Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-07-23
From the Nelp Albany Democrat, July
The formation Of the Regiments.

The formation of the Regiments.
The formation of the several companies of Indiana
volunteers into regiments, has given occasion 10
great variety Of false and slanderous operations
against Governor Whitcomb For the present, we
shall content ourselves with reutng all these SIAN
ders in mass by simple statement Of facts connected
with the Governors action in this matter.
The formation of the companies into regiments
was looked to with much interest There were
great number of candidates for the field officers, all
of whose prospects would be more less influenced
by the manner in which the companies should be
united. 1t was therefore quite natural that some
should desire the regiments to be organized In one
way and some in another while II was morally I'M
possible TO please all. Under these circumstances,
and indeed under any circumstances, the Governor
was DESTROYS that the different companies should agree
amongst themselves and relieve him from the neces-
sity of interfering His first STEP therefore, was to
call meeting Of the Captains as representatives OF
their respective corps and request them TO endeavor
to agree and form themselves into three regiments OF
ten companies EACH This course, so TAR, was per-
ecty satisfactory all the Captains present, except
that Captain Gibson, Wing, objected to any agree
ment of this kind being held binding, unless all the
three regiments should be thus formed by voluntary
association. He said in substance, that twenty COM
panies might agree by bargaining backwards and for
wards otherwise, TO form two regiments and leave
the other ten companies scattered all the State,
who would thus be obliged to together, although
they might be very unwilling to do so. To this the
Governor replied that if tco regiments were formed
by voluntary association, he should consider 1t as
near approach to satisfactory arrangement as
could probably be made, and the whole three regi-
ments would then, in effect, be formed, he should feel
bound to organize them in that way.
The meeting then separated TO meet the next morn
ing On that morning Saturday no agreement hav-
ing been made, the time extended TO Monday
morning. On Monday afternoon, the time having
been still extended for the purpose of giving time for
aOreement. there another meeting. when i
announced that regiment was formed, but that 1t
was found impracticabe to form another. Still de-
sirous, if possible TO procure voluntary organiza-
ton, the Governor extended the time 10 Tuesday
morning, when he would feel himself obliged 10 inter-
fere as further delay would be very injurious to the
interests of the public and of the volunteers them
selves
On Tuesday morning the condition of things re-
NAMED nearly the same. Only one regiment was
formed, and written protest signed by sixty -four
members of the GAINESVILLE Legion, one of the COM
panies presented making up the regiment formed
by agreement of the Captains, was presented to the
Governor protesting against going into that regi-
ment Thus, in fact, ten companies had not agreed,
for regarding the Captains the representatives of
the wishes of their respective companies, the regi-
ment had been made of nine companies, with the
Captain of another, while nearly his whole company
was protesting against it.
Several of the Captains who had thus united, in
sisted upon this regiment being recognised formed.
Captains Upton and Gibson, both at the meeting on
Monday evening and on this morning. made warm
speeches. and introduced general charges, that poll
tics had been brought into the question: and that per-
sons " ho were not volunteers had interfered with
the view of making political capital Other Captains
denied that they knew of any such interference, and
called upon these gentlemen to name the persons who
had inerfered This they declined to do, but when
the question put to them directly, whether they
meant TO include in these charges members of one PO-
/ nh Sitatin decla
that they did not mean so, but that they meant to
charge men Of both political parties, that they meant
to charge one more than the other.
/ Under these circumstances the Governor very pro-
perly declined to consider any regiment as organized
Had he done otherwise, it would have been utterly
impossible to organize the other two upon satsfac-
tory plan. The regiment thus formed was widely
scattered, embracing the companies from Allen Cass,
Jefferson, Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties. 1t
manifesty the desire of the prvates, and indeed
of all the members of the several companies who had
no personal interests in the elections, to have the
regiments formed as nearly as possible by uniting
companies from adjoining counties, that the men
who were best acquainted would be thrown together
Finding then, after three days trial. that the compa
MES could not agree the Governor announced that II
was time to adopt some other course. A resolution
was then offered and passed by majority of all the
Captains, requesting the Governor to organize the
companies into regiments himself on the principle
of contiguous territory This he did in the course
of the day. but he withheld his final decision until the
next day, with the view of still giving the several Cap
tans who were included within the lines drawn an OPP
portuniy to exchange one with another if they thought
proper As laid off by the Governor, one regiment
included all the companies on and north OF the Ma
tional road and the other two regiments, those east
and west of line drawn nearly north and south from
the National road. He was still DESTROYS, however
to render this division satisfactory possible, by
allowing any voluntary changes of companies when
the wish should be mentioned. Finding, however,
that changes of this kind were likely to be agreed
upon, the next day at he published his general
order, organizing the regiments, and directing the
elections for field officers.
The above is a plain statement of the facts they
occurred. They were known to great many per-
sons, and we appeal to all who were present to say
whether they not stated correctly. The great
object manifested by the Governor throughout, to
form the regiments according to the desire and will
of the volunteers themselves, and satisfied
that it is only necessary for the facts to be generally
known remove all the impressions injurious to hin
which may have been credited by the calumnies Of
his enemies.
i ORAToRY.-The Cincinnati Advertiser has the fol
lowing on young bank wing would-be orator. 1t i:
decidedly RICH and bears a remarkable likeness tc
efforts of the kind banking and the tariff made by
young fedged politicians of the wing school SOU
west.''
I 'A DAMPER TO ELoQUENcE.-Amusing scenes
occur occasionally in grave assemblies. During the
late session of the New Hamnsbire Teo;sIatura n