The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-10-01
THE ATSORhI
Democratic N-.lv..al Convention,

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the intelligence, patriotism and discrimi-
mating justice of the people-standing
upon the Constitution as the foundation
and limitation of the powers of the Go
yernment, and the guarantee of the Gber-
ties OF the citizen, and recognizing the
questions of slavery and secession rs
having becn settled, for all time to come,
Southern States, in Constitutional Con-
ventions assembled, and never to be re-
newed or ro-aGitated, do, with the return
OF nace, demand:
1st. Immediate restoration of all the
St;.oes to their rights in the Union, un ler
tho Constitution, and of civil government
to the American people.
20. Amnesty for all past political
offencos, and the regulation of tho elective
franchise in the States by their citizens.
Sd. Payment of the public debt of tho
United States as rapidly as practicable;
all moneys drawn from the people by tax
alton, except 80 much as is requisite for
the necessities of the Government, econo-
mical!y administered, being honestly ap-
piled to such payment; and, where the
obligations 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 iii
coin, they ought, in right and in justice,
be paid in the lawful money of the United
States.
4th. Equal taxation of every species of
property, according to its real value, in
Guiding Government bonds and other pub
lie securities.
5th. One currency for the Government
and the people, tho laborer and the Office
holder, the pension.r and the soldier, the
producer and the bond holder.
9th. ECONOMY in tho admins fipD Of
the Government; the reduction of the
standing army and navy; the abolition of
the Frecdmen's Bureau, and all political
inetrumentalities designed to secure
negro supremacy; simplitication of the
system and discontinuance of inquisitori-
al modes of assessing and collecting inter
nal revenue, so that the burden of taxa
ton may be equaliZed and lcsscued, the
credit of the Government and the currcn-
cy made good; the repeal of all enact
ments for cnrolling the State militia into
national forces in time of peace; and a
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 impairing the revenue,
impose the least burden upon and best
promote and encourage the great indus
trial interests of the country.
Tth. reform of abuses in the administra-
tion, 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
usurpations of Congress and the despot-
ism of the sword may cease.
9th. Equal rights and protection for
naturaliZed and native-boin 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 tho absolute doctrine
OF imnutable 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 it's
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
that most sacred pledge. under which
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 its power, dissolved it. and
subjected ten States, in times Of profound
peace, to military despotism and negro
| supremacy.
1t has nullifed there the right of trial
| by jury; it has abolished the hd6edS cor
pus, that most sacred writ of liberty; it
has 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
and letters, without any specific charge or
notice of affidavit, as required by the or
game law; it has converted the American
capitol into bastile; it has established q
system OF spies and official espionage to
which no constitutional monarchy of Eu-
rope would now dare to resort; it has abo-
lished the right of appeal on important
coIstltutional questions to the supreme
judicial tribunals, and threatens to cur
tai! or destroy it's original jurisdiction,
which is irrevocably vested by the Consti-
tuition, while the learned Chief Justice
has been subjected to the most atrocious
calumnies, merely because he would not
prosti ute his high Office to the support OF
| the fll9e and partizan charges preferred
against the President. It's corruption and
extravaganza have exceeded anything
known in history, and by its frauds and
monopolies it has nearly doubled the bur-
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