Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-08-26
Fremont Meeting Last Night.
MASONIC HALL CROWDED.
speeches, * Resolutions
&c. &c- &C.. &C.. &c.

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to the Presidency Many ladies we're pres
eat, aud our reporter noticed several groups who
had come from the country in vehicles. with ban
ners flying. singing patriotic songs, aud making
other enthusiastic demonstrations more re
Specialize audience never gathered together
in thi. city. Il was not only enthusiastic, but il
demonstrated Itself Throughout periodically de-
termined
Major J W Gordon was called to the Chair
and Charles Post was chosen Vice President.
Major Gordon. appeariog. said be was happy
70 meet 20 many familiar faces tonight. He
would not de;ain the audience, however. By any
speech anticipating the orator Of the evening.
He would simply say that this meeting
called to ratify, 50 far as our city was concerned,
the nomination at Cleveland of Fremont and
Cochrane for the Presidency and Vice Presi-
dency
He closed by submitting the following resolu-
tons which had been handed TO him by the Pres
ident Of the FIemon, Club in this city, and
which were unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That we fully approve and endorse
the acton of the Cleveland Convention OF the
3lst day of May last. aud that viii support
the nominees thereof.
Resolved, That the liberty of speech and the
Press is at all times necessary 60 the preservation
Of free institutions; and that especially in times
of great national peril like the present. il should
be more distinctly pronounced, and insisted upon.
than in quiet times, when the patronage and
power Of the administration is less and when
consequently the danger TO be aPprehended from
their improper exercise is not 80 great
f-..lt. 80
government in al constitutional efforts to sut-lue
the rebellion aud thereby to establish the
Union
Will G. Mosean. Esq then came forward and
addressed tue melting at length His speech
was scathng review Of the military and civil
policy of the Administration. and abouuded
with the most telling hits with reference to Mr..
Lincoln personally 1t vas received with great
favor throughout. Mr. Moreau concluded by an
earnest and eloquent appeal in favor OF John c.
Fremont for the Presidency.
Major Gordon announced that shortly con
rention of the Fremont party would be called
aud an electoral ticket put in the field. Major
! Gordon proceeded. making capital and
timely remarks connected with the present state
of things in Indiana. He insisted upon the
; largest liberty OF opinion. and the express
sion thereof Because man differed with
2 him. il did not follow that he to- shoot him
down as a traitor Neither did it follow that be-
cause a man happened to differ with the support
, ers of the Administration and even imported ps-
tots into the State, he was to be arbitrarily ar
rested by the military, incarcerated in a guard
house and held for trial by a military commits
sion.
fl Martial Law MAS not yet proclaimed IN this
State. The courts open, aud civil process
was unobssructed Where was the u. 5 Mar.
shall? Where was the U. s District Attorney ?
Where where ali the civil functionares intrusted
with the due execution OF the laws that citizens
were arrested by usurped military authority IL
was an impeachment of the Presidents it was an
impeachment of your Congress to say that after
nearly four wears of war there were legal and
! constitutional provisions Tor the punishment of
traitors wherever found. Ii is guilty OF
any offense, let him. wherever the civil law ob
tains. and no military occupation has made the
bullet and the bayonet paramount, be held TO
answer BY legal process. before jury OF his
> country. n n free American citizen ought TO be
J. tried
OF all the despotsms of the Administration,
this one of arresting at midnight, or at any other
time Of citizens. matter whether justly or not,
by military power. where the community is at
peace and legal process obeyed, is the one which
to put the seal of condemnation upon
And he would saw 10 those who were 30 blood
thirsty with regard to TRAITORS IT home, and
who would shoot them hang them, that, II
: such game was InaugUrated. two could play at
it. /, would be in effect civil war, and the assas
o sin who shot TRAITOR round the corner one
night. would the next night be sent suddenly
into the presence of his God to answer for the
: assassination Some of these men you call
traitors" pray, they read their Bibles; you sit
: with them in the Lords sanctuary on the Holy
Sabbath. worshiping at the same altar with
: them.
Suppose one Of YOU administration men should
slip up in dark night and shoot such an indi-
D yidual through 4 window, while his family was
gathered peacefully about him Do you think II
. would end there? The next night your turn
Il would come, and while you were holding family
= PRAYERS YOUR soul would be ushered without a
moments warning into eternity by bullet
through your own window Do you want, NV
fellow citizens, such state of things to prevail
= among your Here somebody asked about the
four hundred pistols recently captured In this
: CITY by the military, aud what was 10 be done
with those Who imported themf Major Gordon
replied that il any one connected with that trans
action had been guilty of any breach of the law
he ought TO be tried bv toe law and, If con
e victed punished. For himself, he had never
, owned but pistol in his life and that lie hat
4 purchased in Boston and had used In the army
. against the enemies of his country, the ike oil
: which. be would undertake TO say. the gentle
G man who had interrupted him had not done with
? his pistol ii he owned any.
Q Major Gordon above al things cOGnselleC
o peace in this community-peace throughout In
diana Let US differ with one another in opinion
but let Us recognize in each man the right tC
differ. Let Us have free ballot, each voter
5 going up and depositing his ballot unintimidateC
by Individuals, mobs military.
II A free people demanded this and they would
Ir have il As for those who had never faced
gun aud who shouted traitor at him. ne would
!, pledge himself under the late call of the PFes
Il dent TO shoulder 4 musket and 60 With then
e where thew could find traitors TO their heart,
!. content He had for three wears met ,raitor
s where bullets whistled thicker than hisse
tonight Let these "loyal" come forward
a thousand OF them. and he would 20 forth witt
them 10 Grant or sherman and ask 10 be put il
!, the first forlorn hope that offered. and il h,
i hinchei they had the privilege of shooting bin
!. down. and il they finched, these men who talke'
!. Of shooting traitors at home hinched, he SHOULD
= reserve the privilege of shooting them down.
;, We regret that the lsteness OF the hour pre-
% cludes following Major Gordon further in hi
y able and patriotic speech. Ii was SAT-
that neither be or MOreau would b
suffered to address an indianapolis audience