The Evansville journal., 1868-06-30

aud reduced aa RAPIDLY as our nation
al faitts w.l permit
5. The national debt. contracted.
as t has been. for the preservation Of
the Union fer sill time to come, should
be extended ever d fair period for
redemption; and it Is the duty of
Congress to reduce the rate of interest
thereon, whenever 1t can honestly be
done.
6. That the best policy to diminish
our burden of debt is to so improve
our credit that capitalists will seek TO
loan US money at lower rates of inter-
est than we nov pay, and must con-
tinue to pay, so long as repudiation,
partial or total, open or covert, is
threstened or suspected. es
z. The Government of the United
States should be administered with
the strictest economy, and corrup-
tioBs which have been so shame
fully nursed and fostered by Andrew
johnson. call loudly for radical re-
form.
8. We profoundly deplore the un-
| timely and tragic death of Abraham
Lincoln, and regret the accession of
Andrew johnson to the Presidency,
who has acted treacherously to the
people who elected him and the cause
be was pledged to support, has usurp-
ed high legislative and judicial func-
tious; has refused to execute the
laws; has used his high Office to in
duce other officers to ignore and yio-
late the laws, has employed his ex-
ecutive powers to render insecure ths
property. peace, liberty and life of
the citizens; has abused the pardon
ing power; has denounced the Ma
tional Legislature as unconstitutional F;
has persistently and corruptlg resist
ed, By every measure N bis power,
every proper attempt at the recon-
struction Of the States lately in re-
bellion; has perverted the public pats
ronage into an engine of wholesale
corruption, and has been justly i'm
peached for high crimes and misde-
meanors, and properly pronounced
guilty thereof by the votes Of thirty
five Senators.
9. The doctrine Of Great Britain
and other European Powers. that be-
cause man is once a subject he is
always so, must be resisted at every
hazard by the United States, as a
relic Of the feudal time, not author
lied by the law of nations, and at
war with our national honor aud in
dependence, naturalized citizens be-
ing entitled to be protected in all
their rights of citizenship, as though
they were natural born; and no eiti-
zen of the United States, natural or
naturalized, must be liable to arrest
aud imprisonment by any foreign
power, for acts done or words spoken
IN this country; and if so arrested aud
imprisoned, it is the duty of the Gov
ernment to interfere In his behalf
TO- OF all who were faithful in the
trials of the late war, there we're none
entitled to more especial honor than
the brave soldiers and aeamen who
endured the hardships Of campaign
and cruise, and imperiied their lives
in the service of their country. The
bounties aud pensions provided by
law for those brave defenders of the
nation are obligations never to be for
gotten. The widows and orphans of
the gallant dead ara the wards OF the
pe0ple-a sacred legacy hequeathed to
the nations protecting care.
IL. Foreign immigration. which, in
the past, has added SO much to the
wealth and development of the re-
sources aud increase Of power to this
nation, the asylum of the oppressed
OF all nations, should be fostered and
encouraged By liberal and just
policy. a aaa
IL This Convention declares its
sympathy with all the oppressed peo-
pie who are struggling for their
rights.