The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-10-19

nal Revenue laws, as will afford incidental pro-
lection to domestic manufactures, and as will,
without impairing the revenue, impose the least
burden upon and best promote and encourage
the great industrial interests Of the country.
Seventh. Reform of abuses in the administra-
ton; the expulsion of corrupt men from Office
the abrogation of useless offices; the restoration
of rightful authority to and the indspendence
of the Executive and Judicial departments of
the government. The subordinat;on of the mil
itary to the civil power to the end that the usur-
pations of Congress and the despotism of the
sword may cease.
Eighth. Equal ri hts and protection for nat
uralized and native born citizens at home and
abroad. The assertion of American nationality
which shall command the respect of foreign
powers and furnish an example and encourage
ment to people struggling for national integri-
ty, constitutional liberty and individual rights,
and the maintenance of the rights of naturaliz-
ed citizens against the absolute doctrine of i'm.
mutable allegiance, and the claims of foreign
powers to punish them for crime committed
beyond their jurisdiction.
In demanding these measures and reforms We
arraign the Radical party for its disregard for
right. and the unparalleled oppression and tyr
amy which has marked its career after the
most solemn and unanimous pledges of both
houses of Congress to prosecute the war exclu-
sively for the maintenance of the Government
and the protection OF the Union under the
Constitution. 1t has repeatedly violated that
most sacred pledge, under which was rallied
that noble volunteer army which carried our
flag to victory. Instead of restoring the Union
il has so far as ii is in its power dissolved it,
and subjected ten States in time of profound
peace to military despetism and negro supre-
macy. 1t has nullified there the right of trial
by Jury. 1t has abolished the habeas corpus,
that most sacred writ OF liberty. 1t has over
thrown the freedom of speech and of the press.
1t has substituted arbitrary seizures and ar
rest, and military trials and the secret star
oF; ifut
bunals 1t has disregarded in time of peace the
right of the people TO be free from search and
seizures 1t has entered the post and telegraph
Offices and even the private rooms OF indivld'
uals and seized their private papers and letters
without any specification, or notice, or atfda-
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 SUI
preme judicial tribunal and threatens tOfcur
tail or destroy its original jurisdiction, whchls
irrevocably vested by the Constitution, While
the learned Chief Justice has been su1je cted TO
great and atroCious calulnnies, merely because
he would net 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 it has nearly doubled the burden of debt
created during the war. 1t has stripped the
President of his constitutional power of ap.
pointment even of his ewn 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
lece and trust of suffrage have belonged TO the
several States and have been granted, regulated
and controlled exclusively by the political pow
err 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 a fragrant usurpati0n OF power
which can find no warrant in the Constitution,
and if sanctioned by the people will subvert our
| form of government, and can only end IN a sim
gle centralized consolidated government, in
which the separate existence of the States will
be entirely absorbed, and an unqualified des.
potism be established in lpla5e of a 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 a most gallant and determined foe must
be ever gratefully remembered and all guaran-
ties given in the law must be faithfully carried
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, and to none
but actual occupants, at the minimum price es
tablished by the government When grants of
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 the 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 imour 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, tOunitc 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 cooperating with US as friends and broth