The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1868-07-25

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acred pledge under which was rails 0
led that noble volunteer army, which 6
carried our flag to victory.
Instead ofrestoring the Union, it
has, so far as its power, dissolved it, I
md subjected ten States in time Of j
peace to military despotism and negro t
supremacy.
1t has nullifed there the right of
trial by jury.
1t has abolished the habeas corpus,
that most sacred writ of liberty.
1t has overthrown the freedom of
speech and the press
1t has substituted arbitrary seiz-
ures and arrests, and military trials
and secret Star Chamber Inquisitions,
for constitutional tribunals. /
It has disregarded in time ofpeace
the right Of the people to be free
from search and seizures.
It has entered the post and tele>
graph Offices, and even the private !
rooms of individuals, and seized their |
private papers and letters, without
any specification OF notice of affidavit |
as required by the organic law
1t has converted the American cap
| itol into a bastile,
It has established a system Of spies
and official espionage to which no
constitutional monarchy of Europe
would nov. dare to resort.
1t has abolished the right Of ap>
peal on important constitutional ques-
tious to the supreme judiciary tribu
nal, and threatens to eurtail Or destroy
its original jurisdiction, which is il,
revocably vested by the Constitution,
while the learned Chief Justice has
been cubjected to the most arocious
calumnies, merely because he would
not prostitute his high Office to the
support of the false and partisan
charges preferred against the Presi-
dent.
Its corruption and extravaganza
have exceeded anything known in
history, and by its frauds and monopN
olies it has nearly doubled the bur-
den of debt created during the war.
1t has stripped the President Of
his constitutional power Of appoint.
iment; even of his own cabinet.
f Under its repeated assaults. the pill
lars of the Government are rocking on
their base, aud should it succeed in
November next and inaugurate its
$ President, we will meet as it a subject
e and conquered people amid the ruins
. of liberty and the scattered fragments
O of the CONSTITUTIONS; and We do de-
=, clare aud resolve that ever since the
:, people Of the United States threw Of
e all subiection to the British Crown
d the privilege aud trust Of sutragC
c have belonged to the several States
d and have been granted, regulated anC
l. controlled exclusively by the pQliti
cal power of each State, respectively
IS and any attempt by Congress- on an.
G pretext whatever, to deprive an.
ID Estate Of this right, or interfere wit
this exercise, is fragrant usurpatio
4, Lof power which can find no warran
ID lin the Constitution, and, if sanetione
ID by the people, will subvert our forr
I'd of government, and can only end in
single centralized, consolidated gov
IN ernment in which in which the sepa
Of rate existence of tine States will b
he entirely absorbed, and an unqualifie
u, despotism be established in place Of
Ii. Federal Union of equal States.
m. That we regard the reeonstruetio
nd acts of Congress, so>called, as usurp;
ial tions unconstitutional, revolutionaI
no and void, and that our soldiers ar
en- sailors who carried the flag of OF
IS. country to victory against most ga
mt liant and determined foe, must ey
,e. be gratefully remembered, and all Il
NO guarantees given in their favor mu
,e8 be faithfully carried into executio
ue That the public lands should
ual distributed widely among the 'peop'
Iue and should be disposed Of either U
ecS der the pre- emption or homeste
As laws, aud sold in reasonable quan
ue ties, and to none but actual oceupar
md at the minimum price as establish
cad by the Government When graz
Of the public lands may be allowc
i'm necessary for the encouragement
ant important public improvements,
of proceeds of the sale of such Ian
hit aud not the lanes themselves shot
nee be so applied.
ort, That the President Of the Uni
,or- States, Andrew johnson, in exerc
ivil ing the power of his high Office in
ions sisting the aggressions Of Congr
the on the constitutional rights Of
States and the people, is entitled
for the gratitude OF the whole Ameri
zens people, and on behalf Of the De-
N of cratic party we tender him our tina
hall for his patriotic efforts ia that
1ow- gard.
en-. Upon this platform the Democr
! for party appeal to every patriot, inc
lib ing all the conservative element
the all who desire to support the Coz
ural- tuition and restore the Union, fol
olute ting all past differences Of opinion
and unite with US in the present
pun, struggle for the liberties Of the
lifted pie, and that to all such, to wha.
party they may have heretolort
! aud longed, we extend the right hal
pafty Fellowship and hail all such co-o
d an. ting with us as friends and broi
ranny
after The word DEBT is compoi
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