Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-01-27

body of the Indiana platform, by every Demo.
cratic convention in the country, and will be sus
! tanned at the polls and everywhere else. The
\ sooner that the extremists in Congress under
stand this the better for them and for the coun.
| try. A party which casts over million votes,
and which is daily winning the confidence of all
its conservative opponents, which even now is the
chief reliance of the President and General in
Chief, can not be gagged nor thrust aside when
the destiny of the nation is at stake and political
gamblers are black k-legging it to ruin. They will
be heard and felt in defence of the Constitution
which limits all their demands and will guide
their entire action. They believe in war for the
preservation of the Union, but they know that it
might have been preserved without war if the race
of "bl0Odletters had not refused c0nciliation and
destroyed all hope ofpeace. They will sustain the
war because it is actual fact, and because they
are so loyal themselves that they will not excuse
an illegal attempt to gain redress, even for
serious grievances; but they will not per-
NIT il to be diverted into partisan or sectional
channels They will enforce good faith to the
border States, and the same submission to the
! Constitution by the Federal leaders, as they ex
I act by force of arms from the rebels. They,
therefore, demand, as the Indiana resolutions do,
liberty of the person. of the press and Of speech.
They recognize the necessity of the suspension
OF the habeas corpus in States where the judicial
authority is extinct; but they insist that in loyal
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jurors, the whole people in fact, are irrevocably
faithful to the Government, thereis necessity
to seize and imprison citizens without warrant
OF law, and without assigning any cause, or Civ
/ ing to the party interested any opportunity for
defense" They demand the enforcement of the
| Constitution, where il can be enforced. They
only excuse extraordinary measures, when they
are the result of absolute necessity. In this they
are right. Not man in Michigan doubts that
the persons lately carried from this State to Fort
Warren, could not have been arrested by regular
warrants, imprisoned in this judicial district, tried
before the patriotic Judge Wilkins, and jury Of
people, with perfect certainty that they would
duly be convicted or acquitted, according to the
law and testimony.
This voice from Indiana will be re-echoed
throughout the loyal States Its utterances will
be gospel of constitutional liberty, the watch
words of patriotism alike against Southern and
Northern treason. The Democracy will fulfill
the bond. They demand that Abolitionism shall
be compelled to do so.-Detroit Free Press.
TIE DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION held at
indianapolis last week, Wednesday and Thursday,
was well attended-every county but five being
represented.
The result of the Convention affords cause of
congratulation in MANY respects.
1. Every candidate is qualified for the Office
for which he is nominated. This we have not
2. Every candidate stood by the Democratic
organization in 1860, and voted for Douglas.
This is sufficient reiutation Of the wholesale
charges that the Convention was controlled by
the Bright influence
3. All the men who so urgently insisted upon
having Convention, and disregarded the protests
of one half of the Democratic papers of the
State and large majority of the Democracy,
were permitted to remain in private life, and
others nominated.
A.. There was the manifestation of general
feeling that the mission of the Democratic party
was to form nucleus for the conservative ele
ment in the country to maintain the Constitution
against the fanatical Abolition element which is
now engaged in attempt to convert a war for the
Union into a war for its destruction
The resolutions repudiate Abotionism and
secession in proper terms, but we think the
Convention should have gone a step further and
declared the qualification which every Democrat
and conservative man feels at the noble stand
which President Lincoln has taken in sustaining
the Anti abolition policy of Mcclellan, Halleck,
Sherman and other conservative Generals This
was an omission which we have heard many of
1 the best Democrats regret.
The Convention was, as whole, success,
and will at least maintain the organization of the
Democratic party, and the preservation of con-
servative principles, if it does not secure success
in October for its ticket.
The speech of John @. Davis was in some
spects passable; but taken as whole. IN matter
and manner, it was i'll timed and not calculated
! TO promote the objects of the Democratic and
conservative men of Indiana
The speech of Mr.. Hendricks was an able ar
gument in favor of Democratic principles-
drawn from review of the results flowing from
defeat of the Democratic party-and COM
manded respect.
The telegraph and some of the Republican pa
pers promptly engaged in the work of misrepre-
senting the convention and will soon become
ashamed of themselves. The convention is de-
nounced as a tory convention, but we publish the
resolutions and our readers can see how grossly
they are misrepresented by those who ought to
know better.
Resolutions endorsing Senator Douglas and
Gov. Wright were introduced in the convention
at the suggestion of the Indiana State Journal,
but were withdrawn when it was suggested by the
Chairman that they should be referred to the
committee on resolutions. Some republicans
hope that the failure of the convention to eulo-
gize the deceased patriot and statesman, Doug
las, will induce Democrats to leave the party.
They will err. 1t is not necessary for Democrat
ic conventions to pass resolutions of that charac
ter Gen. Jackson-loved and revered by all
Demonstrated in June, 1915, yet the Demo
cratic State Convention in January, 1916, did not
deem il within its province to pass eulogisic res
olutions upon him. and hence in the resolutions of
that convention no reference was made to his
eminent services to the nation and to the Demo
cratic party, or to his death.
We know that three fouths of the late conven-
ton had the utmost confidence in Senator Doug
las as a stateman and patriot. and the resolution
would undoubtedly have passed unanimously had
it not been coupled with one in relation to Gov
ernor Wright. We esteem Governor Wright
highly, but il ,lust not be forgotten that many
prominent Democrats in the State aspire TO hon.
orable positions in the State and Nation, and
hence their friends looked upon the Introduction
of the resolution as designed TO place him pre-
eminently above them.
We think the crocodile regrets expressed by
Republican editors over the resolutions ccme with
ill-grace from men who have for years filed their
papers with denuncatons and abnse of Douglas
and Wright when those gentleman were just as
honest and patriotic as they have been duriug the
past year. We hope, however. that such editors,
if they now honest win continue to weep un-
til they have expated their past sins against those
Democrat.c leaders.-Logaasport Pharos.
THE CONVENTION AND TIcKEr.-We learn from
the gentlemen whe represented this county that
the Convention was one of the largest as well as
one of the most enthusiastic and harmonious that
ever assembled in the State. There was no ap-
parent strife between the asprants their friends
the chief interest was about the platform; all
felt that good men would be nominated. We
! publish the resolutions in full, and ask our read
ers TO peruse them carefully and give a candid
judgment We are confident nothing will be found
in them OF an Objectionable nature. They GER
tainly breathe the strongest devotion to the Con-
sttution and the Union
/ We run up the names of our candidates to cur
masthead, and can assure our readers that they
are gentlemen every way worthy of support.
They were selected as the best men for the places.
i And we believe they will fill them with ability
and distinguished honor --Suliiuan Democrat
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