Year: 1863

The officers and soldiers of the 1st
Indiana Cavalry have learned with pro-
found regret, that His Excellency, Gov
ernor Morton, in an address delivered at
Cincinnati on the 23d ultimo, in speaking
of the Knights of the Golden Circle and
their influence upon the army, is report
ed to have said that the 1st Indiana
Cavalry had been affected by it, and dis
claiming, as they do, any belief that His
Excellency is capable of making a state
ment which he did not believe to be true
or of Intentionally doing injustice to this
regiment, yet being satisfied that such a
statement from such a quarter is caleu-
lated to bring undeserved reproach upon
our regiment, aud -~quiIuo vireso riro Pvs;
ton of the 1st Indiana Cavalry should
be defined, and claiming, as we do, to
have better means of knowledge than all
other persons; therefore


ReSOiued, 1st, That so far as we know
and believe no fact or circumstance in
the past history of the regiment or any
officer or soldier thereof exists to Justify
such an imputation, and we therefore
cannot refrain from believing that Gov
ernor Morton has been imposed upon by
some one unlriendly to us.


I'd. That we appeal to our record in
the field for testimony that we are made
of stuff too stern to be shaken in our 10y
ally by the very light literature of the X.
G. C.'s.


Sd That we unanimously denounce
all combinations. whether secret or open,
the tendency or intention of which is
directlyor indirectly to thwart or hinder
the Government in its efforts to crush the
existing rebellion, and that we have had
too much experience with guerrillas in
the field to be influenced by or sympa-
thize with, their less respected brethren
OF the K. G. C.s at home.


4th. That it is for the Government to
devise and order the means that shall be
put in requisition for the suppression of
the rebellion, and we as soldiers propose
to do, in the future, what we have always
done in the past, obey orders, adjourning
the discussion of all questions of political
expediency and constitutional power
until we shall have resumed, if that shall
ever be, our polical franchises at home


5th. That we are for crushing the re-
bellion first and for discussing the pro-
priety and constituCionality of the means
employed after the fact shall have been
accomplished.


9th That first, last and all the time,
we are with one mind and one heart for
the Government of our fathers, no mat
ter by what men or party administered,
that ats enemies are oar enemies, no mat
ter by what names they may be designa-
ted or what disguise they may assume


7th That the citizen who encourages
disafection or desertion among the SOL
diers. is as much meaner than the open
traitor as the cowardly midnight assassin
is when compared with the bold highway
robber


Sth That the men who pretend to be
patriotic and vet advocate the putting of
New England "out in the cold, in order
that the great Northwest may become a
tail to the Confederate kite, deserve not
only to be banished, but banished to a
latitude so warm that to name the place
might be deemed not only impohte but
compel our Chaplain to vote against
these resolutions.


9th. That without presuming either to
approve or censure his political opinions,
we recognize in Gov. Morton the Sol
diers' Friend, as well as the friend OF
our Government and country, and that
we have too many reasons to love and
thank him to utter one word to wound
his feelings; but if single officer or sol.
dier of this regiment has in word or deed
swerved hair s-breadth from the most
unconditional loyalty, it is due to us that
the guilty should be pointed out, so that
the innocent may not be suspected.


10TH In proof of our fidelity. we
proudly appeal to the fact that, during a
twenty months arduous service, absent
from the homes, families, and friends'we
SO much love, we have had only twelve
desel ters. -Four of these were recruited
in the enemy's country, and the rest