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time and for the same term as the Governor and his
qualification and the of his election in all re-
spects shall be the same.
9. In of the removal of the Governor from of.
fee, of his DEATH failure to qualify, resignation,
removal from the State or inability to discharge the
powers and duties of the office the said Office with its
compensation, shall devolve upon the Lieutenant Gov
ernor; and the General Assembly shall provide by
law for the discharge of the Executive functions in
other necessary cases.
10. The Lieutenant Governor shall be President of
the Senate but shall have VOTE and while acting
as Such sha receive compensation equal to that al
lowed to the Speaker of the House of Delegated
SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH, TREASURER AND
AUDITOR.
II, A Secretary of the Commonwealth Treasurer
and Auditor of Public Accounts, shall be elected
by the joint vote of the two Houses of the General As
sembiy, and continue in office for the term of two
years, unless sooner removed.
70. The Secretary shall keep record of the official
acts OF the Governor, which shall be signed by the
Governor, and attested by the Secretary; and, when
required, he shall lay the same and any papers, min
utes and vouchers pertaining to his office before either
House of the General Assembly; and shall perform
such other duties may be prescribed by law.
l3 The powers and duties of the Treasurer and Au-
dtor snail be such as now are, may be hereafter,
prescribed by law.
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.
II. The General Assembly shall organize q Board
OF Public Works, to continue so long as may be nee
essary and with such powers as may be conferred by
MILITIA. 50
Is. The manner of appointing militia officers shall
be prescribed by law.
ARTICLE vi.
l. The judicial power shall be vested in the courts
OF appeal in the circuit courts, and the judges there
o. In the county and corporation courts in the JUS
tices OF the peace and in the magistrates who NAV be-
long to corporate bodies. The General Assembly may
also constitute special courts of appeal to consist Of
no less than three than five judges, consti-
tuted OF the judges of the courts of appeal and of the
nnrtc 4 L
may be on the docket of either of the courts of ap
peal In respect to which majority of the judges OF
that court may be so situated as make it improper
Tor them TO SIT on the hearing thereof and also to try
any cases on the said docket which cannot otherwise
be disposed of with convenient dispatch az
The jurisdiction of these tribunals, of the Judges
and justices thereof and of the magistrates IF the
porate bodies shall be regulated by law except that
the courts of appeal shall have appellate jurisdiction
only unless in cases of habeas corpus maandanus and
prohibition. They shall not have jurisdiction in cvi
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crime or misdemeanor, shall be impeachable by the
House of Delegates and be prosecuted before the Sc
nate, which shall have the sole power to try impeach
ments When sitting for that purpose they shall be
on oath or affirmation; and no person shall be con-
vcted without the concurrence OF two-thrds of the
members present. Judgment, in cases OF impeach-
ments shall not extend further than to removal from
office aud disqualification to hold or enjoy any office
of honor, trust, or profit under the Commonwealth;
but the party convicted shall nevertheless be subject
to indictment, trial, Judgment, and punishment
cording law. The Senate may sit during the
of the General Assembly Tor the trial OF lmpeachments
and the consideration Of Executive business
4 SLAVES AND FREE NEGROES.
10. Slaves hereafter emancipated shall forfeit their
freedom by remaining in The Commonw cath more
than twelve months after they become actually free,
and it shall be the duty of the General Assembly to
prescribe proper regulations for reducing such ne
grOes to slavery
20. The General Assembly may prohibit thefuture
emancipation of slaves impose such restrictions and
conditions as they shall deem proper the power OF
slave owners TO emancpate their slaves and may pass
laws for the relief of the Commonwealth from the tree
negro population, by removal or otherwise.
II. The General Assembly shall not emanclpate
any slave or the descendant of any slave, either be-
fore or after the birth OF such descendant
al TAXATION AND FINANCE. .. 80
o. Taxation shall be equal and uniform throughout
the commonwealth, and all property shall be taxed
proportion to ats value, which shah be ascertained
such manner as may be prescribed by law; but any
property NAY be exempted from iaxatan BY the vote
of majority OF the whole number of members elect
ed to each house OF the Gen eral Assembly.
%. A capitaton tax, equal to the tax assessed on
land of the value of two hundred dollars shall be lev
led ON every white male iDhabitant who has attained
the age of twenty one years. but nothing herein con-
tanned shall prevent exemptions Of taxable polls in
cases OF bodily inGrlnity,
"a The General Assembly may levy tax in
comes salaries and licences but no tax shall be lev
led on property from which any income so taxed IS
derived, or ON capital invested IN the trade or bust
respect to which the license so taxed is issued
25. No money shall be drawn from the treasury but
in pursuance OF appropriations made by law; and
statement OF the receipts, disbursements, appropra.
tous and loans shall be published after the adjourn
mept of each session Of the General Assembly with
the acts and resolutions thereof.
s. On the passage of every act which imposes con-
tinues receives tax, creates debt charge,
or makes continues, receives any appropriations of
public or trust money or property, or releases, dis
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-09
INDIANAPOLIS, IND, MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1862.

If any one will take the trouble to read the
evidence taken by the special committee, he can
not fail to believe that the House of Representa-
tives was fully justified in the passage of the res
olution which it adopted, and we shall be sur
prised if that body takes quietly the censure i'm
piled by the Presidents message, or will change
their opinion because the President undertakes to
assume the responsibility. The truth is, that the
President is endangering the fair name he has
hitherto enjoyed by assuming the responsibility"
OF acts which were committed by others. 1t is
the acts the peoples representatives complain Of
it is the frauds committed, not the persons, and if
the President chooses to assume these acts,
done and committed without his knowledge or
consent at the time, simply because he selected
the officers, he will find that he has taken upon
himself burden which will bring his gray hairs
down with sorrow to the grave. We regret ex-
ceedingly the message as whole, but if there
were any OF the acts of Mr.. Cameron which be
thought he should help him bear the burden of,
it Is pity he had not so stated the case that the
public would not fall into the mistake that he,
the President of the United States, was the apol-
ogist of the frauds and corruptions and short
comngs of Simon Cameron. - Detroit Free
Press.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-09
From the Cairo Gazette
ssTraitorl" ssTraitOri"

Whenever a Democrat in Congress attempts an
exposure of Republican corruption, he is accused
of "sympathizing with the rebellion" If he re-
monstrate against the squandering of the public
meney upon impudent, ndolent negroes, he is
called "traitor." If he express the opinion
that army contractors are plundering our treasu-
~, he is seeking to clog the operations of the
Government, and is therefore "disloyal." He
sees thieves bleeding the treasury at every pore,
contractors pOcketing their ill-gotten millions; a
reckless waste, damning extravaganza on every
hand, yet if he opens his mouth to condemn, the
CRY of ''traitorl'' "treason!' is raised, and the
stealing and waste are continued as usual Men
in and out of Congress, whose Golfers have been
filled by dishonest means, have found, thus far,
this simple cry sufficient protection. If accost-
ed at the moment their hands are busy plunder-
ing. they will only turn half way round, below
treason" and then complete the theft.
Old Lieb with his million of dollars stolen
from the Government, calls every Democrat a
traitor" who attempts to bring him to an ac-
count for his villainy. Every Government thief
has at his tongues end the words ''treason" and
"traitor," to hur at Democrats who would op-
pose the robberieS that have been perpetrated
since the Inauguration of the present Admins
tration. But this sort of thing will not long
shield our public plunderers. 1t is convenient
now, and with this Congress, all-powerful; but
the time is nearly at hand when it will fail to
stave off investigation. The people begin to see
the enormities it has sought to conceal and will
soon place in power men who will lift the veil
and expose them in all their hide us nakedness.
They begin to see that the wrong side of the
house is mathematical as "traitors''-that, if
such men are "traitors," then traitors lead our
armies, fight our battles, and stand most stead
fastly by our Constitution.
Time, a little time, and the avenging rod will
descend, and loyal Democracy will stand forth
neutrality-suspicious. condemned.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-09

closed his speech by expressing his earnest hope
that the people would see to it that their repre-
sentatives were true to the Constitution and
Union.
Mr.. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, Republican, fol-
lowed Mr. Voorhees,. Instead of meeting fnan-
cial facts to the present, he went back to the
past; adduced the operation of the thief FLOYD.
and Cobb and Thompson, and made a wretched
attempt 10 hold the Democratic party responsible
for their works; as though it were an an. wer to
the charge of plundering to-day to say that Floyd
plundered in 1860 Such miserable demOgoguism
must be condemned by every candid citizen 1t
is slander most foul to connect the Democrats
with traitors or treason The types of that glo
rious party may be seen in a Joseph Holt an An
drew Johnson, Shields, and in the hosts of rank
and file that make three quarters of the glorious
army of the Union. Let this Kelley go to these
patriots who are standing with their lives in their
hands, and talk of Floyd, Cobb and Thompson,
and see what reply he will get. This exhibition
of loyalty and devotion to country should blister
the tongue of the demagogue and slanderer of
the noble party which now stands on the ram
parts of the Constitution. Such a vile speech as
this ought to put Kelley out Of the pale of de-
cent society.
The people want no compromise with traitors,
and no apology for the public plunderers; but, at
such an hour as this, above all the days of our
national life, must desire the Jeersonian tests of
honesty, capacity and fidelity to the Constitution
Boston Post
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-09
Election of ofSenatOr-AnotherS Step For-
arrd

We are happy to announce this morning that
Rhode Island has taken still another step in con-
frmation of its conservative position and purpose
William Spregue. twice elected Governor against
the most determined opposition of the radicals of
the State, and once, by reason of the weakness of
bis enemies, without organized opposition. on
Wednesday elected to the Senate of the United
States for six years from the 4th of March next,
as successor of James +. Simmons, a radical Re
publican, by an overwhelming and almost unani-
nous vote.
Governor Sprague entered upon active polit-
cal life only three years ago. He came forward,
not to CRAFTY any ambition of his own--for again
and again he bad declined the honor which his
fellow citizens wished to confer upon him-but to
save his native State from the disgrace of rad
calism, and do what might be done, through its
influence in the national councils, to wrest our
glorious Union from the perils with which sec
tionasm, north and south, was surrounding it.
From that hour TO the present his course has been
honorable, consistent and straightforward. He
has not swerved to the right or to the left. He
has exhibited administrative abilities which few
in the country possess, and qualities of
mansbiD which admirably ft him far the position
to which he is elected. He is a man for the
times; thoroughly national on all questions; dem
ocratc in his sentiments and habits; earnest, out
spoken and uuAinchng in whatever work he is
engaged; true son of his State and true lover
of his country.
We rejoice most heartily in Gov. Sprague's
election the Senate, and predict that yet higher
honors await him in his career as a statesman
Providence Post.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-09
Northern Rebels.

1t appears that rebellion has broken out in
Massachusetts, or, rather, should say, four
Republican members of Congress from Massa-
chusetts have rebelled against the Abolition par.
ty. 1t happened in this wise. Messrs. Deano
Dawes, Rice and Thomas voted against the con-
hscatiOn bill which passed the House the other
day. Not that they are opposed to the cOn6sca-
ton of the property of the leaders of the rebel
lion, but that they insist that any measure of
confscatiOn shall be according to the Constitu-
ton This is rebellion against the Abolition
party, and the Abolition party call it sympathy
with secession" Mr.. Diven, a Republican mem
Der from New York, rebelled in the same way
as also did Crittenden, of Kentucky-who had
been supposed to have done some service in the
Union cause in successfully making war upon
secession in Kentucky-and Phelps, of Missouri,
who has been leading Union regiment in that
State against the rebels. They, too, according
to the denunciations of AbOlitiOnism, "sympa-
thize with secession" Richardson and the Dem
Ocrats from this State. and Corning of New
York, and all the Democrats, voted against the
bill; but thev, in the estimation of AbOlitiOnism
out and out rebels.
For our own part we glory in being rebels in
the Abolition sense Of the term We glory in
being for the Constitution as it is and the Union
Constitution and the Union to put down the
Southern insurrection. We rejoice that there is
here and there a Republican member of Con-
gress who gOries in the same thing. Let not
such shrink under the Abolition clamOr against
them, but let them rest upon the sustaining pow
er of THE PEOPLE.-CkicagO Times.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-09

The distress of the abolition newspapers at the
exclusion of negroes from the army is alarming.
If negroes cannot be allowed to shoulder Il mus
ket, why not, say these abolition newspapers, let
them take the shovel and the axe and build for
tifcatiOns and make roads2 They would save
the soldiers from the labOrs and tolls of such
operations, and thus the argument runs, preserve
the health and save the lives of the soldiers. 1t
might be little aristocrati: for every soldier to
have negro to take care of him, but not very
practicable The idea suits the abOlitionists, as
way to keep their particular friend before the
public.
little common sense, however, as we'll as all
military testimony is fatty against their assump-
ton. The troubles in military movements are.
that camp life in large army affords so little
employment that the idleness, and habits in
stigated by that ideness, are the fruitful source
of disease and death. And not only this, but it
units men for the fatigues of the comparatively
few DAYS of marching and fighting, so that
those duties are far more oppressive and danger
Gus than they would be had every soldier rea-
sOnabe amount of labor to perform every
day. The army OF General Halleck for instance,
in the progress of its investment of Corinth al
though it built its roads and erected Notifications
at every step, could have only employ ed but
small portion of its men in these operations each
each day and to divide that labor would only give
a very few hours to each sol.ier, and, as whole,
not furnish a quarter Of the exercise necessary
to the health and vigor of the troops Idleness,
is the universal testimony, is the great mischief
maker in armies as well as in civil society
But these negro lovers want their pets rugged
out in the toggery of the soldier, and they are
hunting after arguments to realize that want, and
not looking after the good of the soldiers A
band of negroes in an army, time of battle,
would be as bad as the abolition members of
Congress and civilians were at Bull run, to say
nothing of the immortality of their contact with
white men in every day life
The wisest measure of any General in this war
is that of General Halleck in excluding the whole
tribe of black men from the lines of his army
CHICAGO Times
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-09
why the Northwest does not desire
Slavery to be Abolished.

The Northwest, in a commercial point of view,
does not desire the abolition of slavery in the
Southern States, whether they remain in the
Union or not, because they Of the South would
be compelled to abandon the culture of cotton
and raise grain in its stead, which would result
most dsastrously to the farmers of the West,
who would find market for their productions
since the South is one of her chief consumers.
In other words, abolish slavery, and the
great Empire of the West is ruined, because
the cotton planters would then cease to cultivate
that profitable commodity, and enter into
direct competition with the grain growers of
our Sc ton. What then2 Our produce will
then have to be transported by railroad, at double
the cost of steamboat conveyance, to the sea-
board markets, and will, in consequence of
turning loose the slaves, experience the same
stagnatiOn in our markets, not for year, but as
long as the two sections competed with each
other i'm the culture of the same article, that we
now do by the closing up of the Southern ports
along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. We con-
tend that it is essentially necessary for the pros
perity and welfare of the American people, that
the United States be divided into free and slave
States, that one section may feed the other, and
rice UerSa, and cultivate what is most profitable
TO the tiler.-CiR. Enq
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-09
How the Government throws away
Money.

1t is a source of wonder to some how the ex-
penses of the Government are so enormously
heavy. The following. which we take from the
Washington correspondent of the New York
Express, throws some light upon it:
The army subsistence stores are now subjected
to a heavy draft to feed the hordes of fugitive
slaves from adjacent counties in Maryland and
Virginia. They are daily, even almost hourly
arriving here. and if the drain continues in any
increased proportion, numerous evils will occur.
Maryland will be nearly depopulated of them
and Congress will have to make an increased ap-
preparation of army subsistence to keep the
wretches from actual starvation. Petitions are
already being circulated in Maryland for repeal
of the late obnoxious law, and it would be well
worth while to make slavery again an institution
here, although the newly created freemen may
not again become bondmen by its operations,
still by slavery again becoming an institution, il
will prevent the great exodus of negroes from
Maryland and Virginia here, and prove essenti-
ally beneficial to both States well as the Dis
trict ITSELF
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-09
The Compromise OF the Constitu q on
How they Benefit New England at
the ExDeuse Of the West

great warfare upon the compromises of the
Constitution has been made by New England,
and vet no section of the country has enjoyed
such immense advantages under them.f Look at
the following:
New England has 3.l0OO0O people, and will
have, from 1860 to 1870, thirty-nine electoral
votes for President and Vice President.
Illinois and Indiana, Western States, have also
3,l00, 600 people, just as many as New England,
and they will have from 1865 to 1870, twenty
nine electoral votes. A bonus of ten electoral
votes is therefore given to New England more
than her population entities her to.
New York has 3,752 900 people. 600 900 more
than New England, and has six electoral votes
less than New England.
New England has ttceiue United Suites Sena-
tors, while New York, with a greater population,
has but t,co, and Indiana and Illinois, with the
same population, but four. BY her greater
representation she has been enabled to shape tie
legislation of the country to suit her own inter-
ests.
1t is far better, therefore, for New England to
stick to the Democratic doctrine, "the Union as
it was and the Constitution as it is, than to IA
vor new Constitution, in which she could hardly
EXPECT these advantages Eng.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-09
From the Princeton (Ind.) Democrat, May 81.
Can There be Treason In Words

Ii so, what do you think of the followingI
ResOl1ed, That we recognize in the defeats and
disasters Of our forces in the beginning of the
conflict a DESERVED visitation of Gods wrath up
on us for our completely in the snof slavery
ReSOlred, Believing that while slavery lires no
permanent peace can eriSt, therefore we express
our highest qualification at the emancipation pol
icy indicated in the Presidents proposition to aid
the slave States in the adjustment Of slavery.
We thank God for the deliverance of the District
Of Columbia from the National curse and dis
grace of slavery. We would hail with pleasure "A
proclamation of universal liberty, and we trust
our President and Congress shall persevere in the
cause of emancipation till ''Iiberty shall be pro-
claimed throughout all the land to all the inhab-
itants thereof"
We extract the above resolutions from those
passed by the General Synod of the First Re
formed Presbyterian church, which met in this
place last week, the proceedings of which ap-
peared in the Clarion. A whereas and six reso
lutions were passed by that body, all OF which
are in character and keeping with the above. We
do not desire to comment further than to say that
we think it would have puzzled Wendell Phillips
or jeff. Davis TO have uttered more reasonable
sentiments in the same space than those resolu-
tons contain.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-09

words, every mans property will be virtually
mortgaged to the Government, or the creditors
of the Government, for one tenth of its entire
value. And that mortgage will take precedence
of every other mortgage, lien, or liability Or,
to state the proposition in another form, of every
farm of one hundred acres, ten acres will belong
to the Government, or to the creditors of the
Government. OF every hundred sheep or live
stock, ten will virtually belong to the Govern
ment OF every ten thousand dollars which the
man of industry, enterprise. and frugality has
"laid up" one thousand will be not his, but the
property of the Government or the Government
creditors. Every tenth dollar which the mechanic
or laborer earns will be surrepttiously distracted
from him in some or many of the modes which
the Government will adopt for tithing the whole
property and productive industry of the country.
1t must be confessed that this is not very fiat
tering picture of our countrys future; but who
can say it is not true one?