The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1868-10-29

lion Of the Constitutions securing
Equal Civil and Political Rights to
all, and it is the duty Of the Gov
ernment to sustain those instrucd
tions aud to prevent the people
of such States from being rcmittc-
to a State of anarchy.
III. The guarantyby Congress Of
Equal Suffrage to all loyal men at
the South was demanded by every
consideration Of public safety, of
gratitude aud of justice, and must
be maintained; while the question
of Suffrage in all the loyal States
properly belongs to the people of
those States.
III. We dcnouncc all forms Of
reputation as n National crime;
and National honor requires the
payment of the public Indebtedness
in the utmost good faith to all cred
itois, at home and abroad, not only
according to the letter, but the
spirit of the law under which it was
contracted.
~. Itis due to the Labor of
the Nation that taxation should be
equalised and reduced as rapidly as
National faith will permit,
V. The National debt, contract
ed as it has been for the prescrva-
ton of the Union for all time to
come, should be extended over n
fair period for redemption; and it is
the duty of Congress to reduce the
rate Of interest thereon whenever
it can be honestly done.
vi. That the best policy to di-
minish our burden Of debt is to so
improve our credit that capitalists
will seek to lend us money ut low
er rates of interest than we now
pay, and must continue to pay so
long as reputation partial or to.
tai, open or covert, is threatened
or suspected.
VII. That Government Of the
United States should be admins
tered with the stIictest economy;
and the corruptions which have
been so shame(ully nursed and fos-
tered by ndrew Johnson call
loudly for radical reform.
VIII. We profoundly deplore
the untimely and tragic death of
Abraham Lincoln, aud regret the
accession to the Presidency of An.
drew johnson, who has acted trcach-
erously to the people who elected
him and the cause he was pledged
to support; who has usurped high
legislative and judicial functions;
who has used his high office to in
duco other officers to ignore and
violate the laws; who has employed
his executive powers to render in
secure the property, peace, liberty
and life of the citizens; who has
abused the pardoning power; who
has denounced the National Leg
islature as unconstitutional; who
has persistently and corruptly re-
sisted, by every means in his power,
every proper attempt at the recon-
structiOn of the States lately in re-
belliOn; who has perverted the pub.
lie patronage into an engine of
Wholesale corruption; and who has
been justly impcached for high
crimes and misdemeanors, aud
properly pronounced guilty thereof
by the vote Of thirty.fve Senators.
IN. The doctrine of Great
Britain and other European powers
that because man ia once a sub
ject he is always so, must be re.
sisted at all hazards by the United
States as a relic Of feudal times not
authorized by the laws of nations,
aud at war with our national honor
and independence. Naturalized
citizens are entitled to protection
in all their rights of citizenship as
though they were native-born; and
no citizen of the United States, ma.
tive or naturnlized, must be liable
TO arrest and Imprisonment by any
foreign power for act done or words
spoken in this country; and if so
arrested and imprisoned, it is the
duty Of the Government to inter.
fere in his behalf.
Y, OF all who were faithful in
the trials of the late war thero were
none entitled TO more especial hon,
ors than the brave soldiers and sea
men, who endured the hordships
of camp and cruise, and cmperilled
their lives in the service Of their
country. The bounties and pen.
sions provided by the laws for these
brave defenders Of the nation are
an obligation never to be forgottoh;
the widows and orphans of the gal
lant dead are the wards of the peo.
plea sacred legacy bequeathed to
the nations protecting care.
XII Foreign immigration, which
in the past has added so much to
the wealth, Development and
resources, and increase of power
to the republic, the asylum Of the
oppressed Of an nations, should be
fostered and encouraged by a Just
and liberal policy.
XII. This Convention declares
itself in sympathy with all oppress,
ed people struggling for then
rights.
Unanimously added on motion