Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1868-08-22

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searches aud selxures !; has suicrel
the p,s>s Ofios--. telegraph ofhoes. and
even tie private roosns o' iBdivldu-
ais. and seized their private papers
and letters without any specific
charge or notice of affidavit as re
quired bv the organic law: it has
converted the American capital into
bastle: il has established system
of spies aud official espionage to
which 10 constitutional monarchy OF
Europe would now dare to resort:
il has abolished the right of appeal
on important constitutional qucs.
tions, to the supreme judicial tribu-
mails, and Threatens to curtail or de-
stroy its original jurisdiction. which
is irrcvocable vested by the Constitu-
ton, and for which the learned
Chief Justice has been snjectcd to
the most atrocious calumnies merely
because he would not prostitute his
high Office to the support of the
false partisan charges preferred
against the President; its corrup-
ton and extravaganza have exceeded
anything ever known in history, and
by its frauds and monopolies it has
nearly doubled the burden Of the
debt created by the war it 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, aud should it succeed in No
vcmber, and inaugurate its presi-
dent, We will meet as an abject and
conquered people, amid the ruins of
liberty and scattered fragments of
the Constitution ard we do declare
and resolve that ever since the pco-
pie of the United States threw off all
subjection to the British crown, the
privileges and trust OF suffrage have
belonged TO the several States, have
been granted, regulated and con-
trollcd exclusively by tho political
power of each State respectively, and
that any attempt by Congress, on
any pretext whatever, 70 deprive any
State of this right, or interfere with
its exercise is fragrant usurpation
of power which can find no warrant
in the Constitution, and ifsanctioncd
by the people will subvert our form
Of government, aud can only end in
single centralized and consolidated
government, in which the separate
existence of the States will be en-
tirely absorbed, and an unqualified
despotism he established in place of
a Federal Union of coeqnal States;
and that we regard the reconstruction
acts so-called of Congress rs such, as
usurpations and unconstitutional,
revolutionary aud void; that every
soldier and sailor who carried the flag
Of our country to victory against
most gallant and determined foe,
must ever be gratefully remembered,
and all the guarantees given in their
favor must be faithfully carried into
execution; that the public land
should be distributed as widely as
possible among the people, and
should be disposed Of either under
the prc-emption Of homestead lands
and sold in reasonable quantities
and to none but actual occupants ut
the minimum price established by
the Government that when grants
of public lands NAV he allowed. nee
essary for the encouragement Of I'M
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