The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1868-07-18


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First Immediate REFORMATION NJ All
the States 10 their tights In the Unim
under The Consultation and NJ civil
government IA The American people
Secoud amnesty fr vi past Jv
liiitial o1ensea md The regulation
NJ The elective franchise In The States
by their gwn citizens.
Third Payment II the public
debt Of the United States M ratidly
~ practicable all money drawn
from tho people by taxation, except
~ much M IL requisite for tho neces.
sitios of the Government economic
ally administered, being applied to
such payment and where the obli-
CATIONS Of the Government do not
expressly state upon their face, or
where tho law under which they
were issued does not provide that
they shall be paid in coin, they ought
in right and In justice to be paid In
the lawful money Of the United
States.
Fourth Equal taxation of every
species Of property according to its
real value, including Government
bonds and other public securities.
Fiith-One currency Tor the Gov
eminent and tho people, the laborer
and the oflice-holder, the pensioner
and the soldier, the producer and the
bondholder.
SIXTH Economy in the admins.
t%ration of the Government the re.
duction OF the standing army and
navy; the abolition of the Freed.
mems Bureau, and all political in.
strumentalities designed to secure
negro supremacy sim%plifcation o
the system and discontinuance of in.
quisitorial modes of assessing ant
collecting internal revenue, so thai
the burden Of taxation may be equal.
lied and lessened the credit of tn,
Government and the currency mad,
good; the repeal of all enactment
for enrolling the State militia int
National forces in time of peace, ant
n tariff for revenue upon foreign i'm.
ports, and such equal taxation undel
the Internal Revenue laws as vii
afford incidental protection to do.
nestle manufactures, and rs well
without impairing the revenue, i'm.
pose the least burden upon and bes
promote and encourage the great in.
dustrial interests OF the country.
Seventh-Reform OF abuses in III,
administration, the expulsion of cor
rupt men from office, the abrogatior
of useless Offices, the restoration o
rightful authority to and the indie
pendence Of the Executive and Ju
dicial Departments Of the Govern
ment. The subordination of tn,
military to the civil power, to tn,
end that the u~surpations of Congress
and the despotism of the sword ma,
cease.
Eighth-Equal rights and protec
ton for naturalized and native-borl
citizens at home and abroad th
assertion of American nationality
which shall command the respect O
foreign powers and furnish an exam
pie and encouragement to peopl
struggling for national integrity, con
stitutional liberty and individua
rights, and the maintenance of III
rights Of naturalized citizens agains
the absolute doctrine of immutabl
T allegiance and the claims of foreigI
powers to punish them for allege'
crime committed beyond their juris
! diction.
BILL OF INDICTMENT AGAINST TIL.
RADICAL PARTY.
In demanding these measures an,
reforms, we arraign the Radical part
for its disregard Of right and the I'm
paralleled oppression and tyraun
which have marked its career ahe
the most solemn and unanimou
pledge Of both Houses Of Congres
to prosecute the war exclusively fo
the maintenance of the Government
and the preservation of the Unio
and the Constitution.
II has repeatedly violated tha
: most sacred pledge, under whic
was rallied that noble volunteer arm
which carried our flag I o victor,
Instead Of restoring the Union, |
!, has, so far as in its power, dissolve
! Il, and subjected ten States, in tim,
. Of profound peace to military despol
J ism aud negro supremacy.
. Ii has nulli6ed the right Of trii
by jury.
, II has abolished the writ Of habea
corpus, that most sacred writ of lii
erty.