INDIANA. 



Juvenile Offenders," no attempt has ever been 

 made by the Legislature to carry the provision 

 into effect. " We have no punishment now for 

 the juvenile offender," says Governor Morton, 

 "but the common jail and the penitentiary, nei- 

 ther of which exert a reformatory influence upon 

 the youthful mind ; and during my six years' 

 experience as the executive of the State, I have 

 often been constrained to pardon the youthful 

 criminal because I felt that to incarcerate him 

 in the penitentiary would be to consign him to 

 a life of degradation and crime." 



An important decision was rendered in the 

 Supreme Court of Indiana in November, relat- 

 ing to that clause of the State Constitution, 

 known as the Thirteenth Article, which pro- 

 hibits colored men from entering or residing in 

 the State. An act, passed to enforce these 

 provisions, declared all contracts made with 

 negroes or mulattoes who had come into the 

 State subsequent to November 1, 1851, null 

 and void; and also provided that any person 

 who should employ any negro or mulatto, who 

 had come into the State after that date, should 

 be fined from $10 to $500, while any negro or 

 mulatto who had or should enter the State 

 should be fined to a like amount. In 1866 a 

 colored man named Smith, who had removed 

 from Ohio to Indiana subsequent to November 1, 

 1851, sued one Moody, a white man, to enforce 

 payment upon a promissory note. The defend- 

 ant pleaded that, as Smith was illegally in the 

 State when the note was given, he could bring 

 no action in its courts, and that for the same 

 reason the contract was void. The Supreme 

 Court decided unanimously that the plaintiff 

 was a citizen of the United States, and as such 

 came within the operation of that clause of the 

 National Constitution which guarantees to the 

 citizens of each State all the privileges and 

 immunities of the citizens in the several 

 States. Consequently the law of Indiana de- 

 priving persons of African descent, who are 

 citizens of the United States, of these rights, 

 privileges, and immunities was void. This de- 

 cision, while it does not remove, practically 

 nullifies the Thirteenth Article of the State 

 Constitution. In the so-called " Indiana Con- 

 spiracy Cases," the defendants, Lambdin P. 

 Milligan, William A. Bowles, and Stephen Hor- 

 sey, who had been convicted by a military 

 commission of conspiracy and sentenced to im- 

 prisonment for life, were in April, by order of 

 the United States Supreme Court discharged 

 from custody, on the ground that the commis- 

 sion had no jurisdiction legally to try and sen- 

 tence them. 



No election for governor or lieutenant-gover- 

 nor took place in Indiana in 1866. The State 

 officers to be chosen by the popular vote were 

 a secretary of state, treasurer, auditor, attor- 

 ney-general, and superintendent of public in- 

 struction. The Eepublican nominating Con- 

 vention met at Indianapolis on February 22d, 

 and selected the following candidates for these 

 offices : Secretary of State, Col. N. Trusler ; 



Treasurer, General Nathan Kimball ; Auditor, 

 T. B. McCarty ; Attorney-General, D. R. Wil- 

 liamson ; Superintendent of Public Instruction, 

 G. W. Hoss. A resolution was adopted de- 

 claring full faith in President Johnson and his 

 cabinet, and the Union members of both houses 

 of Congress; and in the sincere desire and de- 

 termination of all of them to conduct the affairs 

 of the Government in such a manner as to se- 

 cure the best interests of the whole people. It 

 concluded as follows : " And we hereby declare 

 that we will sustain them in all constitutional 

 efforts to restore peace, order, and permanent 

 union." Another resolution declared that in 

 Andrew Johnson the convention recognized a 

 patriot true and tried, and that it would sup- 

 port him in all constitutional efforts to restore 

 the national authority, law and order among 

 the people of the States lately in rebellion, on 

 the basis of equal justice to all members ; that 

 it pledged to the administration executive and 

 legislative, its united and hearty cooperation, 

 in all ways and prudent measures devised for 

 the security of the Government against rebel- 

 lion and insurrection, in time to come; and, 

 while indorsing the President, expressed .entire 

 confidence in the Union majority in Congress. 

 The convention further 



Resolved, That it is the province of the legislative 

 branch of the Government to determine the question 

 of reconstruction, and, in the exercise of that power, 

 Congress should have in view the loyalty of the 

 people of those States, and their devotion to the 

 Constitution and obedience to law; and, until the 

 people of those States prove themselves loyal to the 

 Government, they should not be restored to rights 

 enjoyed before the rebellion. 



Resolved, That no man who voluntarily participated 

 in the rebellion ought to be admitted to a seat in Con- 



fress; and, under the Constitution of the United 

 tates, the power to determine what qualifications of 

 electors are requisite rests with the States respect- 

 ively. 



Jtesolved, That the union of these States has not, 

 and cannot be dissolved, except by successful revo- 

 lution. 



Jtesolved, That justice and duty demand an equal- 

 ization of bounties to our national defenders. 



The Democratic Convention assembled at 

 Indianapolis on March 15th and made the fol- 

 lowing nominations: Secretary of State, Gen. 

 M. D. Manson ; Treasurer, James B. Ryan ; 

 Auditor, C. G. Badger ; Attorney-General, 

 John R. Coffroth ; Superintendent of Public 

 Instruction, R. M. Chapman. A series of six- 

 teen resolutions was adopted. The first denied 

 the right of any State to secede from the Union. 

 The second approved of the principles avowed 

 by President Johnson in his annual message for 

 the reconstruction of the Union, and condemned 

 the action of the majority in Congress in keep- 

 ing States out of the Union. The resolution 

 concluded by indorsing the President's veto of 

 the Freedmen's Bureau bill, promising him the 

 earnest and disinterested support of the Demo- 

 cracy of Indiana. The third declared that the 

 sole power of the Senate and House of Repre- 

 sentatives over the admission of members is 

 confined to the election returns and qualifica- 



