The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1872-02-10

the Federal Executive and bis party, then 1t
matters not, what else may come to afct us.
II will matter but little thon ii tariffs are for
revenue or protection currency is coin or pa
per} banks are solvent or bankrupt; bonds
are paid in certificates, or notes, or gold, II
the civil service Of the Goyernmen is reformed
or not, so long as the soldier is the only agent
Of the Executive if State charters are vested
rights, or Air Line roads, created by Congress
destroy the capital invested under State au-
tbority and protection the public lands be
given in Jobs for the iayOrites Of the army or
Congress, rather than devoted to the benefit of
the native or alien settlers, whose life liberty
and property modern sedition law may make
worthless; II interpretations which are only
created by States are set aside By others
which exist by Congressional power. II SOL
diers are to be sent into every subjugated State
to control elections by military order, what
matters it to the people, that they are permit
ted TO vote, provided they vote as the bayouet
requires. II military Governors can declare
martial law at the behest Of the Radical party |
and throw out the votes of the majority, to |
give certificates of election to the tools Of the
Federal Executive, what then will it matter to |
the people IL the form Of liberty exists when
liberty itself has become dead issue. Prin-
ciples are eternal, they never die. The prin.
ciples Of the Democratic party will i've when
those who would make them " dead Issues"
are covered by that oblivion, often the grato-
lul refuge from condemnation, which, if they
were remembered, history would award.
We conjure you then, fellow citizens, to
"support the State governments in all their
rights, as the most competent administrations
of our domestic concerns and the surest bull
wark against" "au absolute or at best mix
ed monarchy" To insist on it that the Fed
eral Government shall only exercise those
granted or delegated powers which the States
| gave to it, and If it exceeds them, that "when-
soeyer the General Government assumes un-
delegated powers, It's acts are unauthoritatiye
void and of no force" That the States have
the exclusive and sovereign right to regulate
suffrage, each for itself. These are among the
essential principles Of the Democratic Party
| the first in Importance in this day of renewed
efforts, by action outside the Constitution, to
establish " iniitary domination" over subju-
gated States and people enslaved by marital
law, Congress assuming undelegated pow
e,s, and a asarPer, though not existing now,
will be soon found who, relying on the Greg.
ular army" will make usurpation an estab-
lished fact. II should not be forgotten that
from all time, history records the fact that
when power has been unlawrully Obtained or
seized upon by usurpations, aud justice and
right, and public liberty been outraged there
by, then the grossest corruptions follow, and
afterwards retrbution. The track of usurpa-
ton has been clearly marked. The first at
tempts are on the property of the people By
taxation, taxation on the bread Of labor, the
necessaries Of life, and then on property. Sc
cure in these efforts under all sorts Of excuses :,
then the rights Of the people are abridged,
and lastly, liberty is destroyed. Mr.. Grants
administration has been fruitful in these out.
RACES. They have been the result Of the SUI
pincness of the States. They have permitted
their rights to be subjugated, and they made
subordinate, or in the language of the monar
ohical party under John Adams, the admins
tration OF Grant has "triumphed over the
State Governments, and REDUCED them into
entire subordination."
We respectfully invite you to consider the
propriety Of amending the Consultation Of the
United States, when it can DO constieationaIly y
done so that the the President shall be eligi.
Bile for one term of six years that the people,
elect President aud Yiee-President by States;
that any white citizen Of the United States
who can be eligible as a representative Of his
State in the Senate Of the United States, may
be chosen President.
We respectfully invite you to consider the
necessity Of introducing reforms in the State
and Federal Governments, by which the cor
ruptions which now disgrace the Federal Gov
ernment, some cities and States, may be made
impracticabe. We present to your notice the
principle which jefferson announced, that tbs
enactment Of just laws shall be insisted upon,
which ''shall not take from the mouth Of labor
the bread it has earned"
We earnestly and most respectfully ask you
to meet the 4th Of July next, in the several
counties of this State, and devote an hour AT
least, of that day to reading the Declaration
of Independence, Jelferson's Inaugural Ad
dress, and such other writings of the fathers,
as will instruct the youth OF our State 10 th,
essential principles Of the Democratic Party.
We implore you, by your love of country,
to make every effort to maintain our constitu-
tional government, and see to it that all the
acts Of your representatives in the Lcgislat
Congress and State Conventions, are leveled
and squared by the principles Of the party
teaching them to understand beforehand that
you are the Gnai judges Of their actions, the
supreme power in the State, aud that if 1t i.
not possible to punish for violations of repre-
sentative trusts, or abandonment Of Democrat
ic principles, at least, they may unders stand
that your ratification of such acts is impos
sible.
We suggest to you the advantage that musi
result from organizing clubs in every town
ship, to meet when convenient, for the purpose
of instructing our youth, OF making correct
list of the voters, and see to their coming to
the elections and, on proper occasions I,
have read from the writings OF jefferson, Mon
roe, Madison, Jackson, and other aSknowl
edged Democratic authorities, whatever may
tend TO educate these young men in the prin'
ciples of the Democratic party, and at tn
same time bring to the light of day the scheme
Of the monsrchical party in this eountry,
Respectfully yours
Richard Vaux, Rob't II. Kerr,
r. Z. Monaghan, John Z. Large,
! John NJ. Laird, W. $. Garyin,
F. NJ. Bingham, William S. Black,
James Il. Hopkins, Alec Patton,
Joseph Hemphill, A. Hiestand Glatz,
} A. H. Lcight, j. N. Hutchison,
W. II. Witte, Henry Large,
{ Joseph Rex, Thomas J. Keen an,
/ N. II. Tome, Alfred Kerr,
| George Il. BerreIl, John Coyle,