The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-08-08

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Sd. Payment Of the public debt Of the
United States as rapidly q. practicable;
all moneys drawn from the people by tax
alton, except 30 much as is requisite for
the necessities of the Government, econo-
mically administered, being honestly ap-
piled to such payment; and, where the
oblig ations of the Government do not
expressly state upon their face, or the
law under which they were issued does
not provide that they shall be paid in
coin, they ought. in right and in Justice
he paid i'll the lawful money of the United
States.
4th. Equal taxation OF every species OF
property, according to it's real value; in
| Guiding Government bonds and other pub
! lie securities.
| 5th. One currency for the Government
and the people, the laborer and the office
holder, the pensioner and the soldier, the
producer and the bond-holder.
9th. Economy in the administration of
the Government; the reduction of the
standing army and navy; the abolition of
the Freedmen's Bureau, and all political
instrumentalities designed to secure
negro supremacy; simplitication of the
system and discontinuancc of inquisitori-
al modes of assessing and collecting inter-
nal revenue, so that the burden of taxa
tlon may be equaliZed and lesscucd, the
credit OF the Government and the curren-
cy made good; the repeal of all enact
ments tor enrolling the State militia into
national forces III time of peace; and q
| tariff for revenue upon foreign imports,
and such equal taxation, under the inter-
nal revenue laws, as will afford incidental
! protection to domestic manufactures, and
as will, without inpairing the revenue,
impose the least burden upon and best
promote and encourage the great indus
trial interests of the country.
7th. Reform of abuses in the administra-
tlon, the expulsion of corrupt men from
office, the abrogation of useless offices,
the restoration of rightful authority to
and the independence of the executive
and judiciary departments of the Govern
ment, the subordination of the military to
the civil power, to the end that the
usurpatlons of Congress and the dcspot-
ism of the sword may cease.
9Th. Equal rights and protection for
naturalized and native-boln citizens, at
home and abroad; the assertion of Ameri-
can nationality which shall command the
respect of foreign powers, and furnish an
example and encouragement to people
struggling for national integrity, consti-
tutional liberty and individual rights; and
the maintenance of the rights of natural
lied citizens against the absolute doctrine
OF lmnutable allegiance and the claims of
foreign powers to punish them for alleged
crime committed beyond their jurisdic-
ton.
In demanding these measures and re-
forms, we arraign the radical party for its
disregard of right, and the unparalleled
oppression and tyranny which have mark
ed its career. After the most solemn and
unanimous pledge of both Houses of Con-
gress to prosecute the war exclusively for
the maintenance of the Government and
the preservation Of the Union, under the
constitution, it has repeatedly violated
alone was rallied that noble volunteer
army, which carried our flag to victory.
Instead of restoring the Union, it has,
30 far as is in it's power, dissolved it. and
subjected ten States, in times Of profound
peace, to military despotism and negro
supremacy.
1t has nullified there the right of trial
by jury; it has abolished the habeas cor
puS, that most sacred writ of liberty; it
mas overthrown the freedom of speech and
the press; it has substituted arbitrary
seizures and arrests, and military trials
and secret star-chamber inquisitions for
the constitutional tribunals; it has disre-
garded, in time of peace, the right of the
people to be free from searches and seiz-
ures; 1T has entered the post and telegraph
offices, and even the private rooms of in
dlviduals, and seized their private papers
ana letters, without any specific charge or
notice OF affidavit, as required by the or
ganic law; it has converted the American
capitol into bastile; it has established n
system of spies and Official espionage to
which no constitutional monarchy of Eu-
rope would now dare to resort; it has abo-
llshed the right of appeal on important
co.Istitutional questions to tho supreme
Judlolal tribunals, and threatens to cur
tail or destroy it's original Jurisdiction,
winch Is lrrevocably vested by the Consti-
tuition, While the learned Chief Justice
has been subjected to the most atrocious
calumnies, merely because he would not
prostitute his high Office to the support of
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against the President. Its corruption and
extravaganza have exceeded anything
known IN history, and by its frauds and
monopoiies 1T has nearly doubled the bur-
den OF the debt created by the war 1t has
stripped the President Of his constitutions
al power OF appointment even of his own
Caolnct. Under its repeated assaults, the
pillars OF the Government are rocking on
their base, and should it succeed i'm No
vembcr next, and inauguratc its President,
we Will meet, as y subjected and conquered
people, amid the ruins of liberty aid the
scattered fragments of the Constitution;
ana we do declare and resolve that, over
since the people of the United States
threw OIL all subsection to the British
crown, the privilege and trnst of suffrage
have belonged to the several States, and
nave been granted. regulated and con-
trolled exclusively by the political power
OF each State respectively, and that any
attempt by Congress, OH any pretext what
ever, to deprive any State of this right, or
to interfere with it's exercise, is a tlagrant
usurpation of power which can find no
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