Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-08-30

Chalr, winch was anOpteO.
The President upon taking the chair said
/ thank you for the compliment conferred
The assemblage of this vast multitude o
representatives, speaks language that can
not be misunderstood. 1t is the upheava
of the Democratic principle Of the Stat,
and no ordinary cause has produced it,
You have come from your homes for NJ
vain display. The Democratic party de
lights not in ossentation or parade but yol
have come well knowing that nation
preservation depends upon the party witt
which you are connected. The annals o
our country present no parallel with tn,
present.
The dark pages of 1854 and 1856 mus
record the bigotry, the treason and the de
generacy of thousands of American borl
freemen; the oath, the torch, the knife hav,
been the arguments with which they hav,
in some instances temporarily triumphed
Argument is not required to show that thu
X. n. party has trampled the constitution
and laws of our country under foot. To state
their principles and practice is to demon
strate this assertion.
To the foreign born citizen they deny thai
equality which is emblazoned in living llgh
on the glorious declaration OF American In
dependence and in violation of our federal
and State Constitutions they establish reli'
gious tests for Office The leaders of this I'M
princip.ed party in this State year after yeal
have We'd with the democratic party in estab-
fishing the Constitution and laws which they
now spurn and despise. The journals of oul
Constitutional Convention and laws of ON
State will fully show their former course and
present baseness.
They would now willingly fasten upon
our foreign born citizens tho bonds of polit.
ical serfdom.
Another party not less dangerous to our
national existence is in our midst. A higher
law party who spit upon and burn the Con-
stitution of our Republic, and steal, as they
conceive, with the appreciation of God. No
promises or constitutional compacts in regard
to the institution of slavery in the South, is
regarded by them. This many headed party
ranging from the Bible hating Garrisonian to
the wiley Sewardite, are laboring to disseveI
the Union. / cannot dwell upon this subject
There may be parts of this confederaey that
might not Immediately feel the whole force
of the shock, but the separation, should il
ever come, CdIllOb Dt DlOOQlCoS. I1C IAN
banks OF the beautiful Ohio would be stained
with gore. Our commerce would be para
lived. Our lands would be worthless, and
we border State, would be left to bear the
brunt of intestine war brought on by the ille-
gal intermeddling of the fanatics of the
North.
Against all these illegal combinations the
Democratic party Is arrayed, and now calls
upon every lover of freedom and Constitu-
tional right to battle in her cause.
The questions are no longer of a limited
or sectional character, but the broad issue be-
tween the Democratic party and its opponents
is whether the Constitution shall be oboyed
or disregarded, and on this issue, as the old
Wing party is no more, we call on every Ma
tional Wing to do battle for the common
cause of Constitutional freedom. No the law
abiding Wing party is no more, but the Con-
stitution loving, law loving, peace loving
Democratic party, is not dead. 25,OO0 of its
noble hearted representatives are before me
No, it Is not dead
ssLike some tall cliff whose awful form
Swells in the breeze and midway leaves the storm,
Though round breast the roaring hunders spread,
Eternal sunshine settles on its head"
No, when it dies the last hope of freemen
will expire, and anarchy and despotism will
triumph DER its fall.
On motion of Gov. Willard, the following
gentlemen were selected as additional officers
Wee Presidents-Daniel Dale, of 10th Dist.
Judge Groves, of 9th Dist; Thos. j. Howard
of I'd Dist; James b. Foley, of 4th Dist.
Jacob Wynne, of 9th Dist; James Osborn
of 5th Dist; Jas. NJ Sleeth, of 9th Dist; An
drew Humphreys, of 7th Dist; z. fanny.
hill, of Sd Dist; DIR. Bray, of LIST Dist; and
Jas. A. Lewis, of 18th Dist.
Secretaries-J. b. Norman, of Floyd, Geo
w. Lane of Dearborn, VIM. f. Mclean OF
Vigo, and John w. Dodd, of Grant.
Hon. j, E. Mcdonald moved that Com
mittee of one from each Congressional Dis
trict, be appointed to report resolutions, which
was adopted, and the following committee
appointed j. E. Mcdonald, G. X. Drew, P.
M. Kent, s. H. Buskirk, j. w. Spencer, Ed
mund johnson, A. F, Morrison, w. M. Frank
lin, Robert Lowry, Samuel Hall and John w.
Dodd.
Mr.. Twyman of Kentucky, editor of the Padu-
cab Democrat, was then introduced to the meet
ing. He said he was from the First Congress
sional District of Kentucky,-the Gibraltar OF
Kentucky, and was proud of the fact that nc
disgrace polluted that soil. He wo1ld to God
that every Democrat of Kentucky Were here to-
dav to witness this demonstration of he pure
Democracy. For Kentucky he would extcnd t.
the Democrats of Indiana hearty hand of vel
come in the cause you advocate. We say to YOU
of Indiana stand by the Constitution of the
Country, and the South will stand by you a
one body.
The Democracy had been defeated in Ken
tucky,-but such defeat Kentucky stand:
this day disgraced in the eyes of all the world
He said it with shame, but the truth should al
ways be spoken.
The Democracy Of his native State would
scorn such victory as that achieved by tn,
Know lettings of Louisville.
Here the speaker was interrupted by the al
rival of the procession from the Union Depot
| with several bands of music
Resuming, he said in conclusion. the Democ
racy of Kentucky will hail with Joy, the sue
cess Of the Democracy OF Indiana, and will
them would stand or fall in defeuce of the Con
stitution.
Hon. Jno. G.. Davis said, it was now apparen
that but a small portion of those assemble,
could hear from one stand, and gave notice tina
| another meeting would be Immediately orsani
zed in another portion of the grove.
| Col. Carpenter, of Kentucky, was then intro
duced and was greeted with three cheers. III
said, that though suffering from a severe COLI
and fatigue, yet, II quiet was observed, he woul'
try and make himself heard. He was from
Kentucky, and being from that State, he felt a
a very bad man had once prayed sometime ago
who thanked his God that he was not as othe
men. He was not a Know Nothing. In Ken
lucky Sam ruled the day. Here Sambo don
likewise There Sam professed to be pro-sla
very, and declared that he was the only on
who was the true friend of slavery. Here Sam
DO was the peculiar friend and patron OF free
dom. If he was a Know Nothing how could h
make a speech here; but being Democrat h
would talk here as he did elsewhere, just as IA
honestly thought. The Democracy had certain
great principles, which were the same in New
Hampshire as in Louisiana. 1t was the part
which had controlled the country from its inceT
tion, except a few years of Wing rule. TIL
principles of the Democracy are such as enabl
1t to govern the country. because they wer
! founded upon the Constitution.
He alluded to the condition of the countr
and the state of parties three years ago. w
; had but two great parties-the Wing and Den
, ocrat- No disorder was known at elections
nor was bloodshed the result of political diffe