Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-07-10

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economically adnain nisteFsds being ap-
piled to such payment and where the
obligations Of the Government DO not
ieKpEessls state upon their face, OF
where the law under which they are IS
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be paid in coin. they ought in right and
in iustiee be paid in lawful money Of
the United States.
loEA Equal taxation of every spegies oi
property, according to its real value.
including Government bonds and Other
| public securities $40
5. Ole currency for the Government
and the people, the 1aborer and Ofhee-
holder, the pensioner and the soldier
the producer and the bondholder. -iF
6. Economy In the administration OF
the Government; the reduction. of the
standing army and navy the abolition
+ of, the Freedmen's Bureau and all pol
itioal instrum entalities designed to Sc
cure negro supremacy ,Simplif ificatiOn
of the SYSTEM and disContinuahee of in
quisitorial modes of assessing and col
Iecting internal revenue, so that the
burden of taxation may be equaliZed
and Jessenedi the credit of the Govern
ment and the currency made good the
4 repeal of all enaetments for enrolling
! the State Militia into National forces in
time OF peace and tariff for revenue
upon foreign imports and such equal
4 taxation under the internal Revenue
laws as will afford incidental protection
to domestic manufa actuees, and as wen
without impairing the revenue, impose
4 the least burden upon and best promote
and encourage the great industrial in
/ terests of the country. .5
I z. Reform of abuses in the admins
tTation, the expulsion, of corrupt men
from Office, the abrOgation of useless
\ Offices, the restoration of rightful au-
4 thority to and the independence of the
EExecutiYs and judicial Departments of
I q
I Of the military tofth civil power, to
| the end that the usurpatiOns OF Con
gress and the despotism. of, the sword
may cease. m - = r.lr-.5-. g.F
q S. Equal rights and protection for
naturalized and native born citizens at
/ American nationality, which shall COM
mand the respect of foreign powers and
| furnish an example and 6n5ourag cement
to people struggling for national integ
rity, constitutional liberty and individ-
ual rights, and the maintenance OF the
rights of naturalized citizens against
| the absolute doctrine of immutable al
4 legiano6 and the claims of foreign pow
ers to punish them for alleged crime
| committed beyond their jurisdiction.-
In demanding. these measures and re-
forms, we arEaign the Radical party for
its disregard of right and unparalleled
/ oppression ard tyranny which has
marked its care5r. aftsr the most solemn
and unanimous pledge of both Houses
of Congress to prosecute the war exclu-
| sively for the maintenance of the Gov
ernment, and the preservation of the
| Union and the Constitution. 1t has re-
| peatedly violated that most sacred
pledge, under which was rallied that
noble volunteer army which carried
our flag to victory; instead of restoring
the Union, it has, so far as in Its power,
dissolved it, and subjected ten States in
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despOttSm and negfO supr6maeYs 1t
has nullified the right of trial by jury;
it has abolished the hG5eGs corpus, that
most sacred writ of liberty; it has over
thrown the freedom of speech and press;
it has substituted arbitrary seizures and
arrests, ard military trials, and secret
star chamber inquisitiOnS for COnstitu-
tional tribunals; it has disregarded in
time of peace the right of the people to
be free from searches and seizures; it
has entered the post and telegraph Of
hceS, and even the private rooms OF In
dividuals, and seized their private let
ters and papers without any specidca-
tion or notice of affidavit as required
by the organic law; it has converted the
American Capitol into a bastile; it has
tablished. a system of spies and official
espionage to which no constitutional
monarchy of Europe would dare to re-
sort; it has abolished the right of ap-
peal on important constitutional ques-
hons to the. supreme judicial tribunals,
and threatens to curtau or destroy its
original Jurisdiction, which is irreVoca-
bly, vested by the Constitution; while
the learned Chief Justice has been sub
jected to great and atrocious calumnies,
merely because he would not prostitute
his high office. to the support of the
false and partisan charges preferred
against the President. Its corruption
and extravaganza have exceeded any
thing known in history, and by its
frauds and monopolies it has nearly
don hIad the burden of the; Gt6Dt created
during the war. 1t has, stripped the
President of his 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 in ,Novem- |
Der next, and inaugurate It's President,
we Will meet, it as q subjected and con-
qUered people. amid the ruins of 1iber- /
tY,. and the scattered fragments of the |
Constitution, and we do declare and re-
solve, that ever since the people of. the |
United States threw off all subju cation
to the British crown, the privilege and |
trust of suffrage have belonged to the |
several States, and have been granted, /
regulated and controlled exclusively |
by the political power of each State, re- |
spectively, and any attempt by Cons |
gress, on any preteXt whatever, to de-
prfve any State Of this right, or inter /
usurpation of power, which can find no |
warrant in the Constitution, and if sane /
toned by the people will subvert our
form OF GoYernment,g and can only end /
in a single, centralized, consolidated /
Government, in which the separate ex-
isteneezof the States will be entirely alb
sOrbed, and an unqualified. despotism
be esta blished in place of a federal /
Union of equal States; that we regardsI
the reconstruc uction acts of Congress, So
called 1osueh usUrpations, Unconstitu-
tional, revolutionary and void, and that
our soldiers and-sanors who carried the
flag of our, country -to1vietory against a
most gall ant and determined foe, must /
ever be gratefully Penaem ber9d, and all /
guarantees given in their favor must be
faithfully carried into execution; that
the public lands should be distributed
as widely among the people as possible,1
and should be disposed of either under
the pre- -emptiOn of homestead lands,
and sold in reasonable quantities, and
TO none but actual occupants, at the |
minimum price, as established by the /
when grants of public
lands may be allowed, necessary for the |
encouragement of important public inn
the proceeds of the sale of
such land, 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 Of
fee in resisting the aggressions of Con
gress on the Constitutional rights Of the
States and the people, is entitled TO the
of the whole American people,
and on behalf of the Democratic party
we tender him our thanks for his patri-
otto 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 Constitution
end restore the Union, forgetting all
mast diffarancps of OTJiTiiOF to 1Initef
with us in the present great struggle for
the liberties Of the people, and that to
all such, to whatever party they may
have hereEofore belonged, we extend
5he right hand of Fellowship, and hail
all such cooperating with us as friends
and brothers.
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