Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-06-19
The state Administration.

The Madison Courier, radical Republican or
gan, thus compliments the energy rnd efficiency
which has characterized the administration of
Governor MoRroN:
The Indiana volunteer regiments have been
highly complmented for soldierly bearing, neat
ness of their uniforms, and the excellence of their
equipments. This is very gratifying, and reflects
much credit upon Coils. Crittenden and Prather
and Major CARRIER, 10 whose attention and energy
the gratifying tout ensemble of the sixth regiment
is attributable We are not disposed to detract
from the credit due Gov Morton in this regard.
His zeal and labor brought the means together for
equippng the regiments; the officers made the
application and as they made their selections and
applied them their reg iments are excellently
equipped, or only $3.50, or indifierently. The
Cincinnati 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 fur
nished by the State has been much larger in Ohio
than Indiana
The policy adopted by the administrations in
the Northwest States has been in opinion,
very unfortunate; in word, it has been a sue
cession of blunders from the beginning. The
Governors have been seen hurrying about with
the speed of locomotives, sometimes attending to
details which would have been attended 60 much
better by "dolar a day" clerk. They all at
not one of them but would have been delighted
to have had an opportunity to don the tinsel and
epaulets, attach themselves to a horse, and mar
shal brigades in the war, instead of directing di
visions. One of the three Governors left his cap
ital travelled by rail nearly hundred miles, saw
the editor of a country newspaper, hired special
train to return, arrived at the State House about
midnight, and went to bed, slept sweetly until
morning, and got up in time to see the regular
train on the road he had come over special, come
in; the result, paragraph in the provincial paper
lauding his energy in hiring an extra train, at
the expense of the State, to get home to sleep un
I'll the regular train arrived You don't hear of
Gen. Scott, or Butler or Mcclellan, or Patterson
flying about so inside of their respective lines,
like Morton, Yates, Dennson and Curtin. If the
Government had kept their eyes open their
travels some good nigh, have resulted thercfrom.
For instance, our Governor would have seen large
foundries, where cannon and shot could have
been cast; he would have seen timber growing in
forests. out of which tent poles and stakes could
have been made: and he would have found out
that several hundred convicts in the States Pris-
ons were idle; that tent poles, stakes &c, could
have been made by the Indiana convicts, instead
If employing the convict labor of Ohio to make
them. He would have found out too, that al
most every farmer had spare horse to sell, and
that horses and wagons we're indispensable to an
army. All, but the United States furnishes the
horses, wagons, ambulances, &c. Just So
The United States furnishes the volunteers
with uniforms, hats, shoes, shirts and subsist
ence; that is, the United States has, or will, pay
Indiana for advances made for all these articles.
One overnight in Gov. Morton is unaccountable;
he forgot that there were sheep growers and cloth
manufacturers in the Quaker military district.
Every inch of cloth used in the manufacture of
uniforms, every pound of wool used in the man.
ufacture of hats for the use of the Indiana vol
unteers ought to have been the product of the
State of Indiana there ought not to have been
any competition for furnishing the Indiana troops
except among Indanians and every wagon, aye,
the State ought to have furnished two wagons
and two horses for every one the regiments need
ed, 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, canteens, knapsacks,
shoes, and for bread, beef and pork consumed at
Camps Morton, Sullivan, &c.