Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-09-18
STATE Sentinel,
SATURDAY EVENING. SEPT. 10, 1856.
Double Dealing

SATURDAY EVENING. SEPT. 10. 1856.
Double Dealing.
The position of MORToN before the puohc
is peculiar, but not very honest or enviable
one To the Fillmore men Of the State he
is smiling, trucculent and obsequious. In
the ewes of the AbolitIonists he is real
Simon Pure apostle of Black Republieanism,
and occupies the broad ground of their plat
form, upon which GEO w. JULIAN says he
can stand and preach the full doctrine OF
Abolitionism. The Abolitionists> look upon
MoRroN as their man. as a. bone of their bone
and flesh of their flesh"
1t has been the intention of the leaders and
directors of the Abolition movement, to make
it and its principles, the governing party and
thu leaven Of fsnstical opposition to the
Union and to the Constitution. When Sena-
tor Wilson addressed the people at their
mass meeting at indianapolis, in 1854, he
urged the policy Of allowing the anti-slavery
ar abolition sentiment to underlsy the whole
platform Of fusion principles, and cndeavored
TO show its progressive spirit, by reviewing
its onward march in the New England States,
and in Ohio and Michigan, &c. His advice
was followed in Indiana, and the Know
Nothings blended their then great strength
with the Abolitionists and achieved tn
umph over the Democracy.
No sooner had victory perched upon the
united standard, than did the Abo itonlsts
set about appropriating the results to Their
own benefit, and to the establishment Of
themselves as the dominant or ruling party
in the State They determined TO crush out
or absorb the whole Of the Know Nothing
party, and to place their own black flag al
the head Of the column, and to compel then
late allies to fight under their leadership and
under their banner.
When the Convention Of Fusionists assem-
bled at indianapolis, in May, the right of the
Aboliti ,nists TO rule and to direct was openly
asserted and maintained, and the Know
Nothings were told in plain and direct terms
that they might either follow in the Adolf
ton track, or let it alone, as they pleased, OIL
that they might withdraw from the Conven'
ton. So overbearing and insulting was the
conduct Of these pulled up Abolition leaders
that many National Know Nothings refused
to be further governed by them, and the del
egates from the Second Congressional Dis.
trict even went so far as to decline to name
or present snv Electors from that District
he managers Of the matter were MoRToS's
Abolition supporters, and they succeeded in
getting their favorites before the people. U
P. MoRTos, JAS. II. CRAvENs, and CONRAD
BAKER. on their State ticket, are full blooded
AboIitionists, and are well and fully under.
stood by their Abolition friends.
Judge MORTON has given undeniable and
indisputable evidence of his devotion to the
interests of Abolitionism. He was dele
gate to the famous Pittsburgh Addition Con-
vention, over which FRANCIS P. BLAIR pre-
sided, and attended that Convention and
participated in its deliberations. GEORGE W.
JULIAN. WILLIAM GRoss and O. P. MORTON
went as delegates from the burnt, or Wayne
district, and JULIAN was one OF the Vice
Presidents. The object Of the meeting oil
the Pittsburgh Convention, which assembled
Immediately before and al the time OF the
Philadelphia Convention, which was repre-
sented by SHEETS s. Co., was to forestall the
action of the Philadelphia Convention and
to compel them to nominate an Abolition
candidate for President, instead of Mr.. FILL
MORE. MoRToN's Abolition proclivities took
him to Pittsburgh, and with JULIAN and
Gross, he played his part there to the
satisfaction of his Abolition friends in lndi-
ana, who rewarded him with the nomination
of Governor.
MORTON and his friends are now very So
licitous to tie on the FILLMORE men OF In
diana to the baggage car of Abolitionism,
after having CONTEMPORARY used them,
and after having defed their power at the
indianapolis Convention.
When MORTON and the AbolitioIists want
the help of the FILLMORE men, they are
very plausible and kind. When they have
favors to bestow they are all kept for the
benefit of Abolitionists.