Year: 1863

closed in the foregoing facts sbouId
arouse the people to keen wstchfulness
OF the party that urged it. Disorgauiza-
ton and anarchy would have followed
It's success as surely as any effect follows
It's cause. all the restraints os author.
lty, and all the barriers of precedent
would have been broken. down. to give
free course to measures which must have
LETT the State powerless against the 70.
0eliion' with the military power of the
Governor crippled, or removed to dis
Z loyal hands, and the military power of
the State scattered among disioyal Sc
eret societies, the proud name Indiana
mas earned IN the war would have been
tarnished or ebliterated, and her great
services perverted into, great injuries.
Nothing more helpless or pitiable can be
.Inaglnea man state with such his
pid or mischievous sinactixity. That it
was the purpose Of the dominant party
IN the Legislature to reduce her to such
condition, is proved beyond doubt,
by the facts We have cited No man can
read them, and fail to see that through
all runs the one purpose: to take Indi-
ana out OF the war, or transfer her to the
rebellion. Every step moves to that
point But if we lacked proof of the
purpose OF this policy, in the measure we
have alluded to, we could find it in the
conduct of the party since the adjourn
ment OF The Legislature Resistance to
the laws, open defiance of the military
authorities, armed bands secretly organ
ized, making their first open appearance
III hostility to the Government. disloyal
boasts and shouts, attacks on soldiers
encouragement of desertion, have all
marked the action of that party in every
portion of the State "The tree ia
known BY its fruits" When such actions
are seen, not occasionally, but constant
iy;; not IN one infected locality, but over
whole Stale; not in men of all parties.
. but IN one party only, we have no alter
native but TO believe that party guided
by mischlevous and disloyal hands.


The disorganizing spirit that animated
the majority Of the Legislature has
recently shown itself strikingIy in the
attempt to prevent the payment of the
interest on the public debt, and to force
the State into repndiation. This step is
the legitimate and natural result of the
tendency displayed in all the measures
we have cited. We could expect nothing
else OF those who sought to create anar-
chy by law, than that they should seek to
ruin the credit of the State They have
combined to defeat the payment of that
debt at all hazards, and to that end they
have aBRHlfaas fase r5ffGF 5ff authority and the DOW
er otparty discipline could furnish them,
to force aside the resistance of an honest
State officer to their ruinous scheme.
must suffer II her credit Is aiiJsil5sss @sa
her credit will be crushed by the sppre-
hension that her debt will not be paid.
If there was no money in the treasury,
if times were hard, and taxes slow to.
come in; if We had to borrow, or to sac
riice anything, TO pay, we could see
motive, which, if not good, would at least
be Ineligible. But to labor, as so many
members of the Democratic party are
now doing, zealously and constantly, to
defeat payment, when the treasury is full
of money; when no oppression to the
people can result from it; when there is
no excuse of poverty, and no example
now in any loyal State to keep repudia-
ton in countenance, is inexplicable, un-
less we suppose they desire to injure the
State.


No other explanation of conduct so
directly and absolutely mischievous can
be given. They desire to load the State
with the odium of Reputation, that her
power may be crippled through the ruin
of her credit The same spirit that
would have taken her military power out
of the hands that have used it so wisely
and well, and put il in hands that would
either have misused. or not used it at
all; that sought by indireetion to elevate
secret society, covered all over with
reasonable oaths, into the lawful militia
of the State; that declared its hostility
to the war, and demanded that the State
should treat for peace with the rebels in
dependent of the General Government;
the same spirit of anarchy and evil ap-
pears in this scheme Of reputation.
From first to last the conduct of the ma
iority in the Legislature, and of those
who are led by them, has been directed
by a disorganizing, anarchical spirit,
against which we call upon loyal men of
every party to array themselves. If the
State is to preserve her .gg,oQQSap gg,oQQSa paMlisa her
power, that spirit must be crushed. We
believe it will. We believe the indica-
tious of the late elections are favorable
to the restoration of that patriotic feel
ing that once melted away all party lines


in a unanimity as rare as it was glorious


in the cause of the Union, and the insti-
tutions it protects and vitalizes. When


that unanimity returns, the end of the


war will be close upon it.


I. J. CASON,
d. R. VAN BUSKIRK,


| A. ANDERSON,


! D. C. BRANHAM, Committee.
| WALTER MARCH,


| JOHN C. NEW,


| APPOINTMENT OF GENERAL OFFICERS.