The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-09-12

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for assessing and collecting internal revenue,
so that the burden of taxation may be
equaiized and lessened; the credit Of the
Government and the currency made good
the repeal of all enactments for enrolling
the State militia into National forces IN time
Of peace; tariff for revenue upon foreign
imports, and such equal taxation under the
internal revenue laws as will afford Incl
dental protection to domestic manufactures,
and as viii, without imuairing the revenue,
impose the least buTdsp upon and best pro-
mote and encourage the great industrial in
I terests of the country.
Z. Reform Of abuses in the Administra-
ton, the expulsion Of corrupt men from
Offices, the ohrOgatiOn Of useless Offices, the
restoration Of rightful authority to- and the
! independence of the Executive and Judicial
departments Of the Government the sub
ordination of the military to the civil power
| to the end that the usurpations Of Congress
| aHd the despotism Of the sword may cease.
8. Equal gights and protection for natural
! Ized and natiyeb born citizens at home and
! abroad. an assertion Of 4 merican nationality,
| which shall command the respect of foreign
/ powers, and furnish an example and encOur-
/ agencnt to people struggling for national in
| tegrity, constitutional liberty and individual
rights, and the maintenance Of the rights of
/ naturaiized citizens against the abs0inte doc
urine of immutable allegiance, and the
| claims of foreign powers to punish them foE
alleged crime committed beyond their juris-
diction.
! In demanding these measures and reforms
we arraigu the radical party for its disregard
4 Of right, unparalleled oppression and granny
! which have marked It's career, after the most
/ solemn and unanimous pledge Of both
/ Houses Of Congress to prosecute the war ex-
4 clus;yely for the maintenance of the Govern
/ ment and the preservation Of the Union
under the Constitution
/ 1t has repeatedly violated that most sacred
/ pledge under which was rallied that noble
volunteer army, which carried our flag to
| victory.
Instead Of restoring the Union it has so
far as in its power, dissolved it. and subjected
! ten States IN time of peace to despotism and
/ negro supremacy
It has nulifed there the right Of trial by
jury.
1t has abolished the habeas corpus, that
most sacred writ of liberty.
] 1t has overthrown the freedom of speech
! and the press.
1t has substituted arbitrary seizures and
| arrests, and military trials and secret Star
! Chamber inQuisitions, fol. constitutional tri-
( bunals.
1t has disrcgarded in time of peace the
right of the people to be free from search
and seizures.
1t has entered the post and telegraph Of
! fees, and even the private rooms Of indi-
viduals, and seized their private papers and
letters without any specification or notice Of
| affidavit, as required by the organic law
1t has converted the American capitol
| into a bastiIe
1t has established a system OF spies and
| official espionage to which no constitutional
monarchy cf Europe would now dare to re
| sort
1t has abolished the right Of appeal on
important constitutional Questions TO the
| supreme judiciary tribunal, and threatens to
| curtaI or destroy its original jurisdiction,
/ which Is irrevOcably vested by the COUstitu
ton, while the learned Chief Justice has
! been subjected to the most atr0cious
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 have ex
ceeded anything known IN history, and by
its frauds and monopolies it has nearly
doubled the burden Of debt created during
the war.
1t has stripped the President of his con
stitutional power of appointment, even oI
his own cabinet
Under its repeated assaults the pillars OF
the Government are rocking on their base
and should it succeed in November next and
inaugurate its President we will meet as a
subject and conquered people amid the ruins
of liberty and the scattered fragments O
the Constitution and we do declare and re
solve that ever since the people Of thG
United States threw off all subjection to the
British Crown, the privilege and trust O
suffrage have belonged to the several States
and have been granted, regulated and con
trolled exclusively by the political power o
each State respectively, and any attempt by
Congress, on any preUext whatever, to de
priVe any State Of this right, or interior,
with this exercise, Is a fragrant usurpation O
power which can find no warrant in the Con
stitution, and, if sanctioned by the people
viii subvert our form of government anC
can only end IN a single centralized, con
sOlidated government in which the separate
existence of the States will be entirely alb
sorbed, and an unqualified despotism be es
tabIished in place of a Federal Union 0
equal States
That we regard the reconstruction acts O
| Congress, so called, as usurpau0ns uucou
stitutiORal, revolutionary and void, and tha
our soldiers and sailors who carried the fla
Of our country to victory against a mos
gallant and determined foe, must ever b
gratefully remembered, and all the guaran
l. tees given in their favor must be faithfully
e carried into execution.
Q That the public lands should be distriE
e uted widely among the people, and shout
J. be disposed of either under the pre-emptioI
q or homestead laws, and sold in reasonabl
4; quantities. and to none but actual occupant
q at the minimum price as established by th
e. Government When grants of the publ
n lands may be allowed, necessary for she Ell
Il cOura9ement of important public improve
! meuts, the proceeds of the sale Of sue
# lands and not the lands themselves shoul
be so applied.
IS That the President of the United State
l. Andrew johnson, in exercising the powe
/ Of his high Office in resisting the aggression
/ Of Congress on the Constitutional rights
s, the States and the people, Is entitled to th
,e gratitude of the whole American peopl
y and on behalf of the Democratic party VI
y tender hlm our thanks for his patriot
efforts in that regard.
" Upon this platform the Democratic part
II appeal to every patriot, including all ii
i conservative element and all who desire