The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-07-24

III again. Inc 1Itn resolution was
again read, and again cheered.
Sixth. Economy in the administra-
tlOn OF the government; the reduction
of the standing army and navy; the
abolition of the Freedman's Bureau
great cheeringl, and all political in
strumentalities designed to secure
negro supremacy; simplificatiOn of
| the system, and discontinuance of
inquisitorial assessing and collecting
internal revenue, so that the burden
of taxation may be equalized and less
ened, the credit of the Government
and the currency made good the re-
peal of all enactments for enrolling the
State militia into national forces i'm
time of peace, and tariff for revenue
upon foreign imports, and such equal
taxation under the internal revenue
laws as will afford incidental protec-
ton to domestic manufactures, and as
will, without impairing the revenue,
impose the least burden upon and best
promote and encourage the great in,
dustrial interests of the country.
SeUenth. Reform of abuses in the
administration, the expulsion of cor
rupt men from office, the restoration of
rightful authority to, and the indie
pendence of, the executive and judicial
departments of the government; the
subordination of the military to the
civil power, to the end that the usur-
pations of Congress and the despotism
of the sword may cease.
Eighth. Equal rights and protection
for naturaliZed and native-born citi-
Zens at home and abroad the asser-
ton of American nationality which
shall command the respect of foreign
powers and furnish an example and
encouragement to people struggling
for national integrity, constitutional
liberty and individual rights and the
maintenance of the rights of naturaliz-
ed citizens against the absolute doe
trine of immutable allegiance, and the
claims of foreign powers to punish
them for alleged crimes committed be-
yond their jurisdiction, (Applause.)
In demanding these measures and
reforms we arraigE the Radical par
ty for its disregard of right, and the
unparalleled oppression and tyranny
which have marked its cereer.
After the most solemn and unani-
nous pledge of both houses of Con-
gress to prosecute the war exclusively
for the maintenance of the government
and the preservation of the Union un-
der 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, ii
has, so far as is in its power, dissolved it,
and subjected ten States, in time Of
profound peace, to military despotism
and negro supremacy. 1t has nullified
there the right of trial by jury it has
abolished the hd6edS corpus-that most
sacred writ of liberty; it has over
thrown the freedom of speech and the
press; it has substituted arbitrary
seizures, and arrests, and military
trials, and secret star chamber inquiS-
itiOns for the constitutional tribunals;
it has disregarded in time of peace the
right of the people 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 papers and letters
without any specific charge or notice
Of affidavit, as required by the organic
law it has converted the American
Capitol into bastile; it has establish
ed system Of spies and official espiOn-
age to which no constitutional mon
archy of Europe would now dare to
resort; it has abolished the right of
appeal on important constitutional
questions to the supreme judicial tri-
bnnals, and threatens to curtail or
destroy its original jurisdiction, which
is irrevocably vested by the Constitu-
ton, while the learned Chief Justice
has been sH1ected to the most atrocious
calumnies, merely because he would
not prostitute his high office to the
support of false and partisan charg-
es preferred against the President
Its corruption and extravaganza have
exceeded anything known in history,
and by its frauds and mOnOpolies it
has nearly doubled the burden of the
debt created by the war. 1t has strip
ped the President of his constitutional
power of appointment, even of his own
cabinet. Under its repeated assaults
the pillars of the government are rocil-
ing on their backs, and should it Sue
ceed in November next and inaugurate
its President, we will meet as a sub
jected and conquered people amid the
ruins of liberty and the scattered frag-
ments of the Constitution and we do
declare and resolve that ever since the
people of the United States threw off
all Subiections to the British crown the
privilege and trust of suffrage have
belonged to the several States, and
have been granted, regulated and con-
trolled exclusively by the political
power of each State respectively, and
that any attempt by Congress, on any
pretext whatever, to deprive any State
Of this right, or interfere with its exer-
else, is fragrant usurpa.Ivu of power
which can find no warrant in the Con-
stitution, and if sanctioned by the peo-
pie, will subvert our form of govern
ment, and can only end in single CEN
tralized and consolidated government,
in which the separate existence of the
States will be entirely absorbed, and
an unqualified despotism be establish
ed in place of Federal Union of CO.
equal States and that we regard the
reconstruction acts (so-called) of Con
gress, as such, are usurpations, and un-
constitutional, revolutionary and void.
That our soldiers and sailors, who
carried the flag of our country to vic
tory against a most gallant and deter
mined foe, must ever be gratefully re-
membered, and all the guarantees Civ
ell in their favor must be faithfully
carried into execution.
That the public lands should be dis
tributed as widely as possible among
the people, and should be disposed of
either under the pre-emptiOn or home
stead laws, and sold in reasonable guam
titles, and to none but actual occupants,
at the minimum price established by
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