The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-07-30
THE PLATFORM.

| sembled reposing It's trust in the intelligence,
patriotism and discriminating justice of the people;
| standing upon the constitution as the foundation
and limitation of the powers of the government and
the guar ntee of the liberties OF the citizen and re-.
cornzne the questions of slavery and secession as
having been settled for all time to come by the war;
or the voluntary action of the Southern States in
constitutional convention assembled, ard never to
be renewed or reagitated, do, with the return OF
peace, dem'nd
First Immediate restoration Of all the States to
their rights in the Union, under the constitution,
and of civil government to the American people.
Second Amnesty for all past political offences,
and the regulation Of the elective franchise in the
States by their citizens.
Third Payment the public debt Of the United
States as rapidly as practicable; all moneys drawn
from the people by taxation. except 80 much as Is
requisite for the necessities of the government,
economically administered, being honestly applied
to such payment; and where the obligations OF the
government do not expressly state upon their face
or the Law under which they weIe issued does not
provide that they shall be paid In coin, they ought
in right and In justice be paid in the lawful money
| of the United States.
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according to its real value including government
bonds and other public securities.
Fifth. One currency for the government and the
people, the laborer and the oflceholder. the PEN
sioner and the soldier the producer and the bond
| holder.
Sixth. Economy in the administration Of the gov
ernment: the reduction Of the standing army and
navy; the abolition of the Freedmen's Bureau
| and oil political ins;rumentalitits designed to
secure negro supremacy; simphfcadon OF the sys-
| tenn, and discontinuance of inqoiEtorid modes
of assessing and collecting internal revenue, that
the burden of taxation may be equalzed and lessen
ed; the credit of the government md the currency
made good; the repeal of all enactments for enroll
ing the State milia into national forces in time Of
peace, and tariffor revenue upon foreign imports,
and such equal taxation under the internal revenue
laws as win afford incidental protection to domestic
manufactures, and as will, without fnpairing the
revenue, impose the least burden upon and bestpro
mote and encourage the great industrial interests Of
the country.
.Ser.uth., Reform of abuses in the administration,
the expulsion of corrupt men from Office, the abro
CATION of useless Offices the restoration of rightu
authority to and the independence of the executive
and judicial departments Of the government, the
subordnaton Of the military to the civil power, to
the end that the usurpations of Congress and the
despotism Of the sword may cease.
Eighth Equal rights and protection for naturaized
and native. born citizens at home and abroad, the
assertion of Ame .ican nationality which shall COM
inaud the respect of foreign powers and furnish an
example and encouragement to people struggling Tor
national integrity, constitutional liberty, and ind
yidua rights; and the maintenance Of the rights OF
paturalizcd citizens against the absolute doctrine Oh
inmutable allegiance and the claims OF foreign pow
ers to punish them for alleged crime committed be-
yond their jurisdiction.
| In demanding these measures and reforms we or.
ragn the Radical party for its disregard OF right and
the unparalleled oppression and tyranny which have
marked its career.
After the most solemn and unanimous pledge Of
both Houses of Congress to prosecute the wer *
c,usvely for the maintenance Of the government ana
the preservation OF the Union ander the conshtu-
ton, 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, so far as isin
its mower dissolved it, and subjected ten States In
time of profound peace to military despotism and
negro supremacy; 1t has nulihed here the right OF
trial by Jury; it has abolished the babeas corpus,
that mcst sacred writ of liberty 1t has overhrow'i
the freedom of speech and the press; 1t has suosi'
tuted arbitrary seizures, and arrests, and military
trials. and secret star chamber inqus.ions for the
constitutional tibunas it has disregarled IN time OF
peace the right of the people to be free from searches
and seizures it has entered the post and tele raph
Offices, and even the private rooms OF individuals,
and seized their private papers and letters, without
any specific charge OF notice OF affidavit, as required
by the organic law; it has converted the Ameri-
can capitol into Bastile; it has established system
OF spies and official espionage to which no coLstitu-
tional monarchy Of Europe would now dare to resort
it has abolished the right Of appeal on important
constitutional questions to the supreme judicial ti'
bupal and threatens to curail destroy its orgi-
nal jurisdiction which Is rrevocnbly vested by the
constitution while the learned Chief Justice has been
subjected to the mo t atrocious calumnies, merely
because he would not prostitute his high otce to the
suoport or the false and partisan charges preferred
against the President; its corruption aud e1trava-
cance have exceeded anything known in history,
and by its frauds and moncpohes 1t Las nearly
doubled the burden OF the debt created by the war
has stripped the President of his consttu ona power
| of appointrnent, even Of his own CABINET. Under
its repeated assaults the pillars OF the govern
ment are rocking their base, and should it sue
ceed in November and inaugurate its President,
we will meet as subjected and conquered ople
amid the ruins ofberty and the scattered fragments
of the constitution; and we do declare andresolve
that ever since the people Of the United States threw
off all subiecion to the British Crown, the privilege
and trust of suffrage have belonged to th' several
States, and have been granted, regulated and en-
trolied exclusively by the political power Of eac
State respectively and that any attempt by Congress
on any pretext whatever to deprive any State of this
right or interfere with lis exercise is fragrant usur
patton OF power which can find no warrant in the
! constitution, and il sanctioned by the peo-
Die will subvert our form Of government. and can
only end in single centralized and consolidated gov
ernmcnt in which the separate existence Of the Sa;cs
will be entirely absorbed, and an unqualified despot-
ism be established in place Of Federal Union Of CO.
equal states and that regard the Reconstruction
acts lso-caed) Of Congress as usurpations and ur-
CONSTITUTIONAL revolutionary and void that our SOL
ders and sailors who carried the flag OF our country
to victo against most gallant and determined foe
must ever be gratefully remembered, and oil the
guarantees given their favor mnst ee faithfully
carried into execution.
| That the public lands should be distributed as
widely as possible among the people, and should be
disposed OF either under tie prc.emption Of Eome-