Indiana State sentinel., 1861-06-05
Practically Defunct.

We do not know whether the Journal intends
10 compliment or ridicule the Governor in its Oc
clsional apologies for the short conings of his
Excellency; but whethern jest or earnest it often
makes telling thrust upon that distinguished
Individual. In its issue Of yesterday it has the
following allusion to the head of the State Gov
eminent:
Governor Morton. we are sorry to say. is prac-
ticalfy no more Mentally he has been eviscera-
ted- Morally he has been annihilated.
There can not, in language. be a much severer
criticism upon public functionary than is con-
aimed in the above extract, and what gives it
pungency and apposteness is the fact that large
number of the political associates of the Cover
nor feel every word of it. Whether the Journal
: the organ of that portion of the Republican
party and therefore gives expression to its views,
or gives them utterance to pay up some private
debts or disappointments of its own, we can not
say, but in either contingency it hits the nail
plump ON the head. We could not say half as
hard things of the Governor, if we should try
and We have no disposition to strike man who
lis practically no more" mentally embowelled
and morally annhlated. He rather deserves our
commiseration than censure, when thus stricken
down in the house of his friends.
We alIude this morning to some of the
short cOmings of the practically no more
Governor, for the purpose of defending some
of the leading Republicans of the State, who
have been assailed by the Journal for not hold
ing up the arms of the Governor, in the sore
trials through which he has recently passed in
managing the public affairs of the State. In an
article few days ago in that print, or the Cover
nor, through that medium. complained most Bit
serly that none, or but very few, of the prominent
men of the Republican party proffered their coun-
sci and services to His Excellency, in the unex-
pected duties and difficulties which had been
forced upon him. That is only one view of the
question. Did any ever refuse to counsel
the Governor, when advice was solicited by HIM
Did he call into his councils the leading mer
Of his party whom his organ IS so fast to con.
denim? And cou.d 1t be ex. eese,i that those mer
would tender their counsel without knowing that
it was desired by His ExceIlency? Has any
prominent in the State refused to advise tho
Governor as to his duty and the interests of the
State, whenever such advice was solicited? We
think not. The Governors complaints then fall
70 the ground as unworthy of notice.
But is the Governor faultless A few DAYS
ago, distinguished representatives from othel
States were upon visit to the city, to consul
npon the general welfare. Were the leading mer
of our own State invited to attend that confer
enceG 2 Did Governor MORTON manifest any
delicacy doubt as to his ability to fully repre-
sent Indiana in that council? There is no ev
dence that he did. and that he had full confidence
in himself, is evidenced by the fact that he es
ehewed the counsel of the leading men of the
State. He did mole than this. He failed in that
courtesy to the prominent citizens of Indiana to
which they we're justly entitled. But whether this
slight was through design or ignorance it is not
Tor US to say Senator TRUMBULL was here
from Illinois. So was Senator LANE of our own
State Tie former gentleman was invited to par
ticiPate in the council of the Governors, and was
shown the amenities due to his station, while the
latter gentleman was left out in the cold And
this slight or Indifference upon the part of Gov
ernor MoKroS to the leading men of his own
State was general-not special. We presume il
> these facts that induced the Journal to announce
with bitter sarcasm that distinguished Cover
nor els practically no more" that mentally he
mas been eviscerated. and morally he has been
annihilated-" Well may His Excellency exclaim
from such friends as the Journal, "Good Lord
deliver u.s.