Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-01-30
Union Meeting i'm Bartholomew
County.


CoLUMEUs, January 26, 1861.
Eiitor Of STATE Sentinel:
SIR: A Union meeting, irrespective of parties,
was held here to day, and it was the largest as
semblage ever held in our county. 1t seemed as
if the spirit of patriotism had moved the masses,
and they came in overwhelming numbers to enun-
ciate their Union sentiments and their determine
ton to conciliate and settle the difficulties now
agitating the country.
WILLIAM HERoD, Esq, was President of the
meeting, and BEN. l.. SMITH, Secretary, and
committee was appointed to draft resolutions ex-
pressive of the sense of the people. who, after
short absense, returned by their Chairman, SIMON
STANsIFER, Esq, the following resolutions:
WHEREAS, Our Union is in imminent danger of
being overthrow by the efforts of DisuniOnists;
and whereas the Union men of the South, par
ticularly of the border States, are manfully and
periodically breasting the furious storm of seces
siOn-the conflict between Union and DisuniOn
being close and doubtful therefore be it
Resolved by the people of bartholomew county
here assembled, DithOm regard TO party, That we
warmly and heartily sympathize with our Union
brethren of the South in their noble efforts to
preserve the Union, and we say to them that we
will cooperate with them in the use of all honor
tracted and unhappy country.
Resolved, That we are for the Union. the whole
Union, the Constitution, and the enforcement of
the laws.
Resolved That we know no difference between
the traitors of the seeding States and their apol
gists and allies elsewhere, except that the former
fear not to encounter the odium and peril of
treason, whilst the latter are restrained only by
fear from doing any overt act of treason.
ResoIred That all unconstitutional State Ia ws
interfering with or impairing the operation of the
fugitive slave law ought at once to be repealed;
and we here say to our friends in the South that
the people of the North are no more responsible
for the occasional rescue of fugitive slave, and
the occasional unfriendly and unneighborly act on
the part of some of our citizens of depriving the
owner of his slave whilst in transitu within our
borders, than are the people of the South at large
for outrages committed upon the rights and per-
sons of unoffending citizens of the North whilst
sojourning in the South, for no other reason
than that they hail from the North and have
seen fit to exercise constitutionally the God
given right of free suffrage in accordance
with the dictates of their own judgment and
consciences; and we ask them to join with us
in the use of every effort to remove these and
all other causes of discord and i'll feeling between
the different sections of our country. And we
further saw to our Union brethren of the slave
States, you have the brunt of the battle to bear
Be of good cheer. Stay not your efforts, and
if the Union can not be saved under the COnsti-
tuition as it is, and if with the amendments to the
Constitution proposed by the members of Con-
gress from the border States the battle for the
Union can be successfully fought and the victory
won. And understanding them we do, that
Congress, by the proposed amendments relative
to the territorial question, can not establish or
prohibit slavery in the territory south of the divid
ing line, we say to you that we are for the pro-
posed amendments. any other just and fair
measure that will insure the same glorious re
sult-the preservation of the Union. To this
end, therefore,
BE 1t Resolred That our State Legislature ought
to make application to Congress for the calling
of a national convention for proposing amend
menments to the Constitution of the United
States pursuant to the fifth article thereof.
Resolred, That copy of the foregoing pream-
BILE and resolutions be forwarded to our Senator
and Representative in the Legislature, and to our
Senators and Representatives in Congress, and
that they be requested to present the same TO the
bodies of which they are members.
Resolred, That the foregoing resolutions be
published in our county papers, the Sentinel State
Journal, Louisville Democrat, Louisville Journal,
Cincinnati Gazette and ENQUIRER
The foregoing resolutions were adopted by the
meeting. Glowing and patriotic speeches were
made in their behalf by Simon Stansifer, Esq, f.
7. Hord, Esq, and Mr.. Mooney. Mr. Stansifer
gave vent to his patriotic sentiments with some
feeling. He is Republican, but he sacrificed the
partisan in the patriot. He saw the peril of the
country, and he was for saving the Union, at all
events. His speech made great impression on
the crowd. If the Republican party was filed
with such men we would have none of our present
difficulties A SUBSCRIBER.