The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1868-08-01

the claims OF foreign powers to pun>
ish them for alleged crime committed
beyond their jurisdiction. |
In demanding these measures and
reforms we arraign the Radical party
for its disregard Of right, and the un,
paralleled oppression and tyranny
which have marked its career, after
the most solemnand unanimous pledge
of both Houses Of Congress to prose-
cute the war exclusively for the main
tenance of the Government and the
preservation of the Union under the
Constitution.
1t has repeatedly violated that most
sacred pledge under which was ral-
lied that nobleyolu1teer army, which
| carried our flag to victory.
Instead of restoring the Union, it
has, so far as its power, dissolved it,
and subjected ten States in time of
peace to military despotism and negro
supremacy.
1t has nullifed there ths right of
trial by jury.
1t has abolished the habeas corpus,
that most sacred writ of liberty.
1t has overShrown the freedom of
speech and the press.
1t has substituted arbitrary seiz-
ures and arrests, and military trials
and secret Star Chamber Inquisitions,
for constitutional tribunals.
It has disregarded in time ofpeace
the right of the people to be free
from search aud seizures.
1t has entered the post and teIe>
graph Offices, and even the private
rooms of individuals, and seized their
private papers and letters, without
any specification OF notice of affidavit
as required by the organic law.
1t has converted the American cap,
itOl into a baStile.
1t has established system of spies
and official espionage to which nC
constitutional monarchy of Europe
would now dare to resort.
1t has abolished the right of ap
peal on important constitutional ques
tions to the supreme Judiciary tribu
nal, and threatens to curtail or des
troy its original jurisdiction, which i
Iirrevooably vested by the Constitu
tion, while the learned Chief Justic
has been subjected to the mos
atrocious calumnies, merely becaus
f he would not prostitute his high OF
fee to the support Of the false an
partisan charges preferred against tn
President.
Its corruption and extrayaganc
G have exceeded anything known i
! history, and by its frauds and monoE
o!ies it has nearly doubled the bun
den of debt created during the war.
| 1t ha: stripped the President {
G his constitutional power Of appoint
= ment, even of his own cabinet.
f Under its repeated assaults the pi
5 Laws of the Government are rockin
lon their base, and should it succee
=, in November next and inaugurate i
$ President, we will meetit as a subie,
e and conquered people amid the ruin
T. of liberty and the scattered fragmen
o of the Constitution and we do d
!, clare and resolve that ever since Il
IS people of the United States threw {
e all subiection to the British Grow
d the privilege. and trust Of sufra|
e have belonged to the several State
d and have been granted regulated al
!, controlled exclusively by the polii
cal power Of each State respectiyel
IS and any attempt by Congress, on al
e, pretext whatever, to deprive al
ID State Of this right or interfere wi
this exercise, is fragrant usurpati,
j. of power which can find no warra
ID in the Constitution, and, if sanction
ID by the people, will subvert our foi
ID Of government, and can only end ii
single centralized, consolidated GO
IN ernment in which the separate ez
of teuce of the States will be entire
he absorbed, and an unqualified desE
Us tism be established in place OF
IL Federal Union of equal States.
NJ That we regard the reconstruct
nd acts of Congress, so-called, as usurl
ial tionS unconstitutional, revolution;
nc aud void, and that cur soldiers a
en- sailors who carried the flag Of {
as country to victory against a m
mt gallant and determined foe, must e
reo be gratefully remembered, and all
ng guarantees given in their favor IN
3es be faithfully carried into execution
ue That the public lands should
ual distributed widely among the pee
lue and should be disposed of either
oce der the prescription or honest
as laws, aud sold in reasonable qua
ne, ties, and TO none but actual occupi
md at the minimum price as establis
eat by the Government. When grant
!. the public lands may be allo,
lin necessary for the encouragement
upt important public improvements,
ofIproceeds Of the sale Of such la
ght- and rot the lands themselves sh
,nce be 50 applied,
art, That the President of the III
bor, States, Andrew johnson, in exc
civil ing the power Of his high Office
ions resisting the aggressions Of Con-
the on the constitutional rights oi
States and the people, is entitle
! for the gratitude Of the whole Anne
zens people, and on behalf Of the D
N of cratic party we tender him our ii
hall for his patriotic efforts in that
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