INDIANA. 



527 



130 bush.; do., sweet, 201,711- bush. ; butter, 

 17,934,7*; Tibs. : hay, 635.322 tons; maple sugar, 

 1,515,594 Ibs. There were 13 daily, 5 biweekly, 

 and 154 weekly political papers published in 

 the State in 1860, and 3 weekly and 3 monthly 

 religious papers. 



The number of miles of railroads in opera- 

 tion is 2,169 ; cost of construction, $71,864,304. 



The governor of the state is Oliver P. Mor- 

 ton, whose term of office expires on -the 1st of 

 January, 18'Jo. The secretary of State is James 

 S. Anthon. The judiciary of the State consists 

 of 4 s-ipreme court judges, 14 circuit judges, 

 and 21 district judges of common pleas courts. 



The receipts into the treasury of the State to 

 October 31, the end of the fiscal year, together 

 with the balance of the preceding year on 

 hand, were $3,857,450, and the expenditures 

 $2,974,976. Balance $876,474. The debt of 

 the State is $$.755.453. The State tax is two 

 mills on a dollar, and a poll tax of 50 cents. 

 The banking institutions of the State consist of 

 the State Bank and its branches ; in all 21 

 banks, besides 18 free banks. Their circula- 

 tion at the close of the year was $6,660,000. 



The State election is held on the second 

 Tuesday in October. At the State election, in 

 1862, members of Congress, one half of the State 

 Senate, and all the members of the House of 

 the Legislature were to be elected. Two dis- 

 tinct parties are organized in the State, which 

 are known as democrats and republicans, the 

 latter belonging to the party which elected the 

 officers of the Federal Government. 



The democrats held a convention at Indiana- 

 polis on the 8th and 9th of January, 1862. be- 

 ing the first held by them since 1860. Thomas 

 A. Hendricks presided. A series of resolu- 

 tions was adopted, asserting that the restora- 

 tion to power of the democratic party could 

 alone preserve the Union, and endorsing the 

 principles heretofore put forth by the national 

 conventions of that party ; they declared that 

 the present civil war had mainly resulted from 

 the slavery agitation of a geographical party in 

 the North, producing its counterpart in the 

 South of secession, disunion, and armed resist- 

 ance to the Government ; condemning the 

 course of the republicans in the Congress which 

 terminated March 4, 1861, for the rejection 

 of all peace propositions ; that peace and har- 

 mony would now reign had the party in power 

 shown the same desire to settle the internal 

 disputes that it recently exhibited to avoid a 

 war with England ; that the republicans have 

 fully demonstrated their inability to conduct the 

 Government through the present difficulties ; 

 denouncing all violations of the Constitution and 

 usurpation of power ; regarding the habeas cor- 

 pus, and the imprisonment of citizens of the 

 loyal States as flagrant violations of the Consti- 

 tution ; that the seizure of Mason and Slidell 

 was either legal or illegal ; if the former, the 

 nation has been humiliated by their surrender 

 under threat : if the latter, they should have 

 been delivered up before their imprisonment. 



The convention also nominated for secretary 

 of State, James S. Anthon ; for State treasurer, 

 Matthew L. Brent ; auditor of State, Joseph, 

 Restine; attorney-general, O. B. Hord ; su- 

 perintendent of public instruction, M. B. 

 Hopkins. 



On the 30th of July the same party held 

 another convention at Indianapolis, at which a 

 series of resolutions were adopted, the princi- 

 pal points of which are shown in the folio wing 

 extracts : 



That the Constitution, the American Union, and 

 the laws made under and by the authority of the Con- 

 stitution, must be preserved and maintained in their 

 proper and rightful supremacy ; that the rebellion now 

 in arms against them must be suppressed and put 

 down, and that it is the duty of all good citizens to aid 

 the General Government in all measures necessary and 

 proper to that end. 



That the democracy of Indiana, with patriots every- 

 where, have made and will continue to make every 

 sacrifice to the end that the rebellion may be sup- 

 pressed, the supremacy of the Constitution maintain- 

 ed, and the Union under it preserved ; but they are 

 unalterably opposed to a war of conquest or subjuga- 

 tion, 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 institu- 

 tions of any of the States. In the language of Sen- 

 ator Douglas, uttered at Chicago a few days before 

 his death, " We must not invade~constitution"al rights. 

 The innocent must not suffer, nor women and chil- 

 dren be the victims. Savages must not be let loose." 



That we protest, in the name of ourselves and of 

 our children, and in the name of all that is dear in the 

 future of our beloved country, against the mischievous 

 measures 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 resolution of Congress pledging the nation t* pay 

 for all negroes which may be emancipated by the au- 

 thority of any of the Southern States ; that we regard 

 such measures, involving as they do an 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 we are 

 unalterably and unconditionally opposed to all schemes 

 having for their object, immediate or remote, the taxa- 

 tion of the white man for the purchase of negroes any- 

 where ; that we deny the constitutional right of the 

 President or Congress to adopt a policy wfiich taxes 

 white labor to pay for negroes, or which would make 

 the Government or people slave dealer, a policy which, 

 if not arrested by the votes of the people, will en- 

 tail upon unborn generations of our kindred a debt 

 more overwhelming and appalling than ever cursed 

 anv nation of ancient or modern times. 



That, in opposition to measures of this kind, we de- 

 sire to interpose the peaceful and powerful agent, the 

 ballot of a free people, and say, in the language of an- 

 other, " We will neither surrender our rights nor for- 

 sake them. We will maintain our constitutional lib- 

 erty at all hazards, and as a necessary step toward 

 that end, we will maintain the Union in like manner. 

 We are for the Constitution as it is, and Union as it 

 was." 



That, in the language of the resolution of the con- 

 servative members of Congress, the doctrines of the 

 secessionists and of the abolitionists, as the latter are 

 now represented in Congress, are alike inconsistent 

 with the Constitution, and irreconcilable with the unitv 

 and peace of the country. That the first have al- 

 ready involved us in a "civil war, and the others 

 (the 'abolitionists) will leave to tbe country buf lit- 

 tle hope of the speedy restoration of union or peace. 



That the happy accord of the Border State Union 

 men of Kentucky", Maryland, Missouri, Delaware, and 

 western Virginia", with ' the democratic delegations in 



