Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-12-21
The Governor of Indiana Threatens
the PeopIc


Oliver P. Morton, Governor of Indiana, is not
q person of extraordinary delicacy. If he were,
the intimate relations IN which he VIGOROUSLY
Stands with those who known to turn their
patriotism to very profitable account through his
assistance, would impress him with sense of the.
propriety of making little parade possible of
his loyalty and public devotion. We do not
know that ,Iadas Iscariot, while ne was "a thief
and carried the bag" did not hold forth with
great JUNCTION and effect upon the vital points of
practical Christianity; but, admitting that he did
so, we should, looking back. hardly see the fact
in any other light than as affordiug additional
proof of his moral rotteness and disgusting by
pocracy.
! OF the men in public life in the West there Is
not one who. to the outside observer. has. more
than Governor Morton. borne the appearance of
having, during The unhappy disturbances in which
the country is plunged. kept steadily in view the
powers and profits which might. by the force of
| circumstances, lie turned to his own account.
Covetous, at once, of wealth and authority. aud
with just enough of political sagaeity to know
how to keep himself upon the summit of the wave
of popular fanaticism, be has exhibited disre-
| gard for consistency and recklessness of conse
quences which only need field wide enough for
their full display to enable him to become as
cruel and monstrous in fact he is in propensity.
1t is well-we were about to say-for the world
Governor Morton, accompanied by high personal
courage: but. in fact for the safety of mankind,
the two are not often associated. The despot is
/ almost necessarily coward. The same ingredi-
ents that enter into the domineering tyrant make
mp the sneaking demagogue, and scarcely more
than a change in the surroundings is requisite to
transform the one into the other.
One of the ends which,, since these troubles
began, Gov. Morton has been most DESTROYS to
promote, is civil war in Indiana. We state this
positively, because. in nearly every public exhi
/ bition which Gov Morton has made of himself,
this desire has appeared with districtness which
renders il unmistakable He would prefer, of
course. so to arrange the preminaries. as to give
TO the party which opposed his accession to pow
er the appearance Of having begun the work Of
| violence; and he has labored with some skill
and much assdulty. to impose upon them the
necessity to take the initiative; but rather than
not have the conflict take place. he would him
self almost assume the responsibility to order its
inauguration. Nothing, we are convinced, but
the fear of those personal consequences which
such act might entail, has prevented him from
punging, before this, the people of his State into
the horrors OF mutual and ndiscrimiuate murder;
and that he is now only waiting until some turn
of events shall afford an opening to begin, is a
fact which he takes pains TO conceal.
We have before US the report of speech made
by Governor Morton. at a recent great war meet
ing holden at Indianapolis In this speech he
does not hesitate to tell the people who are op-
posed to the war; what will be their fate and the
fate of their families when, other matters being
disposed of, time shall be afforded to attend to
| them:
"His Excelency warned those whom he sup
posed were opposing this war here in the North
to flee from the wrath TO come. All such. at the
conclusion of the war, would be outlawed, their
homes desolate. their wives and children out
casts -
Taking into consideration the fact that the ut
, terer of this language is Governor of the State
and that his constitutional duty, such, is to dc
all in his power to protect the people, not only
from violence, but from fears of violence il must
, be admitted that our language supplies terms
to characterize such conduct as it deserves. The
, ordinary nomenclature by which crime and in
fanny is described, has no applicability We
want, for such purpose, Technology which
shall bear the same relation to that in common
use the corrosive acids do to the gentlesi
emollients. 1t is true the creature is only a
demagOgue; bu the is demagogue with murder
on his tongue, and malice in his heart--compar
. ing with other demagogues an obscene and
ferocious sbaboOn compares with the milder and
/, more placable members of the brute creation. II
! is sad when such creatures are enabled TO Greer
to power under such circumstances as permit
them to give loose rein to their uDtamed passion:
and Thurman propensites.-[Cin Eng.