The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-08-02
eUTTERNUT RESOLUTIONS.

by the Convention at lndianapo is on We'd
nesday last. We hope they will be read
with care. -
ResoIved, l. That we adhere to the time
honored principles of the Democratic party,
and we believe that. The only hope for the
restoration of the Union and the maintain
ance of the Constitution is in the restJra--
ton of that truly conservative party TO
power. eas- ara saa r7a9
g. Thatthis convention endorse, as worthy
of all confidence, the persons uomiHated by
the delegate, Convention which assembled
at Indianapolis on the 9Th of January, 1862,
aud that we recommended them to the pee-
pie as honest, capable, and faithful TO the
Constitution. ,q{5 lac
3. That the Constitution, the American
Union, and the Laws made under and by
the authority of the Constitution, must be
preserved and maintained in their proper
and rightful snpremacy-that the rebellion
now, in arms against them must be sup
pressed and put down, and that it is the
duty of all good citizens to aid the General
Government in all measures necessary and
proper to that end. =. .{-.i-.f a.. rere
a. That the Democracy of Indiana, with
continue to make every sacrifice to the end
that the rebellion may be suppressed, the
supremacy of the Constitution maintained,
and the Union under it preserved, but they
are unalterably opposed to a war of con-
quest or subjugation, and they will never
consent that the war on their part shall be
waged for the purpose of interfering with
the rights or oyerthFowing the established
Institutions of any of the States. In the
language of Senator Douglas, uttered at
Chicago few days before his death: "We
must not invade constitutional rights. The
innocent must not suffer, nor women aud
children be the victims. SdU0ges must not
be let loose" s.aig
| 5. That we protest, in the name of our
selves and of our children, and IN the name
of all that we hold dear in the future of our
beloved country, against the mischievous
measures of negro emancipation in the Dis
trict of Columbia, and the payment for
such negroes out of the National Treasure !;
and we further protest against the resolu-
ton of Congress pledging the nation to pay
for all negroes which may be emancipated
by the authority of any of the Southern
States !; that we regard such measures, in
volving as they do, an expenditure of two
| thousand FIVE hundred millions of dollars,
as measures of transcendent enormity, and
fruitful only of National beggsry TO the
| land we love; that we are unalterably and
Internationally opposed to all schemes hav-
ing for their object, Immediate or remote,
the taxation of the white man for the pur-
chase of negroes anywhere; that we deny
the Constitutional right of the President or
Congress to adopt a policy which taxes
white labor to pay for negroes, or which
would make the Government or people
slave dealers policy which, If not arrest
ed by the votes of the people, will entail
upon unborn generations of our kindred q
debt more overwhelming and appalling
than ever cursed any nation of ancient or
modern times.
g. That in opposition to measures of this
kind we desire to interpose the peaceful
and powerful agent the ballot Of free feo-
pie, and say in the language of another,
f'We will neither surrender our rights nor
forsake them. We will maintain our con-
stitutional liberty at all hazards, and as a
necessary step towards that end, we will
maintain the Union in like manner. We
are for the Constitution as it is, and the
Union as it was"
se'7 That, in the language of the resolution
of the conservative members of Congress
the doctrine Of the Secessionists and of the
Abolitionists, as the latter are now repre-
scented in Congress, are alike Inconsistent
with the Constitution and irreconcileable
with the unity & peace of the country. The
first have alre 'dy involved us in a civil
war, and the others 1.-THE Abolitionists) will
leave to the country but little hope of the
speedy restoration of the Union or peace
8. That this Convention denounces, as
unwise and unpatriotic all organizations
secret or open, having for their object the
notification Of or resistance to, the laws Of
the State or of the United States-that op-
pressive laws and unwise legislation find
their proper correction only at the ballot
box, where change of legislators will pro
duce the wished for reform of bad and obi.
Gus laws, and to that tribunal only will the
patriot resort in this hour of his country's
trial. We hold sacred and binding every
enactment till repealed or declared nugatory
by competent legal authority.
8. That the happy accord of the Border
State Union men of Kentucky, Maryland
Missouri, and Western Virginia, with the
Democratic delegations in Congress, in their
JOlub u ulACot bnO tue VI III
IN both Houses, has filled all NationaI hearts
in this State with sentiments of deep affec-
ton for our brethren of those gallant Com
/ mcuwealths and we hereby pledge to them
and the country our best efforts to secure to
the councils of the nation statesmen who
will labor to restore the union of the States
on the basis and in the spirit of our match
less and revered Constitution.
TO-. That The people of Indiana, having
inhibited, by the State Constitution and
law, the entrance of free negroes and mu-
lattoes into this State, and as the present
disturbances on our border are likely to
bring an influx OF that population from the
neighboring States, we respectfully ask the
public authorities of Indiana to see that
the Constitution and laws are properly en-
forced on that subject. When the people
of Indiana adopted that negro e1cIassion
clause by a majority of ninety.fo thousand
Uotes, they meant that the honest la5oring
white man should have no competitor in
the black race-that the soil OF Indiana
should belong to the white man, and that
he alone was suited to her free institutions
IL. That the people justly view with
alarm the reckless extravagance which per.
vadcs every department of the Federal Gov.
eminent; that return TO rigid ecoromy
aud accountability is indispensable to arrest
the systematic plumber of the public treasu-
nv nv favored partisans, while the recent