Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-09-16

The Democracy Of this county met In conven-
ton on the 5Ih inst II was the largest and
most enthusiastic meeting ever assembled in the
county. Judge LAIRD ably addressed The people
upon the issues of the dry The following ticket
was nominated:
For County Auditor. Thomps D. Bower; for
County Commissioner. Thomas II. Lynes; for
Coroner, g W. M4n~feld
The following resolutions we're then submitted
and unanimously adopted by the conventions:
Resnloed. /. Thst We are unalterably attached
10 the Union Of these States. aud would regard
dissolution thereof one OF the greatest calami-
ties that could befall this nation.
9 That the liberties of the people must he
preserve and we can not permit their subv ersion
under any preiense whatever; no military neces-
sity can be justified that robs the people of the
States Of their inalienable rights TO free speech.
free press aud the writ of habeas corpus
That We opposed we ever have been,
TO the doctrine of secession that can not sym
piihize with men in rebellion agsinst the Gov.
ernment and that we hold TO the old Democratic
doc'riue that the ballot box and the courts of
justice the proper arbiiers between the people
and the arbitrary power Of their servants so long
a. they are left open and tree.
4 That as a part Of the American Democracy
and speaking of their known sentiments. we de
clare that the American Union. faithfully pre-
served by the Democratic party amid all the
perils which heretofore surrounded it. can never
be severed. and that the mad ambition of slave
propagandists and slave stealing abolitionIsts.
each preferring divided republic, that they nav
rule the sections to a Union of North American
States, wherein they would be dust in the bal
ance. can never succeed for il descended to US
an inheritance from our revolutionary fathers.
and with Gods blessing we will preserve it and
its charter of constitutional freedom at every
sacrifice.
That we are American citizens. not subjects;
the only government we recognize is the ICON
stituton" and the laws made Ia pursusnce of
il, aud We repudate the assumption of the Elk
ecutive that he is the government we are and
always have been. fsiihful TO the government.
and we demand that the Administration shall
also be faithful to it,
That denounce the traitors who assail
the government or endeavOr TO weaken IFS pow
and its guarantees; while the charge OF Abo
ltion -disuniOnists. that We have words of con-
domination for the other disunionist under Jeffer-
son Davis. dismiss with the same contempt
and Indifference that virtuous women regards
prostitutes imputaiion against her chastity
and give them notice that TO he
deferred by such saunders from critcisng the
official acts of our public servants, and coudem
ming approving them seems best
Z. That our brothers and sons in the fell must
not want for aid and support The hig Of our
country under which the citizen soldier draws
his sword, is his sufficient warrant, while the
heart Whose blood he nobiy offers on the altar Of
that country is sponsor for his sincerity and fiel
ity. The Democratic party has always been the
reliance of the soldier: We have failed
to honor him and protect his VI life and little ones:
we will not tail them now
T. That the Constitution of the United States
is the last and only hope of the country and while
that instrument is revere1 the Union cannot he
lost; and hence in This the hour of our countrys
sorest trial We should mark with brand as deeO
and ~ enduring rs that set bv An Almighty hand
on the forehead Of Cain. the men the purity
that violates or trifeS with any of its sacred pro-
visions, while as party the Democracy will
cling TO the Constitution the shpwI eek ed mar
liner clines to the last plank. when darkness and
the tempest close around him.
Major Blewett being present was loudly called
for and CA me forward and made one OF his telling
speeches; after which the convention adjourned
Mars CONVENTION IN TIProN CouSTY.-A
correspondent writes as follows:
The Democracy of Upton county, according
to a published call, assembled in mass convention
oil Saturday September ~, 1853; and. perhaps.
there never was greater manifest alton OF the
true sentiment of the people of this county tn an
on that occasion. The crowd coming together
for no other purpose than To nominate county
officers. numbered about thousand persons
MANY wagons were adorned with hickory bushes
and seats mide of hickory wthes, filled with
beautiful country maldeIIs whose throats ushered
forth Democratic aud country loving songs. The
nominations were made in the good old Demo
cratic way. and good order prevailed every here
Nothing done to disturb the minds of anv,
except some crazed Democrat or disguised aboli
ZIONIST. who from some secret hurrahed
for jeff Davis
he candidates as they now stand are:
For Auditor. DR. b r. Groom; Recorder. NJ
f Clark; Commissioner. David Kemp; Real
Estate Appraiser. d. NJ Amos; Prosecuting
Attorney Seventh Judicial District. b f Ravens,
OF kOkOmo
There two ladies in Tippecanoe county,
less than twenty years of age, one OF whom has
buried three husbands and the other has two
husbands in the grave and Is seeking di-
vorce from the third, who ABUSED me--so he
did"-and then went off to the war
-DEMocRArIc Mass MEETING AT MARION -
The Democracy of Grant county met in con
venton on the 5th inst The Marion Journal
saws:
That day witnessed one Of the grandest demon
STATIONS ever known in Northern Indiana, in
point of numbers, enthusiasm and display far
out stripping the Douglas and Johnston NEE.
ing of lc60, which was then gwen up TO be the
largest ever known in this lart of the State.
From the time the professions com
menced moving into the spe king ground,
which was about ten O'Clock in the
morniny, it was half past one o'clock p
N. before the rear of the professions had entered
the ground. and in this hour people kept pouring
in. and the wonder was, where in the world did
all the people come from. Ii seemed a. if there
we're no dimnution in their coming. When the
crowd iii finally get together on the ground one
could then form some idea of its immensely
Various estim les were ventured, some stating
80 900, others - .O0O and 10000, bur. without
number OF ne pile assembled on the occasion, we
place the number at from $4,000 To 20.00O-cer
tainly not less than 5000.
At about half past one clock the meeting WAS
organized by electns Hon james VI Dwell
President. snd appointing all Democratic editors
present as Secretaries The meeing then I'd
j urned until AFTER dinner was served Great ct
forts had been made IN getting up hig dinner.
long tab e. erected. three large beeve> roasted
an an immense amount Of oti er NESTS and pro
visions prep ned aud spread ugOn the tables. hut
all failed Ia accommodate the immense crowd
with toll meal A soon IS the dinner waS
exhausted the crowd RI assembled in front OF the
speakers stand. when Hon Thomas A Hen
one of his hAppie-i efforts
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