The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-02

portsnt constitutional questions TO the su-
preme judicial tribunals. and threatens to
curtail or destroy its original Jurisdiction,
which is irreyoeably vested by the Con
stitution while the learned chief justice has been
subjected to great and atrocous cslumnies, merely
because be would not prostitute his high Office to
the support of the false and partisan charges pre-
ferred against the president. Its corruption and
exuavgsnce have exceeded anything known 10
history, and by its frauds and monop0les II has
nearly doubled the burden of the debt created
during the war. IL has striped the president OF
bis constitutional 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 10 November next.
and inaugurate its president, We viii meet 1t as
subjected and conquered people, amid the ruins
Of liberty and the scattered fragments of the
Constitution. And We do declare and resolve,
that ever since the people Of the United States
threw Of all suhjugation to the British crown, the
privilege and trust of suffrage have belonged to
the several States, and have been granted, regu-
lated and controlled exclusively by the political
power Of each State, respectively; and any
attempt by Congress, on any pretext whatever,
to deprive any State of this right, or interfere
with this exercise. is q fragrant usurpation Of
power, which can find no warrant In the Constitu.
ton and If sanctioned by the people will subvert
our form OF government, and can only end In q
single, centralized, consolidated government in
which the separate existence of the States will be
entirely absorbed, and an unqualified despotism
be established in place of q federal Union of
equal States; that we regard the reconstruction
acts of Congress, so.caIed, as usurpations,
unconstitutional, revolutionary and void; that
our soldiers and sailors who carried the flag OF
our country to victory against q most gal
liant and determined foe must ever be CRATE
fully remembered, and all the guarantees given in
their favor must be faithfully carried into execu
ton; that the public lands should be distributed
among the people, and should be disposed of
either under the pre-emption Of homestead laws,
OF sold in reasonable quantities. and to none but
actual occupants, at the minimum price as estab-
lished by the government; when grants Of the
public lands may be allowed necessarily fol, the
encouragements of important public improve
ments 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, in exercising the power of his high Office
in resisting the expressions Of Congress on the
constitutional rights of the States and the people,
IL entitled TO the gratitude of the whole
American people; and on behalf of the Demo-
cratic party we tender him our thanks for his pa
triotic efforts in that regard.
Upon this platform the Democratic party appeal
to every patriot, including all the conservative
element, and all who desire to support the Consti
tuition and restore the Union, forgetting all past
differences of opinion, to unite with in the
present great struggle for the liberties Of the peo
pie, and that to all such, to whatever party they
may have heretofore belonged, we extend the
right hand Of fellowship, and hail all such CO.
operating with US as friends and brothers.