The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1862-03-01

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in the Hall of the House of Representativts
at indianapolis, on Tuesday evening, 18th
inst, is too lengthy for US to publish in
full. We have read it with peculiar inter-
est as the sentiments of a man who takes
the seat in the o. S. Senate so long dishon-
ored by Jesse D. Bright. The utterances of
Senator Wright will meet with hearty
and sympathetic response throughout the
State, and will the r1ore endear him to
those Democrats who regard their country |
as of more value than party. The noble |
stand taken by the Elk Governor will also |
convince many Republicans, who doubted |
the propriety of his appointment, that Gov. |
Morton, in selecting hip as BrighPs sue
csssor, manifested that shrewd, practical
sagacity which has characterized most Of
of Governor of the State. Although we
are unable to copy Ex-Governor Wrights
speech in full, we cannot refrain from favor
| ing our readers with that portion of it re-
lating to the sth of January Conventions:
AS said before, there are creeds and
/
! immortal and imperishable. Here is my
model of a platform:
HRes0lged, That the Constitution of the
United States is the supreme law of the
/ land, and rebellion is monstrous crime
maintain the one and suppress the other"
My fellow citizens, where do you think
that platform was framed? 1t was framed
under the caves of the National Hall at
Philadelphia, where the Declaration of our
| a. 70 or11
Who presided at that convention? George
NJ. Dallas And that platform was adopted
with unanimity of thirty thousand votes.
Ny fellow-citzens, in crisis like this, until
we have a Government, there can be but
two partes-tbe friends of the nation and
its enemies.
Here is another platform which every
citizen in this nation ought readily and
heartily agree TO. 1t was adopted by the
Congress of the United States. On the
very next day after the battle of Bull Run
that venerable patriot and statesman, John
j. Crittenden of Kentucky, offered the fol-
! lowing resolution:
, Resolped, By the House of Representa-
tiyes, that the present civil war has been
forced upon us by the disunionists of the
Southern States now in rebellion against
the Government of the United States +;
banishing all feelings of passion and re-
sentiment, will recollect only their duty to
, their country; that the war is not waged
{ for conquest or sublugation or interfering
a with the rights or established institutions
of the State, but to defend the supremacy
of the constitution with the rights and
], equality guaranteed by it unimpaired, and
II that as soon as these objects shall be ac-
n compIished the war ought to cease"
That resolution was adopted by vote Of
l22 to 2. Democrats and Republicans
Q voted for it. Men of all parties declared
d that they could stand upon that platform
The bogus convention that assembled in
this city on the 9Th of January last, it., too
adopted platform, and in that platform
d was a single resolution enlbodying a par
n OF Mr. Crittenden's resolution, but skillful
r, ly arranged so as to dodge the issue-tC
eySld fiBg jhs sFesP1gnfsdjbIty Of this wa
l. of the convention of the 9th of January
n You will observe that the FIRST part of Crit
. tendens resolution is left out, and the res
inserted
ResoIDed, That in this national emer
= gency the Democracy of Indiana, banishine
y all feelings of passion and resentment, viii
a, recollect only theirduty to the whole coun
= try; that this war should not be waged il
the spirit of conquest or subjugation, MOI
u for the purpose of overthrowing or interior
W ing with the rights or institutions of tn,
IL State, but to defend and maintain the su
i premacy of the constitution, and to pre-
serve the Union with all the dignity, equal
y ity and rights of the several States unim
paired, and that as soon as these objects ar,
accomplished the war ought to cease.
There is no declaration there that th.
present deplorable state of things wa
A' 'sbrought about by the disnnionists of Cd,
d Southern States" nor that The design o
a this war is only to maintain intact thu
rights of the several States as GUARANTEED
by the Constitution. That point is care
p fully summed, and instead of declaration
that the Government IS doing right in con.
p centrating all its energies upon this mon
strous and infamuos rebellion, we are only
= told that the war ought not to be carried OF
+ for the conquest and subjugation of the re-
., belIious States. And yet l am to DO told
> that am not Democrat because aviEE MOI
subscribe TO the false and infamous asser-
r tons made ia that conVentienl
n Men need not tell me that all these diff
q culties have been brought about by fanasi-
: Cism in the North. All our troubles are to
= be attributed to the wretched doctrine oil
:. the right of States to secede at will frosu
this Government as promulgated in tns
Inaugural of JEFF. Davis, That doctrine
, overthrows at a single blow all our institu-
tons, and all that we hold dear. Adopt
that principle, ard all is lost you have nc
= State, no country. If a State can leave
this Union, yeu may as well shut up your
> schools and colleges, your stores and shops.
y You are ready for civil war, confusion, and
anarchy Of every kind And yet a great
Z political party, protesting devotion to the
= best interests of the country, calling itself
D by the name of National Democracy, can
not afford to make declaration of this
n truth, "that the miserable doctrine OF the
Q right of secession is at the bottom of all
3 these troubles" And yet man must be
I told that he is not a Democrat, because he
,. dares to say SO. l will stand on no plat
# form which cannot afford TO tell the truth.
i The platform of the 8th of January can
) claim justly to be very ingenious one
Q While it deeply deplOres the unhappy con-
. dition of the country, and laments the fact