The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-08-29
THE PLATrFIS9 M 9Rsr
sin .s.oeuay ptoF THE 10 -
DsmoGratic National Convention.

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I The Democratic party, in National Com
vention assembled, .repoeing its, trust in
the Intelligence, patriotism and discrini-
mating Justice Of the people--standing
upon the Constitution as tine foundation
| and limitation Of the powers Of the Co
| vernment, and the guarantee Of the iber-
ties OF the citizen, and recognizing the
! questions of slavery and secession as
| having been settled, for all time TO come.
Southern States, in Constitutional Con-
ventions assembled, and never to bG re-
newed or re-agitated, do, with the return
OF peace, demand: ~ {. n 81
1st. Immediate restoration of all the
States to their rights in the Union, under
the Constitution, and of civil governm ent
| to the American people. 37'
I'd. Amnesty for all past political
offences, and the regulation of the elective
franchise in the States by their citizens.
Sd. Payment of the public debt Of the
United States as rapidlyas practicable;
alton, except 30 much as is requisite for
the necessities Of the Government, econo-
mioally administered, being honestly ap-
piled to such payment; and, where the
oblig ations of the Government de 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,
be paid in the lawful money Of the United
States.
4th. Equal taxation of every species OF
property, according to it's real value in
Guiding Government bonds and other pub
lie securities.
5th. Ono currency for the Government
and the people, the laborer and the office
holder, the pensioner and the soldier, the
producer and the bond-holder.
9th. Economy in the administration of
the Government; the reduction of the
standing army and navy; the abolition of
the Freedmen's Bureau, and all political
instrumentaGties designed to secure
negro supremacy; simplification of the
system and discontinuance of inquisitori-
al modes of assessing and collecting inter-
tion may be equalized and lessened, the
credit of the Government and the curren-
cy made good; the repeal of all enact
ments for enrolling the State militia into
national forces in time of peace and q
tariff for revenue upon foreign imports,
and such equal taxation, under the inter
nal revenue laws, as will afford incidental
protection to domestic manufactures, and
as will, without impairing the revenue,
impose the least burden upon and best
promote and encourage the great indus
trial interests of the country.
tlon, the expulsion Of corrupt men from
Office, the abrogation of useless offices,
the restoration of rightfill authority to
and the independence of the executive
and Judiciary departments of the Govern
ment, the subordination Of the military to
usurpations of Congress and the despot-
ism of the sword may cease.
Sth. Equal rights and protection for
naturalized and natiye-born citizens, at
home and abroad; the assertion Of Ameri-
can nationality which shall command the
respect of foreign powers, and furnish an
example and encouragement to people
struggling for national integrity, consti-
tutional liberty and individual rights; and
the maintenance of the rights OF natural
| lied citizens against the absolute doctrine
OF lmnlutable allegiance and the claims of
foreign powers to punish them for alleged
crime committed beyond their jurisdic-
tlon
In demanding these measures and re-
forms, we arraign the radical party for its
disregard of right, and the unparalleled
oppression and tyranny which have mark
ed its career. After the most solemn and
unanimous pledge of both Houses of Con-
gress to prosecute the war exclusively for
the maintenance of the Government and
| the preservation Of the Union, under the
Constitution, 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,
30 far as is in its power, dissolved it. and
subjected ten States, in times Of profound
peace, to military despotism and negro
supremacy.
1t has nullifed there the right of trial
by jury; it has abolished the hdbedS cor
puS, that most sacred writ of liberty; it
has overthrown 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 seiz-
ures; it has entered the post and telegraph
offices, and even the private rooms of in
| dividuals, and seized their private papers
and letters, without any specific charge or
notice of affidavit, as required by the Or
ganic law; it has converted the American
capitol into nastiie; it has established q
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 the supreme
judicial tribunals, and threatens to cur
| tail Dr destroy its original Jurisdiction,
which is irrevocably vested by the Consti-
tuition, while the learned Chief Justice
calumnies, merely because he would not
| prostitute his high Office to the support of
| the false and partizan charges preterTs I
/ against the President. It's corruption and
extravaganza have exceeded anything
known in history, and by it's frauds and
monopolies it has nearly doubled the bur-
den OF the debt created by the war II has