The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1868-07-22

profound peace, to military d,spoti.m
and negro supremacy. '.....
1t has nullified there the right Of
trial by jury; it has abolished the ha
beas corpus, that most sacred writ nf
liberty it has overthrow the freedom
of speech and the press it has subs,i
tuted arbitrary seizures and arrests, and
military trials and secret star chamber
inquisi,ions for the constitutional tribu-
na's; It hns disregarded, in time of
peace, the r;gh, ot The people to be free
from searches and seizures; il has en-
tered the pos, ard telegraph ciIicos,
and even the private rooms OF individu.
AIS, and seized their private papers and
letters, without any specific charge or
notice of affidavit, as required by the
organic law; i, has. converted the
American capitol into baslile i, has
established system Of spies and ciii
cial espionage to which no constitution
al monarchy Of Europe would now dare
10 resort it has abolished the righ. Of
appeal on important constitutional
questions to the supreme judicial lribu-
mails, and threatens 10 cutlail or destroy
It's original jurisdiction, which is irrevo
cably vested 10y the Constitution, willie
the learned CErf Justice has baon sub.
jected 10 the most atrocious calumnies,
merely because La would not prostitute
his high office to the support Of the
false and pnr:izan charges preferred
against the President. Its corruption
and extravaganza have exceeded sny-
thing known in history, and by It's
frauds and monopoies it has nearly
doubled the burden Of the debt created
by the war. II has stripped the Presi-
den: Of his constitutional power Of ap-
pointmeut even Of his own Cabinet
Under its repeated assaults, the pillars
Of the Government are rocking on
their base, and should il succeed in No
vember next, and lnangurate its Presi
dent, we will meet, As sui; j"cted and
conquered people, amid the ruins Of lib
ert and the scattered fragments Of
the Constitution and we 10 declare
and rss"lve that, ever since tho people
Of the United States threw off all sub
lection to Tie n:!!!=h crown. tho nfiYi.
::cPe and trust vi Suffrage nave belong
cd to the several States, and have been
granted, regulated end controlled ex
clusively BY the political power of each
State respectively, and that any attempt
| 10y Congress, on any prei, xt whatever,
TO deprive any State of This right, or
10 interfere with its exercise, is fla.
gran, usrrpa'oh Of lower which can
find no warrant in the Constitution ::
and, if sanctioned by the people, will
subvert our form of Government, and
can only end in single centralized and
consolidated Government, In which Ike
separate existence Of the States will be
entirely absorbed, ard AN unqualified
despotism be established in place of a
Federal Union Of CO equal States; and
that We regard the reconstruction Acts
(>o>called) Of Congress as shch are
usu,pations, and unconstitutional, revo
lutionary, and void that our soldiers
and sailors, who carried the flag of our
country TO victory against most gal
liant and determined foe, must ever be
gratefully remembered, and all the guar
antees given in their favor must be
faithfully carried into execution.
That the public lands should be dis
tributed as widely as possible among
the people, and should be disposed cf
either under the pre- emption OF home
stead lands, and sold in reasonable
quantities. and to none but actual occu>
pants, at the mirimum price es,abIi,h
eG by the Government. When grants
Of the public lands may be allowed
necessary for the encouragement Of i'm
portant public Improvements, the pro.
ceeds Of the sale Of snch lands, and not
the lands themselves, should be so ap
piled
That the President of the United
States, An,lrew Johnson, in exercising
the power Of his high Office in resisting
the aegressions Of Congress upon the
constitutional rights OF the States and
the people, is entitled to the gratitude
OF the whole American people, and in
behalf Of the Democratic party, we
tender him our thanks for his patriotic
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 and
restore the Union, forgetting all past
differences Of opinion, 10 unite with us
in tho present great struggle for the lib.
critics Of the people; and that to all
such, 10 whatever party they may have
heretofore belonged, we extend The right
hand Of fellowship, and hail all such
co operating with us as friends and
brethren.
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CONDEMN no man, says John Wes.
ley, for not thinking as YOU think