The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-08-29

| premacy simplifcation Of the system and
| the disconhnuance of inquisitorial boards
for assessing and collecting internal revenue,
! so that the burden of taxation may be
| equalized and lessened the credit of the
/ Government ard the currency made good;
the repeal of all enactments for enrolling
/ the State militia into National forces in time
/ Of peace; tariff for revenue upon foreign
! imports, and such equal taxation under the
internal revenue laws as viii afford Incl
dental protection to domestic manufactures,
and as will, without impairing the revenue,
impose the least burden upon and best pro-
mote and encourage the great industrial in
terests of the country
z. Reform of abuses in the Administra-
ton, the expulsion of corrupt men from
Offices, the obTogation Of useless Offices, the
restoration Of rightful authority TO- and the
independence of the Executive and Judicial
departments of the Government the sub
ordination of the military to the civil power
to the end that the usurpaticns Of Congress
and the despotism of the sword may cease.
s. Equal rights and protection for natural
| lied and native-born citizens at home and
abroad, an assertion of American nationality,
which shall command the respect of foreign
powers, and furnish an example and encOur-
agemcnt to people struggling for national in
tegrity constitutional liberty and individual
rights, and the maintenance of the rights of
naturalized citizens against the absolute doc
trine of immutabie allegiance, and the
claims of foreign powers to punish them for
alleged crime committed beyond their iuris-
diction.
In demanding these measures and reforms
we arraign the radical party for its disregard
of right, unparalleled oppression and tyranny
which have marked its career, after the most
solemn and unanimous pledge of both
Houses of Congress to prosecute the war ex-
clus;vely for the maintenance of the Govern
ment and the preservation of the Union
under the Constitution.
It has repeatedly violated that most sacred
pledge under which was rallied that noble
volunteer army, which carried our flag to
victory
Instead of restoring the Union, it has, so
far as in Its power, dissolved it, and subjected
ten States in time of peace to despotism and
negro supremacy.
1t has nuDifed 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 seizures and
arrests, and military trials and secret Star
Chamber inouisitions, for constitutional tri-
bunals.
1t has disregarded in time of peace the
right Of the people to be free from search
and seizures.
1t has entered the post and telegraph Of
fees, and even the private rooms of indi-
viduals, and seized their private papers and
letters, without any specification or notice Of
affidavit as required by the organic law
It has converted the American capitol
into bastiIe.
1t has established a system of spies and
| official espionage to which no constitutional
monarchy of Europe would now dare to re-
sort.
1t has abolished the right of appeal on
! important constitutional questions to the
supreme Judiciary tribunal, and threatens to
curtail or destroy its original jurisdiction,
which is irrevocably vested by the Constitu
! ton, while the learned Chief Justice has
/ been subjected to the most atrocious
! calumnies, merely because he would not
prostitute his high Office to the support of
the false and partisan charges preferred
against the President.
! It's corruption and extravaganza have ex-
| ceeded anything known in history, and by
its frauds and monopolies it has nearly
doubled the burden of debt created during
| the war.
It has stripped the President of his con
stitutional power of appointment, even Of
his own cabinet
Under its repeated assaults the pillars Of
the Government are rocking on their base,
and should it succeed in November next and
inaugurate its President we will meet as a
subject and conquered people amid the ruins
of liberty and the scattered fragments of
| the Constitution; and we do declare and re-
I solve that ever since the people of the
United States threw off all subsection 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 any attempt by
Congress, on any pretext whatever, to de-
prive any State of this right, or interfere
with this exercise, is fragrant usurpation OF
power which can find no warrant in the Con
stitutiOn, and, if sanctioned by the people,
VIII subvert our form of government, and
can only end In a single centralized, con
sOldated government in which the separate
existence of the States Will be entirely alb
sorbed, and an unqualified despotism be es
tabhshed in place of a Federal Union oi
equal States.
That we regard the reconstruction acts oil
Congress, sO-called, as usurpatl0ns uncOn-
stitutional, revolutionary and void, and that
our soldiers and sailors who carried the flag
of our country to victory against a most
gallant and determined foe, must ever be
gratefully remembered, and all the guaran
tees given In their favor must be faithfully
carried into execution.
That the public lands should be distrib
uted widely among the people, and should
be disposed of either under the pre-emptiou
. or homestead laws, and SOLD. in reasonable
quantities, and to none but actual occupant:
at the minimum price as established by The
Government When grants of the public
lands may be allowed, necessary for the en-
I couragement of important public improve
ments, the proceeds of the sale of suct
f lands and not the lands themselves should
be so applied.
That the President of the United States
= Andrew johnson, in exercising the powe,
of his high Office in resisting the aggression
of Congress on the Constitutional rights o
the States and the people, is entitled to The
E gratitude Of the whole American people
= and on behalf of the Democratic party w
S tender him our thanks for his patrioti
efforts in that regard
2 Upon this platform the Democratic past,