The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-09-26

| the dlscOntInuance of InQuisitOrial boards
! for assessing and collecting internal revenue
so that the burden of taxation may be
| equalized 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; a 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 will, without impairing the revenue,
impose the least burden upon and best pro-
mote and encourage the great industrial in
! terests of the country.
! T. Reform of abuses in the Administra-
! ton, the expulsion of corrupt men from
Offices, the obrOgation 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
and the despotism of the sword may cease.
! g. Equal rights and protection for natural
/ lied and native-bOrn citizens at home and
abroad. an assertion of American nationality,
which shall command the respect Of foreign
powers, and furnish an example and encOur-
| agement to people struggling for national in
| tegrity, constitutional liberty and individual
rights, and the maintenance of the rights of
naturalized citizens against the absolute doc
trine of immutable allegiance, and the
claims Of foreign powers to punish them for
alleged crime committed beyond their juris-
dictiOn.
In demanding these measures and reforms
we arraign the radical party for its disregard
Of right, unparalleled oppression and tyranny
which have marked its career, after the most
solemn and unanimous pledge of both
Houses of Congress to prosecute the war ex-
clusively 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.
1t has nullifed 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, for constitutional tri-
( bunals.
1t has disregarded 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 n system of spies and
official espionage to which no constitutional
monarchy Of 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
curtail or destroy its original jurisdiction,
which is irrevocably vested by the Constitu
ton, while the learned Chief Justice has
| been subjected 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 ex-
ceeded anything known in history, and by
it's 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 Of
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
subject and conquered people amid the ruins
of liberty and the scattered fragments of
the Constitution and we do declare and re-
solve that ever since the people of the
United States threw off all subjection to the
British Crown, the privilege and trust of
suffrage have belonged to the several States
and have been granted, regulated and con-
trOlled exclusively by the political power of
each State respectively, and any attempt by
Congress, on any pretext whatever, to de-
pTive any State of this right or interfere
with this exercise, is fragrant usUTpation of
power which can find no warrant in the Con-
stitution, and, if sanctioned by the people,
will subvert our form of government, and
can only end in a single centralized, con-
sOidated government in which the separate
existence of the States will be entirely alb
sOrbed, and an unqualified despotism be es-
tablished IN place of a Federal Union Of
equal States.
That we regard the reconstruction acts of
Congress, so called, as usurpaEIOns, uncon-
stitutional, revolutionary and void and that
our soldiers and sailors who carried the flag
of our country to victory against a most
gallant and determined foe, must ever be
gratefully remembered, and all the guaran-
tees given in their favor must be faithfully
carried into execution.
, That the public lands should be distrib-
, uted widely among the people, and should
be disposed of either under the pre-emption
7 or homestead laws and sold in reasonable
. quantities, and to none but actual Occupants
/ at the minimum price as established by the
q Government When grants of the public
\ lands may be allowed, necessary for the en-
I couragement of important public improve
ments, the proceeds of the sale of such
f lands and not the lands themselves should
be so applied.
g That the President, of the United States
: Andrew johnson, in exercising the power
! of his high Office in resisting the aggressionf
of Congress on the Constitutional rights o.
the States and the people, is entitled to the
. gratitude of the whole American people
: and on behalf of the Democratic party We
. tender HIM our thanks for his patriot,
efforts in that regard.
= Upon this platform the Democratic party
r appeal to every patriot, including all th'
! conservative element and all who desire t.
suDT,ort the Constitution and rasf0ra tn,