A We profoundly deplore tha untimely and tragic
death of Abraham Lincoln, and regret the accession of
Andrew Johnson to the Presidency, who has acted trea
cherously to the people who elected him and the cause
he was pledged to support; has usurped high legisla
five and judicial functions ; has refused to execute the
laws ; has used his high office to induce other officers
to violate the laws; has employed his executive power
to render insecure the lives, property, peace, liberty and
life of the citizen : has abused the pardoning
lias denounced the National Legislature as unconstitu
tional ; has persistently and habitually resisted, by
every means in his power, every proper attempt at the
reconstruction of the States lately in rebellion; has
perverted the public patronage into an engine of whole
sale corruption, and has been justly impeached for high
ctimes aad misdemeanors, and properly pronounced
guilty thereof by the votes of thirty-five Senators.
y. The doctrine of Great Britain and other Kuropean
Powers, that because a man is once a subject he is al
ways so, must be resisted at every hazard by the United
States as a relic of the feudal times, not authorized by
the law of nations, and at war with our national honoi
and independence. Naturalized citizens are entitled
to be protected in all their rights of citizenship, as
though they were native born. No citizen of the United
States, native or naturalized, must be liable to arrest
or imprisonment by any foreign Power for acts done or
words spekon in this country; and if so arrested and
Imprisoned, it is the duty of the Government to inter
sere in his behalf.
