Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1868-04-22
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a wITHERING ARRANGEMENT.

upon the kaQlcalS q ISL OF their uSur-
pations and outrages upon the rights OF
the people and of the States. Hesaid:
The Republican party waged three
wars at one and the same time. A war
against the Southern States, a war
against their political opponents, and a
war against the Constitution of the
United States. In the prosecution of
these wars they were guilty of almost
every offence for the commission OF
which our fathers declared their indie
pendence of the British Crown and
made war to secure that independence.
/ will say nothing of their action in
respect to the people OF the South.
Against those who adhered to the
Union, and who were much more de-
voted to the Constitution and Govern
ment of the United States than they
were themselves; they were guilty of
the following offences charged in the
Declaration of Independence:
LIST. They dissolved Legislatures for
opposing with manly frmness their in
vasions On the rights of the people. Cd
They INSTRUCTED the administration of
Justice by imprisoning judges and Off
GERS of the law. 3d. They attempted
to make judges dependent on their will
alone for the tenure of their offices and
the payment of their salaries. 4th.
They erected multitude of new Offices
and sent among them swarms of Off
GERS to harrass the people and eat out
their substance. 9th. They kept among
the people, who were at peace among
themselves, standing armies, without
the consent of their Legislatures. 9th,
They rendered the military independent
of and superior to the civil pow er.
eth. They subjected the people to a jul
risdiction foreign to their constitutions
and unacknowledged by their laws
;Sth. They quartercd large bodies of
armed troops among them. 9th. They
protected officers and troops from pun
ishment for murders and other crimes
committed by them. 10Th They cut
off the trade of the people among them
selves and with otherparts of the world. |
18th. They deprived the people in ma
NY cases of the benefits OF the trial by |
jury. 18th. Without authority of law
their President exercised the following
powers which belong exclusively to
Congress, and was thereby guilty of
Gsurpation, which usurpation was APP
proved by the Republican party, and
thus it became their acts: l, he increa-
sed the army; 2, he increased the navy;
3, he appropriated the public money;
4, he regulated commerce with foreign
nations; 5, he regulated commerce be-
tween the States; 6, he contracted
debts on behalf of the nation; I, he
suspended the writ of habcas corpus.
Is. The following powers, denied both
to Congress ard the President their
President exercised, which exercise of
unauthorized power they approved, and
thereby are guilty as party of the
usurpation themselves: !, he proclaim
ed martial law; 2, he arrested without
legal warrant; 3, imprisoned and pun
lshed without conviction and legal trial;
4, punished under ex post facto or non
existing law; 5, introduced lettres dc
cachet, bastiles and the midnight Sc
cret proceedings of the 1nquisition; 6,
interdicted reports; I, favored some
ports to the prejudice of others; 8, reg
ulated the commerce of State within
its own bounds; 8, impaired the free
dom of speech and Of the press; 10, in .
fringed the peoples rights to keep and
bear arms; IL, made unreasonable !,
searches and seizures; u, prohibited
andrequired passports; l3,
dismissed the police of cities in States :
4ot proclaimed in instruction and APP :
pointed others in their place; Id, inter- |,
cred by the military force with the
freedom of elections in the States; Is, :
ook private property for public use :
just compensation. IA. The |
,arty has conferred the elective fran !
;llise upon the. negroes in the District
# Columbia against the will of the peo-
lie. I5 They have placed Governors c
'yer the people against their will and +
n violation of their Jaws, by military y
orce. 1G. They have caused pretend /
ID Legislatures to be selected in the a
states against the will of the people by a
he same means. II. They have by t