Year: 1862

as his speech will show. statesman and pa
triot, and far above the petty passions of the
hour.


Mr.. CARLILE's speech ELECTED applause
throughout and when he closed three cheers long
and loud were given for him.


/ The President announced that the Committee
on Resolutions, by their chairman, Mr. BUsKIRK,
was ready to report.


Mr. BusKIRk read the resolutions, which were
adopted by acclamation.


RESOLUTIONS.


Resoiced, l. That we adhere to the time-honored
principles of the Democratic party, and we believe
that the only hops for the restoration of the
/ Union and tn, maintenance of the Constitution
is in the restoration of that truly conservative
party to power.


2. That this Convention endorse. worthy of
all confidence, the persons nominated by the del
ega.e Convention which assembled at Indanapo-
lis on the 9Th of January. 1862 and that we
recommend them to the people as honest, capable,
and faithful to the Constitution.


3. That the Constitution, the American Union
aud the Laws made under and by the authority
of the Constitution, must be preserved and main
tanned in their proper and rightful supremacy
that the rebellion now in arms against them must



duty of all good citizens to aid the General Gov
eminent in all measures necessary and proper to
that end


A. That the Democracy of Indiana, with pa
triots every where, have made and will continue
to make every sacrifice to the end that the rebel
lion may be suppressed. the supremacy of the
Constitution maintained, and the Union under it
preserved, but they are unalterably opposed to "A
of conquest subjugation and they will
never consent that the war on their part shall be
waged for the purpose of interfering with the
rights or overthrowing the established institutions
of any of the States. In the language of Senator
Douglas, uttered at Chicago few days before
his death g We must not invade constitutional
rights. The innocent must not suffer, nor
women and children be the victims. SaUaqes
must not be let loose


B That we protest, in the name of ourselves
and of our children, and in the name of all that
we hold dear in the future of our beloved coun
try, against the mischievous 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 res
olution of Congress pledging the nation to pay
for all negroes which may be emancipated by the
authority of any of the Southern States; that
We regard such measures, involving as they do
expenditure of two thousand FIVE hundred
millions OF dollars, as measures of transcendent
enOrmity, and fruitful only of National beggary
to the land we love; that are unalterably and
Internationally opposed TO all schemes having
for their object, immediate or remote, the taxa
ton of the white man for the purchase of negroes
anywhere; that we deny the constitutional right
of the President Congress to adopt policy
which taxes white labor TO pay for negroes, or
which would make the Government or people
slave dealers; Il policy which, it not arrested by
the votes of the people, will entail upon unborn
generations of our kindred debt more over
whelming and appalling than ever cursed any
nation of ancient or modern times.


D. That in opposition to measures of this kind
we desire to interpose the peaceful and powerful
agent. the ballot of free people, and say in the
language of another, 1--WE will neither surrender
our rights nor iorsake them. We will maintain
constitutional liberty at all hazards, and : a
necessary step t0wSrds that end, we will maintain
the Union in like manner. We are for the Con-
stitutiOn as it is, and the Union as it was"
4. That, in the language of the resolution of
the conservative members of Congress. the doc
trine of the Secessonists and of the Aboitionisis
as the latter are now represented in Congress,
are alike inconsistent with the Constitution and
irreconceable with the unity and peace of the
country. The first have already involved US in
civil war, and the others (the Abolitionist) will
leave to the country but little hope of the speedy
restoration of Union peace.


g. That this Convention denounces, as unwise
and unpatriotic, all organizations, secret open
having for their object the nufcation of, or re-
sstance TO, the laws OF the State of the United
States-that oppressive laws and unwise legisa
ton find their proper correction only at the bal
lot box, where a change of legislators will pro-
duce the wished tor reform of bad and odiOus
laws, and to that tribunal only will the patriot
resort in this hour -ot his country's trial We
hold sacred and binding every enactment till re-
| peaed or declared nugatory by competent legal
authority


| 9. That the happy accord of the Border State
Union of Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri,
and Western Virginia with the Democrat
ic delegations in Congress, in their joint ef
forts to arrest the tide of fanaticism in both
Houses, has filled all National 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 10 the councils OF the nation
statesmen who will labor to restore the union of
the States on the basis and in the spirit of our
matchleSs and reyerej Constitution


10. That the people of Indiana, having inhb
/ ited, by the State Constitution and law. the
trance OF free negroes aud mulattoes into this
State. and the present disturbances on our Dor
der ale likely to bring in an influx of that popu
laton from neishboriag States, we respectfully
ask the public authorities of Indiana to see that
the Constitution and laws properly enforced
| on that subject. When the people of Indiana
adopted that negro exclusion clause by majority
of ninefy-four thousand rotes, they meant that
the honest laboring white should have no
competitor in the black race-that the soil of In
diana should belong to the white man, and that
he alone suited TO her free institutions.
III. That the people justly view with alarm
| the reckless extravaganza which pervades every
| department of the Federal Governments; that "a
return to rigid economy and accountability is in
dispensable to arrest the systematic plunder OF
the public treasury by favored partisans, while
the recent startling developments of frauds and
cOrruptons at the Federal Metropolis show that
entire change of administration is imperative
| ly demanded.


l2 That we approve of and indorse the reso-
lutions drawn by Hon. John j. Crittenden, and
adopted by the conservative members of Congress
on the 22d day of January, 1861, as a clear and
! just declaration of the objects which ought to be
had in view by the American people in the pres
ent fearful emergency of their national affairs.
l3. That We recur with patriotic pride to the
bravery and valor of the officers and soldiers of
all the Indiana regiments exhibited in the strug
| giles upon the many bloody fields in which they
have been engaged, and that this Convention, in
behalf of the Democracy of this State, tender to
them united testimony to their valor and devo
ton to the Constitution and the Union, and offer
to the friends and families of those who have
fallen in the service of their country It's sincere
| sympathy and coincidence, and that we will ever
cherish in grateful recollection the willing sacri
fee made by the noble sons of Indiana, in ex-
changing the peaceful avocations of life for the
hardships and perils of war.


Ia. That the Central Committee be requested
to prepare and publish an address to the people of
INDIANA setting forth the principles, opinions,
and doctrines enunciated in the resolutions adopt
cd rav. and hat fhn arfro hn oflv N a