Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-07-07

We need not remind you with what s~atisfac-
ton this declaration was hailed in the loyal
States; how it served to fill the ranks of the ar
my, to strengthen the hands of the Government,
and to infuse spirit and fortitude into the breasts
Of the loyal men of the South who yet chung to
the hope of seeing the Union restored in all its
pristine vigor and supremacy. And had there
been no departure from the spirit of this declara-
ton: had no doctrines been advanced in high or
influential places subversive of the most cherish
ed Liberties guaranteed by the Constitution to the
peopler had there been no corruption so mon
strous as to appal the nation bs its magnitude,
and were there no danger to our institutions to
be apprehended in the future and to be carefully
guarded against, it would not be necessary for US
now to address YOU.
But the powerful and persistent efforts that
have been and are vet being made to convert
the wal into a mere crusade against slavery;
the fearful strides taken by Congress at Its
present session, in that direction, and the vet
more alarming measures proposed and warmly
advocated; the audacious attempts to everawe
the President whenever he hesitated to yield to
the demands of the radicals; the unmeasured
abuse that has been heaped upon almost every
Gen eral in the field, however meritorious, who
has declined to become an emissary Of Abolition
ism; the daily promulgation of doctrines utterly
destructive of the Constitution and of civil lib
erty, and the incessant denunciation of every con-
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scribe to them; all give a warning that ought not
to pass unheeded by the people, and require of all
who desire TO see the Constitution maintained and
the Union perpetuated all expression of their SEN
timents.
We, therefore, the representatives of nearly or
quite 200 900 voters of the State of Ohio, who
have as deep a stake in the welfare of the country
and in the preservation of the Union as any other
equal number of men, in the exercise OF our duty
and constitutional RIGHTS and with the dacira af
upholdlng instead OF weakening the just powers
of our Government, and anxious to unite all men,
without regard to their former party associations.
who agree with us in opinion, and to treat all
loyal men who honestly differ from us with be-
coming respect. do hereby declare cur own opin-
ions and those Of our constituents, as follows:
i. ReSOLUtd, That we are, as we ever have
been. the devoted friends of the Constitution and
the Union, and we have no sympathy with the
enemies of either.
3. That every dictate of patriotism requires
that, in the terrible struggle in which we are en-
gagged for the preservation of the Government,
the loyal people of the Union should present an
unbroken front, and therefore all efforts to OBJ
tain or perpetuate party ascendency by forcing
party issues upon them that necessarily tend to
divide and distract them, as the AbOlitionists are
constantly doing, are hostile to the best interests
of the country.
3. That the Abolition party. by their denuncia-
ton of the President whenever he has mani.
Tested a conservative spirit, by their atrocious
defamation of our Generals who were exp Jsing
their lives for their country, and who needed
and merited its hearty support, by their acts
and declarations tending to promote insubordi-
nation in our armies, and n want of confidence
in their commanders, and by their persistent
representations of all conservative men in the
loyal States us sympathizers with the rebels, have
given immense aid and comfort to the rebel
cause, and encouraged them to hope for ultimate
success.
A.. That we have seen with Indignation the in
timation of the Governor OF Massachusetts, that
that State will be slow in furnishing her quota of
troops unless the war be carried on for the pur-
poses OF emancipation. When the nation is strain
ing every nerve and pouring out its blood and
treasure like water to preserve its existence,
1t is mOnstrous that a conditional UniOnism
that places AbOlitiOnism above the COnstitl-
ton, and the success of a party above the in
tegrity of the republic, should thus rear its head
in high places and seek to dictate the conduct of
the war.
3. That while we would mete out merited
and legal punishment to the %plotters of and
leaders in the rebellion, we are opposed to the
contemplated sweeping and in~discriminate acts
of con6seation and emancipation by Congress
sional legislation or Executive proclamation be
cause:
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be constitutional.
ID. We believe that by driving the rebels to
desperation, and converting Union men Mt the
South into rebels, they would have the effect to
indefinitely prOlong the war, afford a pretext for
foreign Intervention, and reLder the restoration
of the Union next to, or quite impossible.
Sd. Because, if practicable and carried out
they would engender a feeling of bitterness be-
tween the different sections of the Union that
would not be allayed for generations to come,
and that would be an ever present cause of dam
ger and disturbance to the public peace, a source
of perpetual weakness in the Government, and
an ever present incentive to foreign powers to
interfere in our domestic concerns, and to pro-
mote a disruption and overthrow of the republic.
4th. Because they would destroy, in "a great
degree, if not entirely, for many years to come,
the industrial interests of a large section of the
country, and most injuriously effect the interests
of the whole people.
5th. Because the immediate and indiscriminate
emancipation of the slaves would be an act of
inhumanity to them.
9th. Because such an emancipation would
throw upon the border free States, and especially
upon Ohio, an immense number of negroes to
compete with, and underworld, the white laborers
of the State, and to constitute, in various ways,
an almost OF quite unbearabIe nuisance, if suffer-
ed to remain among us. And we would deem it
most unjust to our gallant soldiers to see them
compelled to free the negroes of the South and
thereby fill Ohio with a degraded population to
compete with these same soldiers upon their re
turn to the peaceable avocations of life.
6. That. entertaining these views, we cannot
too strongly condemn the refusal of our General
Assembly to prohibit by law the immigration of
negroes into this State.
Z. That we are opposed to being taxed to pur-
chase the freedom of negro slaves. With all due
respect for the opinions of others. we think that
such a measure would be unconstitutional i'm
polite and unjust.
=. That the unparalleled frauds and pecula-
tons upon the Government. revealed by the in
vestigating committees, and otherwise, demand
the sternest condemnation of every honest man
and friend of the country, and call for the sever
est punishment prescribed by the laws.
8. That the patriotism, courage and skill mani
tested by our armies has never been exceeded in
the history of the world. and deserves and re-
ceives our highest admiration and gratitude.
10. That the refusal of the General Assem-
bly, to permit our gallant soldiers in the field
the right to vote, was a great and unjustifable
wrong to them, that ought not to have been
committed.
IL. That while we will, rs heretofore, discour-
age all mere factious opposition to the Admins
t%ration, and will continue 10 give our earnest sup
port TO all proper measures to put down the re-
bellion, and will make all the allowances that the
necessities of the case require Of g00deitizens,
we protest against all violations of the Consti-
tuition.
IL. That we hold sacred, as we do all other
parts of that instrument, the following provis-
ions of the Constitution of the United States:
1.-THE trial of all crimes, except in cases OF i'm
parchment. shall be by jury; and such trial shall
be held in the State where the said crimes shall
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