Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-07-12
Freedom CopyentiOr in Indiana.

The opponents of Slavery in Indiana held
State Convention at Indianapolis, the 9th of
May. Judge Stevens was chosen President, but
as his presence all the time was impossible, P
Johnson was elected acting President. E. B.
Croker, James futile, George Vandenburgh, r.
Vale, s. S. Stevens, and A. Crane, were appoint
ed a Committee on Resolutions, DC.
Resolved That believing the platform adopted
BY the Convention of the Free Democracy, held
at Buffalo, August 1848, contains sound and cor
rect principles as expressed in the following
lutons:
Here follow the Buffalo resolutions; and in adj
dition, the Convention adopted the following
ResoIoed That the Federal Constitution is anti
slavery its character and spirit, and, if faithfully
carried out in all Its provisions, would give no en-
enlargement or support to slavery or any other
system of oppression.
ResOlued, That we hold that the law of God is
paramount to all human constitutions and laws,
and that therefore, when human laws conflict with
this Divine law, it is duty to yield obedience
to the latter in preference to the former.
ResotUed, That we agree with Webster, Seward,
Rantoul, and others, that the Federal Constitution
grants no power whatever TO Congress to enact
any law for the reclamation of fugitiyes from
vice, and therefore all enactments of Congress up
on that subject are unconstitutional and no person
is under any obligation to support or enforce such
law.
Resolced, That the recent Fugitive Slave Law
is most inhuman in its requirements, utterly sub
versive of well-established principles of law and
Justice destructive of of the dearest rig hts
of the people, and directly conflicts with the law
of God; its speedy repeal Dug ht therefore, to be
zealously commended for by every friend of human
rights.
Resot0ed, That we fully endorse the patriotic
sentiment, forciby expressed in the following ex-
tract from the letter of Hon. Charles Sumner to
the Legislature of Massachusetts,, sgnifying his
acceptance of the office of United States Senator
from that State:
Il accept it as the servant of the Union; bound
to study and maintain with equal patriotic care the
interests of all parts of country; to discounte
nance every effort to loosen any of those ties by
which fellowship of States is held in fraternal
company; and to oppose all sectionaiism, whether
It appear in unconstitutional efforts by the North
10 carry so great boon as Freedom into the slave
States in unconstitutional efforts by the South
aided by Northern allies, to carry the sectional
evil of slavery into the free States or in whatso-
efforts it may make to extend the sectional do
main of slavery over the National Government
With me the Union is twice blessed; first, as the
powerful guardian of the repose and happiness of
thrty-one sovereign States, casped by the endear-
ing name of country; and next as the model and
beginning of that all-embracing federation of
States, by which unity, peace, and concord, will
finally be organized among nations Nor do be-
ieve it possible, whatever may be the deluSon of
the hour, that any part thereof can be permanent
ly lost from It's well-compacted bulk. T. PiuriJus
UIaum is stamped upon the national coin, the Ma
tional Territory, and the National Heart. Though
composed of many parts united into one, the
Union is separable only by crash which shall de-
stroy the whole