Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-07-25
STATE ITEMS.

ing OF the Young men Oh lnuihnd, III edcu Oh the
following places, VIZ: AT Centerville. July the
26ih; at Knightstown. July 9th at Greenfield,
July 26th; at Danvile, July 29th Lectures u
commence at & O'Clock, 7 NJ
ali are earnestly invited to attend. a. matters
OF vital importance to the interests OF Education
will be discussed
- The Democratic Congressional candidates
thus far in this State are: First District, W IN.
F. Niblack Third, Henry W Harrington; Sew.
enth. Daniel W VOORHEES,; Ninth. David Tur
pie; Tenth, Joseph X. EdgertOn Eleventh, JAS
Sixth and Eighth Districts no nominations have
yet been made In the Fourth and Eighth the
conventions will be held on Tuesday, the Goth
inst. In the remaining Districts the conventions
will be held during August
If Turpie should withdraw from the State
ticket, the candidates so far mentioned to take
his place are l. p Mligan. of Huntington,
Judge Lowry, of Elkhart, ii. A. o. Packard. of
Marshall. Judge Claypool. of Vigo. aud J d.
Williams, of Knox The State Central Com
mittee will fix the matter. Either of these, or
any other good man, would he satisfactory to the
Democracy. especially rs We have an excellent
prospect of beating Cofax with Turpie.
NINTH DIsRIcr CONGRESSIONAL CoNvEN-
TIoN-NoMISATIoN or Hon DAVID TURpIE.-
The Democratic Nominating Convention OF the
Ninth Congressional District assembled at Val
paraiso on the Doth inst The following gen
tlemen we're elected permanent officers of the
Conventions:
President--P. NJ. Kent, of White.
Vice Presidents-Joseph Bartholomew, OF Por
ter; \. W. Rogers, of Laporte; Jacob Slower, of
ST Joseph; j. F. Van Valkenburg; of Marshall
Thomas Meredith, of Fulton DR.. James Thorn
a. of Cass; n. O. Ross, of Miami; Rollin
Hughes, of White: A. Sharp, Of Newton. and
Thomas II. Keys. of Pulaski.
Principal Secretary-S. A Hall, of Cass
Assistant Secretaries-R, McGee, of White:
p. Mcdonald, of Laporte; W H. DRAPER. of St.
Joseph; James McEwen. of White, and w. b.
Longbridge, OF Miami
On taking the chair permanently. the Pres
dent, Mr.. Kent, rendered his thanks to the con
vention for the honor il had conferred upon him
in calling him to preside over its deliberations
Surrounded bv circumstances, the like of which
no part Of the American people. if of the world,
had ever before known, it became them, as pa
triOt. and citizens, to be governed bv a true
sense of the responsibilities that rested upon them
representatives of the Democracy of the Ninth
Congressional District OF Indiana And when
he looked that large assemblage-
composed, il was, of old gray headed men
and read the settled determination upon their
faces, he was satisfied that they would utter no
word, or do no act that would rebound to their
discredit.
They had come together To nominate "A candi-
date for Congress, who, if elected would repre-
sent the whole people of the district, and use his
influence to restore peace to distracted and
bleeding country The country wanted peace,
and an honorable peace could be had if it were
not for the obstinacy of the administration. The
people were tired of war and of blood They
were tired of taxation. Every day the war was
prosecuted added almost untold thousands of
dollars to the national debt, while it swept away
its tens of thousands of men. peopling the land
with widows and orphans The country was
once peaceful and prosperous; but since the in
auguration OF the Lincoln dynasty, the land had
been stepped in blood; fields had been laid waste;
towns had been burned; families had been desc
lated; and. from debt of few hundred mil
lions only in 1850, it had, in three short years,
accumulated To the enormous sum OF over
50 900 900 900 And what had the people TO
balance against this unparalleled Indebtedness
Nothing but a distracted. ruined. bleeding de
populated country. and taxation that eating
up our substance Taxation now commenced at
the cradle, increased with every day, and con
tinued after death. The very tombstone
that the hand of kind friends erected to the
memory of departed loved ones was taxed while
their estates, if not eaten up by taxation. would
soon be destroyed by the tax gatherer And,
not content with the continued taxation to ell
able corrupt administration TO continue It's war
for power, they now must demand from Us 500 :
nrtl hot
it be that the people would longer support this
corrupt administration? Every act it had ever
done only tended t. widen and deepen the breach
between the two sections; and now there was no
hope left but for the people To declare for peace
Again thanking the convention for the honor
conferred upon him, be resumed his seat amidst
the most rapturous applause. which, having sub
sided, the committee on resolutions. through it,
chairman, A Hall, submitted the following
report, which was unanimously adopted:
Whereas. The Constitution of the United States
guarantees liberty OF speech and OF the press, aud
the right TO worship God according TO the die
tates of conscience and
Whereas. Governments were instituted among
men more fully to secure those inalienable rights
against the lawless usurpatOn of those who pro
sess an inOrdinate love of power; and
Whereas. The mad and reckless misrule and
usurpations that have marked the conduct of our
National Executive are thre ttenlng the over
throw the rights of the States and the Liberties
of the people, and are tending TO establish a
centralized despoti>m therefore We, the DemOc
racy of the Ninth Congressional District in con
vention assembled. do solemnly resolve:
That IL IS the duty of free people 70 meet
with firm resistance. upon the very threshold
every encr0achment of power upon their rights
a guaranteed 70 them: and 10 DO this il Is nee
essary and right that they should not only re-
monStrate. in plain. unvarnished terms, with the
nsurpers. but they should resist. with their lives
and fortunes. every usurpation upon their rights .
ani that we will resist by force. If necessary
anv attempts abridge TIE elective franchise
whether by tie Introduction Of illegal votes un.
der military usurpation. or the attempt by Fed
sra otiice-holders 10 prevent votes by threats of
violence.
> That he present civil war i the le
gitirnate result of the teachings and blasting in
huences OF abolIIOnism, which has been sown
broadcast through church and school for the past
quarter of a century. until the doctrine of IT.
repressbe conflict had become the faith and cor
ner stone OF great sectional party.
2 That tie unnatural var ia which are en-
gagged has been wickedy perverted by abolition
fa1atcism from the purpose for which il ~4s
and. instead OF being waged fo- the
restoration and perpetuiiy OF the Union Cas the
President and Congress assured Us in the COM