The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-06-29

and reduced as rapidly as our nation
al faith will permit.
5. The national debt, contracted,
as it has been, for the preservation of
the Union for all time to come, should
be extended over a fair period for
redemption; and it is the duty OF
Congress to reduce the rate of interest
thereon, whenever it 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 now pay, and must con-
tinue to pay, so long as reputation,
partial or total, open or covert, is
threatened or suspected
z. The Government T. the United
States should be administered with
the strictest economy, and corrup-.
tons 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 fune
tons; has refused to execute the
laws; has used his high Office to in
duce other officers to ignore and VIC
late the laws; has employed his ex-
ecutive powers to render insecure the
property, peace, liberty and life of
the citizens; has abused the pardon
ing power; has denounced the Ma
tional Legislature as unconstitutional;
has persistently and corruptly resist
ed, by every measure In his power,
every proper attempt at the recon-
struction of the States lately in re-
bellion; has perverted the public pat
r0nage 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. Tie doctrine of Great Britain
land other European Powers, that be-
cause a man is once a subject he is
| always 20, must be resisted at every
hazard by the United States, as
relic of the feudal time, not author
lied by the law of nations, and at
| war with our national honor and 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
and Imprisonment by any foreign
power, for acts done or words spoken
In this country; and if so arrested and
imprisoned, it IS the duty Of the Gov
eminent to interfere In his behalf.
10. OF all who were faithful IN the
trials of the late war. there were none
entitled to more especial honor than
the brave soldiers and seamen who
endured the hardships Of campaign
and cruise, and Imperiled their lives
in the service of their country. The
bounties and 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 are the wards OF the
people-a sacred legacy bequeathed to
the nations protecting care.
II. Foreign immigration, which, IN
the past, has added so much to the
wealth and development of the re-
sources and increase of power to this
nation, the asylum of the oppressed
of all nations, should be fostered and
encouraged by a liberal and just
policy.
u This Convention declares its
sympathy with all the oppressed peo-
pie who are struggling for their
rights.