Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-14
whitley County Democratic Cenven-
ton.


THOMAS WAsHBURS was called to the chair, and
E. ZIMMERMAN appointed Secretary. DANIEL
B. RIcE was unanimously nominated for County
Commissioner for the Third District and BENJA
MIN +. BEEsoN was unanimously nominated for
Coroner The following Delegates and Alter
mates were appointed to the next Democratic
State Convention:
DELRGArEs.-John b. Firestone, H. d. Wilson,
A. W. Myers, and A. j. Douglas
ALTERSATEs.-David 7. Davis, Daniel B. Rice,
Jacob Mickey, and James Grant.
The Committee on Resolutions, through their
chairman, S. II. Wunderlich, Esq, submitted the
following which were adopted also two other
resolutions, introduced by some gentlemen of the
convention were ordered to be Incorporated in the
original report:
WHEREAS, One of the inalienable rights guar
anteed to our people under our free institutions is
to meet peaceaby together and in an appropriate
manner discuss and express their sentiments free
ly upon all subjects affecting their interests social
ly. politically and morally; and
WHEREAS, "The price of liberty is eternal Wig
lance, it becomes particularly important in the
present distracted and unhappy condition of the
country, that the people should meet and take
council together, and assent or dissent from the
policy adopted by those having charge of the af
our country's history; therefore
ResolUed, BY the Democracy of Whitley coun-
ty, in convention assembled, that we reafiirm our
unaltoable attachment to the Constitution and
the Union, and while as loyal citizens, we will
support all the provisions of the Constitution and
the laws, enacted in accordance Herewith, in
terpreted by the Courts, and we will not consent
to violation of the provisions of that sacred in
strument by any officer of the government, upon
fl,a, r.lrs a
Resolved That we would hail with heartfelt
satisfaction, the restoration of peace to once
happy country, and would rejoice in the adoption
of any measure for the adjustment of our nation
al difficulties that would be Just and honorable to
both sections, in preference to the continuance of
the present internal war, which promises no good
to either.
Resolved. That acruated by these feelings and
considerations, we approve of the spirit and SEN
timent embraced in the preamble and resolutions
recently offered in Congress by S s. Cox, of
Ohio, "a copy of which Is annexed to these reso-
lutiOns), and we commend the action of the
members from own State and the forty-one
Others who sanctioned the same by their votes.
Here follows the preamble and resolutions Of
fered by Mr.. Cox. which have been published in
the Sentinel.l
ResOIoed, That we have always accorded to
others the right to criticise ami comment freely
upon the acts of public officers, and discuss in
becoming manner through the press, or otherwise,
all subjects in any way cOnce ming US; people
claim the privilege for ourselves, and will
resist the last extremity any and all attempts,
from whatever source they may come, to abridge
or interfere with this right.
ResoLoed, That the Columbia City Nelcs, under
the management of its present proprietor and
editor, meets our entire appreciation, and We
cheerfuy recommend it to the Democracy of
this county as paper advocating correct princi-
piles and worthy of their support.
ResOlced, That we, as Democrats, are in favor
of the Union as our forelathers made it, and
against seceSsiOnism either North or South-op-
posed to degrading the white man by making the
negro his equal, either socially politically.
ResOtUed, That we are unalterably opposed to
the so-caled constitutional right of secession.
ResolreG That the resolutions of this conven-
ton be published in the Columbia City NeIos and
the State Sentinel.
The Nelos thus comments upon the spirit and
character of the convention:
On last Saturday (the Sd nstant,) was glori
Gus day for the Democracy of Whitley, and added
new lustre to their already bright laurels The
"bone and sinew" of the county was represented
in the convention. and free interchange of opin
ions had on the impending crisis, as became
American freemen- The utmost unanimity char
acterized its deliberations; partisan feelings and
animOsitieS IRE discarded, and the preservation
of the Union, as the revolutionary sires made it,
at all Constitutional hazards, the maintenance,
inviolate of the Constitution, and the legitimate
enforcement of the laws by the Executive, was
fervently and zealously advocated by the most
prominent men in the convention; and the attach
ment of the Democratic party TO our most glori-
Gus Union, was SO deeply impressed in the minds
of the people rs to forever eradicate the idea of
the Republican leaders that they want this Union,
founded by the noble Washington and reared by
the Democracy, shattered to atoms, because they
will not sanction the eunconstitutonal gross
usurpations of the President The restoration of
peace by negotiation and compromise was freely
and fearlessly advocated; the horrors of fratri-
cidal war vividly delineated and portrayed in
| glowing terms; the immense expenditure of mon
ey the great sacrifice of life, the great suferings
of the American people should the war be pro-
longed for number of years, was pictured so
! glowingly to the sturdy yeomanry assembled,
that many wept at the idea of waging war with
their brethren of the South, with whom they had
lived in peace and tranquility for nearly centu
ry. when all might have been amcably adjusted
sometime ago, but for the obstinacy of the Re-
publican members of Congress.
language is inadequate to express the devo-
| ton of the Democracy to the Union, as mani
tested by the Convention; suffice it to say that,
while they are willing to make any honorable
concessions for the sake of peace, in order to re
store friendly feelings and relations between one
common brotherhood and thus stay the tide of
civil war, yet. if needs be, they will hazard every
thing to maintain the Constitution and the laws
under it. and perpetuate the noble fabric OF Amer
lean liberty gnally established by the purest
patriots and statesmen that ever lived. Never
will Democrats sanction any aggreSsions upon the
institutions of the South, or the damnable con-
ception of some hair Drained AbotiOnists who
Il. sl,nl
of the Mississippi River and deluging the ada
cant country or carry the torch of the incendiary
Southwark and let over four millions of slaves
\ loose 10 commit their atrocious ravages upon un-
protected women and children; the men who ad-
vocate such warfare are incarnate fends, and
'.May the grass wither from their feet the woods
Deny them shclteri earth a honlei the dust
grave the sun his light and heaven GodF'
J In the name of humanity, if the war must be
prosecuted, let it be done upon the principle OF
common warfare, and not resort to such extreme
barbarities. Every patriot and lover of his coun
try without distinction of party affiliations, car
heartily indorse the resolutions passed by the con
vention, as they breathe the sentiments of the
patriot and not the politician. With the Consti
tuition in one hand, the scales of justice and lib
erty in the other, and ''Union' inscribed on the
Democratic banner. the Democracy will march il
one solid phalanx to the rescue OF their country
: and arrest the ruthless arm that would thus wan
tonly destroy the best Government on earth
Did Governor MORTON have his ''vigilant men
watching the Democracy of Whitley county tC
make them feel the consequence" of the ex
preston of their sentiments upon the present
crisis of the country because they did not happer
to meet the views of his Excellency? We are o
the opinion that the people of Indiana intend t.
discuss with the utmost freedom the acts of botl
, the State and National Administrations, and a
, the same time sustain the Government as become
loyal citizens