The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-09-18

he would not prostitute his high Office to the
support of the false and partisan charges pre-
fsrred against the President. Its corruption
and extravaganza have exceeded anything
known in history, and by its frauds and monop-
olies 1t has nearly doubled the burden OF dept
created during tie war. It has stripped the
President of his constitutional power OF ap
pointment, even of his own cabinet. Under It's
repeated assaults the pillars OF the government
are rocking on their bases, and should II sue
coed in November next and inaugurate It's
President. we will meet, as subjects and con.
auered people. amid the ruins of liberty and
the scattered fragments ofthe Constitution.
And we do declare and resolve, That ever
since the people of the United States threw of
all subsection to the British crown, the priv
lege and trust of suffrage have belonged to the
several States, and have been granted, regulated
and controlled exclusively by the political pow.
er of each State respectively; and any attempt
nv Congress on any pretext whatever to de-
prive any State Of this right or interfere with
this exercise is a fragrant usurpation OF power,
which can find no warrant in the Constitution,
and If sanctioned by the people will subvert our
form of government, and can only end in sin
ole centralized consolidated government, in
which the separate existence of the States Will
be entirely absorbed, and an unqualified des.
potism be established in lplace Of Federal
union of coequal States; and that we regard the
reconstruction acts, so called, of Congress such
usurpation, and unconstitutional, revolutionary
and void and that our soldiers and sailors who
carried the flag of our country to victory
against a most gallant and determined foe must
be ever gratefully remembered, and all guaran.
ties given in the law must be faithfully carried
into execution.
That the public land should be distributed
widely among the people, and should be dispos
ed of under the presumption of homestead laws,
and sold in reasonable quantities. and to none
but actual occupants, at the minimum price es.
tablished by the government. When grants Of
the public lands may be allowed, necessary for
the encouragement of important public i'm
provements, the proceeds Of the sale of such
lands, and not the lands themselves, should be
80 applied.
That the President of the United States, An
drew Johnson in exercising the power OF his
high Office in resisting the aggresslons OF Con
gress on the Constitutional ghts OF the States
and the people, is entitled to the gratitude OF
the whole American people, and on behalf OF
the Democratic party we tender him our thanks
for his patriotic efforts in that regard.
Upon this platform the Democratic party ap
peals to every patriot, including all the Conser
vative element and all who desire to support the
constitution and restore the Union, forgetting
past differences of opinion, to unite with us In
the present great struggle for the liberties OF
the people, and that to all such, to whatever
party they may have heretofore belonged, We
extend the right hand of fellowship, and hail all
such cooperating with us as friends and broth
erS.