Daily State Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 3518, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1862 — Page 2

warm exprbni of fricn l.hip and attachment, whifh greet yoa on every it 1, at the mention of hl nne, Toa are irre! tibi r irapre with the

convrtion that he 11 traljr bclotel dt t!iOc who knew him best. No --ketch of the character of Ju dge Druglas complete, which ra t to reffr to h i watchful, lealous and ecient service- in preserving the Constitution from the construcfion contended for by many, :n relation to a preference given in Use protection of one class of property over another. It t tme. Executives of States,'and other in high oJHrial poVCom, labored, some of them to core of col'imni, to p-rove that, by mbj urdeftael, mysterious, unaccountable ciems.not perceivable to the ordinary intellect, our fathers d.d pi re a special protection n-1 preference to a peculiir kind of property. He it was whi rescued the tncnory of the framers of our national Constitution from tuch charge, by maintsiniitg and eiUNishin? this erctt truth: The Constitution not fix property relations. They are the subject of local law". AM the property owncl hy citizen of Ihe Unite! Hutes, under Sute laws, man legally stand in the name attitude fe fore the Constitution. The power tour whit alu'.I or sh i!l not be property. rets with the peo pie, in their State an ! Territorial organizations, and not in Congresa. Upon this principle, we em alone maintain the peace and security of our

diversified and rarton interests. It is the cornerstone upon which the security and p-etuity of this Union must rest. It h.w been siid that ilr. "D uglas was ambitious that h:s eff-rU were mvle f jr hi own ag--Tsnd'ae-nent.'' What act of his life sustains thee assertions? His history is before the nation. Let the faithful student go and se.irch hirecords. Examine hU conduct tipxn the compro mie mea-nres of l:iV). He ir his langu ige, in reply to Mr. Clay, who had intitmted th.it it would be nnjut to take the bill.', reported by Mr. DmgUs, from the Committee on Territories, as he was tber author, and entitled to all the honor of preparing them.. Mr. Douglu then said " I respectfully ask you, Mr. Clay, whit right have you, to whom the conntry looks for no much, and a an eminent ?tatem m having charge of a great measure for the pacification of a detracted country, to sacrifice to any extent the chances of s ueccss on mere punctilio n to whom the credit m vy belong of baring firt written the bills? I, sir, waive all claim and personal consideration in thin matter, and insist that the committee hall P'irnue that course which the may deem best calcuUted to accornpli"h the great end we all hire in riew, without regard to any interest merely perinI to inc." ' The rwt pfaternan of Ah!and then rroc an I extending his Irind to Mr. Iloula, said "Vou are the m t penerou man living. I will unite th till 4 and t'-r.rt them; hut justice shall never theiei be dotie to you a tlie real author of the measure." Mo-t faithful to his promise, Mr. Clav alavi4 aw.iple-l to him the hijhet praie

for hia derotton to t!e country, throughout that inem'rafile .e-'ion. l'erli tpi no e!V rt of hl life exhibit' the true mm, in all hi- t.Dtivea, leelinp! nd spirit nrie rleirly thin his memorable speech of March '22, In the m nt nnte;Ir manner he vindica tel the principles of our ('iovenunent, .-md exp'i'! ,the mockery of dmitfiti the pretcndeil St. ite of Kn tJ, nn !er the Lecompton Coutitti tion prein- uoou a listening Senate, arpumeiit after rpimrt:t. fact after fact, while surrounded by the muliitiides who had be-Tecd the d-xirs, aile4 and windows to witne-w the .scene nd her aid the is-ue. So inteice was the interest in speaker mid subjert, one well said "The life of our American Democracy peems breathing in thin orator for constitutional interest." On thi- occasion, when he triumphantly pied through one of tho many onle-.iI$ which tried and proved his fidelity to his country, he alluded to some personal matter: as follows "I mtke no defence of my Democracy. I have no professions to m ike of my fidelity. The insinuation that I am acting with the Republicans has no terror, and will not drive mc from my duty or propriety. My position is taken. I know not what its conenencea will be personally to me. If I can not remain in public life, holding firmly, immorably to the great principleof self government and State equality, I shall go into prirate life, where I can presnrre the respect of my on conscience, under the conviction that I have done my duty, and followed the principle wherever its log ical consequences earned me." Tmly he ws ambitious! Doußn dud poor. He lired in an ae remarkable for speculation, frauds, and peculation, which aeemed like epidemics, not only jn the General, but in the State Governments. Not confined to . our own country, but roost of the Government f Europe hare felt its withering blight. The country isj fa mil liar with the records of the frauds upon tha English Government, growing out of the Crimea a war, as they have been exposed by the Press and Parliament of Great Britain. The war carried on by Austria, Italy, and France, has developed some of the most gigantic schemes of sieculation, amounting to millions. Scarcely a Government, or a city, stands without a record exposing either indirect dishonest speculations, or open frauds. In our own country we do not seem to be fully aw are of the extent to which thee things have !ee caried. The records of the amount of raur.ey ra ide, directly and indirectly, in the purchase and ale of Navy Yards und Military ses. in schemes relating to Ocean Steamers and Mail service. Public Ituildings. Texas Scrip, Stocks, Grants of Lands for Railroads, Locations of Towns and Cities, in connection with Ilse influence thereby effected in the State Legislatures of the country, would, if fully exposed, strike the nation with astonishment.

A suit is now jendinjj in the District Court of

the United States of iconm, concerning the La Cross and Milwaukee Railroad Company. Among the facts brought to li-ht, by this suit. Is that of the issning of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars of, what is justly called Corruption Donds the proceeds of which were used br a State Senator for "defrnvinj? undrv cx-

liases incident to procuring a grant of lands from Congress for the continuation of certain railroad, ic. The distinguished Senator rai-ed a larpe sura of money on these Bonds; and, ti:on nn investigation of this Bnbty Fund, tho sage Senator declared that, in diSuriug the sameo certain person, he remained "purposely ignorant" as to their names; and coull not, or would not, expose them. The legitimate efTect of thec examples were seen ir the decline of iiMie morals and financial honesty, and in the impulse given to rcckUss

schemes of

speculation

nil over the eonntrv,

were regarded as honorable by rmny of the po'i-1 tlcisns of the times, actively enga-e l in all the j fret political conwts of the U-t twenty yers, anl cuistir.iy the object of the r.rt bitter j ijur.ciit!on yet. m it the exc i?ment and fury I of f.'f.Sct in w hi I all clisyv, nfM parties of j men fe!t the withering influence of att4cks upon j th chamcters, not a trhiiprr nf vpicio imm j err vttertd yamsf the inttzrity of J)hvIi$, or j

kit tidtldy to Ike Cozrnmtnl,or to tfif Citizen. lit i

Mad thou9nd$ ef tnrmug, but mot one trentrr. "Douglas w5 a pirtLan: But he never wore hs partv uniform when li country was ih dan ger." His life fully exemplifies the truth of this sentiment. Among his early ai.d fithfullv cher-l-heI d("ctrires there is one which asserts tlrrr w

not ronm enomjh on this continent or another Uov- j ernment, tUher Republican or Monarchical. Inj

his mvterly defene of this doctriae, and in all the exriting contests in w hi li he bsre prominent part during Lis eveutfulptiblic life whether lho-e on tests were in relation to the Mexican war, the

northeastern boundary, the national riphts ith J

re-pect to Oregon, or to any other gteat contest j

involving the national interests his ellorts were invHriahiy stimulated ati coutndle! by n anlen. and elevate-1 love of country. The last great ef foit of his life wus in accordance with his whole previous history. HLs patriotism taught him to stand by the fiag of the Union, in prosperity or in adversity. His love of country was paramount to all party platforms. How many of cur public men, in the great ft niggle of this day, when the existence of the Government is deeply imperiled and its mighty heart throbs for vitality, are filent and indifferent! How manv, in thce "times which trv men ul," act an if the wr in which the ojuntry is engage.!, were a matter of rcond try consideration! They seem to take more interest in the political complexion of a Legislature, or a party convention, or in the advancement of sei fish and ersorial views, than they do u the reverses and triumphs of our armies in the field. To all sr.ch citizens, I commend the eloquent language of Douglas, addressed to txith parties of his State, a few days before his de-ith. He .said: "In my opinion it is your duty to lay aside your party creeds and party platforms, your party organizations and piirtisan appeals to forget that 3 on are divide.! until you have rescued tLc Government and the country from their :s-ail ants. Give me a ceur.trv first, that mv children mav live in peace; then we will have a theater for our party Organization to operate upon." Do thore alio wish to make Hilitical capital out of the war, remember the words which he addressed to them" He said: "Allow mc to sav to vou. hoi will not be true to vour countrv, if vou ever attempt to manufacture partisan capital out of the miseries of your country. When calling upon Democrats to r:lly to the tented fields, leaving wite, child, father and mother behind them, to the leseue of the President that vou eiected.do not make r upon them, and try to manufacture partisan capital out of a struggle in which tl.ey are engaged from the holiest and pu-re.-t oT motives." To tho.-o who wcie terplexcd with doubts in referent e to the be-t me ms of j utting down the rebellion, he addressed the.-e words: "Whenever our Got i nme;.t is ;isuiled, when hostile armies are marching under rude and odious banners against the Government of our countrv, the short

est way to fH.Mie is the mot .tufndous and

irre ater

ry. 1

We mir form a faint i lea of the ctVect f these

achemr., when wo. remember that a irglo hare j in the tock of Superior City was sasd to lo

worth sixty thousand dollars ten days lietore the panic of l37t and could not hare been sold, a month afterwards, for onc-tcnth of that sum. The example set by the General Government, and bv 5cme of those wlv were ofF.ctally ctnreefed with it, has extendl itself, like raying mania, to the ditfereut Sta'e. county, and I cal rorerntnents Hence, during toe 1 it twenty y-rst- 4eftc-wt:or, - (4fit iu,f 4f IcjI, Sure, and official moneys, hare been cmmui occurreuces. They hue beavme si common, tint the defalcation f a million of dollars by a public servant, under the Suteor Get eril Governrtenf . ih-es not cre-ite h df the intere-t er eteitemeM that wm minife-tel in the etrlier Jay of the Rep'.Mk, when Tobia Walk ins w as charged with a niall defa!eatioti, not amounting to fire thoustn I tloll irs. Th's di-resioii is made, because I believe the preetil unhsrvT -tiU!t ;t ' f our nce uiiite) and

proste ou, pe-ple m iy le tru-e-1, either direrUr i or indii"ectly . to this stte of things Sn Ideu aod i trrr;nwn fortunes ha"e tecn tIlowest br ii flu ' encc. the njo-t pernicious to the pete and Inppt : ness of the country. Csrrurt e-nventi ni: mi' r sproentatioi.s -f public ei.timeot; ie!ecri.rts of rceti to places of honor and ptofit in violation of the will rf the people; the s-e. in many Instances tlie mere of the sentiment of dishonest ! men; pmtrl of ofiice to worthless fiice neek-. ers; many departments of the Nstiona) ud S'atc Uoremnietit filled ly neu ! Imve winked at; grosJ Irakis anJ peculations; sjnl. at this very hour, to a-Kl to th leep ghotn which .surrviirvU our pexp'e. theri a rest 'ess uuesshscs. which' ari.s from the wajit of is.tjlideuce in the ihs- : bunemets aol expenditures of the put,ie. mon ; ets. Y-t, niorr reports made by the pre-ent ' Congress, and evi!eiite of the mot. teliable '.tr . acter. are unfu'diio; a .yrmoi' uupar Uelt J ! frauds opn the nitionl tuam-es cvut.ectel with I thar. The ?oxl man is heard exclaiming! thr-MilMHit tJis; Uuxl. W hll iMt succeed i:i ; putting lown thi infamous ielel!ion until thwe thin ; are remedied. Krom fliege jAd'ies M u turn to riin'etu plate toe character at.l etttrp!e v( h m wiio oenry e hv n -em'e! tj h.nor. C'mu-t menc'n? public life in poverty." Ih ing m 'trr year n scar.ty means, called hy the voice of his fei ; l'e chiatens to fill th mrt Important ait drii cat? positions, having mre to do with the oran Ration of the Territories and the dir..itkn .fi tbs) public lautls tlin nur m m of bis day. with , o jrtinit:es to airas J..rtune by mean hn h

unmiiiious preparation for war. Tlie

unanimity, the le-"s blood will be idied. I he m ire prompt and energetic the movement, and tlie more im;ortant it is in numbers, the shorter will be the struggle." To t'ioe who would nterfere with the domestic nolicv of the South, he ?,4id: "I will never acquiesce in nny warfare upon the Constitutiona rigiiti or institutions of the ZSouth. ii any at tempt is made to invade their lights, or incite servile insurrections among them, I would be the first to lu.-li to the rescue." To those who were incline! to recognize the validity uf the principles on which the rebellion is founded, he addressed thc-c emphatic and warn kg words: "Recognize it once, and you have not only dissolved Government, but you have de s troy cd sociel order, and upturned the foundations of society. " In relation to the origin of the war, among other tilings, he xaid: "The present eision movement ia the result of an enormous conspiracy for meal by leaders in the Southern Confederacy more than twelve months ago. To those American cätiens who arc indifferent as to the result of the war, or who arc in doubt as to their duty with respect to it, he says: "There arc only two sides to the question. Kvery man must be for the United Slates or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war only Patriots or Traitors " Are there any economical financiers, who wih to know what he said almut the cost of the war ? or about the means of defraying the cxjcnscs of suppressing the rebellion? lie sail nothing. He had no words to waste on these subjects. He was discussing far more important questions the indispensable obligation to suspend partisan conflict the magnitude of the interests involved in the war and the dutv which the crisis demands af all true patriots, lie kuew that the deliverance of the com. try from tho hand of traitors, and the restoration of peace, woul4 le worth more than the iecuniary cost, and more than all the laws which government can pass under existing circura-tances. Wo can make and unmakv, change and modify, all our usages, customs, and laws, and even our organic law : Jiut God has given us, and our children, but one country. On all questions affecting the honor and eafcty of the country, and the maintenance of the Constitution and laws, he was, unlike many of the politicians of the day, always prompt in the expression of opinion, and in anion. When duty required him to act, or to Fjcak, he tarried not, waired not, evaded not. For example At hi own home, a law in pursuance of the Constitution the fugitive slave law was denoun ed, not carried out the officials refusing to obey it. He took issue, made the efTort, the law was obeyed, and official records were changed. When the new i cached him. from Chaileston, of the t luiurt of the men professing to be Dem ocrats, his prompt rcmaik was " Thin means secession !" Aniii How true were h's words, when, in the presidential c'i:tes.f of lJ-oO, in speaking of one of the candidates, he said " He may not be a Di-oniouist; but every Disuniouist iu the country a ill vote for him." Again: On the 4th of March, after the inauguration, stan ling, amidst t item. is, clo.se by the side of the President, he aid to him "Come

what may in the dat k and cloudy future, be would -.land by the Government, and strengthen its arm to cruli traitors and rebellion." The day after the pmclain ition wus. issued, cail.ni; for volunteeis, he received a telegraphic despiic.lt from the only "State whose electoral vote was easi ,r him, --eckiug to know what his course would be, and he immediately replied " I st iud bv the government, to put dowu the rehelUn" A few d iys after this event, he returned to his home; and, in public a ldi esses, and in private converati.rs among the people, he spoke of the inestim kb!e value id' the country, and its institutions, and urge all ,'d.isses and jmrties of his fellow cit ifens to s.tmi by the Union, under all circumt nces, and in every emergency; and to aid the GoiirniTient, eirtiotly ami cilcctiveh , in pt;ttiog d.n n the re;M?!bn. He fully coiuprehe.vied tl-.e appiiling h rrrurs of war, with its facritues of hie, p:t:vertv ar,i tetnjs.rary prosperity let. he evclaimed " It is a aar of defense f our owu just rights in defense of the Government which we have inherited, as a priceie.-s legacy, frm our patriotic father.." He bei'eted. in th contest, the cardinal prin ciples f our aho'e system of povfri.riient aere on trial and in course of v.itdication: That the war was to de.'eud tlie C ut-titution f the rountry, ahirh alone is the sure purirantee of human lii-ertr. He was for cam in g on this war within the limit of the. Constitution; and bellcicd that, in striking for the Government, we wnuM be strer.rthenedbr thecotisciousr.es and sett'e1 ccnv it lion, that we were striking for our I tars, fireaides and the welfire ef every citizen. Let all who would, under pretense of hatre-1 aga:ut a puty adversary. ie'k to weaken and strike doan Ue arm of the (tovcrnment when engaged in this tnTible cotitest. rerln-t u;ow t!:e rentiments of this champion of true Dem racy. Sund ii't behind tlie. ramparts of yo-ir party ereefs to shoot (neil arna at the true defenders of your countrr. The first objeeta of this wr are to brinj about the !U?ern iey of the livr, to restore tlie Govern men',. n 1 to virviu-ate the ail,int of its framers. When these are aeroniplihed, it ül be our duty a mm

to -ee a fiat cittnges, it any. are i!cs;r ih!e to further the oatis- of liberty. The m m -aim se-k a peace from those who, with pwonisaial bavor.tts in the'r hands, are in open hostility to the Union, Tirtusl'y demn-1s a surren ier of the (frnm'nt to rebellion. We are not only contending for the tiiuDit.h of the laas, unity. s!f respev-t. and our high p'.i'-e mon tle first nations of iJie earth; but we ate tctitiL' the mmlio! of onr nation.

In this, the hour of our countrv' cilamitv, w e are n t only surrounded hy enemies in disguise, aud almost tetrsyed by leaders incajTbe of olving the trer.er.d jus que-tions presente"!, but our

institutions are exposed to danger from the vio- t

fence of ultra factio-nts who ;eem to be wii;:rg t destroy the Government if they can not carry jut their peculiar notions of humanity. And, note than this, there is a wnt of nerve and firmtess in those who occupy hi-h places of authority. "What the country wnnts and demands is a strong

Government sine that will execute juugecnt. The raonstious an J unptralle!ed crimes cotumitted against the Government must be avengedteforeaemay exr?ct a peace. Jtttfice cries for blood, against the man who conspires to de.-troy this Gorern rncnt. It is the highest crime before G1 ami humanity. Our people have met this terrihTe crisis with promptness and energy. Notwithstanding the incompetency of com mi riders, treachery, ti-l crrruption in many of the Departments, and defeat calculated to discourage the roost resolute, jet, with cheerfulness-, their blood and ticasures are offere! up. With firmness and stesdine-s of purpose, they press forward and obey the call of the Government for the suppression of anarchy and treason. To thote in authority they look for wisdom and guidance in this, the hour of their calamity. If we fail in preserving the unity of this last and best heritage on earth, to man, it will be lecaue our rulers are incompetent, and not equal to the trusts committed to their hands Douglas died at the commencement of this great contest between the Government and Traitors between order and violence, between -.e.ice and discord possessing, in the closing hours of his life, the confidence of the p-eoIe, more than any man living. The heart affections and sympathies of the masses were with him, and had been, for many years. He was the Representative Man of the times. Had he lived, he would, in my opinion, have nationalized the Administration; and the hole country would have looked to him as its great leader, in this ur.natu rtl HrHe. Hi death, and that of the great statesman, Count Cavour, took phice about the sa ru time. One the representative of constitutional government in the Old World: The other the loader and representative of Democratic principles in the New. I stood, not long since, by the grave of D uglas. There wna hardly a rude Jtt'ered t-tone to mark the spot. It is near the shore of Lake Michigan, and within the sound of the busy hum of the gieat city which his influence ;m 1 enterprise nourished into strength aul conimcttiilim lortance.

i imp a;ui inai zsotigias uieo poor, in Hie great State which he served so Ions and so faithfully, be did not own ground enough to serve him for a grave: and his devoted and true hearted wife gave up, for his place of burial, the small lot of two acres, which whs all lite land she nwued. This noble and gifted woman was alwavs true to the patriotic principles of her husband. The false glitter of the fashion able society of ashinnton could not tempt her to become one of its devotees: nor could the powerful treason that ruled in high places. at the national capital ever win her from her devotion to the Union. W hen delegates came to her to ask her for her children, in order that tlicy might be remove! to the Suth to save their inheritance from confiscation, true to the dying injunction- of her husband, she promptly and firmly refused to cive up his children to be the recipients of wealth, and to be educated under the care and patronage of tia'tcrs. Will not the people of Illinois and Indiana will not Hie people of the m-ghty and patriotic We.-t will not the people of the Union provide a home and heritage for the wile of Douglas and for his children ? I know they will. I h u e conversed with a committee who have the sub ject under their charge in Illinois. May not similar committees he organized hi Indiana, and in other western States ? The family of Qouglas must have a home in the West, where an enduring monument will be erected to his memory. Let the friends of the Union place on it the words STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS, THE FIULM) OK THE PEOPLE, AND TUE PEKENDER

..OF THEIR RIOHTS. And let the monument bear, and transmit to posterity, the words addres.-ed by him to his countrymen, in this great crisis: " There is but one path of duty left to all patriotic men. It is not a party question, nor a question involving partisan policy. It is n question of government or no government country or i.o country." And last.lv, inscribe on his monument, in unfading letters, that lust, dying message to his absent orphan sons " Teil them to obey the laws, and support the Constitution of the United States."

DAILY SENTINEL

rillHJtDAY

JAMTAUY O

Tlie Union it ruiint be

prcaorved.

Democratic State Convention.

PIKST PAT.

A(W some d:a ? as to wVthcr a Corarnittee of one fro in earh CorgresinaI District hould be appointed to cct p-etmaneni officer, or whether the Conven'ion shonM directlr select them Mr. Davis, thinking the friends no: had put him in nominitiou, withdrew his came. Jonathan Lis ton, of Marion, withdrew the Cime of R. L. Walpole. Whereupon, the Convention, on motion of Hon. Joseph E. McD.ir.ald, of Marion, by acclamation cal'el upon Mr. Hen irkks to preside. The Churman appointed Hon. Joseph E. Mc

Donald, and Hon. John Tettit, to conduct th

President elect to the chair.

Ucing introduced by Mr. Pettit. Mr. Hendricks (poke follows: GksTLr.Mtx: I thank you for the honor conferred in calling upon me to preside over your dcliberatiotu. It is pursuant to the usages of our party that this Convention of delegates, sent up from all portion of the State, is now in session. A custom, iuooceiitiu itse f. and found to be useful, ought not to be hastily abandoned, nor without cau?e, at any time, and especiilly when the exigencies of the times demand its observance. It has been the p leasure and will of the Democracy of this State, in times past, that chosen delegates should sit in council, on each revolving Kignth of January, to deliberate upon all matters material or important to the parly organization, or touching tiie public weal. To maintain that custom I raise mv voice, and give mv vote this day. I am not prone to attach importance or sanctit v to particular days, except so far as our religion

has prescribed, vet to me it seem- meet and proper

The Convention, assembled in Metropolitan Hall, yesterday, January tth, was called to order at If j ' o'clock bv Colonel Nathan B. Palmer, Chairman of the Central Committee. Colonel Palmer said: Fellow Democrats: In accordance with the

I uuifoiin usae of the Democratic rnrtv of In

diana, vou have been called to meet in Convention on this e'th January of glorious memory, on

I tins annn ersary day of the great and brilliant vic

tory of New Orleans, and ofthat great and patriotic man General Jackson and the brave soldiers uuder his command a day ever kept in grateful remembrance by every patriotic heart, more especially by the Democracy throughout tlie land. There has been some diversity of o:"in-

ion among the Democracy as to the proper time ;

of holding the Convention in the present peculiar eonditijii of the country; but ns the matter of holding the Convention on this or another dav is

! only a matter of expediency, not involving any i j principles, it can not be doubted but the spirit of!

nanrony wnicn is caneu ior on me occas-ion, ana

Ixing written in public ruin; and does any mm hcs.wte to believe it? If so let me refer him to brokeu "mstitutious to a disturbed commerce and intetru'ted trade toa deranged currency, and tf;e low prices of all our valuable prlurtions a::d lc: me a-k. is public ruin n'jt m irked upn allT In what i-inglc thing that we value, .re we now as secure, as we we;e before the Republican party came inta jsjwer? I it individual wealth, or oublic credit? Your depreciated es

tates, and the bonds of Indiana reued in the market, at eighty cents on the dollar, furnish the it-WA- T j t ei i t, ? it 1 cajsii -ri t tr ab.! I-r-aarfr?

Hear the response, in tlie groans of men confined without a charge, and det.id the privilege of a trial.

Is it the honor of the nation? The surrender

e J of Maon and Slidcll tell-? us, that c have, for

the first time in oar history, bent the knee to our j ancient foe. j Tlie times never so demanded a thorough and j efficient organization of the Dcmocraiic party as i at tlie present. Throw ont the banner, and upon it ample folds let the people see insciiled their time honored principles, and they will gladly rally around it, as of yore. " J Ä civil war is nron n-. For its existence the

Democratic party is not responsible. For manv

n!y thvt the direct tat shall be impose.! upon all disturb the intUarion, as oar fa'Jier approved he States eonHy. but that it shsil also be cd-1 them if we frr- the ncrroes of the Smth. what P'U the qn stion recur?, in whvt way are we to fr the x-neuc?ce üpo'i c Ixrrt .cnVtt

on

tl

pnavide for the manumitted Kins; tl ey wiil be-CL-rne de;-endent tij.oii us. and "tnii't le rrovMt-,1 f:r in some wav." the Prc-ident at lie Live

r( the pegroes would e-rk the -North, e;eiri to meet a t erul'ar vra it'.iv, a A otto- of tr. r- . .. . i -. . . . i

nits wcnld to.Iow: cifirr wen. i n- i wora.

that the dav

mace

memorable by the patriotism

and heroism of ur great leader, Andrew Jack

son. and his gillantarmy, should not be forgotten, now that our country is in her greatest pen!, but that it should be observed by his political children in sentiments of fidelity to his principles, and iu deeds of devotion to our country". It is now nearly half a century since the Eighth of January became, to us as a people, a great day, am. oig all the days of the jear; and I feel the allusiou to it brings up in your minds sad and foreboding coutrasLs; that the pride aud glory of the past stand side by side with the humiliation and ah.iseunetit of the present. Forty -seven years ago our Fathers were united; united not alone by tlie forms of law, and the obligations of- the Constitution, but by that honest, fraternal love that made them indeed one jeop!e; and when the January .un lighted up thij land, ihe earnest inquiry was upon every tongue, what will be the tale of New Orleans this day? Will that Capital of our late acquisition become the prey of a soldiery imbruted by the war cry of !ooty and beauty?" The setting mmi ofthat day threw back his rays upon the banner of our country floating over a victorious Meld; and as the news

nn from the bonier settlements over the towns and cities an 1 State, a wild shout of joy went up, from a people of one heart. As deep and earnest as was the love of that day, so profound and implacable is becoming the enmity of the resent. Fanaticism, bigotry and r-ectional hatred are doing their work of evil usjii a great, a generous and a noble people. The propriety and policy of holding this Convention have been much discussed; but to me it has seem-l most proper and politic. ' The Democratic party, with a well de lined system of politi cal principles, und animated by an intense devotion to the interests and honor of the country, comes down to us from the early days of the liepublic, with a history intimately identified with our progress, and the greatness ive have achieved as a people. Bold, confident, and determined, the Democratic party has always assumed and occupied its position upon eve ry question, a fleet -ins either the honor of the Government, or the prosjenty of the people. It has r.ever sought to avoid the responsibility which, because of its influence and its power, of right belonged to it; and when its mighty weight has been thrown lor or against any particular system of public policy, it has been frit throughout the whole framework of government. I do not mention these things to boast thereof , but that, as we stand in the presence of the past, invoking its spirit, and feeling its Miwer, we may be stimulated to follow where duty bei koui. w hatever dangers beset the way. Do w e not now hear the wailing cry of our country? And does not the sobbing voice of civil liberty, coming from out the ruins of a violated Constitution, and the broken pillars of our institioi.s, c.dl us to the rescue? Then let the word pass along the serried ranks of the Democricy: Every in in to his pot, every man for his countrv. If the Democratic organization be not maintained, then where are the hundreds of thousands of honest, conservative and patriotic citizens who have heretofore acted with the Republican prty, but who now regard the success of that party as a public calamity, to go, that their influence may be exerted for the salvation of the country? They w ill go with us, if we but maintain our organization, and occupy a wise and patriotic position. But if we abandon our organization, under the false cry of no party, in whose hands do w e leave tlie State and Federal Government, and the rights ami interests of the f-eople? In the hands of the leaders of the Republican party, the most proscriptive and intollerent ever known to the country the very men who for years have labored to build up a sectional party who for the sake of Kjlitical power, and by the arts and appeals of the demagogue, hac taught the people of the North that they have separate and opposing interests to the people ol the South who, by appeals to ?ectioual pride and prejudice, have excited, first jealousy, and then battel, until now the ower of the

sections is unbodied in terrible armies, readv to

loin iu the death era role who, & late as last

winter and spriug, whe.i the storm was coming

and the ?kv was trrowing black, refilled and

spurned every proposition of adjustment, that would have quelled the storm, swept the dark clouds away and agaiti let in the bright sunshine of peace who, when Virginia and Kentucky called for a peace Congress, that terms of conciliation and peace might be made, refused to le spond in the spirit of the call, and disregarding the democratic L conservative sentiment of the North, ap;o,iuted a controling number of the delegates distinguished for their party rancor, and known to be opposed to all conciliation and compromise. Can w e then, as patriots, w ithout au effort to save

it, surrender our country to the control of a party, whose history, thus far, is written in failure,

propriation of monev bevond that to be expended j ? r . r . t ":. r-?i I

ia ine icmuriai acquisition. j rc-iuem L:ncoin does not inform u. on what part of tlie glo'.e we ar to purchase the territory for the fiee nerroes, except that he sugge-ts, that it roust be here the climite will he congenial. lected from them equally, in proportion to their numbers. According to the Ptesideat's recommendation Indiana would pay her tax in money, to be used for the common benefit, but Kentucky might pay in the slaves of her people, at a valuation, but as soon as so received they are to "be at once deemed free." Such is the war policv of

years we have admonished those who favoied a the Administration, dcleating revenue, instead of sectional party of its danger in tho sentiments furnishing it.

j which it is Imped will characttrire the action of in corruption, and in public ruin? May 1 not iay i the Convention through all its deliberations, will j in failure, when iu vain I ask for one good act of

of Washington's farewell address, that the great

est danger to be apprehended to our country, was the formation of geographical parties we have advocated "those doctrines which we believed fair and equal to all sections; and which could have l-een adopted without wounding the piide, or timula:inj-; the arrogance of either." Our appeals were disregarded. Sectional pride, prejudice, and hatred in one section produced the same sentiments in the other; and of this sectional strife was begotten our present troubles. The war is uj-on us " wickedly provoked on the one side, and in folly and sin, and without sufficient came, commenced on the other." With secession upon the one hand, and sectional interference with Southern rights upon the other, we hold no sympathy. Our most earnest desire is for the restoration of the Union, upon the bais of the Constitution, and, for myclf, I will give an honest support to all constimtional and pauxT measures, adopted hy the Administration to that end; and I will as earnestly oppose all acts in violation of the constitution, and in suppression of liberty, because of mv veneration for that solemn compact of onr fathers, and bccaue such policy renders the Union impossible, by obliterating the Union sentiment of the South, and giving aid and comfort to its enemies. What are we to do with the negroes of the South, iu connection with the war. is asked upon every hand. Before answering that, let me ask, for what purpose is the war waged? If, as the President does profess, and the soldiers in the field believe, it is to suppress a rebellion, to restore the

s Union, and establish the Constitution and the

supremacy ot the laws, then 1 answer, with the negro slave and his condition, we have nothing to do; nothing whatever, either as a pnrjwise. in cident or consequence of the war. If the Con stitntion be restored, in its authority, over ali the States, then the Constitution itself refers the condition of the colored race to the authority of the State-5, and by its own provisions excludes Federal jurisdiction. But beyoud that, how is the negro to be made an element of strength for the suppression of the rebellion? Cameron, and hi supporters of the Republican party say, put arm iu their hands. For what purpose? Are there not -ts many men in the North ready to fight as we can arm and feed and clothe and pay? Or is it true, that outnumbering the South, near

ly :is three to one, the North falters and fails and must call the negr to the rescue? I would call upon my countrymen to visit with universal indignation and scorn the miscreant who entertains so base au opinion of Northern strength, and Northern courage. Ignorant of the use of arms, and lacking those high intellectual and moral qualities, that make the efficient soldier, the negro can win no battles where the men of the North are driven buck. What General would go into battle trusting to black regiments for his strength? and what regiment, made tip of the proud men of Indiana, would stand iu a battle, where they must lean for support upon armed negroes? Another class, too cowanlly to fight, and too malevolent to be gratified by the results of civilized warfare, demand a carnival of blood, and feast of horrors, amid scenes of servile insurrection. Our fathers detected the fe that would incite the forest savage to scenes of midnight massacre, and the judgment of enlightened ami civilized humanity condemns an appeal to the cupidity or lust of the soldiery. Shall we, theu, who have in keeping the honorable memories of our fathers; who are amenable to the judgment of the civilized nations, shall we invoke to our aid the negroes of the South, calling up the foul spirit of insurrection, and making indiscriminate and uncontrolled war upon men, women, and children, amid scenes too horrible to bedescribed, and too wicked to bring a blessing. As I believe our soldiers are strong and brave, I denounce it as an insult to them; and as I am jealous of our good name and fair fame, I would mike proclamation of it as a thing so atrocious as to consign us to infamy, iu the eyes of the civilized world. There is yet another class who demand, tome as a purpose, and others as a consequence of the war, the emancipation of the slaves. In a military point of view, ther e is weakness, embarrassment, and burthen, in the proposition, ai d no strength. Without emancipation and its evils, the slaves, found iu the neighborhoxJ of the camps, may be used to relieve the soldiers of exhausting labor. Owing" service to their masters, they may be requited to render that service to the Government; but if made tree.it will be at their discretion and p'etsure whether they re

l'eve the soldier in the trenches and upon the

teast works; at least such is the view of the Ad

ministration, as expounded by the Secretary of

War, who says, "The Government has no p-ower to hold slaves, none to restrain a slave of his liberty, or to exact his service. It has the right, however, to use the voluntary services of chives, liberated by war from their rebel masters." If the slaves be freed bv the act of the Government, and the masters thereby discharged fiom the care and responsibility of their maintenance, that burthen at once falls upon the Government. That is the doctrine of the Administration. In his last messaze, President Lincoln says : " Under and by virtue of the act of Congress entitled an act to confiscate property used for insurrectionary purposes, approved Augut 6, 1861, the legal claims of certain -ersons to the labor and

us Lis plan. Af'er recommeodlr.g that negroes ' and tho bt sapoortcd out of tin? taming f our be taken from Slate in pay merit of the cirect ; labor, or thev would come directly in eompetitax. he goes on to recommend "thai in any event j tion with our labor, and Wing of aninf.rir c!a, steps be taken for colunizing both tlasses, (or the ' and not competent to do much work, nor do tie first mentioned, if the other shill not be ' it as well as the white ravi, nor labor would U? brought into existence.) at tome place or places, j degraded and cheapened; n l the mhre'taia in a climate congenial for them. would be driven to eek employment ia muip-ri-To carry out the plan of colonization may in- tion with the negro, and to accept as t!e reward

voire ti e acquiring of territory, and also the sp- of hi labor, the :anlaxd of .nces him that

caimjsrtition would fix. Mr. C.wkeriy moved thtt each Ongrtv. oral District electf a person to art aa ore of the Viee Presidents of the meeting. Mr Pettit opposed. He tho-igh such ofS-et nnneeess'-ry. The Pi evident, if a? any time he desired to lesve the chair, couhl call ijn any delegate tenipcrnrily to fill it. Mr. Cooketly re lied that it had Ixvn the custom to have such officer. Mr, Cookeily' motioa was lost and the Convention declined ap;oiiitii)g Vice President. On motion f Hon. David Studrlaker. of Allen, Joseph J. Pinghsni wasi choscu pri uc'-pal Secretary, and R. S. Hasting, of Tippcemoe, assistant. Hon. Simeon K. Wolfe, of iiirri-on, offered the. following, (amended during the resd'ujg on motion of Mr. Chapman,) which, after debate, w as adop ed. R'tolred, Thtt a committee of one from eich Congressional District be appointed by the delegites thereof, and the same teported to the Con ventioti, to re;ort a series of t evolutions for the action of the Convention, and that ail resolutions on the subject of a Platform te referred to such committee without reading or debate. Mr. Doogherty, of Morgan, moved tlwt the Secre'nry call the Convention by districts and that each district as callejdesignate the jrson n tepte.-cut il on the Committee en Re-o!uti ns. Carried, and the Secretary j-ocetsled w itb the call, the district resj-onding a follows: COM M iTTkk OX KkJtOLUriON. First District W. K. Nihl.uk.

Second District. Simeon K. o!fe. Third District. Joseph W. Chapman. Fourth Di tritt. Dr. George Merry. Fifth District. Life. Develin. Sisth District .!, il. McDonild. Seventh I). strict. Archibald Johnson. Kighth District. S.C Wilson. Ninth District. .lohn Uro ntieid. Tenth District. J. D Ct. Nelson. K.'eventh District. L. P. Mulligan. A II. Davidson, of Marion, tum cd. that two

additional committeemen for the State .it large be

appointed. Mr. Chapman oppsed, and Mr. Dtvidson'a motion was withdrawn. On motion it was ordered that eich district se

lect a member of the State Central Coinmitte, tha

Central District, the Sixth, selecting two. Mr Develin, of Wayne, offered the following. Rrnolrrd, That this Convention w ill not go into the nomination of candidate until after the adoption of the resolutions. Col. Miller, of Gibson, opscd the resolution. We had met here to do all the work that was to be done, to make nominations ns well as resolutions. Mr. Liston supported the resolution. He wa for an old fashioned PfnorrMic jJatlorm, and he wanted the nominees to taud upon it. Sink or sw im, let us stand by our principles. Let us have the platform first, and the candidates) afterwards. Judge Hurt, of Davie, offered the following in amendment to Mr. Develin's resolution. "And that, immediately on the adoption of the platform, the Convention proceed to the nomination of candidates." A di ision of the question being called, the first part ot the resolution as amended was adopted by consent. On the second part (Judge Hurt amendment) the vote was taken by counties and decided in the -affirmative, as follows: Yeas Adams -1; Allen 13; Itariholomcw H; Boone 7; Ulackford 2: Brown 3; Clay 7; Clinton 6; Daviess C; Dearborn 10. Decatur 7; De Kalb G: Elkhart f; Fayette 4; FounUtri 6; Fulton 4; Franklin!); Gibson7; Grant5; Greene b'; Hamilton j; Hancock G; Hendricks G; Henry o. Howard 4; Huntington 6; Jacksou fc; Jay 4; Jeunings 5; Johnson 7; Knox 7; Kosciusko 6; Lagrange 3 ; Laporte 8 ; Lawrence ; Madison 8 ; Marion 13 ; Marshall 6 ; Martin i; Montgomery 3; Morgan 6; Newton 1; Noble Ä; Ohio 3 ; Orange 7 ; Owen 6; Parke G; Pike 4; Porter 4; lWv 7; Putnam U; Randolph 5; Ripley 7: Rush 1; Shelby2; Sfeticer 6; St. Joseph G; Sullimii ; Switzerland 6; Tippenanue 10; Tipton 3; Vanderburg h; Ver miliiou 3; Vigo 10; Warren 3; Warrick 7; Wavnc ?; Wells 4; Whitley 4 Total 421. Nats Cfrroll 6; Cass ?; Clark 10; Crawford 4; Del wire 5; Floyd 9-11 arrison f: JeflVr-on 7; Monroe 5; Perry 5; Pulaiki 3; Scott3; St-irk 1 Total 72. Oo motion, candidates for nomination for the several Sute offices were then named, as follows : roa suatTAKY or tati Chirles I. Barker, of Mdion; R. F. Jones, of Bartholomew; Dr. J. F. Henderson, of Howard; Dr. J. S. Athon, of M irion; . JV Reach, of Marion; Win. H. Jones, of Allen; Ja!,ii P, D inn, of Laporte. AtOITOtt OK TÄTE. Joseph Ristine, of Fountain: Willi D Hargrove, of Gibson; Scott Noel, of PaiVe; Jo-e;,h; V. RcmusdalTer, of Decatur, John C L--:z, i f

6

"Know ye the Isn't of the ee-Jir and vine Where tb flowers ever Moscow, üie beam ercr i-Line; here the citron and olive are firet of fra t. Ami tlie voice of the i.ij-htingaic never i mute; Whtre the tin's of the earth and the hues of Uf lry, la color though varied, in beauty nr vie. Ti dune of the South; 'tis he land of tke sua." What think you of this description of the modern Eden, the Llysium, which the President would have us buy for the weary children of Africa? But what is to be the tost of it acquisition? Perhaps only a few hundred millions. This presents the disagreeable and embarrassing huggcstion which Mr. Lincoln has not met, that we may not hae the gold on hand that we can conveniently spare. But perhaps we can buy with Treasury notes, and they may be multiplied as the leaves on the trees, or the and upon the seashore. But if John Bull should le the owner he i.s not in temper with us just now, and may prove churl enough to say, I will keep my land of orange proves where the nightingale ever sing, rather than tke your promies to pwv. Clay and Jackson and Webster, and sUtesmen of that class regarded the colonization of the negroes as a w ork of such enormous cost, ns not to be undertaken by the Government, even when at

peace, and free of debt; but in the midst of a civil war trade and coinmctcedisiurbed our sources of revenue impaiied w ith out industry puralizcd, and a national debt accumulating at the rate ot nearly two millions per day, the wisdom and statesman-hip, that now manage our public affairs, commends it as feasible and desirable. When we see such stupendous folly united to most abandoned corruption and wickedness we can not too earnestly strive to rescue the Government from such control. Emancipation, then, as a war measure, is weakness; and nor strength a burthen and not a support, and can be adopted only as a means of revenge to destroy the South, but not to restore the Union and to that aspect of the question I call

vour attention.

As a party, the Democracy of tlie Northwest

iave not been sectional, but have advocated

equality of rights and privileges to all a::d thus far have even conceded that New England and Pennsylvania might have the revenue policy of the United States so adjusted as to give them au advantage of from twentv to fortv percent, upon their labor, more than could be given to our labor. But we are now being so crushed, that if we ami our children are not to become the "hew ers of wood and drawers of water" for the capitalists of New England and Pennsylvani t, we i must look t- the interests of our i-ection; and i for the first time in my life I intend to speak as a sectional man. J We are not a manufacturing people, and can not well become such; our wealth must come from the cultivation of the soil, and is of those heavy and bulky articles that require a convenient market and cheapness cd transportftt on. A foreign demand will enrich those regions from which there is convenient and cheap approach to ; the ocean, but it can not greatly benefit us; our ; corn and wheat, hogs and cattle are eo weighty

and bulky that before they reach the sea coast Wich of their value is lost in the cost of transportation. And this must continue, for railroad 'transportation can not become cheap. The ma lign policy of the party now in piowerin the enactment of the tariff of last summer, w hich in ordinary times, will be prohibitory and defeat revenue, and w hich makes us buy at high prices and sell at low prices, and which will impair our foreign market ,h;rs heretofore been partially defeated by the short crops in Europe, causing a larger foreign demand for breads-tuffs than we have enjoyed perhiip since lb47; yet, with an extraordi

nary foreign demand for II we have to sell, what is our conditiou? Compare the piec'ent with

our conaition sixteen moulds since, ana we

have the answer. Our hogs were then worth

from four to fire dollars per hundred; they are now wortli from two to two dollars and fifty cents. Our corn and wheat and cattle hare fallen almost in like proportion. And further to the West I understand the losses are still greater, to that degree that in some localities in Illinois the useful and valuable article of corn is used a the cheapest fuel. To estimate our losses in Indiana for this year is difficult ; but we may assume upon pork the following: Upon each PK) pounds $2, and an average weight of 2i0 lb, gives a loss of So on each ho. Upon one railroad there have been shipped 100,00(1 heid, and assuming that to be one-tenth of the hog in the State, the entire stock for market in the State for this rear is 1.0o0.000,a.nd our losses upou pork $5,000,000. It i probably Fafe to assume an equal loss ujin each of the articles of corn, wheat, and other stock, making the loss to the agricultural interests of Indiana $2!),üOO,OUd. These estimates are not reliable, and are not given as such, but rather as illustrations. Tlie main fact is that our Ioses are enormous. In the reflective iniod the inquiry arises, why is this so? It is not fur the want of a foreign demand; we have that in un Increased degree; it i not in the scarcity of money that is abundant for all the wants of our trade but the answer is in the fact that we are cut off from our Southern market. It is a stri king fact in contract, that the Eastern States, du ring the last nine months, have accumulate!

more wealth than during the same time ativ

renoo oi ineir niswry. ror me wani or

TVs.

1

Wayne; Bcu. drawn.)

F.Douglas, of Hirrisou (ah.

service of certaiu other peisons. have become

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. .i . - . . i - .1 . i I iriiru: mid iiihipikdi i r i ii rr. I u. 11 k I I tiuuiriii 111.11 uir inrii ui in i jn An-c

overcome ana aliav all feeim- and scruples t inai party, one nng.e measiue oi nsaiiopi.on uiai -, : ö" 1 - . .r , . . : , it-, .t

iy ha;e been entertained in this regard. adds to the prosperity of the people, or . the Bre -iyjiepeimeiii ou wie (.iiueu oc,- i.rj- ru- v, u.e.r laoor. v"-m

It will be the province of the Convention to I greatness of thocountrv? All men will av ui 1 V ior in n-uic waj. iu.,,, .

: ihterraire its scope of action whether itsh.lii failure, when the re? u its o I iiepubhcuT rule aw v.. ..w . ... ... ..,. ...v .........v...-..... v-.-.. ;, re-form all that is usual on such occasions or ! examined bv the light of promises made befcueV'cnt ?n.oc"t to tLls B lhc h7 nd-J heavyr bulknrtiucis up-n the nvers is easy

i no.-t:oi.e a oortion to another t:me. li

Idfsiieto make a le brief remarks before vi compared with the hard times I tou ; the Convention or 'anises. The Democratic partv ! sav in corruption, when the faction

TaEASltia or KTATr.

times promised are art 'tf -,c Government, the slave trejnadc fn-ei-J,chcap itis t s lf'ou'-bt. May I not ! b-cause of the rebellion ef theueaTers, and be- to c'inploy her lab factiourf of that part rec- Government ca-nnot exact th(ir f.er-1 gar, herpf , Uih'acc

claim to be a conservative party a loyal partv devoted to the Constitution and the Union as it j ha been h ndeJ dowu from our father. We are , Lot fur. a Unlc't without a Constitution. No.aj Union without a Constitution is impossible rend j the Constitution, trample under fool its most j stcied provisions and gnirantees hi a worl destrov the soldi instrumer.l and the Union is no, ni.re. Put the Peni.cratic party is for the Con s'i'.ution und the Union, one and iii-ej.araf.le, and for the m linten nice of this the Dcm.craey isj ready to devote it?elt in comsel and in battle. j And lg it not given puftkient eirne-t of this , spirit in ihe legions of p;itriric D-ni.crats which have goiie to the wiir and are now on the battle field bittiing fr their country and the Constitution? Put the Democracy en not peijiire itself j by any s iccti Ah to acts subversive of that Con ' stituti'ui which it has in Its heart sworn to .uU:n ! and pre-erv e. In t of these entiments and integrity of the lX'incritic lurty, I jay that no act of this Convention in iy even eeern to tive sanction or countenance to -icls destructive of the Ccnstitu ;

j tion under uy jre:cxt whatever. i It will rcw he iu order for the Convention to . ppM-eei to its organxttion. j Mr. HaninTon. of Jefferson, mored that the . Hen. Joseph W. Cha- man, of the same county, 1 be choen temporary Chairman. Carried. ! Mr. Chapman, on taking the Chair, 5aid tliat 1 , he ha-l neither anr re narks or say t aggcitions to make, save that it w,s time now for the Con- j vt-ntion to proceed to hainc., txd the firit thing j in order, after the appointment of a temporary j Secretary, would be the election of jermancr:tj 1 otheer.s. J ! On motion, Jo. J. Bin-rhara, of Marion, ww j cho-en teinjorary Secretary. i Grafton E. Cooke: ly, of Vigo, nominateU Hen. j ' Thomas A. Hendricks for permanent Prcsideatj

j of "the Convention. ! Hon. John fi. Davis, of I'arke, and K. L.

ap it is' me interest of the South msinly

Ia!xr in the production of vl ice; suacco and cotton (articles which

a . 1 1. .1 I I -.J. J - f . . A

contend in mutual accusations of more enormous ! ' involuntary service wouia mac .mem e uo not. proouce; ano to iepeiii upvn ami nuv Iraud and pet illations when the supporter. -of! !avs,- and the Government cannot. fVld flares; frum us the production of our lands and labor.

Fremont throw back the charges preie.re-1 and . '-'-r " . -"t"1"'1' ,:M v ""'"e- ..-.----

:ainst him. br the extraordjnarv defense. ! n?n the Uniterstates. "and mut be provided

proven

that the kT- et-s and miners, nt and about Wash ; Milton, the Camerons.the Wee-ls.the Welle-es. the : Morgans and the Cummingses, are more flagrant ' poiiMtei er. id" the treasury than the chiÄtsVo I lowers o.r Fremont lau this reeking corruptiiui j ;

not confine.! tfj the nnserahle wretches whoe.l

for in some war. That is the emanci!aation4

policy of the Administration. As a war measure, j to give strength to the North, what do you think j of i;? Vou will observe we cannot "exact ser- j. . . 1 m ' a.

vice irom tue mannmitieo slave nc is io worK or not work as suits his pleasure. That alterna-

hosnital .tore-, or ive short weights, or toiu'.ter- f tire deing presented, the ncsTO does not work.

ate the food and drink of the ofd:er, but crawls ' linl n ,5 lf 1c prcviuco ror in roms war. upou the verv couucil Ublc of the President, r,d What will that provi-ion cost, w'licn more than

iiiinples in Cib:.:.t tieliK-rtitions. int is now ' l.t0O.G0O slaves tK-ln-nnc to raaters who brought to the know lelre of the President by in I with the South, are liberared f That will depend , VJubitabl an 1 record evi.lence, and vet the pu'jiie ! largely upon the nnmVr of Ilepnhlican comraiwrwii; is not righted; when to sucii asw-umiiii: ' saries detailed to the service, and whether the j lengths the-e thing have gone that, the 7iw ' present jr cent of profit is continued, and nj-on j newspnpr of Cincinnati, a bitter opponent of the the nnmlcr c.f missionaries that are sent among j Demovra. y, in a tecent article, has been com- this inf-resiiaz peor le, to prenare thecx for " lib- j

pseile.1 to s'y: crt.n cquaJitr, r.nl tratenuty. Cod help the ration if these things are to con-! Put Mr. Lincoln i not content with an adrot:nue We must lonfe-w we are losing our pa- J cacy of emancipation by the United States, but tieiicc. The Cotirtessioiul ie;H.Tts show that the ! Le proroses to encourage the States to adopt the

War Department, at least, is iu the hands of ; vtme policy. He goes on to fcaj: "Besides this, co thieves. The masterly inactivity of the Admin- : it is not impossibla that some of the States will j til istrati'n is broken ot'lv when "it comes to the pass i-irnnar enactments for their own Ienefit re-T'-

4undcring of the Treasury. The report of the ; f pectively, and by operation of which, perons of . Conirressional Investigating Committee thrills J the same class-will be thrown upon them for di- ! l . -.1. U 1 .' . k . ...II. I ...1 T . .V. .,n r T J La f., I

evcrv ii on oil m i:i wun not ror. uu in-wtficsi 1 j-o-ai. iu mui io-"v, x ico.;iu;uipiiu w:ai ouex position of our national history. j gTess provide for accepting each persons from It exhibits a degtee of corruption in the War such States, according to some mode of ralna-

and Navy Departments, not expected m tbis cnt ical hour. The public tressnry i in the hand of thieves, whose oclv olicitude is plunder. If

Conrress was honest, as it outiht to be, Simon

Cameron would have been hurled froro his ofScel deemed free." The propopition amounts to just

in disgrace before this, and Ft. Lafayette crowded." this : The public e-cpendirares are now to euorwith the Weeds, the Cummingses, the Morgan-J .mons that a direct tax is inevitable; the Consti-

ard tire host of plunderers proved guilty by tht' tation of the Lnid State, Article 1, section 2,

provides that "r.ire-'t taxes shall be apportioned

amonj the several States, which may be included

tion, in bcu, no tanto, of direct taxes, or upon some other plan to be agreed on with syrh States

respect irelv; that such persons, on such accept

ance hy the General Govercnuntv be nce i

South in the tctxluction of their peculiar corn

moliiieji, tlit they may be large buyers Irora us, has been, and so long as "gras grow and water runs," will be, the true interest of the Northwest; and that political arty that would destroy th.it market is our greatest foe. Most earnestly, then, do I call upon the men of Indiana to consider what President Lincohr seems to Javor, what Cameron urges, what, the Republican rnembersof Congios, in caucus.have determined epe-n, and what bills now pending in Congress contemplate the freedom of the iiegnes in the rebel States in a word, the destruction of Somherti bitmr. and the ruin, for ever, of our rich trade and the value of our products. Impelled by a false philanthropy, England ha m le her rich islands a luxuriant waste and wil.dernesa.the trade of wbWi b worth no more than oneof the jeaels iu the Green's crown. Are we now, who have for our-J as and the geieratins yet to come, such impc .ut interests involved, to

consent to ucu poocy ww.tnls the great ano ter-

ile regions upon the uoafof alexicor

The frt and highest interest ot the aortii-

we?t is in the restoration and preservation of the

Uu?on upon the basis of the Constat otion and the deeT devotion of her Democracy to the c?xse of the Union i hown by iu fidelity in th rai;

but if the failure and foby and wickeone-M of the

Matthew L. Urett.of Davies; W. H. Talb'Jtt, of Marion.

arroRMT olsleal.

Hayless W. Hinna, or Vigo; J. C. Applegute, nCrroll; Jeremiah Smith, of lUrolph; P. Jowison.of Het;ry; John Paker, of Knox; Jas.

A. Scott, of Putnam; Ocnr U. Hord, if Decatur, withdrawn rdse'juently.) St rKRtfTE5IETT or Pt BLIC IJTSTRrCTIOW. Alex. J. Don-la, of Whitley, E. C. H:W-en, of Rush, Saml. L. ituw. of Allen, Milton 'li. Hopkin, of Clinton, C. M. Wearer, of Tipt-e-canc (withdrawn). ' Mr. Itttit moved that each Corgre-.ionaJ J)i trirt rej-f-rt to ihe Convention its nornination A.-r representation on the Sute Central Cor.iwittee. Carried. Hon. Delana It. EskcLs, of Putnam, offered the following, which was adopted : IrnrJml, That wUn met for the transaction of ha-iness, the Sutli Oingrr-ssional Ditnrict shall have bat one rote on the Central Committee. On motion, the Convention tus.k a ress until 2 r. m.

A FT L II NOON. v The Convention was o-dled to order by the Presi-Jent, who nnnounre! tle ftr-it butnes it order to lx? the completion of the report of the diirv:ts wiili regard to the Sute Ceiutra! Con irittee, in vecordmee with Mr. Pcttit'i motion in the morning. All the districts hd been hear-t

- WaJd. of Marian. -crc also pnt in nomination

mveigauon. lut even Uns terrible etL-.ott orr does not teem to have created a seasjtion in Coiisresvs. lKes the plunder conspiracy extend even theief In this eiitiectun, it ia right that honorable mention, afld eaception made, C the Cabinet ofhc(T fpja hiduiu,a:idas an Indunian. I tiwiX him that his of.ioial Conduct allow n.e this pleas me. I raid the hl-tory of the Pcp-riMh in tuty i

within this Union, acconling to their respn-ctive nunJer;" the tax must re o tportior.el and impoe-l. but when we piiua to colert the taxes, if any State, as cr instance Kentucky, will free the regr'e. we will receive ?uch freed cegroejiu p-ayrnent of her portion of the tax, according to the'r value, to be .VKrertained by appraisement. A fair must-union of fl.e Contitution rea(uirts. not

. ...... nrvmoutn.er.ix-.il. Ipartr in psiwer retKier a uuion tmp-otble; then t .... , , Iti.e mlghu Northwest mut Uke care of her- The S.xtli dutnct Umg tl report from

eil anl tier own inieresfcs. c? nua uuifin-mii uimo.i- wo uuai.iu.uuii s-jtth,

allow the arts and the finest ci ew Lngland to diä-xil her of her richest commerce and trade,

and to render her labor wholly rubecrvicnt to an eastern, actional, tnd tLh policy Eastern I lnt of power, commerce, and gain. I know the potent tppeal that ha brtn ral to onr prejudice, upon the charge that slave labor is in comp-eti-ion wiih the free lafor or the North; hat I know tko tliat it i not founied in fact. The cultiration of rice, sarar, cotton, tobacco, and hemp is not ia competitton with our labor, hat in aid ul ?o?port of it. Wilh the jdd

which the Southerner receives for the tale of his

crops, he purchases our prod net, and thu secures Ui our labor it Ugh tewanl. Bnt if we

norain tiug tlie following TatE CUtTtlL CXiMXirTVIU First D:trict. James D. Williatas. of Knox. sVed Distrif. M. C. Kerr. of Fkvd. Thirl D'strkt M. W. Shields, of Jaiküoäu Focrtli D..-trct.- Ce-. Hibben, of lUsli. " Fifth I-iriet Irimun-l JtUiHon. of Hüry. xt D:.-tri: t J. J. P nlura, Ceo McOuat, of Marioi4. Seveirtli District Thus. Dow ling, of Vieo. FJghtli l).?trict Ii. S. Hitig.of T;nNinth Di.-trict. J. A. Tavliw, ol Caw. Tenth District. S. W. Sprott.vf Dekali. Klf ventii lLfrirt,J. R. CoTr-h. of Uu:tu

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