The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-11-02

nails and seized their private papers and letters
without any specification, or notice. or affida-
Wit, as required by the organic law. 1t has
converted the American capitol into Bastile.
1t has established system Of spies and official
espionage to which no constitutional monarchy
in Europe would now dare to resort
1t has abolished the right of appeal on i'm
portant constitutional questions to the su-
preme judicial tribunal, and threatens toicar-
tail or destroy its original Jurisdiction whichis
irrevocably vested by the Constitution, while
the learned Chief Justice has been subje cted TO
great and atrocious caluinnies. merely because
he would not prostitute his high office to the
support of the false and partisan charges pre-
ferred against the President. Its corruption
and extravaganza have exceeded anything
known in history, and by its frauds and monOp-
olies il has nearly doubled the burden of debt
created during the war. 1t has stripped the
President of his constitutional power of sp.
pointment, even of his own cabinet. Under its
repeated assaults the pillars of the Government
are rocking on their bases, and should it sue
coed in November next and inaugurate its
President, we will meet, as subjects and con
uuered people, amid the ruins Of liberty and
the scattered fragments ofthe Constitution
And we do declare and resolve, That ever
since the people of the United States threw of
all subsection to the British crown, the privi-
lege and trust of suffrage have belonged to the
several States and have been granted regulated
and controlled exclusively by the political pow
er of each State respectively; and any attempt
by Congress on any pretext whatever TO de-
prive any State of this right or interfere with
this exercise is fragrant usurpation of power,
which can find no warrant in the Constitution,
and if sanctioned by the people will subvert our
fora of government and can only end in ST.
gle centralized consolidated government, in
which the separate existence of the States will
be entirely absorbed, and an unqualified des-
potism be established in lplace of Federal
union of coequal States; and that We regard the
reconstruction acts so called, of Congress such
usurpation, and unconstitutional, revolutionary
and void; and that our soldiers and sailors who
carried the flag of our country TO victory
against most gallant and determined foe must
be ever gratefully remembered, and all guaran.
ties given in the law must he faithfully carried
into execution.
That the public land should be distributed
widely among the people, and should be dispos'
ed of under the presumption of homestead laws,
and sold in reasonable quantities, ana TO none
but actual occupants, at the minimum price es'
tablished by the government. When grants Oh
the public lands may be allowed, necessary for
the encouragement of important public i'm
provements the proceeds Of the sale Of such
lands and not the lands themselves, should be
so applied.
That the President Of the United States, An
drew johnson, in exercising the power OF his
high office in resisting the aggressions OF Con
gress on tho Constitutional rights OF the States
and the people, is entitled to the gratitude OF
the whole American people, and on behalf OF
the Democratic party we tender him our thanks
for his patriotic efforts in that regard.
Upon this platform the Democratic party ap
peals to every patriot, including all the COnser'
vative element and all who desire to support the
constitution and restore the Union, forgetting
past differences of opinion, tounite 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, and hail all
such co operating with as friends and broth