Buchanan County bulletin and guardian., 1868-07-24

Last week We gave the platform proper,
Of the Democratic party. We give below
the remarkable arraignment" Of the Re-
publican party attached to the platform:
In demanding these measures and re-
forms, we arTaign the Radical party for its
disregard ofright, ard the unparalleled op.
preston and tyranny which have marked its
career, after the most solemn and unani.
nous pledge Of both houses Of Congress to
prosecute the war exclusively for the main>
tenance of the government, and the preser.
vation 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, i,
has, so far Is it Is in its power, dissolved il,
and subiugated ten States, in time of pro>
found peace to military despotism and negro
supremacy. II has nulli6ed there the right
Of trial BY Jury il has sbolshed the Aa6eas
eorpss-that most sacred writ Of liberty; il
has overthrown the freedom Of speech and
the press I; il has substituted arbitrary seiz-
ures and arrests, and military trials and se>
cret star chamber inquisitions for Constisu.
tional tribunals; it has disregarded in time
Of peace the right Of the people to be free
from search and seizures /; il has entered the
post and telegraph Office, and even the pri-
vate rooms Of individuals, and seized their
private papers and letters without any spec,
ification or notice Of affidavit, 40 required
BY the organic law; it has converted the
American capitol into Bastile il has es-
tablished . system Of spies and official es>
poinage, to which no constitutional mon.
srchy Of Europe would now dare to resort !;
it has abolished the right of appeal on im>
portsnt constitutional questions TO the SUI
premc Judicial tribunals, and threatens 70
control or destroy its original jurisdiction,
which Is irrevocably vested BY the Constitu,
ticu, while the learned Chief Justice has
been subjected to great and atrocious cal>
umnies merely because be would not prosti>
tute his high ONCE TO the support Of the
false and partisan charges preferred against
the President. lts corruption and extrava>
gsnce have exceeded anything known 10 his
tory, and BY its frauds and monopolies il
hss nearly doubled the burden Of the deb,
created duriag the war. 1t has stripped the
President o! his Constitutional power of ap.
pointment, even OF his own cabinet under
its repeated assaults the pillars Of the Gov
ernment are rocking on their base, and,
should it succeed in November next and in
suguratc its President, We will meet ~ q
subject aud conquered people, amid the ru.
ins Of liberty and the fragments Of scat
tered Constitution.
And We do declare and resolve, that eve,
that ever since the people Of the Unieed
States threw on all subsection to the British
crown, the privilege and trust of suffrag,
have belonged to the several States, and havs
been granted, regulated. and controlled ex'
clusiveiy by the political power Of each Stat,
respectively, and any attempt By Congress
on any pretext whatever, to deprive an,
State Of this right, or TO interfere with thi
| exercise, is a Aagrant usurpation Of powe
which can find no warrant in the Constitu
ton, and. sanctioned BY the people, viii sub
vert our form ofgovernment, and can onl,
end in . single, centralized, CONSOLIDATED
Government, in which the separate existenc,
Of the States will be entirely absorbed, ant
An unequal despotsm be established ia plac'
Of federal Union Of coequal States snt
that W. regard the reconstruction acts o
Congress ~ such usurpations, and ~ uncon
stisutional, revolution sry, and void and tha
our soldiers and sailors, who carried th'
I hUk VI Ous Svuusby W stIkOuy ukAiuat . tuUS
gallant and determined foe, must ever b
gratefully remembered, and that al the guar
antees given in their favor must be faithful
ly carried into execution; that the publ
lands should be distributed - widely amonI
the people, and should be disposed o. eithe
under the prc-emption Of homestead laws
and sold in reasonable quantities, and i
none but actual occupants It . minimum
price established BY the Government, tha
when grants Of II. public lands may b.
deemed necessary. for the encouragement o
important public improvements. the proceed
Of the sale Of such lands, and not the land
themselves, should be 20 applied that th'
President Of the United States. Andre,
johnson. fappsanssI exercising the powe
Of his ofRce in resisting the aegsessicss o
Congress on the constitutional righss Of ID,
States end ths people, is entitled 10 the graf
iiude of the whole American people, and OF
behalf Of the Dsmocratic party, we tende
hsu oss thashs for his patriotic efforts I,
that regard. (0real spplause.)
| Cron NE platform tho Demacratic psvi
appeal "a every Catrios, including al III
conservative elerneat, ard all who desire Z