The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-08-16
No. 27

the learned Chief Justice has been sub
jected to the most atrocious calumnies,
merely because he would not prostitute
his high Office to the support of the
false an fraudulent charges preferred
agair~4-Gne President. It's corruption
Extravaganza have exceeded any
+ lg known in history, and by it's
frauds and monopolies, it has nearly
doubled the burden of the debt created
by the war; It has stripped the Presi
dent of his constitutional power of ap-
pointment, even of his own cabinet.
Under its repeated assaults, the pillars
Of the government are rocking on it's
base; and should it succeed in Novem-
Der next, and inaugurate its President,
we will meet, as a subjected and con
quered people, amid the ruins Of liberty
and the scattered fragments Of the
Constitution.
And we do declare and resolve that
ever since the people of the United
States threw off all subjeetion to the
British crown the privilege and trust
of suffrage have belonged to the several
States and have been granted. regu-
lated, and controlled exclusively by
the political power of each State, re-
spectively; and that any attempt by
Congress, on any pretext whatever, to
deprive any State of this right, or in
terfere with its exercise, is a fragrant
usurpation 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 single, centralized, and con-
sOlidated government, in which the
separate existence of the States will be
entirely absorbed, and an unqualified
despotism be established instead of a
Federal Union of co equal States. And
that we regard the construction acts
$50 called) of Congress as usurpations
and unconstitutional, revolutionary
and void.
That our soldiers and sailors, who
carried the flag of our country to vic
tory against a most gallant and de-
termined foe, must ever be gratefully
remembered, and all the guarantees
given in their favor must be faithfully
carried into execution
That the public lands should be dis
tributed as widely as possible among
the people, and should be disposed of
either under the pre-emption of home
stead lands or sold in reasonable guam
titles, and to none but actual occupants,
at the minimum price established by
the government. When grants of
public lands may be allowed, neces-
sary for the encouragement of impor-
tant public improvements, the pro-
ceeds of the sale of such lands and not
the lands themselves, should be so ap-
piled.
That the President of the United
States, Andrew johnson, in exercising
the power of his office in resisting the
aggressions Of Congress upon the con-
stitutional rights of the States and the
people, is entitled to the gratitude of
the whole American people; and, on
behalf of the Democratic party WEI ten
der him our thanks for his patriotic
efforts in that regard
Upon this platform the Democratic
party appeals to every patriot, includ
ing all the conservative element and
all who desire to support the Constitu-
ton and restore the Union, forgetting
all past differences of opinion, to unite
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 ex-
tend the right hand of fellowship, and
hail all such, cooperating with us, as
friends and brethren.
ResoIUed, That this convention sym
pathizes cordially with the workmen
of the United States in their efforts to
protect the rights and interests of the
Iaboring classes of the country.
3. That the thanks of the convention
are rendered to Chief Justice Salmon
P. Chase, for the justice, dignity, and
impartiality with which he presided
over the court of impeachment on the
trial of Andrew Johnson
TO BE CONTINUED.