The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-09-07

ernment; the reduction Of the staining army ana
navy; the abolition Of the Freedmen's Bureau
and all political instrumentalities designed 10
secure negro supremacy; simpliAcadon Of the sys-
tenn. and discoutinuance of inqoistorih modes
of assessing and collecting internal revenue, 30 that
the burden of taxation may be equalized and lessen
ed: the credit of the government and the currency
made good; the repeal of all enactmen1s ior enron-
ing the State militia into national forces In me Oh
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 will, without impairing the
revenue impose the least burden upon and best pro-
mote ami encourage the great industrial interests OF
the country.
Seren.A. Reform of abuses n the administration,
the expulsion of corrupt men from office, the aoro-
cation of useless Offices the restoration OF r19htul
authority to and the independence OF the executive
and judicial departments of the government, the
subordinaton 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 naturahzed
and native.born citizens at home and abroad, the
assertion of American nationality which shau COM
mand the respect of foreign powers and furnish IN
example and encouragement to people struggling for
national integrity, constitutional liberty, and indi-
vdual rights: and the maintenance Of the rights Of
naurazed citizens against the obsolete doctrine Of
immutable allegiance and the claims of foreign pow
ers to punish them for alleged crime committed be-
yond their jurisdiction.
In demanding these measures and reforms we ar
fors tod
the unparalleled oppression and tyranny which nave
marked its career.
After the most solemn and unanimous pledge OF
both Houses of Congress to prosecute the war TX
c,usyely for the maintenance of the government ana
the preservation OF the Union under the consatu-
ton. 1t has repeatedly violated that most sacred
pledge under which alone was rallied 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, and subjected ten States IN
time of profound peace TO military despotsm and
negro supremacy; it has nulifed there the rlsht Oh
trial by jury; it has abolished the haoeas corpus
that most sacred writ of liberty; it has oVerthro"h
the freedom of speech and the press; it has suosn
tuted arbitrary seizures, and arrests, and military
trials and secret star chamber inqusidons ior the
constitutional tribunals; it has dsregaried IN time OF
peace the right of the people to be free from searches
and seizures; it hes entered the post anu telegraph
offices and even the private rooms of individuals,
and eezed their private papers and letters, without
any pecic charge OF notice of affidavit, as required
by the organic law; it has converted the Ameri-
can capitol into Basle it has established system
OF spies and Official espionage to which no consneu-
tonal monarchy of Europe would now dare to resort
H. ;1ht of IN
constitutional questions to the supreme judicial tri-
bunal, and threatens to curtai OK destroy its org
nal jurisdiction, which Is irevocaby vested by the
constitution while the learned Chaf Justice has been
subjected to the most atrocious calumnies, merely
because he would not prostitute his high office to the
support OF the false an6 partisan charges preferred
against the President; its corruption and exerava'
gance have exceeded anything known In history
and by its frauds and inonopoues 1t mas nearly
doubled the burden of the debt created by the war;
has stripped the President Of his 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 sue
ceed In November next and inaugurate its President
we will meet as subjected and conquered p ople
amid the ruins oflberty andthe scattered fragments
Of tho constitution; and we do declare and resolve
that ever since the people Of the United States threw
Off all subjechon to the British Crown the privilege
and trust of suffrage hare belonged to the several
States; and have been granted, regulated and con-
trolled exclusively by the political power Of eac1
State respectively aud that any attempt by Congress
on any pretext Whatever to deprive any State OF tns
right or interfere with It's exercise, is fragrant usur-
patton Of power which can hna no warrah. tbs 10 neo
pie will subvert our form Of government anu can
only end in singla centralized and consolidated gov
ernment In which the separate existence OF tne Staes
win be entirely absorbed, and nm unquaIned oespo.'
ism be established in place Of Federal Union OF CO.
equal States; and that we regard the Reconstrucuon
acts so-caledj OF Congress as usurpatons and un-
constitutional revolutionary and void that our SOL
diers and sailors, who carried the nag OF our country
to vctoly against most gallant and determined zoe,
must ever be gratefully remembered, and oil the
guarantees given IN their favor must be faithfully
carried into execution.
That the public lands should be distrouted as
widely as possible among the people, and should %
disposed Of either under the pre-empton OF home
stead lands, sold in reasonable Quantities, and 70
none but actual occupants. at The minimum price
established by the government, When grants Of the
public laIds may be allowed, necessary for the en-
couragement Of ofimportsnt public improvements, the
proceeds of the sale OF such land and not the lands
themselves, should be 80 applied, a.ts. -
Tint the President of the United States, Andrew
Johnson In exercising the power OF his high office in
resisting the aggressions Of Congress upon the con-
slunonal rghss If the States and the people, is on
titled to the gratitude of the whole American peo
pie and in behalf OF the Democratic party tender
him our thanks TO: his patriotic efforts In that re-
gard. 80
Upon this platform tho Democratic party appeal to
every patriot including all the conservative ee-
ment and all who .sire to support the ton
and restore the Union forgetting all past difference
of opinion, to unite with US in the present great
struggle for the liberties of the people, and that to
all su TO wh1:ever party they may have heretofore
belonged we .xteld the right hand Of fellowship,
and haul all such cooperating with Us as friends and
brethren.
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