Official proceedings of the National Democratic convention, held at New York, July 4-9, 1868.: Reported by George Wakeman, official reporter of the Convention.

NA TIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
all political instrumentalities designed to secure negro supremacy; simplification of the system and discontinuance of inquisitorial modes of assessing
and collecting internal revenue, so that the burden of taxation may be equalized and lessened, the credit of the government increased and the currency
made good; the repeal of all enactments for enrolling the State militia into
national forces in time of peace; and a tariff for revenue upon foreign imports, such as will afford incidental protection to domestic manufactures, and
as will, without impairing revenue, impose the least burden upon, and best
promote and encourage the great industrial interests of the country.
Seventh. Reform of abuses in administration; the expulsion of corrupt
men from office; the abrogation of useless offices; the restoration of rightful authority to, and the independence of the executive and judicial departments of the government; the subordination 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 naturalized and native-born
citizens at home and abroad; the assertion of American nationality, which
shall command the respect of foreign powers, and furnish an example and
encouragement to people struggling for national integrity, constitutional
liberty, and individual rights, and the maintenance of the rights of nationalized citizens against the absolute doctrine of immutable allegiance and the
claims of foreign powers to punish them for alleged crimes committed beyond their jurisdiction.
In demanding these measures and reforms we arraign the Radical party for
its disregard of right, and the unparalleled oppression and tyranny which
have marked its career.
After the most solemn and unanimous pledge of both Houses of Congress
to prosecute the war exclusively for the maintenance of the government and
the preservation of the Union under the Constitution, it 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 in its power. dissolved it,
and subjected ten States, in time of profound peace, to military despotism
and negro supremacy.
It has nullified there the right of trial by jury; it has abolished the habeas
corpus, that most sacred writ of liberty; it has overthrown the freedom of
speech and of the press; it has substituted arbitrary seizures and arrests,
and military trials and secret star-chamber inquisitions, for the constitutional
tribunals; it has disregarded in time of peace the right of the people to })e
free from searches and seizures; it has entered the post and telegraph offices,
and even the private rooms of individuals, and seized their private papers and
letters without any specific charge or notice of affidavit, as required by the
organic law; it has converted the American capitol into a Bastile; it has established a system of spies and official espionage to which no constitutionai
monarchy of Europe would now dare to resort; it has abolished the right of
appeal, on important constitutional questions, to the Supreme Judicial tribunal, and threatens to curtail, or destroy, its original jurisdiction, which is
irrevocably vested by the Constitution; while the learned Chief Justice has
been subjected to the most atrocious calumnies, merely because he would not
prostitute his high office to the support of the false and partisan charges pre
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