The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-02-14
the Army Of the Cumberland TO
the General Assembly OF Indiana.

ment, as they significantly and explic
lily set forth their purpose for them
selves, the following memorial and reso
IutIons from the Indiana soldiers in tn,
Department of the Cumberland to tn,
General Assembly of the State of Indi
ana; and, as a refutation of the impres
sion endeavored to be made by those
opposed to vigorous prosecution of the
war, that our soldiers favor any cessation
OF hostiltles until the rebellion shall
have been crushed, we give the names OF
the officers OF the various regiments who
have signed said memorial, and the
action taken thereon by the respective
regiments. These official statements
and the signatures of the company Off
GERS, are all given in full: -1--. 0F fesinaf
da,a,,----.~'s- -VdU the want of space COM
pels us to oondense them.
Proceedings Of the Meeting.
AT a call meeting of the officers of In
diana regiments in the field in the De-
partment of the Cumberland, held at
Murtreesboro. Tenn IapAqgy 33tdlr 3232d 19R2i 112fRii-
ana Volunteers, presiding, and Lient
Frank. Riddle, 37th Indiana Volunteers
and A. c. s. I'd Division. Center, acting
as Secretary committee consisting of
Oo1. S-~l-aa -I-.4tferj ErvAI-l l-AOr-
ton c. Hunter, 92d Ind, Maior Ola he
Willis, 5lst Ind, and Chaplain John H.
Lozier, 37th Ind, was appointed to pre-
pare memorial and resolutions tex
pressive of the sense of the meeting
touching those interests which will be
presented for the action of The Indiana
Legislature, in which the interests of the
soldiers are especially involved"
The following memorial and resolu-
tions were presented by the committee,
unanimously adopted by the meeting,
and ordered to be furnished to all the
Indiana regiments in the Army of the
Cumberland, in the vicinity of Murfrees-
boro, with the request that the same be
read to all the members of the several
regiments for their approval or disap-
proval, by vote, and submitted to the
officers of said regiments for their sigma
lures:
MEMORIAL.
To the General assembly Of the State
of Indiana:
The undersigned officers and soldiers
of the Indiana volunteer regiments, sub
mitting with patriotic self sacrifice to
the policy which denied us a voice in the
late elections, ard approving the wis
dom of that feature of our Government
which secures the civil form the influence
of the military power, nevertheless de-
sire to participate in the preliminary
councils which are to shape the popular
ideas of the State, and consequently to
control the actions of its Representatives
in the General Assembly
We speak as soldiers, because our
lives are staked upon the issues of the
present struggle; as citizens, because at
no distant day those of US who survive
are to share with you the responsibilities
of citizenship, and to experience in COM
mon with the people at home the results
of your present deliberations.
Whatever prejudices may exist against
OF ctate, Certainty even the most vIgIiant
guardian of the public interests could not
expect the army to await with indiffer-
ence the result of deliberations which
would not only affect the common inter
ests of the people but also the lives and
fortunes of those who have taken up
arms to defend the integrity of the Union
IN Il COUIeSI Will tue Cum u1Oi1 CHCml III
the field.
Defeat strips the citizen of his fortune
and his political enjoyments; the soldier
of both these and his honor, and it may
be his life 1t requires no argument to
convince an intelligent mind that war
sustained by all united people and waged
with that energy and determination
which proceeds only from undivided
councils, presents less fearful array Of
casualties, with better hope of success,
than sluggish contest waged by party,
and merely sustained by the wrangling
of factions at home. In other words, it
requires more lives to sustain a govern
ment hampered and restricted by the
jealousy of political parties, than to sus-
tain one supported by the voice of
united people
AS well might you expect the fettered
victim to struggle successfully with his
untrammelled oppressor, as to hope for
nation to subdue its enemies when its
energies are cramped by the unwise re-
strictions of doubling majority.
To live in spite of sease every func-
ton must be characterized by the utmost
vigor and all unite against the enemy,
who seeks in the destruction of one the
certain ruin of all