipner and the soldier, the
producer and the bondholder. Great cheer
ing, and cries OF " Read / it again.")
The fifth resolution was az in read, and
again cheered.
-Sixth-Economy in the administrator Of
the governments; the reduction Of the stand
ing army and navy the abolition Of the
Freedmen's Bureau (great cheers, and all
political instrumentalities designed to Sc
cure negro supremacy ; sim! LITIGATION OF the
system and discontinuarre of inquis torial
modes of assessing and collecting the internal
revenue, so that the burden Of taxation may
be enualixed and lessened =; the credit of he
government and the currency made good :;
the repeal of III enactme"ts for enrolling
the State militia into national forces in time
Of peace aud a tariff for revenue upon
foreign imports, a"d such equal taxation
under the internal r venue laws as will al
ford incidental protection to domestic manu-
features; and as will, without impairing the
revenue, impose the least busden upon, and
best remote and encourage the great in
dustrial Interests Of the country.
Seventh-ReCprm of abuses in the ad-
ministration. the expulsion of corrupt men
fro n Offices, the restoration Of rightful al
thority-to aud the indie endcnce of the
executive and Judicial departments Of the
government the snbordination of the mill
tary to the civil p 'wer, to the end that the
usurpatiors of Congress and the despotism
of the sword nay cease.
-Eishth-tq,al rights and protection for
nat,lraiized ard ma ive-born citizens at home
AID abroad, the assertion of American na-
tionality, which shall command the respect
o. foreign powers and furnish an example
and encouragement to people struggling for
national integrity, constitutional liberty and
individual rights; and the maintenance of
the rights ot nat1ralized citizens against he
ab,oI lie doctrine Of immutable allegiance
and the claims of foreign powers to punish
trctn for alleged crimes committed beyond
their nisllvtion. (Applause.) ~.
10 deDlan ing these measure and reforms,
We arraign the Radical party for its disre
gard Of right, and he unparalleled oppres-
sion ami tyraRny which have marked its
career after th%nost solemn and unanimous
pledge of bph Ruses of Congress to prose
cute the war Exclusively for the mainte-
nance If the ovSnment and the preserva-
ton of the Unior&uad the Constitution. 1t
has repe tedly Violated that most >acred
pledge, Inier whi% was rail- ed that noble
vo. unteer army Rich carried our flag to
victory ; instead of Questioning the Union, it
ha 80 far as is in N power, dissolved it,
and subjected ten 3iatcs, in times of pro.
found peace, 10 IN Iii N d s1otsm and ne
gro Supremacy. 1t nullitied the right
of trial by jury it hs u polished the habeas
corpus, the most sacl wriWDf liberty il
has overthrown the / Rdom of speech and
press; t has substitutY arbitrary seizu, es
and arrests, and militia trials, and secret
chamber inqnisitid for constitutional
tribunals; it has dlstX ded in times of
peace the right of III eople to be free
search $ and seiz it has entered
the post and teleg aph es, and even the
private rooms ofindisidS 2, ard seiz.d their
papers ana rs without any
specification or nnlica affidavit as re-
quirea by the organic 1t has convert
ed the American cap into a bastilie (; it
has established a systd pf pies and official
espionage to which nd Institutional mon-l
arehy of Europe woula are to resdA D.
has abolished the righ appeal OH in
Unconstitutional qnd ons to the supra
judf0&s ttiban"ls, any h. eatenS to cnrta
or destT IT'S orIgina lrlsdiction, which 4
irr voca6fy@ v6stEd& - the Con>titution.y
while the learned q -
subjected to great ahdAtgocious
merely because hs : EsassA9fis
high Office to the ass :
dent. It's corruption 46d extravagance have
exceeded any hing knowd in history, and
by lis frauds and m~onopolies it has nearly
the burden OF the debt created
the war. 1t has stripped the Presr
dent Of his constitutional power of appoint
ment. even of his own cabinet; under its
re, Gated vssa Its, the pillars ofllhe govern
ment are rocking on their base, and should
it succeed in November next, and iaaugu-
it President, we viii meet it as a sub
iected and conquered people, amid the ruins
ofaiberty, and the scattered fragments of
the Constitution. And we do declare and
that ever since the people of the
United States threw off al %subjugation to
the British crpwn, the privilege and trust of
suffrage have belonged to the several States,
and have been granted, regulated and con-
trolled exclusively by the political power Of
each State, respectively and any attempt
by , ongress, on any pretext whatever, to
deprive any State Of this right, or interfere
with this exercise. is a fragrant usurpation
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