The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1868-08-05

IL has nulilned right OF trlak .,
Jury.
It has abolished the writ of ha6ea
corpus, that most sacred writ of liberty
It has overthrow the freedom O
speech and press
1t has substituted Varbitray seizure.
and arrests, and Military trials, anC
secret star chamber induisitions, fo,
Constitutional tribunals.
1t has disregarded in time of peac,
the right of tie people to be free from
searches and seizures. ..r,
1t has entered the post and telegraph
Offices, and even the private rooms Of
individuals, and seized their private
ipapers and letters without any specif
cation or notice OF affidavit, as required
by the organic law. GgfGI
Il has converted the American Capt..
toll into a bastile.
1t has established a system of spies
and official espionage to which no con
stitutional monarchy of Europe would
dare to resort. 300
1t has abolis he'd tie right Of appeal,
on important Constitutional questions,
to the supreme judicial tribunals, and
threatens to curtail OF distroy its origi
nal jurisdiction, which is irrevocably
vested by the Constitution while the
learned Chief justice has been subject
ed to great and atrocious calumnies
merely because he would not prostitute
his high Office to the support of the false
and partisan charges preferred against
the President. s-
Its corruption and ex~travagence have
exceeded any thing known in history,
and by its frauds and ~monopolics it has
nea rly doubled the burden of the deb
created during the war. 1C.I
1t has stripped the President of his
constitutional power of appointment,
even of his own Cabinet.
Under its reported assaults the pill
lars of the Government are rocking on
heir base, and should it succeed in
next, and inaugurate its
President, we will meet it as a subject
ed and conquered people, amid the ruins
of liberty, and the scattered fragments
of the Constitution.
FURTHER DECLARATIONS.
And ace do Declare and ResolUe, tn; t
ever since the people of the United
States threw off all subjugatioD to the
Grown, the privilege and trus;
If Suffrage have belonged to,the several
and have been granted, regu
atcd and controlled exclusively by the
political power of each State, respective
y, and any attempt by Congress, on any
whatever. to deprive any State
# this right. or interfere with this ex-
:%rcise, is a fragrant u%surpation of power.
a find no warrant in the Con
and if sanctioned by the PEG.
lie, will subvert our form of Govern
lent, and can only end in a single,
entralized, consolidated Government,
i which the scperatc existence of the u,
tates vii! be entirely absorbed, and
4 unqualified despotism be established a.,
l place of a federal Union of equal ,
That We regard the reconstruction '
ITS of Congress, SO called, as usurpa "
ons, unconstitutional, revolutionary !
I'd void. u
That our soldiers and sailors who car J
ed the flag Of our country to victory =
,ainst a most gallent and determined /
e, must ever be gratefully remember =
!, and all the guarantees given in their =
vor must be faithfully carried into =
:,
That the public lands should be dis :
.buted widely among the people, and ;,
ould be disposed of either under the y
compton of homestead lands, and =
d in reasonable quantities, and to +
ne but actual occupants, at the mini =
I'm price, as established by the Gov ;,
lment and that, when grants of the :.
bile lands may he allowed, necessary =,
the encouraging of important pu' "
improvements, the proceeds of the. "
e of such lands, and not the lands u
,mselves, should be so applied. -
That the President of the United u
ltes, Andrew johnson, in exercising y.
!, power Of his high Office in resisting i.
: expressions of Congress on the ~
lstitutional rights of the States and =
people, is entitled to the gratitude y;
the whole American people, and on -
lalf cf the Democratic party we ten ~
him u thanks for his patriotic ~
'rts in that regard a.,
APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE. an
Upon this platform the Democratic erl
ty appeal to every patriot, including by
the conservative element, and all
} desire to support tho Constitution tai
restore the Union, forgetting all til,
differences of opinion, to unite with Co
the present great struggle for the pie
rites of the people 1; and that to all POI
h, to whatever party they may hsve to
etofore belonged, we extend the fro
lthand of fellowship, and hail all i'm,
4 cooperating with US as friends .