The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-08-20

clusivey for the maintenance of the government and
the preservation of the Union under the consttu-
ton, 1t has repeatedly violated that most sacred
pledge under which alone was rallied that noble
volunteer armywhinh carried our Gag to victory.
Instead Of restoring the Union it has, so far as isn
its power dissolved It, and subjected ten States In
time of profound peace to military despousm ana
negro supremacy; it has nulhfed there the rent OF
trial by jury; 1t has abolished the haoeas corpus
that most sacred writ of liberty; 1t has oVerthrow
the freedom of speech and the press; 1t has suosu
tuted arbitrary seizures, and arrests, and military
,rials and secret star chamber inqujsidons Ior the
constitutional tribunals; it has disregarded iu time Of
peace the right of the people to be free from searches
and seizures; it has entered the post and raph
Offices, and even the private rooms OF individuals,
and seized their private papers and letters, without
any specific charge OF notice OF affidavit as required
BY the organic law; 1t has converted the Ameri-
can captol into Bastile; it has established system
of spes and official espionage to which no constitu-
tional monarchy of Europe would now dare to resort
it has abolished the right of appeal on important
constitutional questions to the supreme judicial trt
bunal, and threatens to curta or destroy its orgi
nal jurisdiction, which Is rrevocably vested by the
constitution, 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; It's corruption aud e1traYa-
gance have exceeded anything known in history
and by ats frauds and monopoGes 1t has nearly
doubled the burden of the debt created by the war;
has sripped the President ofhs constitutional power
of appointment, even Of his own Cabinet Under
its repeated assaults. the pillars of the. govern
ment are rocking on their base, and should it sue
ceed in November next and inaugurate its President
we will meet as subjected and conquered P ople
amid the ruins fHberty and the scattered fragments
Of the constitution; and we do declare and resolve
That ever since the people Of the United States threw
of all subjection to the British Grown, 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 eaea
State respectively and that any attempt by Congress
on any prete1t whatever to deprive any State of this
right or interfere with its exercise, is agrant usu
patton Of power which can find no warrant 10 the
constitution, and If sanctioned by the peo-.
Pile will subvert our form Of government and can
only end single centralized and consolidated gov
viii be entirely absorbed and unqualified despot-
Ism be established In place Of Federal Union OF CO.
equal States; and that we regard the Reconstruction
acts tsocalled) Of Congress as usurpatons and IN
constitutional revolutionary and void that our SOL
diers and sailors who carried the flag Of our country
to victory against most gallant and determined foe
must over be gratefully remembered, and; all the
guarantees given IN their favor must be faithfully
carried into execution.
That the public lands should be- distributed as
widely as possible among the people, and should be-
disposed of either under the presumption Of home
stead lands. or sold In reasonable quantities. and TO-
none but actual Occupants at the minimum price,
established by the government. When grants Of the
public Lar ds may be allowed, necessary for the en-
ooursgement ofimportant public improvements the
proceeds of the sale OF such Land, and not the lands
themselves, should be 30 applied.
That the President Of the United States, Andrew !.
Johnson in exercising the power Of hts high Office I'M
ressting the aggressons Of Congress upon the con-
stutona rights Of the State, and tho people, is en-
tt,ei to the gratitude Of the whole American peo-
pie, and In behalf Of the Democratic party we tender
him our thanks for his patriotic efforts in that re
gard.
Upon this platform the Democratic party appeal to
every patriot, including all the conservative ele-
nent, and all who deire 10 support the constitution
md restore the Union forgetting all past difference
IF opinion, to unite with us In the present great
for the liberties Of the people, and that to
m such, to whaevet party they may have heretofore
belong, d, W. szssnd the right han Of fellowship
and hail all such cooperating with US as friends and
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