The weekly Arizona miner., 1868-08-15
Democratic National Platform.


 ton of the powers of the Government and the guar antee of the liberties oi ihe citizen. and recognHe the questions of slavery and secession as having been settled for all time Co by the war, or the N0un. teer action of the Southern states in Constitutional Convention assembled and never to be rcsuscitated, ! do. with the return Of peace demand
 First The immediate restoration oi a the states Co their rights u the Union under the constitution Ot | civil government and the American people. l Second-Amnesty for all past political offences and the regulation of the elective franchise in ue | States by their citizens.
 Third-The payment Of the public debt of the United States rapidly as practicable all money drawn from the people by taxation, except SO much as is requisite for the necessities of the GOyornment economically administered, being honestly applied Co 1 such payment and when the obligations Of the Gov. ! ernment do not expressly state upon their face or the law under which they issued does not pro. vide that they shan be paid iu c0in they ought in right and in justice Co be paid lu the lawful money of ! the United States
 Fourth--Equal taxation Of every species of prop erty, according to value including Government bonds ! and other public securities.
 | Fifth-Due currency for the Government and the people the aborer and the office holder. the pension CT and the soldier tine producer and the bondholder ] Sxth-Economy in the administration oi the Gov ! ernment the reduction of the standing army and navy the abolition of :hc Freedinsn's Barean and all political instrument -lites designed Co negro ! supremacy; simplhcation of the system, and dis continuance of inqusitoria modes Of assessing and collecting internal revenues that the burden Of tax l at0n be equaized and lessened the credit of tine country made good all enactments for The enrolling of the State militia into national forces in time of peace be abolished; and a tariff for revenue upon foreign imports, and such equal taxation under the internal revenue laws will afford incidental prutec ton Co domestic manufacturers will. without im- pairing the revenue impose the least burden upon and best promote and encourage the great industrial interests of the country.
 seyenth-Reform of abuses and administration the expulsion of corrupt men from office the abrO- gatOn Of useless offices the restoration Of rghtful e,.H ..F sF.s Judicial Departments of the Government the sub ordination of the military to the civil power, to the end that the usurpation of Congress and despotism | Of the sword may cease.
 Eighth-Equal rights and protection for natural ized and native born citizens at home and abroad the assertion of American nationality, which will command the respect of foreign powers, furnish an example and encouragement Co people struggling for national integrity, constitutional liberty and ndvd nal rights aud the maintenance of the rights of nat uralized citizens against the absolute doctrine of n mutabe allegiance and the claims Of foreign powers to punish them for alleged crime committed beyond their jurisdictions.
 In demanding these measures and reforms we ar ragn the Radical party for it's disregard Of right aud the unparalleled oppression and tyranny which have marked lts career. Alter the a0st solemn and uuAn- imOus pledge of both Houses of Congress tO prose cute the WIT exclusively for the maintenance of the Government and the preservation of the Union under the Constitution i has repeatedly violated that most sacred pledge under which was rallied ihe noble vol
 uHteer army which carried our flag Co victory h.
 stead of restoring the Union t has far t Is in It's power dissolved t and subjected ten States in time Of profound peace 10 military despOtism and negro suffrage It has nuiIed the right Of trial by jury t has sbo shed the habeas corpus that most
 sacred writ Of liberty 1t bag oyerthrown the free dom Of speech and the press t has substituted
 bitrary seizures and arrests and military trials and
 secret Star Chamber inquistiOns for constitutional
 tribunals. It has dsregarded in time of peace the
 right of the people 0 be free from search aud sez-
 ures IL has entered the post and telegraph offices T md he of n6fX and ad their private papers and letters, without any spec
 cation notice of affidavit, required by the
 ganic law. IL has converted the American Capitol
 into a bastile It has established system Of spies
 and official espionage to which no constitutional monarchy Of Europe would dare to resort It has - abolished the right of appeal on important consiu-
 ;ional questions 10 the supreme judicial tribunal and
 threatens to curta or destroy it's original jurisdiction , which is irreyoeaby vested by the Cons titution fl while the learned Chief Justice has been subjected
 tO great and atrOcOus eaiumnies merely because hC ! would not prostitute his high office to the support o
 the false and partisan charges preferred against the President Its corruption and extTzFsgance have
 exceeded anything known in history and by it
 frauds and monopoes it has nearly doubled the bur
 den of the debt created during the war IL has strip ped the President of his constitutional power of ap r pointment even of his own Cabinet Under its re | peaied assaults the pillars of the Government . l rocking on their base and should it succeed in No :, TsHibeT nezt, Sad iHsHgHFate iis President vii '' meet az subjected afa conquered people amid thu
 ruins of liberty and the scattered fragments of th
 Constitution
 . And we do declare and resolve that ever since tn
 people of the United States threw of all subectiol I to the British Grown. the privilege and trust Of su , rage have belonged fo the several States and hay, n been granted regulated and controlled exclusively b r., the political power of each State respectively, an any attempt by Congress, on any pretext whatever
 to deprive any State of this right. interfere witt this exercise, is fragrant usIrpatOn of poSer whic )f find warrant in the constitution and fl sane is toned by the people will subvert form of govern
 ment and can only end in a single centralized. con
 sOidated government. iH which the separate exist
 of the States will be absorbed, and unquali g fled despotieu be estab ished in place of a Fedora a. Union of equal States and that regard the l. construction acts of Congress usuTpatiOns an =, unconstitutional. revolutionary and void ! That our soldiers and sailors who carried the fla Is Of our country to victory against most gallant l determined foe must be gratefully remembered
 and all the guarantees given in their favor must b
 faithfully carried into execution.
 That the public lands should be distributed wdel e. among the people and should be disposed of ethe r. under the pre-emption Of homestead lands and sol lt n reasonable quantities, and tO but actual - pants at the minimum price established by the Gov - eminent When grants of the public lands uisy b 'u allowed necessary for the encouragement of impor
 tant public improvements the proceeds of the sal
 of such lands, end not the lands themselves shoul {; Ee applied
 IS That the President of the United States Andrer ld Johnson exercising the power of his office n restrict to ing the aggessOns 0f Congress the constitutions to rights Of the States and the people entitled to th . gratitude of the whole American people and on bt half of the DemOerOtic party tender him Ou $ thanks for his patriotic efforts in that regard a. Upon this platform the Democratic party appe; h. tO every patriot including all the Conservative eis
 ment and all who desire t0 support the Constitut0
 and restore the Union, forgetting all past difference
 Of opinion to unite with n the present great strul 6 gle for the liberties of the people and that to all sue M tO whatever party they may have heretofore beOnge,