The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1863-02-05
From Springfield.
special Dispatch to The Chica 60 Times.
SPRINGFIELD. III. Jan. %.

Chicago and muster out of the Iliuosans
In the Marine Artillery within twenty
DAYS from the date of the demand, and in
case of failure or neglect of the govern :
ment to comply. to potify the Legislature.
The event of the day in the House was
the introduction Of some resolutions by
MIR. " alker, as follows:
Whereas, Abran Lincoln, at the COM
mencement Of the present unhappy war,
declared, in every official paper that came
from his hands. that the sole object of the
prosecution of the war was, and should be,
for the restoration of the Union and the
laws as our fathers made them;
Whereas, BY his subsequent acts. he
has proven to every unbiased mind
that such now is not his intention in the
further prosecution of the war. and that he
wilfully deceived the soldiers by inducing
them to take arms in. as they supposed,
an honorable and just cause, which he has
turned into dishon orable and disgraceful
crusade against the established rsghts oi
the States;
He has declared martial law over every
loyal State in this Union;
He has, without authority Of law OIL
right, imprisoned our citizens in loathsome
dungeons, and refused them the right o
speedy trial;
He has sanctioned the taking of the lives
Of innocent. peaceable, AMI respected citi.
zans of these States; to atone forthe acts
Of others;
lie has, by his proclamation of Jan. lst
1868, disregarded the reserved rights o1
States, and attempted, By that proclama
ton, to eqnalize the white and black races
and to excite serviIe insurrection in the
southern States, thereby involving the in
nocent with the guilty, without reference
to age or sex;
He has presisted in, listening to and car
rying out the counsels Of men whose avow
ed doe, rins are inimical to free govern
ment,
He has divided State without the con.
sent of her Legislature;
He has degraded tie Union army by
receiving negroes into the service Of the
United STA es;
lie has forced negroes upon us, against
our often expressed wishes, and the con-
sti,ution and laws Of our State;
He has squandered the nations wealth
and made us bankrupt people;
He las suppressed the liberty of ths
press and free speech, feared only by ty
rants;
He has closed the doors Of churches, and
deprived ciiize ms Of the States of the
right to serve God according to the die
tates of their own con- ciences;
He propose, to involve us in a system
of ruinous taxation. for the purpose of pur
chasing negroes against the will and the iu'
teresl of our people;
He has pandered to New England capi
talsts in not using the means at his dispo
sal for opening the Mississippi River;
He has giv.n sanction to a mea
known as the Morrill, tariff, under which
the East is rapidly enrchiug itself at the
expense of the West:
Against all of which va do enter oul
solemn protest. and declare it to be oul
firm and fixed intention to submit to those
wrongs and usurpations no longer; tha
we will, as we have heretofore, sustain the
administration in all its constitutional acts
therefore, be it
Resolyed. by the House of Representa-
tives (the Senate concurrln5 herem), Tha
in our opinion, the time has come when, IL
accordance with the constitution, 10 DE-
comes necessary to call convention, OF all
the States, for the purpose OF considering
our national difficulties and adjusting the
same We would, therefore, recommend
TO all the States that the Legislature there
of appoint Commissioners TO meet in ma
tional convention, to be held in the city oi
Louisville. in the State Of Kentucky. on
the first Tuesday in the month of April
A. d. 1868; and we would memorialze
the Congress Of the Uni,ed States to Ob
tain an arn,islic and cessation Of hostliies
now existing between the different sections
of our common coutry, for the purposes
aforesaid
Resolved, That the speaker Of the
House be requested to transmit a copy 81
the foregoing prermble and resolutions
to each of the Governors of the States
aid request that they be laid before tile
lie .islarure of the same; also, To furnish
each of our Senators and Represen.ativ,
in Congress from this State with a copy
hereof and request their. concurrence