The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-07-16

| Government, and the preservation
! of the Union and the Constitution.
1t has repeatedly violated that most
sacred pledge, under which was
rallied the noble volunteer army
which carried our flag to victory /;
instead Of restoring the Union, it
has, SO far as is in its power, dis,
solved it, and subjected ten States
in times Of profound peace to mill
tary despotism and negro suprcm-
acy. 1t has nulli6ed the right of
trial by jury; it has abolished the
ha6eas corpus, that most sacred writ
of liberty; it has overthrown the
! freedom of speech and press it has
substituted arbitrary seizures and
arrests, and military trials, and Sc
cret star chamber inquisitions for
Constitutional tribunals; it has dis
regarded 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 let
ters without any speci ication or no
tice of affidavit, as required by the
organic law; it has converted the
American Capitol into bastile; it
has established a system of spies
and official espionage to which no
constitutional monarchy of Europe
would dare to resort; it has abol-
ishcd the right Of appeal on impor-
tant constitutional questions to the
supreme judicial tribunals, and
threatens to curtail or destroy it's
original jurisdiction, which is ire
vocably vested by the Constitution !;
while the learned Chief Justice has
been subjected to great and afro
cious calumnies, merely because he
would not prostitute his high Office
to the support of the false and par
tisan charges preferred against the
President. It's corruption and ex-
travagance have exceeded anything
known in history, and by its frauds
and monopolies has nearly doubled
the burden Of theadebt created dur
ing the war 1t has stripped the
President of his constitutional pow
er 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 November next, and in
augurate its President, we will meet
it rs a subjected and conquered peo-
pie, amid the ruins of liberty, and
the scattered fragments of the Con-
stitution, and we do declare and re-
solve, that ever since the people of
the United States threw off all sub
jugation to the British crown the
privilege and trust of suffrage have
belonged to the several States, and
have been granted, regulated and
controlled exclusively by the politi-
cal power OF each State, respective
", and any attempt by Congress on
any pretext whatever, to deprive
any State Of this right, or interfere
with this exercise, is a fragrant usur-
patton of power, which can find no
warrant in the Constitution, and if
sanctioned by the people will sub
vert our form of Government, and
can only end in single, centralized
consolidated Government, in which
the separate existence of the States
will be entirely absorbed, and an
unqualified despotism be established
in place of a federal Union Of equal
States that we regard the recon
struction acts ofCongress, SO called,
such usurpations, unconstitutional,
revoluti and void, and that our
soldiers and sailors who carried the
flag of the country to victory against
a most gallant and determined foe,
must ever be gratefully remembered
and all the guarantees giyenfn their
favor must be faithfully carried into
execution; that the public lands
should be distributed as widely
among the people, and should be
of either under the pre-
emption of homestead lands. and
sold in reasonable quantities, and to
none but actual occupants, at the
minimum price, as established by
the Government, when grants of the
public lands may be allowed, neces-
sary for the encouragement of i'm
portant public improvements, the
proceeds of the sale of such lands,
and not the lands themselves, should
be SO applied that the President of
the United States, Andrew Johnson,
in exercising the power of his high
office in resisting the aggressions of
Congress on the Constitutional
rights of the States and the people,
is entitled to the gratitude of the
whole American people, and on be-
half Of the Democratic party we ten
der him oul thanks for his patriotic.
efforts in that regard. s
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