Year: 1863

The Indiana soldiers in the Army of
the Cumberland-also a gallant host
have addressed Memorial and Resolu-
tions to the Legislature of that State, of
the most loyal and patriotic character
The Indianapolis Jsuraal of the 18th
gives large portion of its space to the
document which does so much honor to
the brave sons of Indiana in the field
Like the Ohio address, Democrats and
Republicans united in it with scarcely a
dissenting voice in the whole Indiana
force in the army. The names of the
officers of the regiment who have signed
the memorial, and the action taken
thereon by the respective regiments, are
given. These official statements are a
complete refutation Of the impression en-
deayored to be made by those opposed to
vigorous prosecution of the war that
our soldiers favor any cessation of the
hostilities until the rebellion shall have
been crushed. The memorial and reso-
lutions were heartily endorsed by the In
diana Generals and Field Officers, as well
as by the Regimental and Company Off
GERS, and they were read to all the mem
bers of the several regiments for their
approval or disapproyal,


The Memorial TO the Indiana General
Assembly sets forth the common and pub
lie interests involved in the war, the ne
cessity of union and energy in its prose-
cution, the dangers arising from political
parties and wrangling factions at home,
and makes this earnest appeal;


We ask simply that you will give this
war cheerful and hearty support, that
you will strengthen and energize every
department of Government, that this un-
happy struggle may be pressed to sue
ceSsful termination; that you will pour
out the treasure of the State as your sol
diers have poured out their blood on the
field of battle, to aid in the holy cause of
restoring the Union of our fathers that
you will abstain from heated political dis
cussions and violent party wrangling un-
til the authority of the Government is
once more established that you will re-
sist the internal spirit which would waste
victory in humiliating compromise, or
render temporary reyerses a pretext for
the alienation of an unoffending commu-
nifty /; that you will sacrifice everything
except liberty and political equality to
national interests; that you will sustain
all officers of the State and General Gov
ernment in their efforts to subdue this
unholy rebellion, and especially that you
will sustain our worthy Governor, whose
every energy during the past two years
has been so entirely devoted to the cause
of the Government and its supporters.


The memorial concludes by proposing
the following Resolutions to be adopted
by the Legislature of Indiana, and to
constitute the basis of all their acts bear
ing upon the interests involved in the
memorial:


ReSolved, l, That we are Internationally
and determinedly in favor of the preser-
vation of the Union.


Resolged 2, That in order to the preser-
Vation of this Union, we are in favor of a
vigorous prosecution of the war.


ReSolUed 3, That we will sustain our
State and Federal authorities with money
and supplies in all their efforts to sustain
the Union and prosecute the war.


RESOLVED 4, That we will discountenance
every faction and influence tending to
create animosities at home or to afford
consolation and hope to our enemies in
arms, and that we will cooperate with
only those who will stand by the Union,
and by those who are fighting the battles
of the Union.


ReSolUed 5, That we tender to his Ex-
cellency, Gov. o. P Morton, the thanks
of his grateful friends in the army for his
extraordinary efforts on their behalf, and
assure him that neither time nor the cor
rupting influence of party spite shall ever
estrange the soldier from the soldiers
friend.


The official documents published en-
brace some thirty Indiana regiments and
batteries, and the Journal has authentic
information that the same action been