Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-01-23

1hOnudN AT TWO . CLOCK Il. NJ.
sE The following are the resolutions offered
by Mr.. Holcomb referred to in the Senate in
House proceedings in this weeks paper:
To the Honorable tie Senate and House Of Representa-
tires Of tie United States in Congress assembled;
The State of Indiana, by her Senators and
Representatives in General Assembly convened,
respectfully memorializes and represents to your
honorable bodies that she views with the utmost
anxiety the perilous condition of the American
Union; that she, moved by an imperative sense
of duty to our common country in addressing the
Congress of the United States on the portentious
condition of public affairs, imploring prompt ac-
ton on some scheme of pacification that will
preserve the Federal Union and restore tranquil
ity to the country.
Entertaining, as your memorialist does, the
most profound conviction of the blessings, as well
as the threatened dangers of the Union, she is
ready to make great sacrifices to perpetuate the
one and avert the other.
At time like this, when the foundations of the
National government shaken and its pillars
crumbling away, it is the solemn duty of every
State in the American Union to discard all spe
cious fallaces in regard to slavery-all blind re-
sentiment for supposed agressions-all pride and
sectional animosities, and all partisan crimna
tons, and forgetting the mutual provocations Of
the past, bring all offensive doctrines and plat
forms, all abstract theories aud barren creeds, al
sacrifices upon the altar of common country.
The State of Indiana, not unmindful of her DO
sition and duty in this respect as conservative
State of the Union, solemnly invokes the wisdom
and patriotism of the national Congress to thu no
BILE work CT fostering loyalty to the Federal Gov
ernment strengthening the bonds of the Union
removing all disturbing causes, staying the tide
ofrevoluton and giving peaceful solution to the
great problem of the age
The labors and sacrifices of an immortal ances
try in devsing this beautiful and complicated form
of Federal Government, the experiment of civil
lied man for self government, the happiness, thu
prosperity, the civilization and the destiny of the
American race hang, it is believed, upon the
speedy and effective action of the American Con
gress. Events of an age crowding themselve
into hours, events of an incaculable magnitude
fraught with the issues of Union or Disunion
peace or war, the rise or fall of great empire
The State of Indiana not but deplore the
sectional madness and party infatuaton thai
would suffer the dismemberment Of this confede
racy any theory that the supposed integrity o.
platform is of greater consequence than the ex
istence of this Government
She takes great pride at this critical junction in
declaring to her sister States that the records o.
her past Legislation are not sustained by nulifyin,
laws or personal liberty bills
While the State of Indiana is firmly attached
to the Union of the States, and regards the un
broken peace Of the country as an indispensable,
condition of its continuance, and while she denie
the asserted Constitutional right of any State t.
secede from the Federal Union, and while she re
cognizes plain duty in the Federal Government
: to enforce the Federal laws, and maintain Fede
raj supremacy over Federal property, yet she re
cognizes the duty and policy Of moderation ant
forbearance on the part of the Federal Govern
ment toward the seeding States and that at th
junction, only the civil powers Of the Govern
ment can safely be used 10 enforce the laws, ant
in behalf Of the Union and peaceful enforcement
of the laws, the State of Indiana exhorts the Ma
tional Government to second. by legislation, tn,
efforts of the Executive to enforce the laws b,
civil process.
And while the State of Indiana recognizes, a,
a last resort the inalienable right of revolution
BY State for sufficient cause, and she does no
regard the election of Mr.. Lincoln to the Presi
dency alone a sufficient cause for revolution We
in frankness and justice to her sister States, sh'
is bound to say, that the aggregate of grievance
which the South has sustained at the hands o
the North, including the election of sectiona
President, upon a simple anti-slavery issue, doe
furnish good ground of alarm to the saveholdine
States, and justifies them in demanding conces
sions and new guarantees for the safety of thei
institution.
The State of Indiana, therefore, not who'll,
despairing Of the Republic, but greatly at los.
for an adequate remedy for the impending catas
trophe of disrupted Government, regards witt
great favor the series of propositions lately sub
mitted by the Hon. John j. Crittenden to tn,
Senate of the United States, as furnishing bash
for an adjustment which shall withdraw the fur
ther agitation of slavery from the National coun
cils well as from Northern politics; correc
public sentiment in the North; secure the return
of the dsloyal States; save the land of Washing
ton from a sanguinary war; preserve the homo
and prestige of the American name, and perpet
uate the liberties of people who have wantonly
put them at stake to abide the fortunes of Revo
luton, and the arbitrament of the sword
For these, among other reasons, the State o
Indiana prays for prompt action by the Congress
of the United States in the passage of said propo
sitions, looking to an amendment of the Fedora
Constitution, to meet the exigencies of the case
and further, the State of Indiana looking to tn
possible defeat of said scheme of adjustment, an,
looking to the fearful progress of the revolution
which must inevitably carry with it the pillars o
the Constitution and insure the horrors of civi
war, she prays, in that event, that YOUR Honorable
bodies will unite in calling National Convention
of the States to consider amendments TO the Con
stituton of the United State. In conclusion
your memorialst repeats that the solution of tn
impending caamities is to be found in conciIia
ton and compromise, and not in the power of tn
sword. which, If once drawn, will never be re
turned until every State in the Union has becom
blood stained desert. She asks that the people
of the nation may have an opportunity of speak
ing with their own lips and their own tongues
and from their own hearts, and not through tn
doubtful and uncertain medium of pOlitica
oracles. Therefore,
Resoired By the House of Representatives., m
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