The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-01-08


constitution Tor the State is still Ia session, and Will prob
ably not close IFS labors for some weeks.
The appropriation Tor the payment OF the convention is
already exhausted II will devolve upon you TO make
further appropriations Tor this object
As the amount collected by the levied the past year
will be Sufficient to pay the additional expenses OF
the convention suggest Thai you anticipate the revenue
OF the coming year, he same rale oil taxation being con-
unued BY loan Tor thiS purpose as also ior The pay
ment OF the July interest on our public debt have no
doubt but that the succeeding January interest will be
promptly mel by The people through their collectors
IL your duty al this session 10 apporuon the State
into senatorial and representative districts Public opn
ion to demand reduction OF the number in both
houses As TO the character OF our legislation, quite as
much may depend upon the capacity OF legislators as
upon their number Able men will devote themselves 10
the public service for two chiehyhonor and
compensation. Taking into view The condition of our
State the character OF our people, and The vast interests
which they have al stake IN the establishment oil cor
rect system OF domestic policy II would seem that there
is too great a difference between the honors and
emouments of the State and national governments
The public business may undoubtedly be disposed oil
with system and order, and every interest OF the
State may be fairly represented and properly protected by
of thirty members provided their election shall be made
under system liberal enough 10 secure to the State the
services OF her best and abest citizens
The subject of the colonization OF the free blacks is
beginning receive tina, attention which its import
ance demands The circumstances which surround us
pressing our people to look into this subject IN the
right Light. and IN proper spirit.
Our southern brethren making rapid movements TO
wards abdgng the privileges OF this class. TO ban
lshment. we IN the North are adopting extraordinary
for removing them, by prohibiting them from hold
ing property excluding them from the protection OF the
laws, and denying them any rights whatever
While all this is going our better nature, the com
mon symPahies OF all men, are beginning to ask these
important questions: What 10 beth end Of all hs3 Is
there remsdy2 Lttere no cure for tbs euh2
In the midst of all this excitement and confusion, the
light breaks in upon us, which points concnsvely 10
colonization as the only remedy The infant colony OF
Liberia, recognised as one among the nations OF the
EARTH begins to attract The renewed attention OF all
races In this great struggle for the separation OF the
black man from the white let Indiana take her stand
put her agent into the field Her citizens ready. YEA
they willing to contribute of their surplus something
for the removal OF this people from among us, and 70 To-
cate them in the native land OF their iorealhers. Other
States this Union have their settlements in Libe
ria. Let Indiana have hers Let us sustain the move
ment made by Mr.. Bryant, Of Alabama Tor the employ
ment of government vessels 10 found empire in rca
Let the national well the State governments strike
at this hour Tor permanent and eecual remedy Tor the
agations and excitement OF the day on tins diihcu
question.
In pursuance OF Joint resolution Of the last session OF
the legislature block OF marble native OF the State,
procured and forwarded 10 Washington to be placed in
the monument now in progress OF erection there 10 the
memory OF the Father Of his Country
The general assembly did not authorize any sentiment
to be placed the block. took the liberty of having
inscribed the following
.sIndiana knows no NORTH no South nothing but the
Union"
did SO because believed, as still believe, that the
sentiment thus engraved enduring marble wrtten
also the hearts OF people-hat was the sentiment
OF the great mass OF fellow citizens OF Indiana on The
most agltating question of the day
Complete unanmIty Is rarely the incident OF human
counses In conederacy like ours, differing its mem
ners and social relations local and sectional interests
1t could not be expected now any more than at The birth
OF our federal constitutions that any compromise, based
upon mutual concessions, should be satisfactory TO all
Ii is not practical question whether those measures
OF peace recently framed by great and good in the
same spirit which actuated fathers in days gone by
IN S1ch NEE he'd An
prevail has been well said that the lives of the best
of spent in choosing between evils and it often
bounden duty TO endure temporary and incidental evil
for permanent and inherent good domestic institution,
forced upon foreathers in colonial days rather than
voluntarily adopted by them s Tor the present. the neces
say policy OF our southern brethren Any sudden aban.
donmen of that policy is impossible Even lis gradual
REIMBURSEMENT is bese with difficulty and embarass-
The patriots OF the revolution, convened to frame
government that has endured for three uaers OF
century-has spread over half hemisphere the bless
ngs OF peace of political and religious freedom and
h each y the nou 70 ns as to
her internal government and her social relations With
out this recognition, absolute and unconditional, the
thirteen original States would never have concuued in
the federal compact That the great conservative
element which bound hearts, though could reconcile
opinions. Without that element the Union would not
have been created then without it the Union cannot be
preserved now.
Indiana, a central State, has always maintained high
conservative position, especially on that exciting question
OF the day which has threatened more seriously than any
other, the neg ry of confedeacy OF States She is,
indeed convinced that she has wisely selected her own
domestic policy She is satisfied with the degree OF
prosperity under that free policy, she has attained Our
State the nineteenth admitted into the Union. In
wealth, agriculture, and commercial importance she is
now the fifth ii indeed she be not the fourth. or the
eighteen States which composed the Union when we
admitted four at most BOW in our advance rand
of those since admitted has within sight OF
us. Maintaining her position ahead OF all her younger
sisters Indiana has walked quietly in advance Of four
teen OF the older States In our onward progress we
have uniformly acted toward each equal to equal Our
compacts with the great confederacy 10 which we belong
and every member OF it, have been faithfully kept in let
ter and in spirit Neither by legislative act otherwise
have withheld from any citizen of the Union the
rights which, under the federal compact, assured TO
him. To this day cause OF complaint has been given
nor so far know. has complaint been made against
Indiana by any State in the Union
Above ALL Indiana recognises the imperative duty,
by every good citizen, of obedience TO the laws OF the
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| Whatever difference of opinion may exist as TO the
late compromise enacted by Congress-however
ultra in the North in the South may oppose or
denounce hem-thee but course OF action Tor The
true patriot pursue, and that is nnhesatIngy and IN
good faith to carry out their enactments.
There safety for property for liberty nor for life.
higher duty OF the citizen than TO maintain, by word
and deed, that supremacy. As we value the heritage
rich beyond all price, purchased not with silver gold
but with the es blood oil the good and bravethat her
iiage bequeathed TO by fathers and which in
turn must beqneah inviolate to descendanisle
bear in mind that the first public OF dsobedience
law is the first fatal step the downward road TO
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The constitution Of this great conederacy, written
parchment may be rent asunder, ii be not written also
on the hearts and affections of the people It is written
i on We love. w 4. highest