Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-08-05
The Charges Against Radicalism.

HOE luCIludIiOn 10 ndlL ana answer all IN
petty accusations which Radical ingenuit,
may invent, in order to divert attention
from the momentous issues of the contest,
involving the very existence of the Repub-
lie. The Radicals will not be permitted to
resort to the Arab stratagem of rising a
great cloud of dust in the faces oftheir pur-
suers, and escaping in the midst of it. They
have had unconstrained control of the gov
ernment for the last eight years, and they
will be permitted, under no subterfugc, to
escape just responsibility for their acts
The Democratic party of Pennsylvania will
heed the advice of the able and vigilant
Chairman of the State Committee, and
drive the enemy into the last ditch, and
keep them there. They will charge home
upon them.
That they have deprived the Federal
Executive of his constitutional powers, and
have put unwarranted and despotic power
in the hand of the General of the Amy,
their candidate for President.
They have assailed the independence of
the Judiciary, passing acts to seal the
lips of the Judges, and increasing or di-
minishing their number solely for partisan
ends, and to obtain party decisions.
They have denied the high authority of
the Sumpreme Court, and have endeavor-
ed to create in the public mind distrust
of the honesty of its dec isions.
They have attempted to unlawfully de-
pose the President Of the United States,
and to place the Supreme Executive pow
er in the hands of the most dangerous and
violent member of their fraction, he him
self contributing his vote to the conspiracy.
They have endeavored by every species
OF threat and intimidation to procure con-
viction, and have never ceased to create
tie impression among the people that hon
orable Senator, who voted for acquittal,
were bribed.
They have accumulated in the Senate of
the United States, carpet bag judges, cleo
ted by tde bayonet, in order to renew the
attempt te remove the President.
They have deprived the President of the
pardoning power, and usurped it them
selves, punIshing rebels whom the Presi-
dent had pardoned, and whose surrender
aud parole of honor had been accepted.
They have spread abroad in official re-
ports the most infamous calumnies OF the
President, for the purpose Of destroying
the confidence of the people in his admin
istration.
They are now engaged in changing the
Union Of the States ordained by the Con-
sti;utIon, into consolidated military des.-
potism.
They have passed bill through both
Houses making it criminal otfense, pun
ishable with fine and imprisonment, for
the citizens of three States, to held an cleo
ton for President, under the pretence that
they are not IN the Union.
They have passed bill through both
houses, putting the arms OF the nation in
the hands of the negro militia Of the South,
to tranple oat the liberties of their own
race, and enkindle the flames of civil war.
They exclude States from the Union for
the sole reason that neither by the Freed
mems Bureau, nor the army, can their elec
toral vote be controlled.
iuey have passed an act to deprive the
people of the three States Of the Union of
The right of voting for President,
They have shut the doors of Congress
on the Representatives Of States and Dis
tricts on the most frivulous pretcxts, and
have admitted in their stead, persons who
were never elected.
They have established Frcedmen's Bu-
reau, and retained it iu operation, in spite
of the remonstrances of the people, in Or
der to govern the negroes, and maintain
their power in the Southern States.
They have created swarms of civil offices
to prey on the resource OF the people.
They have encouraged hordes Of carpet
bag adventurers, needy and unscrupulous,
to invade the South, and by the ai3 of the
military and Freedmen's Bureau, usurp all
the places in the government.
They have excluded brave and patriotic
soldiers, in great numbers, from post of
honor and emolument, solely because they
were not members of the Radical party.
They have admitted notorious rebels to
high officials trusts, because they became
instruments in their hands to do the work
of tyranny.
They have enacted odious and unworthy
test oaths, and have unjustly relieved from
disabilities such rebels only as adopted
their opinions, and entered their service.
They have destroyed government, and es,
tablished despotism of the sword, under the
false pretence that the South was in a
state ofanarchy.
Thep have deprived qualified electors,
in great numbers, of the right of suffrage,
and have conferred it on an ignorant and
debased race, incapable of its intelligent ex-
ercise.
They have, in their extravagances and
wastefulness, squandered untold miliio rs OF
the public money.
They treat the will of the majority Of the
people, expressed in all the recent elections,
with contempt, and have hurried on to
more violent and revolutionary measures,
to entrench themselves in power.
They have organized secret associations
of discharged soldiers, to control the cleo
tions, and endanger the public liberties.
They have made false and unjust char
ges of dlsloyalty against the Southern peo-
pie, as an excuse for their acts of tyranny Y.
They have made base and simulated