Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-07-31
Inare Morton,s Course.

We regret to learn that Judge MORTON IS
PLAYING the ranting demagogue, to tho ex-
tent Of his dull and limited ability, in his
speeches, wherever he goes. There Is no
idle, vague and triAing rumor which he does
not seize upon and retail as the truth Inc
most silly and weak thing Of this sort, is his
repetition of the falsehood that Governor
WILLARD gives up the contest. Another
equally degrading and untrue, IS his asssr-
ton that HERBERT, Of California, was a del
egate in the National Democratic Convex
ton at Cincinnati. lie knows this is a false
hood, and has full access to the records of
the Convention to inform himself, but he
prefers to ~reiterate the untruth.
MORTON makes himself ridiculous by as
sorting hat he is a Democrat, true to his
principles but that the Democratic partv
have left him. EvA--
.uan who is acquainted
with MoRTos, knows that in 1852, long
after the compromise measures were agreed
upon, the fugitive slave law included, he
still professed to be a Democrat, and to sus-
tain that law, as well as the principle that
the people Of the Territories were the sole
and proper judges Of the laws which should
govern them, or, in other words, the basis
and provisions Of the original Kansas law,
As passed by Congress.
AS an evidence of the truth of what we
assert on these heads, We will call upon the
recollection of those who remember the
course of MORTON at the Cambridge Con
~Tention. which met to nominate a candidate
for Congress in the Fifth Congressional Dis
trict, in 1854, which time marks the grea
--~~h of MoRgoN's change.
SPS~- I'll.
This evidence is such as Abohtion'St
should not dispute or eontrovert, "a IL !
from the Indiana Journal, and was write
with a view to show the time-serving dlspc
sition of MoRToN, while he was attending
Democratic Convention, with a hope OF IT
ceiving a nomination for Congress at the
hands.
We copy the whole matter from the Jul
nal, in order that the public may see no
the Abolitionists Of 1854, looked upon MOI
roN's honesty and consistency
Correspondence ofthe indianapolis Daily Journal
DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL coNvENTIc
Al CAMBRIDGE CITY
CESTREvILLE, July u, 1884
EpIroRs or JOURNAL The Democratic Go
gressiopa al Convention for the Fifth Districth
lust passed of at Cambridge City. The n
braska men have drummed up their forces, al
were soon found to outnumber the An
Nebraska branch. They proceeded to
down the regular Nebraska platform OF I
party, and put in nomination j. s. Buckles,
Muncie, as their candidate. At this stage
the business, Messrs. Test, Gross, BeesC
Shombre and Murphy, aud a large number
the party, withdrew from the Convention a
organized on their own account, aud reco
/ unended Joseph Holman, an honest and Il
Anti ebraska man, as their candidate.
very large portion Of the party will withh'
their support from Buckles.
The candidates before the Convention W
Buckles, Holman and o. P. Morton, the la
of whom has been figuring for the honOl
being defeated for Congress in this District
some years, and has failed again as usual.
is said his failures are the result, in part, of
slowness in making up his mind on import
questions. Until since the Convention Of