Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1851-11-13

in their approaching Convention, fully and frankly en-
dorsing all these measures.
The Wing convention, which meets two days after
wards will at least, endorse the administration of Mr..
Fillmore, which will be construed into an endorsement
of the Compromise, which he recommended and which he
has fully sustained. This viii give them the vantage
ground OF the Democratic party, unless that party in sd-
vance makes a full endorsement. Silence will be constru-
ed into opposition. No democrat who has made up his
mind to support either Lane, Cass, Douglas, Buchanan
or Houston for the Presidency, can object to such an en-
dorsement, and no man opposed TO the fugitive Slave
law will support either of them. In that contest they
will be found with the legitimate free soil party support
ing the free soil candidate for the Presidency.
The South have manlully rebuked the spirit of disu-
Mon. They have planted themselves on the compromise
measures. They base fought under the banner Of the
Union, and under that banner they have conquered. They
have declared their willingness to abide by these meas
ures, and to regard them as a final settlement OF the an.
CRY questions, growing out of the slavery agitation. The
non slave-holding States must do the same before peace
and harmony can be restored in the different sections Of
the Union. The compromises of the Constitution must be
faithfully observed. Congress must enact such laws as
will secure to the South all their Constitutional rights,
and the North must faithfully observe and execute such
laws. w o must ledNe III lnSlltuilOn ol sidfciy "
the Constitution leaves it. That instrument must be Ia
ken as a whole. We cannot observe that which is pala-
table aud reject that which, to our minds and Prejudices,
may be Objectionable. The people ought everywhere TO
understand that the safety and perpetuity of our Union
depends on the faithful observance Of these compromises.
These measures are either right or they are wrong. If
they are right, shonld not democratic andwhig conven-
tons say 500 If they are wrong, let them be condemn
ed. They are so clear and well defined that it is i'm
possible for any man to be ~non-committal. Every man
in this community has his mind clearly settled on these
questions. He either approves or condemns them. or
such materials are our political conventions composed,
and for them to resolve on nothing or dodge this ques.
ton by some unmcaning Janus-faced resolution, is sheer
hypocricy and cowardice, which the people will never
sanction. The only excuse for this n~on-committal poll
cy is to secure the abolition vote.
This may be a policy suited to the Office seekers-the
village and cross-road politicians, but it will not suit the
people, and il the conventions refuse to do their duty, let
the people at the elections, take the matter into their
own hands, and withhold their support from candidates
for office who are not willing openly to avow their senti-
mcnts. Vote for no man, Wing or Democrat. who is in
favor Of further agitating the slavery question. If the
Democratic Convention of Indiana, which is to assemble
in February, follow the advice Of Ellis, and adopt a sort
OF dip-net platform, to catch fish, frog and tadpole, and
nominate a speckled and striped ticket, we hope the peo-
pie will prune it Of it's rottenncss, and teach political
huekstcrs a lesson which they will not soon forget; and
in us they will find a Jealous advocate. We will support
no such ticket. We have been a strong party man, but
we stand by party organizations for the preservation and
not for the destruction of the Union; and when We unite
with a party whose object is the repeal of the fugitive
slave law, we are organizing for the destruction Of the
best government on earth.
1t is sometimes necessary to talk plain, and always
right to act with boldness. That time has now come.
We shall urge the people to send delegates to the Dem
ocratic Convention who will not sell themselves to the
Julian and Ellis faction-ihat will not disgrace the State
by consenting to a set Of milk and water, unmeaning
resolutions, and who above all will see that the ticket is
composed of sound, able and consistent Democrats
With a strong ticket and a clear and we'll defined plat
form, we can carry Indiana in the next election by at
least fifteen thousand majority. We hope to sec the
Wing party, by their resolutions, fully endorse these
measures. We want no controversy with them on this
angry and vexed question. We want to see the united
voice Of the State in their favor and We confidently hope
to see the great body of the people united on this Issue.
There are in Indiana a few thousand abolitionists, who
think themselves better and holier than their neighbors;
who wear broad their philactaries, and pray at the cor
ncr of the streets that they may be heard Of men, who
will look to a higher law than the Constitution. These
hypocrites, if let alone, will do no harm. They are only
We advise our Democratic friends to have nothing to do
then man and the Publican.