Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-01-30
Union Meeting at Laporte.
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J. N. RILEY,)
j. goEs FnAzEn, Secretaries.
II. CoMINGoRE,S

In pursuance of call for Union meeting of
all citizens in favor of averting dissolution of
the Union, by the adoption of the Crittenden
compromise, a large gathering of the citizens of
Laporte, of all parties, met at Huntsman Hall,
Friday evening, January 18th.
The meeting wor organized by the election of
the following officers:
Mark Allen, W. H. Boyd, Jacob Vile. Abel Vail,
Jonas Hamburger, John W Layne, E. c. Thomas,
III. Truesdell, Joseph Oaks, A. Wallace, ID. Pat
ton, II. A. Organ, W. A. Place, Jno p. Teeple
Secretaries, Henry Higgins, Jno. P. Early.
The following persons were appointed n COM
mittee to present resolutions expressive of the
objects of the meeting.
Daniel Noyes, VIM. Sutherland. F. p. Cum
ming, DIR. A. X. Webster and Jno b. Frayel
The following preamble and resolutions were
presented and adopted with great unanimity.
WHEREAS, The preservation of the sacred boon
of liberty, and the result of the Republican form
of Government justly considered by the civil
lized world, as deeply and perhaps as finally
staken upon the experiment entrusted to the
hands of the American people. And
WHEREAS, Our Government exists in its pres
ent form only by the consent of the governed
and that it is necessary as it is wise to resort to
the people for the revision of the organic law
whenever the danger which threatens the country
snail tranScenu the powers delegated 10 Its con-
stituted authorities. And
WHEREAS, Our Government, which is as per
feet as any the mind of man has ever invented OF
the hand of man has ever framed, after the lapse
of three quarters of a century, does require some
notifications to adapt it to the changes of society
and to the enlarged dimensions of the country
| And
WHEREAS, ALSO, The people of all the State,
of this Union are bound together as one famil,
] by innumerable ties, which no power short of thai
which paralyzes all memory and effaces all his
tory can sever. That our glorious institution.
under whose guidance and protection we have at
tained so great prosperity and renown, and whici
have made the Union of States the JOY and hop,
as well as the asylum of oppressed millions
throughout the world, were framed by the wis
dom, built by the toll and defended by the blood
and treasure of a common ancestry, can not now
perish, without the everlasting reproach to us
their descendants of having DESTROYED so grea
and so glorious an inheritance. Now therefore
Resoiced, That we, the citizens of Laport.
county, in the State of Indiana, in convention
assembled, with one voice and united hearts, pro
claim our attachment to, and reverence for ou
common country, and our earnest and abidin.
love for that great Union which it establishes ant
protects love which is not sectional bu
national, and which greets our brother iron
whatever State he comes, as partaker with
in that nobest of all INTERCHANGEABLE title of
citizen of the United States
ResolUed, That the usefulness and endurance
of the Union, both depend upon faithful OBJ
servance by the people of all the requirements o
that sacred instrument which the wisdom and tn