Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-07-06
Interest ON the state Debt.


the North than the rebellion in the South.
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Interest on the state Debt.
The Journal states that winslow. Lanier L
Co.. of New York, by an arrangement with Gov
ernor morton. have agreed to advance the July
interest. and also the January and July interest
Of 1864. if the dead lock in the Treasury is not
removed previously A telegraphic dispatch
from this city to the Cincinnati Commercial,
notified that the money was ready to pay
the interest. but he refused to receive it. or in
any way to recognize the revolutionary and un-
lawful action of Governor MORTON. This is
the case presented by His Excellency-it is his
side of the story. But the Journal or the Gov
ernor lies in one statement That print, the
court organ of HIS Excelency, says:
"The money is in New York to paw the inter-
est in the usual icay. subject to the check of the
State Agent in the ordinary form in which it has
always been paid; and If it is not paid, the respOn
sibity will rest with him and the foul conspira
tors with whom he is associated -
The money is not in New York in the usual
cay This he well knows Governor NOR
Ton in defiance of the Constitution, in de-
fance of law aud in total disregard of his oath
of Office, has set up revolutionary government
The laws establishing and regulating the State
Treasury explicitly provide that all public mon
eys must pass through the Treasury, and that it
can not be disbursed from there except upon the
warrant of the Auditor of State. What is the
use of Constitution and laws unless they are
Obeyed? The duty of every State officer is plain.
that the laws be faithfully executed. But in
stead Of that we see the Chief Magistrate of the
State trampling the laws under his feet though
they were waste paper, and setting the example
of disobedience TO law to every citizen of Indi-
ana What better is he, then, than any other
violator OF the law ? The Governor affects to
believe that refusal to obey the conscript law
is a horrid crime, and that the whole power OF
the Government should be employed to enforceit.
But with what consistency he counsel ODE
dience TO that law when he, himself is a
transgressor of law without apology or excuse.
The highest judicial tribunal in the State has
construed the Jaw regulating the Treasury.
There is not respectable lawyer who will deny
the correctness of the decision. And until the
Legislature changes the financial laws of the
State, State officer is bound to respect the
decision of the court. No State officer can te-
come a party to the unlawful acts of the Gov
ernor without recognizing his revolutionary ac-
ton. This the Governor understands, and he
has sought by every means in his power to obtain
the assent of the State officers to his usurpatons
We know nothing of the interest transaction in
New York except what comes from the Governor,
but if the money was rendered to the State Agent
in the way stated. he rightly refused it upon the
ground that he could not officially recognize or
Justify the unlawful and revolutionary usurpa-
tions and schemes OF the Governor. The Agent
OF State could not identify himself with the
"knavish politicians" who are striving TO precip-
itate revolution and civil war upon the State to
hide their delinqueuces and perpetuate power in
their hands
The Journal charges that we have misrepre-
sented the cause of the Governors absence from
the city. If there was any lying about the Gov
ernor's object and whereabouts during his recent
absence from Indiana, it Was upon his own au-
thOrity. His deputies gave out in the first place
that he had retired for few days to the classic
shades of his beloved Centreville, there to recu-
perate his exhausted energies-then, that he bad
gone to Cincinnati to announce from the balcony
of the Gazette office, we suppose, or some other
institution. he did in 1856 to sea of upturned
faces, Behold in me the Governor of Indana!'
Why the necessity of this deception? But few
cared whittier he went, or what he went for, for
an "appreciating community" knew that his OBJ
ject not to see the laws faithfully executed.
But we challenge the Journal to show any INA
lignant abuse" OF His Excellency in the Sentinel,
unless the truth be abuse, and il makes him
transgressor. We are willing, as we ever have
been, to accord all praise to the Governor when
he does right, but can we urge obedience to law
upon every citizen his highest duty, and then
justify the unlawful and revolutionary usurpa-
tons of His Excelleneyi We are anxious that our
noble Governor should discharge his whole duty
a citizen and the chief magistrate Of the
State. by setting example of strict obedience
TO all constitutional obligations and laws so that
he may build up enduring fame upon which
he may look with profound satisfaction, when.
like Cincinnatus, ne voluntarily retires from the
cares of State and speeds the plow, and watches
the ripening crops in the rich fields of his mnch
coveted retreat in his own charming Centerville.