Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-11-23
Idiana and the warbler Connfrapt
with New XOrk-Puff ExtraO rd mary
for Governor Norton.

Tor GoyernOr moTtons
The New York Times. in an article contrast
ing the respective performances Of New York
and Indiana in furnishing soldiers for The war,
says:
To what is this vast diersnce atrbutablel Certainty
not any difference IN patriotism We VIII admit
for moment that the masses Of the people Of New York
Toton TO the country There Is probably no State which
has derived such immense advantas from The Union
the "Empire State" and which has greater
interest i'm It's preservation Nor can tie differences be
owing any difference In the character Of the popuIa
ton. That difference all in favor Of New York Our
cities have far greater proportion floating popu
latiOn from which soldiers be drawn with the least
arrangement; and also vastly mere wealth available for
bounties in encouragement of enlistments.
The difference principally due to the fact that Indiana
has Governor OF devotion to the cause and
signal executive ability, while New York has Gov
ernor Norton from the beginning of the war, has made
the military efficiency and honor Of his State his prime
business Under the first call Of the seventy
five thousand men, in three days he not only raised
ed equipped. and clothed the Six regiments, which
the Of the State but rendered twenty regiments in
addition And when these not acceptnd by the
Government he mustered them into the State service,
put them in camp aud had them drilled, until the time
arrived when the General glad to take
them. When the Government bad frst-class arms,
Governor Morton caused the State to supply them which
always secured the Indiana soldiers the post Of honor in
the field. Besides by personal visits regi-
in service, he saw for himself that every
promptly supplied. Permanent agents established
at all the principal points to devote special attention to
the of the soldiers and placed i'm Wash
ngton whose special business it was to collect back paw
pensions and other claims for discharged volunteers To
keep alive the spirit Of volunteering. Governor Morton
appointed committees Of prominent men in every Con-
gess0nal District, county and township asst Iaed the
proper quota to EACH induced County Boards 10 make
additional appropriations for bountie and by personal
visitation whenever there Sickness excited the
popular heart to the right patriotic pitch He has carried
out the method so energetcally that ecsn tie southern
prerdfls has been an tie qche keyt square IN 10 is
line Of military duty.
The result Of this regular system of stimulating en-
istnents and taking the best possible of the SOL
ders when enlisted, has been seen from the beginning
in the signal promptness and efficiency which have
marked all the military history Of Indiana from the be-
ginning of the The quota that State under the
first call for $1,000, six regiments. No less than
twenty were rendered in three days. The National
Government declining receive than six, the
mainder mustered into the State service put into
camp, drilled, and were cOmptey ready for the field
when afewad called for Before the Secretary of War
stopped recruiting year, Indiana put less
Sxfy-tnree regiments in the fl ID When Kirby Smith
advanced on Cincinnati Gov Morton completed the
ganizaton OF twenty four regiments, mustered armed
and equipped and sent them into Keniuaky-al within
the short space of one week. When Morgan invaded
the State of Indiana last though all the nation
al troops within the State had been off, thir
tvs hours g. 600 militia offered; and of these
81 900 were accepted armed, equipped and we've sent
forthwith after the invader Indiana supplied soldiers
enough escape the first aft and Gov Morton ten
dered the President additional troops as bonus
Fifteen regiments viii be ready fortnight which
will more than meet the last call Of the President More
over, several If the old regiments being brought
large details to be sent to other regiments in the
field which reduced below the minimum While
TO the field at minimum Indiana has always made II
point to fill her regiments to the maximum of l.04S Her
regiments in the service number 49, in three
weeks they will number 1874. Such is the record OF
State tia. has the benefit eff whole soued cearsight
ed, Jour handed Executive command.
We have frequeetly borne willing testimony to
the energy exhibited by Gov. Morton in raising
troops am, organizing regiments to send to the
seat of war; and we should be the last to detract
from his well earned reputation in that regard.
At the same time we cannot permit such
, ticle as the above-which, it is clearly evident,
had its origin. or at least its prompting, in Indi-
annapolis rather than the Times olfce-to pass
without few words of comment.
In the first place, then, the Times assumes
that there can be no difference between the people
of Indiana and those of New York in regard to
their patriotism or their willingness to serve the
country in the field. and hence that the only rea-
son why there is difference in the number OF
troops furnished lies in the fact that Indiana has
a Republican while New York has a Democratic
Governor few facts will plainly show that
this is not the cause of the difference When the
: war broke out aud the seventy five thousand
, volunteers were called for, New York like Indi-
! ana, hada Republican Governor, in the person of
! Hon. L. d. Morgan, since elected to the Senate.
. n OF only this but to facilitate him in The work
: of organizing troops and giving them efficiency,
the position and title of Major General was con-
: ferred upon Gov. Morgan, but which, by the
, mour, his successor.
The war has been in existence in two years and
a half, uring twenty months OF which time Gov.
Morgan Governor of n ew FORK, leaving only
ten months under Mr.. Seymours administration.
We presume Gov. Morgan's "heart was in the
work" of raising troops for the war, and yet what
was he about during all the time Indiana was so
busy organizing her regimentsl He was closed
: with the double authority of Governor of the
.. State and Major General of the army, and yet
there never time during his administration
when the quota Of New York was full. He had
double the time Gov. Seymour has had in which
to raise troops, and yet he failed TO accomplish
, the work so near to his 'heart."
The attempt of the New York Times and its
proprieIors to take from the people Of Indiana the
credit for the promptness and patriotism due
them i'll filling their various quotas of troops, and
to bestow that credit upon Gov. Morton, is to use
! "a very mild word, extremely ungenerous. With
out disparaging the patriotism of New York,
undertake TO say that the difference between the
two States in the matter of volunteering lies al
together in the people of the States respectively
and not in their Executives. If not, why is it
that the New England States are behind in their
quotas OF troops as well as New York? Surely
their Governors have their "hearts in the work, /"
= and their people are not whit behind And vet
with their zeal for abotionsm, with all the APP
peas that have been made to their patriotism
: through speeches and newspapers, and appeals to
their pockets through extravagant bOunties offer
ed for soldiers, they are behind Indiana y es. be-
I hind New York The truth is, the further we
get away from that detestabe, puritan, abolition
influence, the more numerous the enlistments.
: Thus, New York has done better than New Eng
land, Ohio better than Now York, Indiana better
than Ohio, and Illinois better than Indiana, and
this without regard to their Executives, who,
however, for the first year and three quarters
of the all Republicans, they still are with
the single exception of Gov. Seymour.
The people of Southern Indiana will see how
their services and efforts are regarded by this
! eulogIst of Gov. Morton, by the sentence have
placed in italics in the extract above. Our read
ers know how much justice there is in this flng at
Southern Indiana They know that this cop
perhead" portion of the State was the first to re
spond to the call for troops when 1t became evil
dent that there was To be war In earnest. They
know that the Districts in which Gov Morton re-
e ceived the fewest votes and where his influence
. was smallest, sent the largest number of yolun--
teers to the field and in the shortest time, of any
, Districts in the State.
!. Governor Morton has acted energetcally and
y promptly in military affairs. He should have
g due ere lit therefor for he is entitled to it. But
= to the people, who loved the Union, who knew its
. value, and willing to make great sacrifices
" to maintain it, is due the chief credit for the go
rious part which Indiana has played in this con-
fict. They have sacrificed much-suffered much
:, but appeal to them to sacrifice and to suffer
yet little more in the good work. Let the last
9 call for volunteers be filled without draft, and
: We shall stani forth the envy of all our sister
commonwealth.
! There are some assertions in the extract we
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