The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1868-09-16

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3 the freedom of speech and press 1T h:
substituted arbitrary seizures and arrest
and military trials and secret star chambt
: inquisitions for constitutional tribunals
/. lit has disregarded in times of peace til
right of the people to be reefrom searchc
and Seizures; it has entered the post an
telegraph offices, and even the priYat
rooms of individuals and seized their pr
-rate papers aud letters without any spec
fication sor notice fof affidavit as REQUIRE
by the organic law;it has converted til
4 American capitol into a bastile 2 it has es
1 tablished "a system of spies and official Ct
pionage to which no constitutional mon
archy of Europe would dare to resort i
/ has abolished the right CT appeal on i'm
Observation-Disclosures questions to The su
i premejudicial tribunals, and threatens t.
curtail or destroy. its original jurisdiction
/ which is irrevocably vested by the Co,isti
tuition, while the learned Chief Justice hal
been subjected to great and atrocious cal
) umnies, merely becatise he would not pros
Ititnte his high office to the support of tn.
/. false and partisan charges preferred against
the President It's corruption and extrav
agance have exceeded anything known il
history, and by it's frauds and monopoiies
1T has nearly doubled the burden of the
debt created during the war; It has
stripped the President of his constitutional
ipower of appointment, even of his own
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cabinet; under It's repeated assaults the
pillars of the government are rocking on
their base, and should it succeed in No
ven1ber next. and inaugurate its Presi-
dent, we will meet it as a subjected and
conquered people, amid the ruins of liberty
and the shattered fragme nts of the Consti-
| tuition. And we do declare and resolve,
that ever since the people of the United
States threw off all subiugation to the
British crown, the privilege and trust of
suffrage have belonged to the several
States, and lave been granted, regulated
and controlled exclusively by the political
power of each State, respectively and any
attempt by Congress, on any pretext what.
ever, to deprive any State of this right, Or
interfere With this exercise, is a fragrant
,isurbatio.f ofipower, which can find no
warrant il, the Constitution, and if sane
toned by the people will subvert our form
of government, and can only end in SIN
gle, centralized, consolidated government,
in which tbs separate existence Of the
States will be entirely absorbed, and an
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place ola federal Union of equal States (;
that we regard the reconstruction acts of
Congress, so.ealled, as tsnrpations, nncon-
stitutional, revolutionary and void;i that
our soldiers and sailors who carried the
flag of our country to victory against a
most gallant and determined foe mustiever
be gratefully remembered, and all the
guarantees given in their favor must be
faithfully carried into execution; that the
public lands should be distributed among
the people, and siould be disposed of Ell
Tier under the pre-emption of homestead
laws, or sold in reasonable quantities, and
tosnone but actual occupants, at the mini
mum price as established by the govern
hiohos "Hcit' SsriutS Oh the pubic lands
may be allowed necessarily for the en-
1couragementso fimportant public improve
ments, the proceeds of the sale of such
lands, and not the lands themselves,
should be so applied. That the President
ofthe United States, Andrew johnson, in
exercising the power of his high office in
resisting the aggressions of Congress 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 him
our thanks for his patriotic efforts in that
regard. its iT as AZ
Upon this platform the Democratic Party
appeals to every patriot, including all the
conservative clement, and all who desire
to support the Constitution and restore the
Unicn, forgetting all past differences of
opinion, to unite with us in the present
great struggle for the liberties of the peo-
pie, aud 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 brothers. m