The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-09-04

IL has abolished the right of appeal on important
constitutional questions to the supreme judicial ri-
bunal and threatens to curtail or destroy lts orlg
nal jurisdiction, which is rrevocably vested by the
constitution while the learned Chief Justice has been
subjected 10 the most 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 extrava-
eance have exceeded anything known in history
and by its frauds and monopplies it has nearly
doubled the burden of the debt created oy the war;
has stripped the President of his constitutional power
of appointment, even OF his own Cabinet Under
Its repeated assaults the pillars OF the govern
ment are rocking on their base, and should II sue
oeed in November next and inaugurate its President
we will meet as subjected and conquered p ople
amid the ruins ofliberty andhe scattered fragments
of the constitution; and we do declare ana resoiSo
that ever since the people Of the Unit states 1nre"
off all subjection to the British Crown, the privilege
and trust of suffrage have belonged to the several
States, and have been granted, regulated and con-
troled exclusively by the political power OF eaca
State respectively and that any attempt by
on any pretext whatever to deprive any State OF this
right or interfere with Its exercise, is fragrant usur
constitution, and if sanctioned by the peo-
pie will subvert our form of government and can
only end in single centralized and consolidated gov
ernment in which the separate existence OF the sates
will be entirely absorbed, and unqualified despot-
ism be established in place of Federal Union Oh CO.
equal States; and that we regard the Reconsuucuon
acts (so-called Of Congress as usurpatons ana un-
constitutional revolutionary and void; that our SOL
diers and slors who carried the flag of our country
to victory against most gallant and determined zoe
must ever be gratefully remembered. and all tne
guarantees given In their favor must be falthfully
carried into execution.
That the public lands should be distributed as
widely as possible among the people, and should De
disposed of either under the pre-empuon OF nome
stead lands or sold in reasonable quantities, and 10
none but actual occupants at the minimum price
established by the government When grants OF the
public Lar DIS may be allowed, necessary for the en-
courngement of important public improvements, the
proceeds of the sale OF such land, and not the lands
themselves, should be 30 applied
That the President of the United States, Andrew
Johnson in exercising the power Of his hlgh once IN
resisting the aggressions OF Congress upon .ne con-
stutona rights If the States end the people, ID en-
titled to the gratitude Of tho whole American Peo
Die and in behalf of the Democratic party we tender
him our thanis fo- his patriotic efforts In thar re-
gard. .,..
every patriot, including all the conservative ele-
mont and all who desire to support the constitution
.nl restore the Union forget ting all past difference
struggle for the liberties of the peoples and that to
al s b, to whatever party they may have heretofore
belonged, we @xtend the right hand OF fellowship,
and haul all such cooperating with us as friends and