The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1868-07-17

garded In time OF pcaee tho right OF the
people to be free from search and seizures;
Fit has entered the post and telegraph Off
ces, md eyen the private rooms Of individ-
nails md seised their privsfs papers and let
|ters without any speci6catipb OF notice Of;
affidavit Is required by the organic Law; it
has converted the American capitol into q
bastile !; Il has established a.system d spies
and official espionage to which no constitu-
tional monarchy of Europe would dare to
resort; it has abolished the right of appeal
on important constitutional questions to the
supreme judicial tribunal. and threatens to
curtail or destroy its original jurisdiction,
irTevocably vested by the constitution, while
The learned chief Justice has been subjected
to great and atrocious calumnies, merely
because be would not prostitute his high
Office to the support Of the false and parti-
san charges preferred againt the president;
its corruption and extravagance have ex-
ceeded anything known in history, and by
its frauds and monopolies it has nearly
doubled the burden of tho debt created
during the war; it has stripped the presi-
dent of his constitutional power Of app
pointment, even of his own cabinet; under
its repeated assaults the pillars of the gov
eminent are rocking on their base and
should it succeed IN November next and in
augurate its president, we must become
subject 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
off all subsection to tho British crown, the
privilege and trust of suffrage have be-
longed to the several states and have been
granted, regulated and controlled exclusive
Iy by the political power of each state re-
spectively, and any attempt by congress on
any pretext whatever to 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 if
sanctioned by the people will srbvert our
form of government and can only end in
single centralized and consolidated govern
ment, in which the separate existence of
states will be entirely absorbed, and an un-
qualified despotism be established in place
of federal Union of co-equal states that
we regard the reconstructed acts -called)
Of congress gross usurpations, unconstitu-
tional, revolutionary and void that our
soldiers and sailors who carried the flag of
our country to victory against most gal
liant and determined toe must ever be CRATE.
fully remembered, and guarantees given in
their favor must be faithfully carried into
execution; that the public lands should be
distributed widely as practicable among the
people and should be disposed Of either
under the pre- emption or homestead laws
and sold in reasonable quantities to none
but actual occupants at the minimum prices
established by the government; that when
grants of the public lands may be deemed
necessary for the encouragement Ct impor-
tant public improvements the proceeds Of
the sale of such lands and not the lands
themselves should be so applied that the
president of the U. s., Andrew johnson,
in exercising the power of his high Office in
repelling the aggressions of congress on the
constitutional rights of the states ard 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 re-
gard.
Upon this platform the democratic party
appeals to every patriot, including all the
conservative elements, and I'll who desire
to support the constitution and restore the
Union, forgetting all past differences of
opinion, to unite with US in the present
great struggle for the liberties of the peo-
Pile; and to all such, to whatever party
they may have heretofore belonged, we ex-
tend the right hand of fellowship and hail
all such Co cooperating with us as friends and
brothers.