Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-01-10

CoNyENr1oN or THE VETERANs.-The Convention
Of the Veterans of 1912 adjourned on TUESDAY
evening till the Sth Of January next ALTER adopt
ing the following resolutions &
RESOLVED, That having solemnly sworn, wnen
we first entered into the service OF OR country 10
support and sasttiS he Constitution Of me Unitsd
s1fsses, In the hope and expectation to ENJOY the
BLESSINGS and advantages il was designed to secure,
we will honestly perform tho obligations II enloins,
and not shrink from the duties 1t Imposes upon us
I'd, Resolved That we have Witnessed with
pleasure the efforts now making in Congress Tor
the final settlement and payment OF our heyolu-
tionary debt We consider that our government
is under the most solemn obligations to carry out
the promises of the Continental Congress, as con-
tanned in the resolutions of October I'll 1850; JAN
uary /, 1881 and March s, 1885; by allowing TO
the officers of the Revolutionary army, the hall
pay for life, to which they entitled under those
resolutions, for the payment of which the faith Of
the nation was pledged and all those Senator'S and
Members who have taken an active interest in be-
half Of the officers OF the Revolution, their willows
and children, are entitled to the thanks and graft
tnde OF the country.
3d. Resolved That our grateful acknowledge
ments are due to the last Congress for its enact
ments in our behalf, although not carried to the
extent Of our hopes and expectations and we
earnestly petition the Present one to supply the
omissions of the former, by providing for the de-
clinng years of the soldiers OF our Second War OF
Independence, as was done for those of the Revo-
| lutionary war.
4th. Resolged, That all pensions for wounds or
injuries received while in the line of duty in the
military and naval service of the United States,
instead of commencing at the completion OF the
| proof as is now practsed at the Pension Office,
ought, upon every principle of justice, to COM
mence at and from. Ire date of the disability :
and in case of the death of the invalid any arrears
of pension due him should be paid to his widow
and in case of her DEATH to the surviving children
| 5th Resolved, That the subsequent marriage by
| a widow who was entitled to a pension or bounty
land in virtue of any law Of the United States,
/ should not prevent her from receiving such PEN
sion or land provided she be otherwise entitled to
the same nor should the law render it necessary
that she be widow at the timeof her application.
| 9th. Resoloed, That the bounty land act OF
March 8, 1866, ought to be amended, 80 as to en-
| brace the children of any person who, ii living,
would be entitled to bounty land under said act,
as well as his minor children" and that those
soldiers of the war of 1872, who enlisted for five
years or during the war, and served until dis
charged in consequence of disability, or by reason
of the expiration of their term, ought to receive
grant of 100 acres OF land in addition to what they
have already received.
| 7th Resolyed, That all the provisions heretofore
made for us, or which may hereafter be made,
ought to be extended to our fellow-citizens who
were confined in foreign prisons during any por-
| ton of the war Of lS12-'l5.
Sth. Resolued, That inasmuch as many of the re-
cords of the War Office, at Washington, have been
destroyed, it is unjust to refuse credible parol
proof and require the production Of record evi.
dence of service to entitle mertorious applicants
to the benefit of the land and pension laws.
9th. ResoiUed, That it is due to the memory OF
James Madison, President of the United States, at
the time of the declaration of war against Great
Britain, and who fearlessly recommended that i'm.
portant measure, to have an appropriate statue
erected to him in this city,
10th. Resolued, That we viii wear Grape on the
left arm, for so days. in token of respect for the
memories of our companions in arms who have
died since our last Convention