Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-07-20
Posey county Union Convention


Pursuant to publie call, the Usion
men Of Posey county met in Mass Goa
vention, at New Harmony, on Saturday,
July l6, 1864
Previous to organizing Gen. HoYsy
entertained the meeting with = speech
full Of earnest enthusiasm and patriotic
utterAnces, showing that divisions ia the
North were the hope Of rebels in the
South--that captions, opposition to the
Administration, the expression Of sym
pathy for the South, and words spoken in
mitigation Of treason were a greater
moral power to the rebellion than any
other the rebels possessed. That the
time was when no Democrat in Possy
county dared proclaim himself in favor
Of peace when the honor and integrity
Of the nation we're at stake, and that no
true follower OF the teachings of Jeffer-
son and jackson would proclaim himself
80 to-day. That President Lincoln had
acted in accordance with the noble ex-
ample set him BY Andrew Jackson, in
assuming responsibilities when the smer-
gsncy required it, and in accordance
with the sentiments of jefferson, in bis
letter to Calvin, Of the Goth of Ssptem.
Der, 1910, wherein he laid down the doc
trins that while it is the duty of the cit
iZen TO obey the laws, it is no less the
duty Of the ruler 10 great and unexpect-
ed emergencies, threatening to the exist-
eace or integrity OF ths nation, where
those laws are inadequate, to provide
the means to avert the public danger
At the conclusion Of Gen. Hoveys
speech, VIM. p. Edison was called to the
chair, and after expressing the objects
Of the meeting made brief and stirring
speech, appealing, in earnest ard elo-
quent terms, to the Union men of old
Possy to organize and discipline them
selves for the great contest before them
warning them against the insidious wiles
Of the enemy, who, desperate and un-
scrupulous, were fully organized and
would leave no stone unturned, no means
unemployed, to accomplish their unholy
ends-that however safe it may be to
implicitly con6de in the matured judg-
ment and ultimately correct conclusion,
of the people, experience lad taught
that the greatest errors may become pop
ular, and the most monstrous heresies
, temporarily riumphRnt-that, therefore
the wiles and Vaccinations of dema
gogues, such as those who, having fatal
; ly deluded the people Of the South, ar,
now striving to debaach the Northern
mind, were to be vigilantly guarded
against rather than despised-thst the
language of Jackson, when secession
was threatened by Calhoun q membe
of his own party }, was not that the Unior
may be preserved, or that it might O.
ought to be preserved, but I" the Union,
must and shall be prsssrved;" that ther,
we're more of the true principles Of An
drew Jackson in Abraham Lincoln to
day than in the whole Copperhead part
!. concentrated aud "sinmered down; !;
Z and that it was the duty of the Uuiol
Z party to organize, having already lai,
down and proclaimed their principles
!. without equivocstion, unlike the Copper
}, heads who are afraid to proclaim them
selves either in favor of or against th
war, but are waiting for disasters to su
arms before they show their true color
and come out for pssce on any terms
The organization Of the melting wa
= conbleted BY the selection of John Burt
and J. L. Whitson as Vice Presidents
/. and c. L. Prosser and DR.. R. Smith q
Secretaries
On motion, the following Commits
on Resolutions was appointed, viz :
John A. Mann, VIM. II. Macarthur, job
O'Neal, John L. Waters and E.
Rogers
During the absence of the Committe
Col Richard Owen being called oi
\. made few but eloquent and appropr
ate remarks, expressing his conviction
=, favor of the Government and vigorol
prosecution Of the war; advocating Il
"a. use OF all the means placed in our pew
which are calculated to suppress the Z