Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-09-11

age, with sound policy aud with that spirit Of CON-
ity and good neighborship, without which no con-
federated Union can maintain It's integrity, end
which the Father of bis Country solemnly warned
"a to cherish and preserve.
We have no room for the comments we had pur-
posed on this remarkable correspondence, but we
shall give them hereafter:
INpIANAPoLIs Ind, Aug. %, 1885,
/ certify that the letters. of which the foregoing
correct and complete copies, were published in
the Indiana Weekly Journal Of December Is, 1913,
from the original documents.
B. r. SULGROVE, Editor Journal.
This is not all Not only did the democratic
leaders, the shining lights and favorites, the grand
sachems Of the Indiana democracy, thus endorses
and avow without equiyocation or reservation the
dangerous and deiestable dogmas then as now adj
vocated and urged by the freesoil party Of the
North, but the Whoe Indiana democracy, through
its State conventions announced the same doc.
trines, and placed itself fairly and squarely upon
the Buffalo platform of Martin Van Buren,. Wit
ness the following resolutions adopted by the De
mocratc State convention. They express the true
essence of the most rampant and determined tree
soilism Their correctness ia certified to by Mr.
E. w. H. Ellis, formerly the democratic auditor of
the State OF Indiana, and the secretary of the de-
mocratic convention by which these resolutions
were UNANIMOUSLY adopted
hereby certify that have this day copied YER
batim from the Indiana State Sentinel of January
Is, lS49, the following resolutions, which appear
in the published proceedings of the Democratic
State Convention of the Sth of January, lS49, to
wit:
'-ResOEced, That the institution Of slavery
ought not to be introduced into any territory
ehere 1T does not nOw erist.
Resolved That nasmuch as New Mexico and
California are in fact and in law free Territories,
PRODUCTION OF SLAVERY WITHIN THEIR LIMITS"
was one of the secretaries of said convention,
and further certify that the said resolutions were
adopted unanimously.
Witness my hand at Indianapolis this 9th day OF
August, 1856. E. w. 81. ELLIS.
This was the same convention by which the
present Democratic Governor of Indiana was
first nominated. The nominees of that con,
vtntion were Joseph Wright for Governor and
JAS H. Lane for Lieut.. Governor. Wright has
ever since continued to occupy the Gubernato-
rial chair, and is now vigorously canvassiDg
the State in favor of squatter soveregntyism
and the Cincinnati platform candidate He
has not abandoned his FreesOilism, and on the
18th of July last, in speech at Indianapolis,
he testified to the Freesoilism of the whole
Democratic party. He said: "lf tho policy of
the Democratic party IN reference to sLdUery is
adopted and carried out, not another foot of
slaUe territory aoiU be added to the United
States. James H. Lane, who was nominated
for Lieutenant Governor by the same Demo
cratic convention which unanimously adopted
these ultra freesoil resolutions, was afterwards
elected to Congress by the Democratic party
of the Lawrenceburg Qndiana) district, ard is
now one of the loudest and most active "shriek
ers for freedom" in Kansas, and the leader of
the free state army, which is seeking by force
of arms to drive the pro slavery men out OF
that territory, sackng and burning their towns,
destroying their property, and even butcheriDg
them in cold blood.
Such is the character which the Democracy
of Indiana have assumed TO themselves 10 ref
ereDce TO the subject of slavery, and one of the
Democratic organs of Iadians has with reason
asserted that there is not single Democrat in
the State in favor of slavery extension. The
foregoing is but sample of the record of this
boastful Northern Democracy in regard to the
question of slavery extension into the Terrific
ries. 1t is amply sufficient however to show
the duplicity of the Southern Democratic press
10 falsely charging the National Americans of
Indiana with the faint of abotiOnism.