The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1861-06-20
The State Administration.

The Madison Courier, radical Republican or
gan, thus compliments the energy and efficiency
which has characterized the administration of Gov.
M~rtol:
The Indiana volunteer regiments have been
highly compmented for solderly bearing, neat
ness Of their uniforms, and the excellence oftbeir
equipments. This is yer, gratifying, and reflects
much credit upon Coils. Crittenden and Prather
and Major CARRIER, to whose attention and energy
the gratifying tout ensemble of the sixth regiment
is attributable. We are not sposed to detract
from the credit due Gov. Morton in this regard
His zeal and labor brought the means together for
equipping the regiments the officers made the ap-
plicalion, and they made their selections and ap
piled them, their regiments excellently equip
ped, or only so so, or indifierently. The Cincin-
matt papers contrast the appearance and equipments
of the Ohio and Indiana regiments, much to the
advantage Of the latter, though it appears the cost
of clothing and equipments furnished by the State
has been much larger in Ohio than Indiana.
The policy adopted by the administrations in the
Northwestern States has been in our opinion very
unfortunate /; in word, it has been sue ession
of blunders from the beginning. The Governors
have been hurrying about with the speed Of loco
motives. sometimes attending TO details which
would have been attended to much better by 'dol-
lar day clerk They all attempted TOO much
We verify believe there is not one of them but
would have been delighted to have had an onportu-
nifty to don the tinsel and epIulets, attach them
selves to horse, and marshal brgadc3 in the war,
instc,d of directing divisions. One of the three
Governors left his capitol, Travelled by rail nearly
a hundred mil 5, saw tn, editor of country news
paper, hired special train to return, arrived at the
State House about midnight and went to bed slept
swcetly until morning and got up in time to see
the regular train ON the road he had come spe
cia, come in, the result, paragraph in the pro-
vincial paper lauding his energy N hiring extra
train, at .he expense of the State, to get home to
sleep until the regular ttain arrived You don't
hear of Gen. Scott, or Butler, or Mcclellan, or
Patterson flying about inside of their respective
lines like Morton, Yates, Dennson and Curtin.
If the Governors had kept their eyes open on tn ir
travels some good might have resulted therefrom
For instance. our Governor would have seen large
foundres, where cannon and shot could have been
ests out of which tent poles aud stakes could have
been mad, and he would have found out tha.
several hundred convcts in the States Prison were
idle that tent poles. stakes, &c, could have been
made by the indiana convic;s, instead of employ
ing the convict labor of Ohio to make them. He
would have found out, TOO that almost every farm
er had spare horse to sell, and that horses and
wagons were indispensable to army. An, but
the Unite States furnishes the horses, wagons,
ambulances, &c Just
The United States furnishes the volunteers with
uniforms, hats, shoes, shirts and subsistence that
is, the United States has, or will pay Indiana for
advances made on all these articles. One over
sight in Gov. Morton is uaaccountaD.e he forgot
that there sheep-Srowers and cloth manu- fac
turers in the Quaker military district. Every inch
Of cloth used in the manufacture Of uniforms, ov-
erv pound of wool used in the manufacture of hats
for the use of the lndi na volunteers ought to have
been the product of the State of Indiana there
ought not to have been any competition for furnish
ing the Indiana troops excep. among lnjianians'
and every wagon, aye. the State ought to have fur
nished two wagons and two horses for every one
the regiments needed, all of which would have
been but an advance the Federal Government
would have paid into the State Treasury every
copper, just as it will the expense of uniforms can
teens, knapsacks shoes, and for bread beef AMI
pork consumed at Camps Morton, Sullivan. &c.