Year: 1862

correction only at the ballot box. where
change of legislators will produce tn,
wished for reform of bad and edious laws
and to that tribunal only will the patrio
resort in this hour Of his country's trial
We hold sacred and binding every enact
ment till repealed or declared nugatory by
competent legal authority.


9. 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
National hearts 10 the State with senti-
ments of deep affection for our brethren OF
those gallant Commonwealths, and we
hereby pledge to them and the country our
best efforts 10 secure to the councils of the
uatioE statesmen who will labor to restore
the union of the States on the basis and in
the spirit Of our matchless and revered
Constitution.


10. That the people of Indiana, having
Inhibited, by the State Constitution and
law. the entrance of free negro and mulat-
toes into this State. and as the present
disturbances on our border are likely to
bring in an influx of that population from
neighboring States, we respectfully ask the
public Authorities Of Indiana to see that
the Constitution and laws are properly en-.
forced on that subject When the people
of Indiana adopted that negro exclusion
clause by majority Of ninety four thousand
potes, they meant that the honest laboring
white man should have no competitor in
the black race-that the soil Of Indiana
should belong to the white man, and that
he alone was suited to her free institutions.


II. That the people justly view with
alarm the reckless extravaganza which
peavades every department of the Federal
Government; that return to rigid ecouo-
my and accountability is Indispensable to
arrest the systematic plunder of the public
treasury by favored partisans. while the
recent startling developments of frauds
and corruptions at the Federal Metropolis
show that an entire change of administra
ton is imperatively demanded.


r. That we approve Of and indorse the
resolutions drawn by Hon. John j. Crit
tenden, and adopted by the conservative
members of Congress on the 2ed day of
January. 1861, as a clear and just decla-
ration of the objects which ought to be had
in view by the American people IN the
present fearful emergency Of their national
affairs.


IS. That We recur with patriotic pride
the bravery and vslor of the officers and
soldiers Of all the Indiana regiments. ex-
hibited in the struggles upon the many
bloody fields in which they have been en-
gagged, and that the Convention. in behalf
OF the Democracy of this State. tender to
them a united testimony to their yalor and
devotion to the Constitution and the Union
and offer to the friends and families of
those who have fallen III the service of
their country it's sincere sympathy and
confidence, and that we will ever cherish
in grateful recollection the willing sacri-
fee made by the noble sons of Indiana, in
exchanging the peaceful avocations of life
for the hardships and perils Of war.


Ia. That the Central Committee be re-
quested to prepare and publish an address
to the people of Indiana. setting forth the
principles, opinions and doctrines enunci
ated in the resolutions adopted this day;
and that the same be given to the people
with the proceedings Of this Convention.


10. That said committee be further re.
quesed to publish such campaign Gocu-
ments as may be deemed useful in the
present emergency. =.