Year: 1863




nation and the impoverishment of the
people, but also in final separation of
the different sections and the destruc-
tion of our admirable form of free gov
ernment; and, JUS


WHEREAS, The people of Indiana are
desirous that no effort, which inspires a
reasonable hope of success in restoring
the Union as it was under the Constitu-
ton, shall be omitted and being SOL
EMMY impressed with the conviction
that arms alone, under the recent and
present policy of the Cabinet at Wash
ington, will never accomplish that desira-
BILE object; and invoking the prayers of
all good men and the smiles of a God of
Peace in the furtherance Of our patriotic
PurROse ysvrrvrvrs ztoornr-
bly, Of the STATE Of Indiana, l. That
while we will continue TO obey every con-
stitutional requisition which true patri-
otism shall demand, for the purpose of
restoring the. Union and preserving our
constitutional liberty, yet we are opposed
to war for the liberation of the slaves,
and, while that policy is maintained by
the Administration, the highest dictates



it our support; believing that war for
that purpose is unconstitutional, and if
persisted in, will lead to the inevitable
and lasting destruction of the Union


?. That no Union can be maintained
in this country until fanaticism on the
negro question, North and South, is
eradicated, and the doctrine of Popular
State Sovereignty is acknowledged as
fundamental axiom of the Government
The people of the North must yield up
the heresy of abolitionism, or else yield
up the blessings of the Union. Aboli-
tionsm and the Union are incompatible;
the one or the other must triumph. A
war for abolitionism is war against the
Union; a war for the Union is a war
against abolitionism. Aboltionism is
o moral treason, and but for the forms of
law with which it is clothed by the Ad-
ministration, is actual, legal treason. No
patriot can be an Abolitionist


3. That the interest of the white race,
as well as the black, demands that the
condition and locality of the latter should
not be interfered with; and war, or
legislation, or Presidential proclamations
to accomplish the purpose of the ne
groes' freedom and consequent migra-
ton to the North, are acts of fragrant
violation of the Constitution, and in
wicked disregard of the peoples voice
and the best interests of the country,
and all such acts ought to be constitu-
tionally resisted by an outraged people.


4. That President Lincoln's scheme
of Compensated Emancipation" which
proposes to tax the people of Indiana to
PsFfata lfHf6ht the aae ahd ohb6f SnBE
which a tax-ridden and overburdened
people will not submit to- The freemen
of Indiana will not consent to impover-
ish themselves and their families to car
~ out that insane and wicked policy, but
will resist it by every constitutional
means in their power.


5. That the system of arbitrary ar
rests, and the wanton disregard of the
Great Writ Of Liberty, commonly called
the hdbeas corpus, by the Cabinet at
Washington, are acts Of tyranny and
usurpation, Justly alarming to free peo-
pie, against which the State of Indiana
protests with Indignation; and in the
name of constitutional liberty she de-
mands that the accursed system shall
cease within her borders; and we declare
the unalterable determination of the peo-
pie to maintain the liberty of speech, the
liberty of the press, the ri ght to the writ
of hdbeds corpus and speedy trial by
| jury, at every hazard of blood and treas
ure.


6. That the State of Indiana, on ac.
count of her devotion to the Union, and
her geographical position and CONNER
cial interest, never will consent to any
| settlement upon basis of disunion or a
policy which shall separate her from the
States bordering upon the Mississippi
river. Her highest interest demands the
perpetuatiOn of the Union, and especial
ly that the Great Valley of the Mississip.
pi, from its source to its mouth, shall re-
main under one government and one
flag. r


T. That the war in which we are en-.
gagged ought to cease as soon as it can be
brought to an honorable and satisfacto
ry termination /; and upon that subject
the people who are bearing its burdens
have "a right to speak Therefore, our
Senators in Congress are instructed, and
our Representatives requested to use al
the power and influence of their position:
by bill, resolution or otherwise to ac
complish the following objects, viz l.
To procure an armistice of at least si1
months between the Federal and Con
federate armies, for the purpose of test
ing the possibility of a permanent peace
on the basis of the Union. 2. To pas:
law calling a Convention of all the
States, composed of delegates freely
chosen by the people, to take into con
sderation the state of the country, and
to devise some plan of settlement to bt
submitted to vote of the people Nortl
and South, by which the Union shall bt
preserved and the country restored to {
lasting peace.


3. That the Governor be directed t
transmit a certified copy of the forego
ing preamble and resolutions to each o
our Senators and Representatives il
Congress, to be laid before their respec
tive bodies, and to the Governor of eael
of the States, to be by them laid beior,
their respective Legislatures.


BROWNS JOINT RESOLUTIONS
WHEREAS, We believe that the follow
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