The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-28

of the Government, the subordination of the
military to the civil power, to the end that the
usuIpations of Congress and the despotism of
the sword may cease.
EiPbth. Equal rights and protection for natu-
rallzed AT d native.born citizens at home and
abroad, the assertion of American nationality,
which shall command the resp act of foreign
powers, and furnish an example aud encourage
ment TO people struggling for national integrity,
constitutional liberty and individual rights; and
the maintenance of the rights OF naturalized
citizens ag ainst the absolute doctrine OF immu.
table allegiance and the claims of foreign pow.
ers to punish them for alleged crime committed
beyond their jutisdlction.
In demanding these measures and reforms we
arraign the radical party TOR Its disregard of
right and the unparalleled oppression aud
tyranny which have marked its career. After
the most solemn aud unanimous pledge of both
Houses of Congress to prosecute the war excu-
sively tor the maintenance of the Government
and the preservation Of the Union under the
Constitution, 1t has repeatedly violated that
most sacred pledge under which alone was ral-
lied that noble volunteer army which carried
our flag to victory.
Instead of restoring the Union, It has, so far
as is in its power. dissolved it, aud subjected
ten States IN time of profound peace 10 military
despotism and negro supremacy. It has nulll-
fed there the right OF trial by jury; it has
abolished the haoeas corpus, that most sacred
wr1 of liberty; 1t has overthrown the freedom
OF speech and the press; it has substituted arbi.
trary seizures and arrests, and military trials
and secret Star Chamoer inquisitions for the
time OF peace, the right of the people to be free
from searches and seizures; it has entered the
post and telegraph offices, and even the private
rooms of individuals, and seized their private
papers and letters, without any specific charge
or notice OF affidavit, as required by the organic
law; 1t has converted the American Capt.
tol into Baslile; it has established
system Of spies and official espionage to which
no constitutional monarchy of Europe would
now dare to resort; 1t has abolished
the rgnt OF appeal on important constitutional
questions to the supreme judicial tribunals, and
thu eateDs to cural or destroy its original juris
diction, which is irrevocably vested by the Con-
stituton; while the learned Chief Justice has
been subjected to the most atrocious cqlumnies
merely because he would not prostitute his high
office to the support of the false and partisan
charges preferred against the President Its
corruption and extravaganza have exceeded
any thing known in history, and by its frauds
and monopoies it has nearly doubled the blrden
of the debt created by the war. 1t has stripped
the President of this 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
succeed in November next, and ipaugurate its
President, we will meet as q subject and con-
quered people around the RUNS of liberty, and
I'll scattered fragments of the Constitution.
And we declare aud resolve that ever since
the people of the United States threw off all
subectlon to the British GRO wn, the privilege
and trust of the suffrage have belonged to the
several states, and have been granted, regu-
lated, and controlled exclusively by the political
power of each State respectively, and that any
attempt by Congress, on any pteteXt whatever
to deprive any State of this right, or interfere
with ITS exercise is hagrant usurpation of
power which can find no warrant in the Con-
stituton; and if sanctioned by the people will
subvert our form OF government aud can only
end in single centralized anl consolidated
government, in which the separate existence of
the States will be entirely absorbed and an un-
qualified des spotlsm be established in place of a
Federal Union of co equal States; and that we
r1 n RI (cn COL r ION
gress, as such, as usurpations and unconstitu
tonal evolutionary aud void; that our sol
diers and sailors who carried the flag of our
country to victory against most gallant and
determined foe, must ever be gratefully remem.
be1ed and all the guarantees given in their favor
must be fai hfully 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 or
Homestead laws, and sold in reasonable quan.
titles, and 10 none bnt actual occupants, at the
minimum price established by the Government.
When grants of the public lands may be al
lowed, necessary for the encouragement of i'm
portant public improvements, the proceeds OF
the sale of such lands, and not the lands them.
selves, should be so applied. That the President
OF the United States, Andrew johnson, in eXer
cising the power of his high office, in resisting
the aggressions of Congress, upon the cOnstitu-
tiOnal rights OF the States aud the people, is
entitled to the gratitude of the whole American
people. and in behalf of the Democratic party
we tender him our thanks for his patriotic Efforts
in that regard.
Upon this platform the Democratic party
appeal to every patriot, including all the con-
servaiive element, and all who desire to support
the Constitution and restore the Union, forget
ting all past differences of opinion to unite with
US in the present great struggle for the liberties
OF the people; and that to all such, to whatever
party they may have heretofore belonged, We
extend the right hand of fellowship aud hail
all such cooperating with US as friends and
brethren.