The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-10-21

Fourth. Equal taxation of every species of |
property according to its real value, including |
government bonds and other public securities. |
Fifth. One currency for the government and
the people, the laborer and the Office holder, |
the pensioner and the soldier, the producer and
bond-holder.
Sixth. Economy in the administration of the |
government, the reduction of the standing army
and navy; the abolition of the Freedmen's
bureau lsreat cbeersl, and all political instru-
mentalities designed to secure negro supremacy;
simph6cation of the system, and discontinuancs
of nquisitorial modes of 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 the national forces in time of
peace, and a tariff for revenue upon foreign i'm.
ports: and such equal taxation under the Inter.
nal Revenue laws, as will afford incidental pro-
lection to domestic manufactures, and as will,
without impairing the revenue, impose the least
burden upon and best promote and encourage
the great industrial interests of the country.
Seventh. Reform Of abuses in the adminfstra-
ton; the expulsion of corrupt men from office;
the abrogation of useless offices; the restoration
of rightful authority to and the independence
of the Executive and Judicial departments OF
the government. The subordination of the mil
itary to the civil power to the end that the usur-
pations of Congress and the despotism of the
sword may cease.
uralized and native born citizens at home and
abroad. The assertion Of American nationality
which shall command the respect of foreign
powers and furnish an example and encourage
ment to people struggling for national integri-
ty. constitutional liberty and individual rights,
and the maintenance ofthe rights OF naturaliz-
ed citizens against the absolute doctrine of i'm
mutable allegiance, and the claims of foreign
powers to punish them for a crime committed
beyond their jurisdiction.
In demanding these measures and reforms we
arraign the Radical party for its disregard Tor
right, and the unparalleled oppression and tyr
amy which has marked its career, after the
most solemn and unanimous pledges OF Dotn
houses of Congress to prosecute the war eXclu-
sively for the maintenance OF the Government
and the protection 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 it is in its power dissolved 1t,
and subjected ten States in time of profound
peace to military despotism and negro supre.
macy. 1t has nullited there the right OF trial
by iury 1t has abolished the habeas corpus,
that most sacred writ OF liberty. 1t has over
thrown the freedom of speech and OF the press.
1t has substituted arbitrary seizures and ar
rest, and military trials and the secret star
chambers of 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
offices and even the private rooms of individ-
uals and seized their private papers and letters
without any specification or notice, or atilda-
Wit, as required by the organic law. 1t has
converted the American capitol into Bastile:
1t has established n system of spies aud official
esDiOnage to which no constitutional monarchy
in Europe would now dare to resort.
1t has abolished the right of appeal on i'm
portant constitutional questions TO the SUI
preme judicial tribunal, and threatens tofcur'
tail or destroy its original jurisdiction whichis
irreyocably vested by the Constitution, while
the learned Chief Justice has been subj e cited to
great and atrocious caluInnies, merely because
he would not prostitute his high office to the
support of the false and partisan charges pre-
ferred against the President. Its corruption
and extravaganza have exceeded anything
known in history, and by its frauds and monop.
olies il has nearly doubled the burden of debt
created during TIE war. 1t has stripped the
President of his constitutional power OF ap.
pontment even of his own cabinet Under It's
repeated assaults the pillars OF the Government
are rocking on their bases and should 1t sue
coed in November next and inaugurate its
President, we will meet as subjects and con.
ouered peODle, amid the ruins of liberty and
the scattered fragments ofthe Constitution
And we do declare and resolve, That ever
since the people of the United States threw OF
all subsection to the British crown, the privi'
lege and trust of suffrage have belonged to the
several States, and have been granted, regulated
and controlled exclusively by the political pow
err OF each State respectively; and any attempt
by Congress on any pretcXt whatever to de-
prive any State of this right or interfere with
this exercise is fragrant usurpation of power,
which can find no warrant in the Constitution,
and il sanctioned by the people Will suDvert our
form of government, and can only end III SIN
gle centralized consolidated government in
which the separate existence OF the States VIII
be entirely absorbed, and an unqualified deS-
potism be established in 9pla1e of Federal
union of coequal States and that we regard the
reconstruction acts, so called, of Congress such
usurpation, and unconstitutional, revolutionary
and void; and that our soldiers and sailors vino
carried the flag Of our country TO victory
against a most gallant and determined foe must
be ever gratefully remembered, aud all guaran.
ties given in the law must be faithfully carried
into execution.
That the public land should be distributed
widely among the people, and should be dispos.
ed of under the presumption of homestead laws,
and sold in reasonable quantities. and to none
but actual occupants, at the minimum price es.
tablished by the government. When grants of
the public lands may be allowed, necessary for
the encouragement of important public i'm.
prOvements, the proceeds of the sale of such
lands, and not the lands themselves, should be
| so applied.
That the President of the United States, An
drew Johnson in exercising the power of his
high office in resisting the aggresslOns OF Con-
gress on the Constitutional rights OF the States
and the people, is entitled to tile gratitude of
the whole American people, and on behalf OF
the Democratic party we tender him our thanks
for his patriotic efforts in that regard.
Upon this platform the Democratic party APP
peals to every patriot including all the Conser
vativc element and all who desire to support the
constitution and restore the Union, forgetting
past differences of opinion, tounite with us in
the present great struggle for the liberties of
the people, and that to all such, to whatever
party they may have heretofore belonged, we
extend the right hand of fellowship and hail al
such cooperating with us as friends and broth
oTs.