Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-07-23

ry despotism and negro suffrage. II has
nullilied there the right Of a trial by jury;
il has abolished the hdbcdS corpus, tn; {
most sacred writ of liberty; it has over
thrown the freedom of speech and the
press; it has substituted arbitrary seizures
and arrests, anil military trials and secret
Star Chamber Inquisitions for constitution
al tribunals. It has disregardcd in time of
peace the right of the people to be free
from search and seizures. II has entered
the post and telegraph Office, and even the
private rooms of individuals, and seized
their private papers and letters without
specification or notice of affidavit, as re-
quired by the organic law. 1t has estab-
lished system of spies and official esp:-
Onage TO which no constitutional mon
archy of Europe would dare TO resort Ii
has converted the American Capitol into a
Bastile. Ii has abolished the right of ap-
peal as to important constitutional ques-
tions to the supreme judicial tribunals, and
threatens to curtail or destroy its original
jurisdiction, which is irrevocably vested by
the constitution, while the learned Chief
Justice has been subjected to great afro
cious calumnies merely because he would
not prostitute his high Office to the support
Of the false and partisan charges preferred
against the President. Its corruption and
extravaganza exceeded anything known
in history, and by its frauds and monopo-
lies it has nearly doubled the burden of the
debt created during 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 arc rceling on
their base, and should it succeed in No
vembcr next, and inaugurate its President,
we will meet as subjec'e cd nd con-
quered people amid the ruins of liberty
and the scattered fragments Of the consti-
tutiCn.
And we do declare and resolve, that ev-
er 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 controlled
exclusively by the political power of each
State respectively, and any attempt by
Congress, on any prctext whatever. to de
privc any State of this right, or interfere
With this exercise, fragrant usurpation
| Ofpower which can find no warrant in the
constitution, and if sanctioned by the peo-
pie will subvert our form Of government,
and can only end in single centralized
consolidated government, in which the
separate existence of the States will be alb
sorbed, and an unqualified dcspotism be
established in place of Federal Union of
co-cqual States, and that we regard the re-
construction acts of Congress as such usur-
pations, and unconstitutional, reyolutiona-
ry and void.
That our soldiers and sailors who carried
the flag of our country to victory against
q most gallant and determined foe, must
ever be gratefully remembered. and all the
guarantees given in their favor must lie
faithfully carried into execution.
That the public lands should be distrib'
utcd as wisely among the people and sho'd
be disposed OF fcither under the pre-emption
or homestead laws, and sold in reasonable
quantities and TO none but actual occupants
at the minimum price established by gov
ernmcnt- When grants of the public lands
may be absolutely necessary TO encourage
important public improvements, the pro-
ceeds of the sale of such lands and not
the lands themselves should be SO applied.
That the President of the United States.
Andrew johnson [ApplauseI exercising
the power of his Office in restricting the az
grcssions OF Congress on the constitutional
rights of the States and the people, is enti-
tied TO the gratitude of the whole Ameri-
can people and on behalf of the Democrat
ic party we tender him our thanks for his
patriotic efforts in that regard. tGreat
applausc.]
Upon this platform the Democratic party
appeal to every patriot including all the
conservative element and all who desire to
support the constitution and restore the
Union, forgetting all past differences of
opinion, to unite with us in the present
great struggle for the liberties ofthe people
and that to all such, to whatever party
they may have hetetofore belonged, week
tend the right hand of fellowship, and hail
all such as friends and brothers.