Year: 1863

We call attention to two sets of Joint
resolutions which We publish this morn
ing, one introduced in the Senate by Mr.


Wolfe of Washington, on the 9th inst,
the other introduced by Brown of Wells
yesterday. One is long, bitter, and
dishonest collection of causes of COM
plant against the General Government,
leading to the main purpose of its prep
aration, the declaration of an armistice,
and the other is short, direct, and per-
emptory demand for an armistice, and a
provision for the election of delegates in
April to attend a National Convention of
all the States, rebel as IceU as l9ydI to
be held at Nashville on the first Monday
in June. This latter is the end to which
the other was directed, and we may look
at it only. 1t simply and explicitly de-
clares that this war shall end, and if the
General Government won't quit fighting,
the State shall proceed Independent Of
the Government to make peace In other
acOrdS, 1T declares for secessionI Look
at it, measure it, and weigh it we'll. 1t
is the first bold step toward the object
which these traitors have all along been
laboring for. 1t places before the people
of Indiana the issue, Union or No Union.
IT Indiana can, while the Government of
which it is a part is fighting for its ex-
IStenCC, turrl-e-7-uy fOm To- uua ITTul.S-
peace for itself, Indiana is no longer in
the Union. This measure, if passed,
will take our State out of the Union as
surely as an ordinance of secession. 1t
is an ordinance of secession. 1t was
meant to be. Now, Indianians, you
who have sons, and brothers, and fathers
| fighting for the Union, who have given
your best and dearest to preserve it, you
are called to a new effor:, that all you
have hitherto done may not be a waste
of blood. Traitors at home have intro
duced into your Legislature a secession
ordinance, and if they pass it you have
accomplished nothing but your own ruin
by all you have done. They have taken
advantage of the absence Of 10000 loyal
men to push the State to the verge of
secession, and now they are openly pre-
pairing to give it the last and fatal thrust


They shall not accomplish it without a
fight such as their coward hearts never
dreamed of, but we must avoid blood
shed at home, if possible. 1t is yours to
| prevent IL. Loyal men are not 10 be
legislated or driven out of the Govern
ment instituted by Washington into the
hell-bOrn horror of jeff Davis without a
struggle, and it shall be one that history
will make memorable for its terrors il
not for its success This is no idle
alarm. We have seen the danger COM
ing for year, and warned the people Of
it. Now it has come precisely as we
predicted. They mean to take Indiana
out of the Union. They have never
meant anything else. By this peace
convention, and Independent delegate
plan, they think to do it without excit-
ing the people by fears of secession.
But the secession is there-plain, direct
secession. You can all see it for your


selves. Indiana once acting with the
rebels in a convention, independent ot
the General Government (Which this
measure provides she shall do), there is


no longer Union for Indiana but will
those who have murdered her sons or


every field from Texas to the Atlantic