The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-10-09

Instead OF restoring ! the Union, it has,
so faras is In Its power, dissolved it. ana
subteoted ten States. in times OF pregcand
peace TO military despotism and negro
EitIhas nulliaed there the, right of trial
by jury; it has abolished the hd6eas cor
pus, that most sacred writ OF liberty; it
he's oyorthrown the freedom of speech and
the press; it has substituted arbitrary
seizures and arrests, and military trials
! and secret star-chamber inquisitions for
the constitutional tribunals; it has disre-
garded. in time of peace, the right OF the
| people to be free from searches and seis-
ures; it has entered the post and telegraph
| dividuals, ana seized their private papers
and letters, without any specific charge or
notice of affidavit, as required by the or
| ganic law; 1t has converted the American
capitol into a bastile; it has established a
system of spies and official espionage to
| which no constitutional monarchy OF Eu-
rope would now dare to resort; it has abo-
lished the right of appeal on important
constitutional questions to tho supreme
judicial tribunals, and threatens to cur
tail pr destroy it's original jurisdiction,
which is irrevocably vested by the Consti
tuition, 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 partiZan charges preferred
| against the President. It's corruption and
extravaganza have exceeded anything
known IN history, and by its frauds and
monopolies it has nearly doubled the bur-
den of the debt created by the war. 1t has
stripped the President of his constitution.
| al power of appointment even OF his own
Cabinet. Under it's repeated assaults, the
pillars OF the Government are rocking on
| their base, and should it succeed in No
vember next, and inaugurateitsP President,
people, amid the ruins of liberty and the
| scattered fragments of the Constitution;
| and we do declare and resolve that, ever
since the people of the United States
threw off all eubjection to the British
crown, the privilege and trust of suffrage
have been granted, regulated and con-
trolled exclusively by the political power
of each State respectively, and that any
| attempt by Congress, on anypretext what
ever, to deprive any State of this right, or
to interfere with it's exercise, is a fragrant
usurpation of power which can find no
warrant in the Constitution; and, if sane
toned by the people, will subvert our form
of Government, and can only end il
single centralized and consolidated Co.
vernment, in which the separate existence
of the States will be entirely absorbed, and
an unqualified despotism be established
in place of Federal Union of co-equal
States; and that we regard The reconstruc-
tion Acts (so-called) of Congress as such
are usurpations, and unconstitutional, re-
volutionary, and void; that our soldiers
and sailors, who carried the flag of our
country to victory against most gallant
and determined foe, must ever be CRATE
FULLY remembered, and all the guarantees
given in their favor must be faithfully car
ricd into execution.
That the public lands should be distri-
buted as widely as possible among the
people, and should be disposed of either
under the pre-eEption of homestead lands,
and sold in reasonable quantities, and to
none but actual occupants, at the mini
mum price established by the Government.
When grants of the public lands may be
allowed, necessary for the encouragement
of important public improvements, the
proceeds Cf the sale of such lands, and not
the lanCs themselves, should be SO ap-
piled.
That the President of the United States,
Andrew Johnson, in exercising the power
of his high Office in resisting the aggres-
sions of Congress upon the constitutional
rights OF the States and the people, is en-
titled to the gratitude of the whole Ameri
can people, and in behalf of the Democra-
patriotic efforts in that regard.
Upon this platform, the Democratic
party appeal to every patriot, including all
the conservative element and all who de-
sire to support the Constitution and re-
store the Union, forgetting all past differ
ences of opinion, to unite with MS in the
present great struggle for the liberties of
the people; and that to all such, to what
ever party they may have heretofore be-
longed, we extend the right hand of fcl-
lowship, and hail all such cooperating
with us as friends and brethren.