The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1868-07-28


ment 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 be paid in the lawful money
of the United States.
Nv. Equal taxation of every species
of property according to its real value.
including Government bonds and other
public securities.
w. One currency for the Government
aud the people, the laborer and the office
holder, the pensioner and the soldier,
the producer and the bondholder.
vi. Economy in the administration
Of the Government; the reduction of the
standing army and navy; the abolition
Of the Freedme,'s Bureau, and all po-
litical instrum entalities designed to Sc
cuIe negro supremacy; simplification of
the system and discontinuance of in
quisitorial modes of assessing and col
Letting internal revenue, SO that the
burden of taxation may be equalized
and lessened, the credit of the Govern
ment and the currency made good the
repeal of all enactments for enrolling
the State Militia into national forces in
time of peace; and tariff of revenue
upon foreign imports, and such equal
taxation under the Internal Revenue
laws as will afford incidental protection
to domestic manufacturers, and as will.
without impairing the revenue, impose
the least burden upon and best promote
and encourage the great industrial inter
ests of the country.
VII Reform Of abuse in the admin
istration, the expulsion of corrupt men
from office, the abrogation of useless
offices, the restoration of rightful au-
thority to and the independence of the
Executive and Judicial Departments of
the Government, the subordination of
the military to the civil power, to the
end that the usurpatlons Of Congress
and the despotism of the sword may
cease.
VIII. Equal rights and protection
for naturalized and native born citizens
at home and abroad; the assertion of
American nationality which shall com
mand the respect Of foreign powers, ana
furnish an example and encouragement
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 allie
glance and the claims of foreign powers
TO punish them for alleged crime com
mitted beyond their jurisdiction.
In demanding these measures and re
forms, we arraign the Radical party for
its disregard of right and the unparal-
leled oppression and tyranny which have
marked its career.
After the most solemn and unanimous
pledge of both Houses of Congress to
prosecute the war exclusively for the
maintenance of the Government and the
preservation of the Union under the
Constitution, it has repeatedly violated
that most sacred pledge, under which
alone was rallied tllat noble volunteer
army which carried orr flag to victory
Instead of restoring the Union. it has.
so far as sin it's power, dissolved it,
and subjected ten States in time of pro
r-----' r--~s' tn military despotism and
neSio supremacy. 1t has nullified there
!ne r'g IN naheas corpus, unae must sd
ishea tho Ehar.r-.-it has overthrow
cred writ 2! III speech aud the press, it
has substituted arbitrary seizures and
arrests, and military trials and secre.
sinquisitons, for the con
tribunals; it has disregarded
in time of peace the right of the PEG
pie TO be free from searches and seizures:
it has entered the post and telegraph |
offices, and even the private rooms of |
individuals, and seized their private let |
ters and papers, without any specific |
charge or notice of affidavit, as required /
by the organic law; it has converted the
American Capitol into a Bastie; il has
system of spies and official
espionage, to which no constitutional
monarchy Of Europe would now dare
10 resort; it has abolished the right of
appeal on important constitutional cues
lions to the supreme judicial tribunals,
md threatens to curtail or destroy its
original jurisdiction, which is irrevoca
ply vested by the Constitution. while
he learned Chief Justice has been sub
ected to the most atrocious calumnies.
merely because he would not prostitute
lis high office to the support of the false
md partisan charges preferred against
he President It's corruption and ex-
ravagance have exceeded ANYTHING
inown in history, and by its frauds and
nonopolies it has nearly doubled the
burden of the debt created by the war.
t has stripped the President of his con
power of appointment, even
# his own Cabinet. Under its repeated
ssaults the pillars of the Government
re rocking on their base, and should it |
ucceed In November next and inaugur ,
tie its president, we will meet as sub
set and conquered people. amid the
uins Of liberty and the scattered frao- '
ients of the Constitution And We do {
eclare and resolve, that ever since the |
eople of the United States threw off all
objection to the British Crown the priv
eye and trust of suffrage have belony ed /
the several States, and have been G
ranted, regulated and controlled exclu- e
veiy by the political power Of each .
late respectively; and that any attempt
Congress. on any pretext whatever,
} deprive any State Of this right, or to a
terfere with its exercise, is a fragrant r
of power, which can find no O
arrant in the Constitution; and if sane