Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1868-07-31

i AiHiSfio..,. capital into bastile; 1t has
established system of spies and Off
cial espionage to which no constitutions
al monarchy Of Europe would now
dare to resort; 1t has abolished the
right of appeal on important constitu-
tiohal questions to the supreme .judici
al tribunals, and threatens to curtail or
destroy its original jurisdiction, which
is irrevocably vested by the constitu-
ton, while the learned chief justice has
been subjected to great and atrocious
calumnics merely because he would not
prostitute his high Office to the support
oithe false and partisan charges prefer
red against the presidents its corrup-
ton and extravaganza have exceeded
anything known in history; and by its
frauds and monopolies it has nearly
doubled the burden of the debt Great
ed during the war; it has stripped the
president of his constitutional power
or appointments, even of his own cabi-
net, under its repeated assaults the
| pillars Of the government are rocking
on their base, and, should it succeed in
n November next, and inaugurate its
president, we will meet as subject
and conquered people amid the ruins
| ofllberty and the scattered fragments
of the constitution.
And we do declare, and resolve,
that ever since the people of the Unit
el States threw off all snbjection to the
British crown. the privilege and trust
OF suffrage have belonged to the sew
eral States, and have been granted,
regulated and controlled exclusively
by the po.itical oower of each State
respectively and any attempt by Con
gress, on any pretext whatever, tc de-
prive any State Of this right, or to in
tertere with this exercise is fragrant
usurpation OF power, which can find
no warrant in the constitution, and if
sanctioned b. the people, will subvert
our form OF government, and can only
end in a single centralized, consolidate
ed government, in which separate ex-
istance of the states will be entirely alb
sorbed and an unqualified despotism be
established i'll place of federal union Of
co-equal States; and that we regard
the reconstruction acts of congress as
such usurpations, and unconstitutional
revolutionary, void; that our soldiers
and sailors, who carried the flag of our
country to victory against most gal
liant and determined foe, must ever be
gratefully remembered and all the
guarantees given in their favor must
be faithfully carried into execution
that the public lands should be distrib-
uted widely among the people, and
should be disposed of either under the
presumption ofhomestead lands, or sold
in reasonable quantities, and to none
but actual occupants; at minimum
price established by the Government;
that when grants of the public land
may be allowed necessary for the en-
couraeement of important public i'm
provcments, the proceeds OF the sale OF
such lands, and not the lands themsel-
YES, shouldbe SO applied; that the Pres
ident of the United States, Andrew
johnson, in exercising the power ofhis
Office in resisting the aggressions of
Congress on the constitutional right OF
the States and the people is entitled to
the gratitude of the whole American
people, and on behalf of the Democrat
ic party, we tend him our thanks for
his patriotic efforts in that regard.
Upon this platform the Democratic
party appeal to every patriot,-includ-
ing all the conservative element, and
all who desire to support the constitu-
ton and restore the Union, forgetting
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 fellow
ship, and hail all such co operating with
us as friends and brothers.
.Y7 An indignant New York DEM
ocrat wrote to a friend in Boston:
'The Democratic Convention, in i'm
itation of John Phonix, who disarmed
his adversary by planting his nose in
his opponents mouth and advancing
his stomach suddenly and violently
against his adversary's fist, have elect
cd U. s. Grant to the Presidency
They have my hearty curses."-Amen.
ME FIR NJ.
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