Year: 1862

Below we give the resolutions adopted
bv THIRTY THOUSAND ELECTORS OF 1NDIANA
in the Mass Convention at indianapolis on
Wednesday, the 30th ult. They were also
endorsed by such men as WIckLIFFE, CAR
Isle, RICHARDSON and HESDRICKs, and
doubtless express the sentiments of vast
majority of the population of the Hoosier
State:


Resolred, 1. That we adhere to the
time-honored principles of the Democratic
party. and we believe that the only hope
for the restoration Of the Union and the
maintenance of the Constitution is in the
restoration of that trul " conservative party
to power.


2. That the Constitution, the American
Union, and the Laws made under and by
the authority of the Constitution, must be
preserved and maintained in their proper
and rightful supremacy-that the rebel.
lion now in arms against them must be
suppressed and put down, and that it is the
duty of all good citizens to aid the General
Government in all measures.


3. That the Democracy of Indiana, with
patriots everywhere, have made and will
continue to make every sacrifice to the end
tnat the rebellion may be suppressed, the
supremacy of the Constitution maintained
and the Union under it preserved, but
they are unalterably opposed to war Of
conquest or subjucation, and they will nev-
er consent that the var on their part shall
be waged for the purpose Of interfering
with the rights or overthrowing the estab
lished institutions of any of the states.-
In the language of Senator Dopglas, utter
ed at Chicago a few days before his death ::
sfWe must not invade constitutional rights
The innocent must not suffer, nor women
and children be the victims. ,Savages
must not be let lo0Se."


4. That we protest, in the name Of our
selves and of our children. and in the name
OF all tha. we hold dear in the future of
our beloved country, against the mischiev-
Gus measure of negro emancipation in the
District Of Columbia. and the payment for
such negroes out Of the National Treasury :;
and we further protest against the resolu>
ton of Congress pledging the nation to
pay for all the negroes which may be
emancipated by the authority of any Of the
Southern States; that we regard such
measures, involving as they do an expend
iture of two thousand FIVE hundred millions
Of dollars, as measures of transcendant
enormity, and fruitful only of National
beggary to the land we love; that we are
unalterably and uncondtionally opposed
to all schemes having for their object, i'm
mediate or remote, the taxation Of the
white man for the purchase Of negroes
anywhere ; that we deny the constitutional
right of the President or Congress to adopt
a policy which taxes white labor to pay for
negroes, or which would make the Gov
ernment or people slave dealers; policy
which, if not arrested by the votes of the
people will entail upon unborn generations
of our kindred debt more overwhelming
and appalling than ever cursed any nation
Of ancient or modern times.


5. That in opposition to measures Of
this kind we desire to nterpose the peace
full and powerful agent, the ballot Of a free
people, and say in tie language of another,
1--WE will neither surrender our rights nor
forsake them. We will maintain our con-
stitutional liberty at all hazards and as a
necessary step towards that end, we will
maintain the Union iE like manner. We
are for the Constitution as it is, and the
Union as it was


6. That, in the language of the resolu-
Of tho horC of lop
gress, the doctrine of the secessionists and
of the abolitionists, as the latter are now
represented in Congress, are alike incon-
sistent with the constitution and irreconci-
liable with the unity and peace Of the couD-
try. The first have already involved ds IN
a civil war, and the others (the abolition
ists) will leave to the country but little
hope of the speedy restoration of Union or
peace.


I. That this Convention denounces, as
unwise and unpatriotic, all organizations,
secret o, open, having for their object the
notification Of, or resistance TO, the laws
of the State or Of the United States-that
oppressive laws and unwise legislation find
their proper correction only at the ballot
box, where change of!egislators will pro-
duce the wished for reform of bad and obi
Gus laws, and to that tribunal only will the
patriot resort in this hour of his country's
trial. We hold sacred and binding every
enactment till repealed or declared nuga-
tory 10y competent legal authority.


That the happy accord of the Border
State Union men Of Kentucky. MARYLAND,
Missouri, and Western Virginia with the
Democratic delegations in Congress, in
their Joint efforts to arrest the tide of ia,
naticism in both Houses, has filed all Ma
tonal hearts in this state with sentiments
of deep affection for our brethren of those
gallant commonwealths, and we hereby
pledge to them and the country our best
efforts to secure to the councils Of the ma
ton stasesmen who will labor 10 restore
the union of the states on the basis and in
the spirit OF our matchless and revered
constitution.


Q. That the people Of Indiana, having
inhibited, by the state constitution and law
the entrance Of free negroes aud mulattoes
into this state, and as the present disturb
ances on our border are likely to bring in
an influx Of that population from neirh-