The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-17
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.

1OunQatlOn ana lI0lIat1O0 OF the powers
OF the Government, and the guarantee
of the liberties of the citizen, and re-
cognizing the questions of slavery and
secession as having been settled for all
time to come by the war, and in the
voluntary action of the Southern States
in Constitutional Conventions assem-
bled, and never to be renewed or re-
agitated, do, with the return of peace,
demand: 80
First-The immediate restoration of
all the States to their rights in the
Union under the Constitution and of
the civil government of the American
people.
Second-Amnesty for all past polite
al offences, and the regulation of the
elective franchise in the States by their
citizens.
Third-The payment of the public
debt of the United States as rapidly as
practicable, all money drawn from the
people by taxation, except so much as is
requisite for the necessities of the Gov
ernment, economically administered, be-
ing honestly applied to such payment /;
and, where the obligations of the Gov
eminent do not expressly state upon
their face, or the law under which they
were issued does not provide that they
shall be paid in coin, they ought, i'll
right and justice, to be paid in the law
full money of the United States.
| lFourth-Equal taxation of every spe-
cies of property, according to its real
value, including Government bonds and
other public securities.
Fifth-One currency for the Govern
ment and the people, the laborer and
the office-holder, the pensioner and the
soldier, the producer and bondholder.
Sixth-EcOnomy in the administra-
n ~,
| of the standing army and navy; the
abolition of the Freedmen's Bureau
| great cheering) and all political instru-
mentalities designed to secure negro
supremacy the simpliication of the
system and discontinuance of inquisito-
rial modes of assessing and collecting
internal revenue, so that the burden of
taxation may be equalized and lessened,
and the credit of the Government and
currency made good; the repeal of all
| enactmentS for the enrolling of the
4 State militia into the national forces in
time of peace, and tariff for revenue
upon foreign imports and such equal
taxation under the internal revenue
laws as will afford incidental protection
! to domestic manufactures, and as will,
without impairing the revenue, impose
the least burden upon and best promote
and encourage the great industrial in
terests of the country.
Seventh-Reform of the abuses in
the Administration, the expulsion OF
corrupt men from Office, the abrogation
of useless offices, the restoration of the
rightful authority to and the independ-
ence Of the executive and judicial de-
partments Of the Government, the sub.
ordination of the military to the civil
power, to the end that the usurpationS
of Congress and the despotism of the
sword may cease.
: Eighth-Equal rights, and protection
for naturaliZed and native-born citizen:
at home and abroad; the assertion o.
American nationality, which shall com
!, mand the respect of foreign powers
and furnish an example and encourage
, ment to people struggling for nationa
f integrity, constitutional liberty and in
/; dividual rights, and the maintenance o
the rights of naturaliZed citizens agains
the absolute doctrines of immutable al
legiance and the claims of foreign pow
ers to punish them for alleged crimes
committed beyond their jurisdiction.
In demanding these measures and re
forms, we arraign the Radical party TO
. the disregard of right, and the unpar
S alleled oppression and tyranny which
have marked its career. After the mos
solemn and unanimous pledge of boil
exclusively for the mathematics of TIN
, Government and Misrepresentation of tn
Union and the Constitution, it has lie
peatedly violated that most sacreC
!, pledge, under which was rallied tina
noble volunteer army which carried on
u flag to victory. Instead Ofrestoring th
Union, it has,. so far as it is in its power
dissolved it and subjected ten States, il
+ a time of profound peace, to militar,
e despOtism and negro supremacy. 1t ha
nullitied there the right of trial by jury
1t has abolished the habeas corpus, tina
/. most sacred writ of liberty. 1t has over
thrown the freedom of speech and tn
press. 1t has substituted arbitrary seiZ
ures and arrests, and military trial AM
secret star-chamber inquisitions for con
stitutional tribunals. 1t has disregarded
i'll time of peace, the right of the peOpl
to be free from search and seizures. l
} has entered the post and telegraph OF
fees, and even the private rooms O
individuals, and seized their privat
papers and letters, without any speclhca
ton or notice of affidavit as required b.
the organic law. 1t has converted tn
American Capitol into bastile. 1t ha
established system of spies and oficia
espionage to which no constitutions
monarchy of Europe would now dare re
sort. 1t has abolished the right of appea
on important constitutional question:
to the Supreme Judicial Tribunal, an
threatens to curtaii or destroy its Origi
nal jurisdiction, which is irreVocabI
, vested by the Constitution. While tn
y learned Chief Justice has been sui
liected to great and atrocious cal
umnies, mainly because he woul
not prostitute his high office to the SUP
port of the false and partisan charge
preferred against the President, its cor
). ruption and extravaganza have exceed
ed anything known in history, and b
its fraud and monopolies it has nearl
doubled the burden of the debt create
during the war. 1t has stripped til
President of his Constitutional powe
3. of appointment even of his own cabine
= Under its repeated assaultsthe pillars {
the Government are rocking on the
base, and should it succeed in NoVembe
fnext and inaugurate its President, W
- will meet as subjugated and conquere
ia people amid the ruins of liberty and til
, a scattered fragments of the Constitution
t.. And we do declare and resolve that eve
ey since the people of the United State
" threw off all subjugation to the BIRTHS
Crown the privilege and trust of suffras
have belonged to the several States, an
have been granted, regulated and COZ
trolled exclusively by the political pow
;. er of each State respectively, and an
in attempt by Congress on any prefer
n whatever to deprive any State of tn
ed right or interfere with this exercise,
ngt fragrant usurpation of power whiC
y eau find no warrant in the Constitution
? and if sanctioned by the people, wi