Year: 1864

the triumph OF free government and will
eXtricate US from the jaws of destruction.
: That the party OF the Administration is
both vicious and incapable, has been most
: abundantly proved and ought no longer to
oe denied. 1t has failed to restore tho
Union after three years of trial, though
possessed OF all the powers ofGovernment
ana OF all the resources of the country
And meantime it has struck heavy blows
~ liberty and . carrying us away from all
; the old landmarks of policy and admins.
tration. We are literally drifting toward
= destruction, with the knowledge that those
who have charge of our vessel of State ara
unfit to direct its course.


But there is yet time to avert much of
calamity. The future at least may be made
secure. To all who really deslre the IN.
ION restored, and along with it honest.
constitutional Government, the appeai
may now be made TO assist in eleyatinr q
party to power which will be faithful TO
the Constitution, which will unite togeth-
er the union elements of the whole coun-
try, will chastise corruption and fanaticism
from the public Administration and will .
secure the future from conyulsion and
despotism


Let the fact sink deeply into the hearts
of our counrymen, that the great obsta-
ce to peace, to reunion, 10 integrity in
pntaic affairs, and to the renewal of pros
perity, is the presence at the capital of
the nation of the chiefs of sectional par
ty, who have been instrumental in plung.
ing the nation into "a sea of troubles
and who are'both incapable and unwilling
10 save it.


POLICY OF THE OPPOSITION.


Iau Inn vnlr
dom OF the Administration and OF its pol.
lcS and conduct, we proceed to indicate
the position and views Of the Opposition,
who contend with the Administrator for
the possession Of Popular favor.
! We hold that all laws duly established
and existing shall be kept, and kept as
well 10y persons in official station as by
the mass Of The people. Disregard Of iaw
aud OF rights established and guaranteed
by 1t, Is ono OF the great evils Of which
just complaint must now be made. A
change of Administration and of party
power, Will secure throughout the whole
country subject to our Jurisdiction, a lust,
! tsithful, and uniform administration of
the laws NV tha- oot.stn-,v-. dni IV"nui
secure in the Congress of the United States
faithful obedience te the Constitution and
! an honest construction Of the powers con-
terred by it upon the legislative authority.
/ The interruption of justice caused BY an
unnecessary suspension Of the ha5eds corpus
in the revolted States will, forthwith, ter
inmate; arbitrary arrests of persons in
civil life will become unknown, and a
| pretended necessity overriding justice and
right made the preteXt for various forms
OF oppression and injustice. will disappear
before returning sense Of Obligation and
duty in our rulers.


| In the policy Of the Federal Govern
ment here will be no recognition OF doc
trines which tend TO the social debase-
ment and pollution Of the people. The
proAigate and pernicious theories which,
un0er the garb of philanthropy and
] regard for human rights, would overthrow
the natural barriers between different
races and ignore wholly organic laws Of
difference between them, will not be pro.
noted or favored in the policy of The
Government OF the United States.


There will be an earnest and proper
effort made to retrace the steps already
taken~in debasing the currency of the
United States by large and unnecessary
issues Of paper money-a system at once
unauthorized and injurious, which impov-
erishes the country and distributes the
earnings OF labor to hands that have not
earned it, will invite immediate revision.
and ultimate removal from the statute
book Of the United States.


The troops raised for The public service.
whenever necessity for raising them
shall exist, will be rightGully obtained
through the agency of the State govern
ments, and be ofcered by State authori.
!, ty; thus securing, in the raising OF armies
for extraordinary occasions, the true in
tent ard meaning of the Constitution, and
preserving the armies of the United
States from the undue political control OF
the Federal Executive.


The action Of the Government in lis
! financial disbursements, and other feat
ures OF its administration, will be thrown
open TO full Investigation, and an earnest
effort will be made to purge it in all its
branches of corruption.


Economy Of outlay, so much spoken Of
by those who row hold power previous to
their election and so little regarded by
them since, will be reinstated in the prac
tice of the Government as one OF the
essential rules Of its action.


! The doctrine that the States shall
possess and exercise all ungranted pow
ers, and shall be free within their iurisdic-





ton from the encroachments Of Federal
AUTHORITY, shall be rigidly maintained.
The system Of public revenue shall be
adjusted 80 as 10 bear equally upon all
sections and interests, and the unnecessa-
rv increase of officers in collecting 1t, as
well as in other departments OF public
service, shall be avoided.


The exerton of public force in the war
TO be exclusively for the object for which
the war was begun, to wit ihe restoration
of the Union and the jurisdiction of our
laws over the revolted country; and being
confined to that object, and relieved from
the incumbrance Of other objects, to be
brought 10 a speedy and honorable con.
cusion. But further, ii may be con
6dently asserted, that an Opposition
triumph in our elections will call into
existence moral forces more powerful than
even physical force for securing peace