The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-08-09
PUTNAM COUNTY. y

AT county meeting held at Green
castle, February 81, Senator johnson
| presided. As response to the speech
Of Jason B. Brown, of Jackson, they
resolved:
That we earnestly recommend a
cessation Of hostilities, for such a pc
| riod as may be necessary to allow the
people of the North and South to
express, through National Conven-
ton, their wish for peace and main
tenance of the Union as it was and
the Constitution as it is.
AS the deliberate sense of this
meeting, that not another soldier and
not another dollar ought to be fur
nished for the further prosecution of
this war for negro emancipation.
"a WAYNE COUNTY
The Democrats passed the follow
ing resolutions at Cambridge on the
10th of March, 1868, under the lead
ership of LATE Develin:
RESOLVED, That the further prose-
cution of this war poiU result az the
orerthr0ao of the Constitution, IN the
oUerthroto of ciUil liberty, an the 0Uer-
tkroW of the Federal Government, IN
the elevation Of the black man, and the
degradation of the white man in the
social and political status of the coun-
try.
Resolved, That we are IN favor of
an drnlistice, and the calling of a
national convention of all the States,
composed of delegates selected by the
people, believing that to be the only
mode of settling our national difficult
ties, alike honorable to the North and
the South, the East and the West.
g .Resolped, That the majority of
the clergy, for the past two years, are
the devils select and inspired repre-
sentatives, preaching envy, malice,
hate, vengeance, blood and murder,
instead of love, charity, Christianity
and the doctrines of Christ, and they
hereby receive our unqualified and in
dignant condemnation. ...,.s
/" Resolued, That we say to the Adj
ministration that, as the Lord reigns
in Heaven, it can not go on, with its
provost marshals and police officials,
arresting free white men for what
they conceive to be their duty within
the plain provisions of the Constitu-
ton, and maintain peace in the loyal
States. Blood loiU folo They can
not and shall not forge letters for our
limbs without struggle for the mas
terry.
ResolUed, That we counsel the Dem
ocrats not to violate constitutional
laws; but there is time when for
bearance ceases to be a virtue; and if
our political opponents continue in
the work of destruction because of
our political opinions, we shall be-
compelled to adopt the old Jewish
code of an eye for an eye, a tooth for
a tooth; and we now give notice that
if another attempt at mobocracy
occurs in our district, we shall
retaliate by defending our rights
Sentinel, March %, 1868.
RUSH COUNTY.
A mass Democratic Convention, at
JAM 81, 1868, unanimous
ly resolved, 4
That we are unqualifedly opposed
to the further prosecution of this alb
clifton war; and believing that, in,
its continued prosecution, there
await us only the murderous sacrifice
of legions Of brave men, ignominious
and disgraceful defeat, shame and
dishonor at home and broad, public |
ruin, and the serious enlargement of |
our liberties, we .unhesitatingly de-
clare that we are for peace, the cessa-
bion of hostilities, an arnistice, and
The settlement of existing difficulties
by compromise or negotiation, through
Nafiono1 HoDvanfion 80