Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-07-24
THEIR PLATFORM.

and recognizing the questions of slavery
and secession as having been settled for
all time to come by the war and voluntary
action of the southern states in constitu-
tional convention assembled, and never to
be renewed or re-agitated, do, with the re-
turn of peace, demand:
First. The immediate restoration of all
states in the union under the constitu ton
of civil government.
Second. Amnesty FOR all past political
ofenses, and the regulation of the elective
franchise in the states by their citizens.
Third. The payment of the public debt
of the United States as rapidly as possible,
all money drawn from the people by taxa
ton, except so much as is requisite for
the necessities of the government econom-
ically administered, being honestly applied
to such payment; and where the obiiga-
tons 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 in coin, they ought
in right and in justice to be paid in lawful
money of the United States.
Fourth. The equal taxation of every
species ofproperty according to value, in
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lie securities.
Fifth. One currency for the govern
ment and the people, the laborer and the
office holder, the pensioner and the soldier,
the producer and the bond-helder.
Sixth. Reform in the administration
Of the government the reduction of the
standing army and navy; the abolition of
the freedmar's bureau ard all political in
strumentalities designed to secure negro
supremacy simplifcation of the system,
and discontinuence Of the inquisitorial
modes of assessing and collecting internal
revenue, that the burden of taxation be
equalized and lessened, the credit Of the
government made good; the abolition of
all enactments for the enrolling of state
MALTA into national forces in time ofpeace,
AID tariff for revenue upon foreign i'm
ports, ard such equal taxation under the
internal revenue laws as will afford Incl
dental protection to domestic manufactures
and without impairing the revenue impose
the least burden upon the rest promote
and encourage the great industrial interests
of the country.
Seventh. Reform of the abuses of the
administration the expulsion of corrupt
men from office; the abrogation eff useless
offices the restoration of the rightful au-
thority and the independence of the exec
utive and judicial departments of the Gov
ernments; the subordination Of the civil
power, to the end that the usurpation of
Congress and the despotism of the sword
may cease.
Eighth. Equal rights and protection for
naturalized and native-born citizens at
home and abroad; the restoration of
mand 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 natu-
rallied citizens against the obsolete doc
trine of immutable allegiance and the
claims of foreign powers to punish the al
legged crime committed beyond their iuris
diction
In demanding these measures and re-
forms we arraign the radical party for the
disregard of right, and unparalleled oppo-
sition and tyranny which have marked its
career. After the most solemn and unani-
nous pledges of both houses of Congress
to prosecute the war exclusively for the
maintenance of the government and the
preservation of the union under the con-
stitution, it has repeatedly violated the
most sacred pledge under which was raj
lied that noble volunteer army which car
ried our flag to victory. Instead of restor-
ing the union,it has so far as tits in its pow
er, dissolved and subjugated ten states in
time of profound peace, to military des-
potism and negro supremacy. 1t has null
lifted the right of trial by jury; it has
abolished the habeas corpus, that most sa-
cred writ of liberty it has overthrow
the freedom of speech and of the press; it
has substituted arbitrary seizures and ar
rests, and military trials and secret star
chamber inquisitions for constitutional tri
bunals; it has disregarded in time of peace
the right of the people to be free from
search and seizure; it has entered the
post and telegraph offices, and even the
private rooms of individuals, and seized
their private papers and letters without
any specification or affidavit as required bv
organic law; it has converted the Ameri-
can capital into bastile; it has estab-
lished system of spies and official espoin-
age to which no constitutional monarchy
OF Europe would now dare to resort; it
has abolished the right of appeal on i'm
portant constitutional questions to the SUI
preme judicial tribunals, and threatens to
curtail or destroy its original jurisdiction,
which is irrevocably vested by the consti-
tuition, while the learned schief Justice has
been subjected to great and atrocious ca
lumnies merely because he would not pros
titute his office to the support of the false
aud partizan charges 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 Gre
ated during the war; it has stripped the
President of his constitutional power of
appointment 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
subjected and conquered people, amidst
the ruins of Liberty and the scattered
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We do declare and resolve that ever
since the people of the United States threw
off all subsection to the British crown, the
privilege and trust of suffrage has belonged
to the several states, and has been granted,
regulated, and controlled exclusively by
the political power of each state respec-
lively; and any attempt by congress, on
any pretext whatever, to deprive any state
of the right, or interfere with its exercise,
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