Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-09-25
Montgomery County Democratic

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gomery county, met at the Court House, on Sat
urday, September Z. 1861.
0nmotion, Col s. O. WilsonwaS appointed Pres
ident of the meeting Judge W. Heath Vice Pres
ident. George ID. Hurley Secretary.
Col. Wilson in a brief and patriotic manner
stated the object of the meeting, and referred to
the cause of the national difficulties
On motion of George w Snyder, committee
was appointed from each township to draft reso-
lutions.
RESOLUTIONS
The committee reported the following resolu.
tions which were unanimously adopted:
WHEREAS, Dangerous persons in the North
are and have been engaged in promulgating the
damnable sentiment that 'the United States Con
stitution is a covenant with death and an agree
ment with hell, /" and that there is a higher law
than the Constitution, and that they opposed
to any Union with Shareholders, thereby striving
to ALLEVIATE the affections of the people Of one
portion of the country against the other, thus
proclaiming their hostility TO the wise and bene6-
cent institutions OF the country as made and
sanctioned by our Fathers;
AND WHEREAS, A portion of the people of ten
States of this Union have rebelled against the
Government and in violation of the Constitution
and laws of the land, have forcibly taken pos
session Il our forts, navy.yards, arsenals ships,
public arms and millions of the public treasure;
and on the 18th of April last declared war
against the Government by entrenchng, firing
upon and taking Fort Sumter; they have invited
and armed pirates to destroy our commerce on
the high seas and confscate private property;
have mobbed, robbed and murdered our private
citizens, and have forcibly suppressed every
timent loyal to the Union in the rebellious States,
and are now consummating their wicked treason
by levying war and maintaining large forces for
the avowed purpose of dismembering this glori-
Gus Republic, for which our Fathers, with Wash
ington at their head, fought through a seven
years war to establish and build upon its ruins
Government inimical to the conservative and pat
riotic people of these United States: Therefore,
Resolced, That the Democratic party of Mont
gomery county, in mass convention assembled,
do hereby utterly repudiate and condemn both the
Abolition -Disunionists of the North, and the Sc
cession rebels and traitors of the South, and be-
lieve it to be the duty of every lover of his
try to aid and assist in consigning both to ig-
nominious grave; and in so doing, we but reIter-
ate the patriotic sentiment of the immortal jack
son-"By the Eternal, the Union must and shall
be preserved"
Resoioed, That the Democratic party of Mont
gomery county are as ever loyal to the Constior
ton and the laws; that we are in favor of their
rigid enforcement everywhere throughout the
ODiteu oLdtcS, upon all OcCdSlOns, tndt we VIII
sustain the Administration in all its constitution
we declare our apprehension and disapprobation
of all violations of the fundamental laws of the
the country, as well in the President and his
Cabinet as in the humblest citizen. i-
Resolued, That the charge against Democrats,
accusing them of being secessonists and disu-
nionists, is a foul and infamous falsehood. While
the rabid Abolitionsts have heretofore given ex-
preston to sentiments rejecting contempt on the
Constitution of the United States, on the laws of
Congress, and the decisions of the Courts, the
Democrats have ever, and without a single ex-
ception, contended for the inviolable mainten-
ance of these sacred guarantees of our Liberties.
Resolped, That we are, and always have been,
in favor of the liberty Of speech and the free
dom of the press, holding ourselves amenable
for the abuse thereof to the law of country,
and not to any self-constituted mobocrat COM
mittees
Resolued, That we feel just pride in the
achievements of the Indiana troops who so nobly
responded to the call of the constituted authori-
ties of the State and nation, and went forth to
defend the Government from the assaults of those
in arms against it. thus placing our State in
high position for stern resolve, indomitable cour
age and undoubted loyalty.
Resolued, That this should be no war of az
gression upon the institutions of any State, and
that we have no compromise to offer to any per
son, who, through his own instrumentality, has
taken up, and continues in arms against his gov
ernment, but that We stand ready and willing to
guarantee to all loyal citizens wherever found, all
the rights and privileges secured to them BY the
Constitution of the United States, that we are
fighting to put down this unnatural rebellion from
love of country, and not from hate to our breth-
ren of the South, and that we are ready to pro-
claim that when this armed rebellion shall cease,
and our beloved country restored to peace, We are
in favor of meeting them again in liberal spirit,
and to guarantee TO them all their constitutional
rights.