2. It has no power to create an artificial being to the end that an office may be conferred upon it.

3. It has no power to make any thing but gold and silver a legal tender.

4. Congress has no power to institute and force upon the country a currency for which it is impossible for the holders to obtain gold or silver, without submitting to a very great and ruinous loss.

5. This act has deprived the people of the right to seek redress in their local courts, when these corporations are delinquent in conforming to the law; and compels them to go to an executive officer at Washington for relief, subjecting them to great delay and ruinous expense.

6. These banks have had the effect to kill off all specie-paying banks, and to expel from use the only currency known to the Constitution.

7. The legal questions which the Constitution authorizes the judiciary alone to decide are, under this act, withdrawn from the courts, and committed to the decision of a mere executive officer, who has no constitutional power to decide them.

NINTH. In imposing an unjustly discriminating tax upon State banks, thereby taxing them out of existence.

Most of the State banks had secured public confidence to that extent that these non-specie-paying banks could only secure a foothold, and a good profitable circulation, by destroying them. consequently Congress imposed a tax of ten per cent. upon their circulation, and thus compelled them to throw up their State charters and to organize under this unconstitutional law.

To increase the temptation to do so, Congress enacted that the capital of these national banks, consisting of the debts of the United States, should be exempt from State taxation, and thus several hundred millions of profitably-invested capital escapes such taxation as other capital is subject to. This is intolerable injustice, and is without authority in the Constitution, and unsound in policy.

TENTH. That the Senate has refused seats to Senators duly

elected, and ousted others from seats they were entitled to occupy ; and that the House has withheld seats lawfully claimed, and given them to others not entitled to them, in violation of the constitutional rights of those so ousted or refused such seats.

ELEVENTII. Both Houses of Congress are extravagant in their expenses, and, by keeping five armies on foot to reduce white men to the control of negroes, they unnecessarily increase the expenses of the Government to the extent of more than a hundred millions annually.

1. The public accounts show that both Houses indulge in very large expenses not necessary for the performance of their duties, but which tend to interfere with a proper discharge of them.

2. The five armies sent South, and which are used to depress the whites and elevate the negroes, cost annually between one and two hundred millions of dollars, which is a wholly unnecessary expenditure, and only serves as an apology for our enormous taxation.

3. We have no assurance that these needless expenses are soon to end.

TWELFTH. That Congress, by the power conferred upon the military district commanders, under the Reconstruction Acts, authorizes them, in effect, to suspend the writ of habeas corpus.

These acts confer power upon the commanders over all judicial proceedings, and this includes the hubeas corpus as well as other matters before the courts. Congress cannot vest such powers in the officers of the army, or in anybody else. It is a power which it cannot delegate at all. But in practice they exercise them, and, in fact, enforce the worst species of military tyranny, and are upheld in it by Congress and the Republican party. This is in hostility to the Constitution and the rights of the people.

THIRTEENTH. That Congress legislated the Circuit and Criminal Courts of the District of Columbia out of office, and supplied their places by a partisan court, without constitutional authority.

The Circuit Court had three judges, not partisans, who administered the law as they found it, which was unsatisfactory to

the Republicans. There was a vacancy in the criminal court. Congress repealed the laws creating these courts, and, reënacting them with a few changes, supplied the places of the judges of both by partisan judges, who administer the law in conformity with the views of the Republican party. A judiciary thus created becomes a political instrument of oppression, contrary to the spirit of our institutions, instead of a court to administer justice.

. FOURTEENTH. That Congress first increased the number of judges of the Supreme Court, and then diminished it to secure a majority of Republicans on the bench.

Congress, when there were nine judges, increased the number to ten, adding one Republican to the number; and then, when a vacancy was created by death, to prevent President Johnson appointing a Democrat, it passed a law that no vacancy should be filled until the number should be reduced to six, there being five Republicans now on the bench, appointed by Mr. Lincoln. The Republicans, if they secure a President by the removal of Mr. Johnson, propose to increase the number to thirteen, so as to secure the Judicial Department for many years to come. They expect such a court will decide that whatever Congress may enact is legal and constitutional.

FIFTEENTH. That our oppressive taxes, and the greatly-increased expenses of living, are the fruits of Republican rule and mismanagement.

That our taxes are oppressive, and that expense of living has nearly doubled, cannot be denied. That the Republicans made the laws and have administered them, and have done things in their own way, cannot be disputed. These things, then, are the fruits of Republican rule and mismanagement, and they are responsible. Had they made good laws, and practised economy in the management of the Government, we should have escaped these evils.

SIXTEENTH. That the Republican party are the authors of the general demoralization of the country, and responsible for it.

The country was not demoralized when the Republicans came into power, but that it is so now cannot be questioned. They

have controlled every thing since, and given tone and character to the times, and are therefore responsible for this consequence, which fills the hearts of all good men with present pain, and with fearful apprehensions for the future.

SEVENTEENTH. That the Republicans in Congress are impeaching the President upon frivolous pretexts to get him out of the way, so as to be able by legislation to control all branches of the Government, with the view of so moulding and shaping its whole business and interests as to continue the Republicans in power.

1. The House, in getting up their articles of impeachment, have acted and voted as partisans, as directed by caucus.

2. The Senate, in framing their rules for the trial, and in all the preliminary proceedings, pushing it on "with railroad speed,” have acted and voted as partisans, as if that lessened the crime of perjury. The Republican party are trying to dragoon all Republican Senators to vote for conviction.

138.-EXPENSES OF THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT.

When first organized, our Government confined its operations to the powers conferred upon it. It soon overstepped them. It then practised moderate economy. With time it has expanded, drawing in and swallowing up the powers of the States, and engaging in unauthorized enterprises, until, for the number of people and the extent of its functions, it is one of the most expensive governments in the civilized world. During its first year and ten months, when it contained some five millions of people, it cost only $7,207,539.02, or $600,653 per month, while now, with a population of some thirty-two millions, our expenses, in time of peace, have swollen to $1,093,079,655.27, or over $91,000,000 per month. During the war these expenses were largely increased, and in 1865 came up to $1,897,674,224.09, or over $158,000,000 per month.

The following statistics are from the appendix to the Report of the Secretary of the Treasury for the year ending the 30th of June, 1867: