The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1868-07-15
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holder.
Siah: Economy in the administra-
ton of the Government, the reduc-
tion of the standing army and navy
the abolition ofthe Freedmen's Bureau
and all political instrumentalities de-
signed to secure negro supremacy
simplifcation of the system and dis
confluence of inquisitorial modes Of
assessing and collecting Internal Rev
enue, so that the burden of taxation
may be equalized and lessened, the
credit of the Government, and the
currency made good, the repeal of oil
enactments for enrolling the State
Militia into National forces in time of
peace, and a tariff for revenue upon
foreign imports, and such equal taxa
ton under the Internal Revenue laws
as will afford incidental protection to
domestic manufactures, and as will,
without impairing the revenue, impose
the least burden upon and best pro-
moteand encourage the great industrial
interests of the country.
Sercnth: Reform of abuses in the
Administration, the expulsion of cor
rupt men from Office, the abrogation of
useless offices, the restoration of right
full authority to and the independence
of the Executive and Judicial Depart
ments of the Government, the subordi-
nation ofthe military to the civil power,
to the end that the usurpations of Con-
gress and the despotism of the sword
may cease.
Eighth: Equal rights and protection
for naturalized and native born citi-
zcns at home and abroad, the assertion
of American nationality which shall
command the respect of foreign powers
and furnish an example and cncour-
agcment to people struggling for ma
tional integrity, constitutional liberty,
and industrial rights; and the mainte-
nance of the rights of naturalized citi-
zcns against the absolute doctrine of
immutable allegiance and the claims
of foreign powers to punish them for
alleged crime committed beyond their
jurisdiction.
In demanding these measures and
reforms we arraign the Radical party
for its disregard of right and the un-
paralleled oppression and tyranny
which have marked its career. After
the most solemn and unanimous pledge
of both Houses of Congress to prose-
cute the war exclusively for the main
tenance 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,
so far as in its power, dissolved it, and
subjected ten States in time of pro-
found peace to military despotism and
negro supremacy. 1t has nullified
there the right of trial by jury; it has
abolished the haJeas corpus, that most
sacred writ of liberty; it has over
thrown 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
disrcgarded in time of peace the right
of the people TO be free from searches
and seizures; it has entered the post
and telegraph Offices, and even the
private rooms of individuals, and
seized their private papers and letters
without any specific charge or notice of
affidavit, as required by the organic
law; it has converted the American
Capitol into a Bastile; it has establish
ed system of spies and espionage to
which no constitutional monarchy of
Europe would now dare to resort; it
has abolished the right of appeal on
important constitutional questions to
the supreme judicial tribunals, and
threatens to curtail or destroy its orig
inal jurisdiction which is irrevocably
vested by the Constitution; while the
learned ChiefJustice has been sub
jected to the most atrocious 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 exceeded any
thing known in history; and by its
frauds and monopoies it has nearly
doubled the burden of the debt created
by the war. 1t has stripped the Pres
ident of bis Constitutional power of
appointment, even ofhis 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 shattered fragments
of the Constitution and we do declare
and resolve, that ever since the people
, of the United States threw off all sub.
lection to the British Crown the priv.
ilege and trust ofsuffrage have belong,
ed to the several States, and have beer
granted, regulated, and controlled
exclusively by the political power Of
, each State respectively, and that any
attempt by Congress, on any pretext
whatever, to deprive any State of this
right, or interfere with its exercise, j:
a fragrant usurpation of power which
can find no warrant in the Constitution
, and, if sanctioned by the people, viii