Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1861-08-15
GOV. MORTON'S SPEECH AT THE
Rockville Union Meeting.

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On being introduced to the meeting
Gov Morton made few remarks on the
condition of feeling existing in portion
Of the country, and continues:
REruBLIcAN GOVERNMENT.
All Republican Government is based
upon the principle that when the will of
the people has been expressed through the
forms of the Constitution, all parties and
all men mus; submit. Republican Gov
ernment cannot exist for a day For il
lustration of this truth, might refer to
the history of Mexico, where each cleo
ton is followed by revolution, where the
minority refuse 20 submit to the majority,
and fly to arms for the redress of every
4 fancied grievance. Such has been the
history of Republican Government in
France and other countries in Europe
Every officer of the government, when
properly elected, becomes the officer and
agent of the people, whether they favored
his election or not, and all loyal citizens
recognize him as such.
Mr. Buchanan when elected, although
did not favor his election, became my
President, and any insult offered to him
/ by foreign power, or any resistance to
his lawful authority by domestic foes,
was an insult and an injury to me and
every citizen of the United States. Some
/ people there are, who are so incredibly
stupid as to be unable to perceive any
/ difference between the Government and
the mere agents who carry it on for the
/ time. Government is intended to be per
manent, while the officers by whom il is
administered are ever changing. Wash
/ ingtOn, Jefferson and Jackson have pass
I ed away, but the Government they ad-
ministered still lasts, and trust will last
forever. The men who now control pub
lie affairs will, in few short years, have
passed from the stage of action; but we
trust the Government will survive them.
The man who would refuse to protect the
Government merely because he did nOt
like the man who carried it on, would dis
plav as little sense as the inebriate who
should refuse to protect his dwelling from
the flames because he did not like the
agency of the water.
PARTY QUEsTIONs.
This is not 4 war of parties, but of the
whole people. The interests involved
rise as iar above mere party cOnsidera-
tions as the heavens rise above the earth
The man who stands aloof from the great
contest higgling about his party, is short
sighted and fails to comprehend the time
in which he lives. Parties can only exist
in free government, and when the gov
ernment fails, they fall along with it
The Democratic, Whig and Republican
parties have each sought to administer
the government. But if the government
should pass away, there would be nothing
to administer. If there is any poor par
tizan here to-day who believes that, after
the government has been destroyed, he
will have his party left and may enjoy that,
yield him up in dispar. The Almighty
has enveloped his intellect in eternal
night, and foreordained that he should be
a fool for ever and ever.
LIycoLN's ABOLITION WAR.
The charge is made in this county that
this War was begun by Lincoln to bring
about the abolition of Slavery. The man
who ut.ers this charge is attempting to
commit fraud upon the people, and treas
on agains. the Government. Every in
telligent man knows that before Lincoln
was inaugurated the rebels had an army
of thirty thousand men in the field; had
laid siege to Forts Pickons and Sumter;
had robbed the Mint at New Orleans of
half million of dollars; had plundered
various Forts and Arsenais of two hundred
thousand stand of arms, and five hundred
pieces of artillery; had confscated the
debts due from citizens of sec eded States
to the people of the North, thus robbing
them of hundreds of millions of dollars
had murdered or driven out from the Sc
ceded States, every man of Northern
birth or, that entertained a lingering at
tachment for the Constitution of his coun
try.
The object of a falsehood so foul and
monstrous is not to be mistaken. 1t IS TO
distract the people of the North, and pal
sy the hands of the government, that 1t
may fall an easy prey to the scoundrels
who are seeking its destruction. This
would be its effect, if any ithad, and must
therefore be its aim.
PEACE.
But it is said we must have peace, and
could have peace if We would. / love
peace as much as any man. Its sweets
are as delicious to my taste as TO that OF
any human being. But when say this
mean peace that is safe, peace that is
crowned with liberty and the blessings OF
an enlightened civilization. | do not
mean that peace which is purchased by
foul dishonor; nor that peace which is but
another name for submission 10 tyrantS