The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-09-15
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Democratic National Convention.

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Democratic National Convention
Tho Democratic party, In National Con-
yention assembled, reposing strEss. IL
the intellir snce, patriotism and ldiscrirni.
mating Justice of the people-4ssana;fs,
upon the Constitution as the foundation
and Limitation of the powers of the Go
vernment, and the guarantee of the Iiher-
| ties of the citizen, and recognizing the
questions Of slavery end secession as
having been settled, for all time to come,
by the war; or the voluntary action of the
southern states, In Constitutional Con-
yentions assembled, and never to be re-
| newed or rc-agitated, do, with the return
| OF peace, demand:
1st. Immediate restoration of all the
States to their rights in tho Union, under
the Constitution, and of civil government
to the American people.
I'd. Amnesty for all past political
| offences, and the regulation of the elective
franchise in the States by their citizens.
| 80. Payment OF tho public debt OF the
| United States as rapidly as practicable;
| all moneys drawn from the people by tax,
alton, except 80 much as is requisite for
tho necessities of the Government. econo
mically administered, being honestly ap-
piled to such payment; and, where the
oblig ations Of the Government do not
expressly state upon their face, or the
Jaw under which they were issued does
not provide that they shall be paid in
coin, they ought, in right and in justice,
be paid in the lawful money of the United
States.
4th. Equal taxation of every species of
property, according to its real value, in
Guiding Government bonds and other pub
lie securities.
9Th. One currency for the Government
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holder, the pensioner and the soldier, tho
producer and the bond-holder.
9Th. Economy in the administration of
the Governments; the reduction of the
standing army and navy; the abolition of
the Freedmen's Bureau, and all political
instrumentalities designed to secure
negro supremacy; simpEfcation of the
system and discontinuance Of inquisitori-
al modes OF assessing and collecting inter
nal revenue, 80 that the burden Of taxa
tion may be equalized and lesseued, the
credit of the Government and the curren-
cy made good; the repeal of all enact
ments for enrolling the State militia into
national forces in time OF peace; and a
tariff for revenue upon foreign imports,
and such equal taxation, under the inter-
nal revenue laws, as will afford incidental
protection to domestic manufactures, and
as will, without impairing tho revenue,
impose the least burden upon and best
trial interests of the country.
7th. Reform of abuses in the administra-
tlon, the expulsion or corrupt men from
office, the abrogation of useless offices,
tho restoration of rightful authority to
and the Independence of the executive
ment, the subordination of the military to
the civil power, to the end that the
usurpatlons OF Congress and the despot-
ism Of the sword may cease.
8th. Equal rights and protection for
naturalized and native-boIn citizens, at
home and abroad; the assertion of Ameri-
can nationality which shall command the
respect of foreign powers, and furnish an
example and encouragement to people
struggling for national integrity, consti-
tutional liberty and individual rights; and
the maintenance of the rights of natural
lied citizens against the absolute doctrine
or lmnutable allegiance and the claims of
foreign powers to punish them for alleged
crime committed beyond their jurisdic-
tion.
In demanding these measures and re-
forms, we arraign the radical party for it's
disregard OF right, and the unparalleled
oppression and tyranny which have mark
ed'i career. After tie most solemn and
unanimous pledge of both Houses of Con-
gress to prosecute the war exclusively for
the maintenance of the Government and
the preservation Of the Union, under the
Constitution, it has repeatedly violated
that most sacred pledge, under which
alone was rallied that noble volunteer
army, which carried our flag to victory.
Instead of restoring the Union, it has,
go far as is i'll Its power, dissolved it. and
subjected ten States, in times of profound
peace, to military despotism and negro
supremacy.
1t has nulliGed there the right of trial
by jury; it has abolished tho hdOeaS cor
pus, that most sacred writ of liberty; it
has oyerthrown the freedom of speech and
the press; it has substituted arbitrary
seizures and arrests, and military trials
and secret star-chamber inquisitions for
the constitutional tribunals; it has disre-
garded, in time of peace, the right of the
people to be free from searches and seiz-
ures; it has entered the post and telegraph
offices, and even the private rooms of in
diVlduals, and seized their private papers
and letters, without any specific charge or
notice OF affidavit, as required by the or
game law; 1t has converted the American
capitol into bastile; it has established
system OF spies and official espionage to
which no constitutional monarchy of Eu-
rope wonld now dare to resort; it has abo-
lished the right of appeal on important
constitutional questions to tho supreme
judicial tribunals, and threatens to cur
tan tai, or destroy it's original jurisdiction,
which is irrevocably vested by the Consti-
tuition. while the learned Chiot 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 partizan charges preferred
against the President. It's corruption and
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