Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-05-01
Petitions for a ..Un,on" Convention.

Petitions for n ssUnson" Convention.
Certain prominent Republicans were last week
busiiy circulating throughout our community pc
titions for Union" State Convention, TO be
held ia month or two, at indianapolis, for the
nomination of State officers. This is pure Re
publican dodge-toO hmsy and transparent to de-
ceive Democrats. who will treat with scorn any
attempt OF these schemers To draw them at this
crisis from their allegiance 10 the only organlza-
ton which gives a hope OF recOnstructng the
Union as il was given TO us and of perpetuating
the Constitution as fathers made it.
;, Ii is the basest of frauds for the Republican
leaders To attempt To arrogate To themselves the
claim OF lovers of the Union, when we reflect
that every step they have made since the rebel
lion began has been in violation OF the Constitu-
ton and laws The party which has trampled
upon the sacred writ of habeas corpus-muzzled
the press OF the country-denied the right of free
speech-incarcerate in loathsOme prisons, at the
will of one man, innocent parties, and denied
them the right of defense before the Courts
of their country-recogniZed the principle OF
secession in allowing few counties IN Virginia
To send up men To Congress claiming To act Tor
the whole State-in assuming the right TO APP
point provisional Governor for another State,
thereby overturninc the whole machinery of State
rights and which State, according to their own
admissions is still one of the ssterhood of the
Union-in passing bills, by trump Congress,
declared by the conservative members 20 he I'M
cons itutiOnal-we say party which commits
these and a thousand other Outrages, can lay no
claim To the title of Union" party. and the
lodges they are now resortiDg TO, in the hone OF
catching in their meshes the true lovers OF the
country will surely not avail them.
IL il well for Republicans to change their tao
tics-to endeavor to conceal their cloven foot
under a false disguise. They feel self CONDEMNED
for the present unhappy condition of the country
they know that they never dare again To raise
their sectional banner. under their real colors-
that their only hope of safety from being utterly
swept from the face of the earth depends upon
their success with the gull-trap of Union con
yentiOns.
We urge the Democracy of the country to give
these counterfeit 'UniOnists" u wide berth-they
do not want to see the Union restored as il was,
and some of their leaders in Congress have the
honesty TO publicly proclaim it-ther whole con
duct shows it. Ii our country Is ever saved. the
Union and Constitution preserved, 1t must be
done by the Democratic party-it is in earnest
in the prayer and hope that these blessings may
be eventually vouchsafed to our unhappy and di-
vided people Democrats have been scorntully
stgmatzed by their political opponents as
Union savers" and, God willing. they intend to
deserve the name Not a Democratic statesman
"a Democratic editor has failed throughout
our present troubles To pray for the consumma-
ton of these ends, and hence they have persist
emily opposed the abolition emancipation schemes
of the Republicans, whose whole tendency has
been to render the possibility OF saving The Union
less remote. The Democrats. in the halls of legs-
laton and on the field of battle fight for the old Con
sttution. and for this purpose they are thoroughly
organizing throughout every State, emblaz
Onng upon their banners 1.-THE Constitution of
our Fathers"-it is with this feeling that they
should and will reject all overtures of the Repub-
licans to mite in call for Union COnven-
ton, in which the Republicans are to hold the
leading strings and Republicans alone 10 be
benefited. Our State Convention has laid down
patriotic. noble platform, upon which every
true American may consistently stand. Ii Is
therein proclaimed that eve are unalterably at
tached to the Constitution by which the Union OF
these States was formed" that 1--WE are utterly
opposed To the twin heresies, Northern sectional
ism and Southern SecessiOnism;' that "we will
sustain with all our energies. war for the main
tenance of the Constitution and OF the integrity
of the Union under the Constitution.
These the current prnciples-this is the
correct doctrine This is the platform upon
which the people of the country viii sooner or
later rally in spite OF the hypocrtical endeavors
of broken down Republican leaders 10 get up
what they falsely style Union Convention
iRccnReS Sun.