The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-21

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lhey cannot manufacture it themselvas
they lack skilliul labor and mechanical IL
genuity for that. What will thew do Will
the foreign staple? Give up growing i.
heavens and earth! what then will The,
90 with their 'nigger?" What then Will
become OF the patriarchal system p-tba
hlDle system !-the only Conservative sys.
tem?-the System of Systems? The pbos,
OF Calhoun alone knows! The Confedera'
cy clearly lacks recognition. |'r'
we 90 not pretend TO make any explicit
deduction from these facts which we bav"
collected from Rebel authorities. Bnt :,
seems 10 us tolerably clear that States with
OUT men, or money, or food, or united ppb
nc OPINION, or foreign support, cannot fipbt
forever: sun, we think that possibly al
these disadvantages might be overcome L
logged persistence, by public devotion "
by some fortunate train of circumstance.
such as might possibly occur, if only tho
confederate cause We're a good one. II IL
the lnfamy OF its origin which is best fvbi'
Ing against the rebellion. 1t is the hone.
less fallacy upon which il is based. which
VIII sink the Rebellion. 1t is the attenn,
to go backward, while the restof tho I,,nriJ
is going forward, which will make vaIor
valn,an endurance fruitless, and final snc.
cess Impossible.-N. I. Ttoune.
THE CREDIT DUE GOVERNOR MORTON or
lNDIANA.-We are glad to see in an East.
ern paper OF the character and circulation
of the New York Times, an article giving
Governor Motion the credit due for tb
energy-the real erecHtiUe dbttity-he has
displayed during the war. The Times in
contrasting the position of Indiana with
that OF New York, says:
| To what IS this vast difference attr;hu.o
BILE? Certainly not to anv difference !,
patriotism. We will not admit, for mo-
ment that the masses of the people of New
York are inferior to those of Indiana. or
any other State, in devotion to the country
There is probably no state which has de-
rived such immense advantage from the
Union as the Empire State" and not one
which has greater interest in its preser-
walton. Nor can the difference be owing
to any difference in the character of the
population. That difference is all in favor
of New York. Our cities have far great
er proportion of that floating population
from which soldiers can be drawn with
least arrangement OF industry; also vastly
more wealth available for bounties in en-
enlargement of enlistmehts.
The difference is principally due to the
fact that Indiana has Governor of pre-
eminent devotion to the cause and signal
executive ability, while New York has not.
Governor Morton from the beginning of
the war, has made the military efficiency
Under the first call of the President for
seyenty-tive thousand men, in three DAYS
he not only raised, armed, equipped, and
clothed the six regiments, which was
thequota ofthe State. but rendered tWentyin
addition. And when these were not accep-
ted by the Government, he mustered them
into the State service, put them in camp,
drilled them, until the time came when the
Government was glad to take them. When
the Government had no first-class arms.
Gov. Morton caused the State TO supply
them, which always secured the Indiana
soldiers the post OF honor in the field. Be-
sides, by constant personal visits to the re-
glmeEtS in service, he saw for himself, that
every want was promptly supplied. Per-
manent agents We're established at all the
principal points TO devote special attention
to the care of the soldiers, and an agent was
placed in Washington whose special bust
ness it was to collect back pay, pensions,
and other claims for discharged volunteers,
To keep alive the spirit of volunteering,
Governor Morton appointed committees Of
prominent men in every Congressional
District, county and township, assigned the
proper quota to each, induced County
Boards to make additional appropriations
for bOunties, and, by personal visitation,
whenever there was any slackness, excited
the popular heart to the right patriotic pitch
He has carried out this method so energeti-
cally that even the Southern parts of the
State, where Copperheadism very largely
prevails, has been all the while kept square
up to its line of military duty.
The result of this regular system of stim-
ulating enlistmentS, and of taking the best
possible care of the soldiers when enlisted,
has been seen from the beginning in the
signal promptness and efficiency which
have marked all the military history of In
diana from the beginning of the war. The
T,,n nf hot Stntn or l,nf -ct cnllf
200, was six Regiments. No less than
twenty were rendered in three days. The
National Government declining TO receive
more than six, the remainder were mus
tered into the State service, put into camp,
drilled, and were completely ready for the |
field when afterward called for. Before |
the Secretary of War stopped recruiting |
last year, Indiana had put no less than /
siXty-three regiments in the field.
When Kirby Smith advanced on Cincn- /
natl, Gov. Morton completed the organiza. l
ton of twenty-four regiments, mustered, /
armed, equipped them, and sent them into /
kentucky-all within the short space Of /
one week. When Morgan invaded the
State last summer, though all the National
troops in the State had just been sent off
in thirty-siX hours $4,000 militia were Of
fered; and ofthese $4,000 were accepted
armed, equipped, and We're dispatched
forthwith after the invader. Indiana sup
piled soldiers enough to escape the first /
draft, and Gov. Morton rendered the Presi
dent fifteen thousand additional troops as
a bonus. Fifteen new regiments will be 4
ready in a fortnight. which will more than
meet the last call of the President. More
over, several of the old regiments are to be
brought home and recruited up to their
original strength, while large details are to
be sent to other regiments in the field
which are reduced below the minimum ]
While many other States have sent most of
their regiments into the field at a mini |
mum, Indiana has always made it point |
to till her regiments to the maximum OF 1
l ,04S. Her regiments now in the service |
1l9, and in three weeks they VIII
number 1874. Such is the record of a State
that has had the benefit of whOle-sOuled, l
clear-sighted, firm-handed Executive com
mand. Il
James Sutherland, who has been on tra.
at Indianapolis for four days for killing
Roddy A. Small, was acquitted on Thurs
day. His wife and three children were III
the court at the time Atterthe announced
ment of the verdict there followed scene'
saws the indianapolis Journal, not often
witnessed in Il courtroom. The prisoner
that was-a prisoner now no longer-ieII
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