The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-03-12

personal asperations and local inter
ests. and devote their entire energies
to the work before them, so as to Sc
cure, as the first necessity Of political
aud socialriife, the restoration Of the
Union and the re-establishment of
the Constitution as the supreme law
Of the land, andto this they are IN
fettered BY the peculiar exigency Of
the terrible point to which they are
brought; for they fnd by a sub
version of time honored policy,
which the people Of this country
established for the furtherance of
their high interest, both Houses
of Congress of the United States. by
successive violations of their pledges,
infractiOns of the organic law and of
the public faith, to encompass mere
partisan ends, have brought our peO-
pie and institutions to the very verge
of ruin. They have broken the resO-
lutiOns affirmed so often in the face
of the civilized world, that
the warlike measures and energies
of the Government should be
directed only to a restoration of the
States unlawfully sought to be taken
out of the Union. They\have, after
sapping the life blood of the people
and expending millions of treasure to
accomplish this end, driven the re-
stored States out, denying their exis
tence in the Union, treating them as
subjugated provinces, aud as held by
the right of conquest, and they now
hold ten sOvereignties subject to the
control and military supervision and
l-the garanteed dominion Of an inferior
race. They have defantly spurned
the Constitution, which was the or
ganic law Of the land, and issued
/ their DEGREES and erected their will
! as the higher law, to WHICH the CO
/ ordinate departments of the Govern
ment. the Judiciary and Executive,
are to nod acquiescence, and to
which the people, bound in iet-
ters, as the thralls Of their min
/ ions, are to submit without a
murmur. They have, under pretense
Of diminishing the public debt, i'm
posed and levied tribute upon every
citizen, saving always those who have
riches, and the poor made poorer
/ they have imposed an exhOrbltant
tariff, which has driven our commerce
from every sea- they have paralized
our manufacturers by excessive i'm
| positions; they have invented the
most oppressive system Of taxation
to take from the laborer all hope oil
reward, and they have filed the land
with swarms of public officials who
harrass the people and eat out
their substance to insure their fatal
dominance 10 the impending canvass
and to complete a foul conspiracy &c
overthrow the government of oul
fathers. They resOlvedsto depose the
President, and install one of the CHIEF
cOnspirators in his place; an ae
which the collective freemen of the
+ country declare to be without justif
cation or plausible excuse, and de
nouuce it as an outrage without par
allel in the history Of a acivilizeC
government By such methods the
> aspire to complete a usurpati0n which
will subject the people of the North al
of the South to military domination
for which it causes them to be enc
mics to the peace, prosperity and lib
! critics Of the. Republic; and we invoke
, the aid of al! lovers Of civil liberty il
every State to join US in one granC
and successful effort to rid the couR
} try Of such tyranny, and secure tn
; triumph of Democratic principles
and the restoration of the perfect
7 union of these States.
} Resolutions were uuanimousl,
adopted, and the Convention ad
Il jOurned