North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-07-08
Democrotic Platform.

the intelligence, patriotism, and discrimi-
mating justice of the people, stands upon
the constitution as the foundation and
limitation Of the power Of the government,
and the guarantee of the liberties of the
citizen; and recognizing the questions of
slavery and secession as having been set
tied for all time to come, by the war or
the voluntary action of the southern. states
in constitutional conventions assembled.
and never to be renewed or rc.agitated, do,
with the return of peace, demand:
J.. The immediate restoration of all the
states to their rights in the union under
the Constitution of civil government, and
the American people.
2. Amnesty for all past political often
ces, and the regulation of the elective
franchise in the states by the citizens.
the United States as lapidly as practicable,
all money drawn from the people by
taxation, except So much as is requisite
for the necessities of the government,
economically administered, being honestly
applied to such paymcnt,-and, when the
obligations of the government do not ex-
pressly state upon their face, or the law
under which they were issued does not
provide, that they shall be paid in coin.
thsy ought, in right and in justice, be
paid in thc lawful money of the United
States. [Thunders of applause.
4. Equal taxation of every species of
property according to its value, including
government bonds and other public secu-
rites. lRenewed cheering, and cries 0!
Read it again"
5. One currency for the government
and the peopIe,-the laborer and the Office.
holder, the pensioner and the soldier, the
producer and the b~ondheldcr. Great
cheers and cries of Read it again.
6. Economy in tho administration Of the
governments; the reduction of the standing
army and navy; the abolition of the freed
mems bureau great cheers and all polit.
ical instrumentalities designed to serve
negro supremacy; simpliication Of the
system and discontinuance of the inquisi.
torial modes of assessing and collecting
internal revenue, that the burthen Of taxa.
ton he equalizcd and lessened, and the
credit of the currency made good; the re
peal of all enactments for the enrolling
of State militia into the National forces in
time of peace; and a tariff for revenue up
on foreign imports, and such equal taxa
ton under the internal revenue as will af
ford incidental protection to domestic
manufacturers, and will, without impair
ing the revenue, impose the least burden
upon and best promote and encourage
the great industrial interests of the coun
try.
7. "A reform Of the abuses in the ad
ministration; the expulsion of corrupt mer
from Office; the abrogation of useless of
fees; the restoration of rightful authority
to and the indepence of the executive anc
judicial departments of the government
the subordination of the military to tn,
civil power, to the end that the %usurpatior
of congress and the despotism of the swor(
may cease.
s. Equal rights and protection fo
naturalized and nativc-born citizens, a
can nationality which will command thu
respect of foreign powers, and furnish al
example and encouragement to people
struggling for national integrity, constitu-
tional liberty, and individual rights, ant
the maintenance of the rights of natural
lied citizens against the absolute doc
trine of immutable allegiance, and the
claims of foreign powers to punish then
for alleged crimes committed beyond thcil
jurisdiction. Applause.
In demanding these measures and re-
forms we a-raign the radical party for it
disregard of right, and the unparalleled
oppression and tyranny which have mark
ed its career. After the most solemn an
unanimous pledge eff both houses of con-
gress to prosecute the wal exclusively 70
the maintenance of the government, an,
the preservation of the union under tn
constitution, it has repeatedly violated
that most sacred pledge, under which wa
rallied that noble volunteer army which
carried our flag to victory. Instead OF re
storing the union, it has, so far as it is il
its power, dissolved it, and subjected tie,
states, in time of profound peace, to mill
tary despotism and negro supremacy; i
has nullitied there the right of trial b,
jury; it has abolished the hdbeos corpus
that most sacred writ Of liberty; it ha
overthrown the freedom of speech and tn
press; it has substituted arbitrary seizure
and arrests, and military trials, and secre
tar-chamber% inquisitions for constitution
Ill tribunals; it has disregarded, in time 0
peace, the right of the people to be fire.
from search and seizures; it has entered
the post and telegraph offices, and ever
the private rooms Of individuals, an,
seized their private papers and letters with
out any specification or notice by affidavit
as required by the organic law; 1t has con
verified the American capitol into a bastile
it has established Il system of spies ant
official espionage to which no constitution
al monarchy of Europe would now dar'
to resort; it has abolished the right of APP
peal on important constitutional questions
to the supreme judicial tribunals, an(
threatens to curtail or destroy its origina
jurisdiction, which is ~irrevocably vestet
10y the constitution, while the learned
Chief Justice has been subjected to grea
and %atrocious calumnies merely bccaus,
he would not prostitute his high office t
the support of the false and partisan
charges preferred against the President
it's corruption and extravaganza have ex-
ceeded anything known in history, and by
its frauds and ~monopelies it has nearly
doubled the burden of the debt created
during the war; it has stripped the presi-
dent of his constitutional power OF APP
poiutment, even of his own cabinet; under
it's repeated assaults the pillars Of the
government are rocking on their base, and
SuOulu IL SuCCceu Ill NONculDcr ucAt, ju(
inaugurate its president, we will be a sub
jeot and conquered people amid the ruins
of liberty and the scattered fragments o
| the constitution.
And we do declare, and resolve, thai
ever since the people of the United State;
threw off all subsection to the British
crown, the privilege and trust Of suffrage
have. belonged to the several states, and
have been granted, regulated and CONTROL.
ed exclusively by the political power O
each state respectively, and any attemp'
by congress, on any pretext whatever, te
deprive any state Of this right, or to inter
fere with this exercise, is a fragrant usur
patton of power, which can find no war
rant in tho constitution, and if sanctioned