Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-23


tees. but an erpectdtien, a hope expressed, for a
pure and wise administration Of our governmental
affairs.
In striking contrast is the resolution upon the
same subject passed by the 6th Of January Con-
vention. 1t reads thus:
l6. That the disclosures made by the investi-
eating Committees in Congress of the normous
frauds that have stalked into the army and navy
departments, duplicating the heads of those de-
partments in a connivance at, if not an actual
participation in a system of corruption, and in
which our brave soldiers have been defrauded of
their proper supplies, and our Government
threatened with bankruptcy, demands a tho
rough investigation into all our expenditures,
both State and National, and that a speedy and
marked example be made of all such ''birds of
prey" who, taking advantage of the necessities
Of our country, have fed and fattened upon pub
lie plumber.
There is no winking at fraud and corruption in
that-no apology for swindlers.
The last resolutions of both Conventions re-
fer to the Indiana volunteers in the feld-the
gallent men who have taken up arms to maintain
the Constitution and the Union under it. That
of the 18th of June Convention reads:
ReSOlUed, That we tender to the GO, 1000 volun-
teers from Indiana our heartfelt congratulations,
and hail with pride the fact that upon every bat
tie field where Indianians have been found, they
have displayed the bravery of patriots in def nse
of a glorious cause, and We pledge them that
while they are s~ubduiug armed traitors in the
field, we will condemn at the ballot box all those
in our midst who are not Internationally for the
Union.
And that of the 9Th of January reads:
ResoIred, That the meritorious conduct of the
Indiana troops, in every battle field where victory
has perched upon the national banner, has filled
the people of this State with the highest graft
tude to her gallant sons, and that we send our
best wishes to officers and men, dispersed through
out the country. and the heartfelt greetings of
every Democrat for their further brilliant achieve
ments in the coming contests for the mainte
nance of the Constitution and the Union.
The 9Th of January Convention has been vii
lifted by the men who got up and engineered the
so-called Union" State Convention. We ask
all honest men to read critically both platforms,
and they will find the marked difference between
the two to be that the former condemns fraud,
maladministration, and giving a direction to the
war inimical to its professed objects. so declared
by the President and Congress, while the latter
has no condemnation for either.
The opposition to the Democracy have held
their convention. We give in full its expression,
a faithful report of its proceedings, and we ask
every honest man if they do not furnish the best
evidence of the falsity and gross injustice of all
the charges OF disloyalty and obloquy, made for
political effect, which the opponents of Democ-
racy have heaped upon the 9Th of January Con-
vention?
The 18th of June Convention will make no
impression upon the people of Indiana. Other
wise it will create a general disappointment. 1t
is a signal failure. We have no misgivings as to
the result of the October election. The Democ-
racy, the true Union men of the country. will
triumph-most gloriously triumph. The people
sympathize with a bold and manly expression OF
sentiments and the conviction is daily increasing
that the only hope for the restoration of the
Union and a pure and economical administrator
of the government is to remove the party from
power that has violated all the pledges by which
it secured the reins of government.
Mark we. The Democracy in Congress and
elsewhere have voted all the men and money
asked by the Administration for the vigorous
prosecution of the war to suppress armed rebel
lion and restore the Union.