The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-09-04
The RESOLUTIONS Again.

he found in them, at all calculated TO convey
The impression. that the good sense and politi-
cal integrity of the Convention were on par
with its numbers But as we have stated, few /
of the Convention knew, or could be presumed /
to know, what really were the resolutions got |
up and passed by their demagogue leaders, and
given to the world under the sanction of the
Convention. Yet none the less responsible is
the Convention and the party at large, for
these literally sag NIGHT (say nothing resolu-
tons. We now proceed to give the remain
der -
ResolUed, That we hereby proclaim our de-
cided hostility to the principles and conduct OF
that sectional and fanatical party known as
Abolitionists, who have so recently unfurled
their banner Of abolitionism and disunion
throughout the Northern States. That we
view their proceedings with increasing appre-
tensions of great injury to the peace and pros
perity of our common country and as being
Numerically opposed to the provisions and re-
duirements of the Constitution of the United
States, which, if violated as they propose, must
bring the dreadful result of disunion, civil war
the ruin of our beloved country, and the de-
structon of the last pillar which sustains the
temple of Liberty on earth.
| And who does not condemn the principles
Of abolitionists except themselves These
red -mouthed ultraists have the sympathy Of no
party, and certainly not the ordinary respect
Of individuals out Of themselves. But if they
choose to vote with the Republican or Ameri-
can party now, it is no more than what they
have repeatedly done with the Democratic party
and what they would be begged, and beseeched,
and awned upon to do again, if they had a
vote large enough to be worth the begging or
buying. But if the resolution meant to signi-
fy in any respect the Republican or American
party, when it alludes to abolitionists, it is
is guilty of foul and contemplate slander.-
There is no party in the State of Indiana ask
ing for any thing more than justice from the
South, which might make that party amenable
to the charge of abolitionism, than the Demo
cratic party laid down in its platform Of 1919,
when it said that Congress should, by all Con
sttutional means, prevent the extension Of
slavery over free territory. IF there be any
foul spirit Of abolitionism more prevalent in
Indiana now than there was three years ago,
upon the Democratic party rests the response
bility, in having passed the Odious and infa-
nous Nebraska Bill. We are sorry the Con-
vention did not specify the intended outrages
on the Constitution, which, if carried out, are
to bring about such horrid results.
Reso7veR That we cordially re-afirm the
principles Of the Democratic National Conven-
ton of 1913 and 1852, as embodying the only
/, practical system of action which can be taken
on the great national question to which they
refer, and as the best tending to perpetuate
T the peace, harmony, and integrity of the
, Union.
Nothing is said about the State Conventions
Of 1849 and 1854! We may soon give an ex-
tract or two from these, to show how 'immu-
table" Democratic principles are. Indiana
Democracy at this day, and by their own plat
form, occupies just precisely an antagonistical
position on the slavery question, to that they
occupied at the close of the first half of the
nineteenth century say, five or six years
ago. e h
Res07ref That we most positively and une-
J quiyocally condemn and oppose all attempts
| to control by force and violence the right Of
free suffrage of citizens at the polls, either in
the States or territories of this Union. The
: will of the people properly expressed, is the
2 highest law, but if that expression be stifled
or defeated, there is an end of civil govern
ment, and failure in the power of the people
to protect themselves a
! And wherein was the necessity of or call
! for this resolution It is aposition every good
citizen, no matter what his party, just as cor
daily approves as the men who assembled at
this Convention. Nor is there any party
: which owns or approves of a single principle
calculated to produce violence and outrage at
the polls-=although there IS a party whose
leaders and editors are constantly, by the
most infammatory language and basest eharg-
es against those who would purify the ballot
box, effeetually laboring to bring about the
very things condemned by the above resolu-
ton. This party it was that just held a big
Convention at the Capital. After passing the
above resolution, they ought to have passed
another containing an equally indisputable
truth, that pure water is healthy But that
might have been construed into an opinion on
t the liquor question:
e Resolced, That we view with disgust and
e disapprobation, the conduct of non-reside MT
Know Nothing DULLES from Missouri, or hired
abolition fanatics from Massachusetts, or else
where, in their interference with the legal
rights of the actual settlers of Kansas to vote
: as they please or to deprive them of the sacred
!, and ines Unable privilege of deciding the laws
: which are to govern them as citizens Of the
Territory.
r How did the Convention come by the knowl-
edge that the ruffians from Missouri who cross