The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-09-05

the dlscOntlnuance Of inquisitOrial boards
for assessing and collecting internal revenue,
so that the burden of taxation may be
equaIized and lessened the credit of the
Government and the currency made good !;
the repeal of all enactments for enrolling
the State militia into National forces in time
of peace; a tariff for revenue upon foreign
imports, and such equal taxation under the
internal revenue laws as will afford Incl
dental protection TO domestic manufactures
and as will, without impairing the revenue,
impose the least burden upon and best pro-
mote and encourage the great industrial in
terests of the country.
7. Reform of abuses in the Administra-
ton, the expulsion Of corrupt men from
Offices, the obrogation Of useless Offices the
restoration of rightfuI authority to, and the
independence of the Executive and Judicial
departments of the Government the sub
ordination of the military to the civil power
to the end that the usurpatiOns of Congress
aad the despotism Of the sword may cease.
8. Equal rights and protection for natural
lied and native-bOTn citizens at home and
abroad an assertion Of American nationality,
which shall command the respect of foreign
powers, and furnish an example and encour
agement to people struggling for national in
tegrity, constitutional liberty and individual
rights, and the maintenance of the rights of
naturalized citizens against the absolute doc
trine of immutable allegiance, and the
claims of foreign powers to punish them for
alleged crime committed beyond their iuris-
diction.
In demanding these measures and reforms
we arraign the radical party for its disregard
of right, unparalleled oppression and tyranny
which have marked its career, after the most
solemn and unanimous pledge of both
oF +O To
clus;vely for the maintenance of the Govern
ment and the preservation of the Union
under the Constitution.
1t has repeatedly violated that most sacred
pledge under which was rallied that noble
volunteer army, which carried our flag to
victory.
Instead of restoring the Union, it has, so
far as in its power, dissolved it, and subjected
ten States in time of peace to despOtism and
negro supremacy.
It has nullifed there the right of trial by
jury.
1t has abolished the habeas corpus, that
most sacred writ of liberty
1t has overthrown the freedom of speech
and the press.
1t has substituted arbitrary seizures and
arrests, and military trials and secret Star
Chamber inquisitions, for constitutional tri-
bunals.
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 of
fees, and even the private rooms of indi-
viduals, and seized their private papers and
letters, without any specification or notice of
affidavit, as required by the organic law.
1t has converted the American capitol
into bastile.
If hos loIJSbnd svstn11 Of cvios ord
official espionage to which no constitutional
monarchy Cf Europe would now dare to re-
sort.
1t has abolished the right of appeal on
important constitutional questions to the
supreme judiciary tribunal, and threatens to
curtail or destroy its original jurisdiction,
which is irrevocably vested by the Constitu
ton, while the learned Chief Justice has
been subjected to the most atrocious
caIumnies, merely because he would not
prostitute his high Office to the support of
the false and partisan charges preferred
against the President
Its corruption and extravaganza have ex-
ceeded anything known in history, and by
its frauds and mOnopolies it has nearly
doubled the burden Of debt created during
the war
1t has stripped the President Of his con
stitutional power of appointment, even of
his own cabinet.
Under its repeated assaults the pillars OF
the Government are rocking on their base,
and should it succeed in November next and
inaugurate its President we will meet as a
subject and conquered people amid the ruins
of liberty and the scattered fragments oil
the Constitution; and we do declare and re-
solve that ever since the people of the
United States threw off all subiection to the
British Crown, the privilege and trust Oi
suffrage have belonged to the several States
and have been granted, regulated and con
trOlled exclusively by the political power O
each State respectively, and any attempt BY
! Congress, on any pretext whatever, to de
| priye any State of this right, or interfere
with this exercise is a fragrant usuTpatiOn O
| power which can find no warrant in the Con
/ stitution, and, if sanctioned by the people
| will subvert our form Of government, anC
can only end IN a single centralized, con
! sOlidated government in which the separate
existence of the States will be entirely alb
! sorbed and an unqualified despOtism be es
| tablished in place of Federal Union 0
equal States.
That we regard the reconstruction acts 0
Congress, sO-called, as usurpatIOns, uncOn
stitutional, revolutionary and void, and tha
our soldiers and sailors who carried the fiaj
| of our country to victory against a mos
! gallant and determined foe, must ever b
gratefully remembered, and all the guaran
tees given in their favor must be faithful,
carried into execution.
That the public lands should be distrib
uted widely among the people, and shoul
be disposed Of either under the pre-emptiOI
or homestead laws, and sold in reasonabl
quantities, and to none but actual occupant
at the minimum price as established by tn
Government When grants of the publ
lands may be allowed, necessary for the er
couragement of important public improve
ments, the proceeds of the sale of sue
lands and not the lands themselves shoul
be so applied.
That the President Of the United State
Andrew johnson, in exercising the powe
of his high Office in resisting the aggression
Of Congress on the Constitutional rights
the States and the people, is entitled to th
, gratitude of the whole American people
and on behalf of the Democratic party "
tender him our thanks for his patriot
efforts IN that regard.
Upon this platform the Democratic part
appeal to every patriot, including all Il