The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1863-07-23
MURFRRRsBoRo TENN.
June 9, 1863.

DEAOCRAT.
hope you will excuse me for boring
you on this occasion, but cannot resist
the temptation of giving you synopsis of
the manner IN which Indianians. money is
being applied to political purposes, in sen-
ding messengers of good cheer to the sol
diers. l will not tell you at preset Of tho
three patriotic representatives sent here by
the Governor of Indiana, to cheer up the
soldiers. l have too much to say of your
special friend Governor w. WILLIAMS, Of
Warsaw, who is now making patriotic
speeches to the soldiers here at this time
He is introduced to the soldiers. collec-
ted together by request of the officers, as
Gov. Williams, of Indiana. sent hereby
Gov. Morton TO look after the interests ot
the Indiana troops, and the following is q
correct sample of the speeches which he
has made: He speaks of himself as Gov
ernor. bu. docs no! enightsn the soldiers
as to the particular island that is blessed
with his lnixotic jurisdiction; but goes in
to the minutia to establish his claims 10
being soldier. which occurred at the age
of fifteen years, when he was called Upon
by the Governor Of Ohio to save that
great State from some threa tened invasion
BY their neighbors of Michigan. During
which campaign he boldly marched across
the raging Msumee River, and back the
following day.
His claims to n military consideration
being TINS established, he gives as the
following poetic description of the present
state of the onion, and cause of the war.
After some very hard structures upon the
administration of James Buchanan, and
his cabinet, he assails the old traitor Floyd
whom he declared robbed the Treasury.
exclaiming! This is the way long have
sought" DC. He made his escape South,
and was followed by ar.thcr cabinet Off
Ger saying If you get thero before | do. -
The seige of Fort Sumptar followed, and
the var commenced, bu. progressed ra,h-
er unsuccessfully which WAS not McCIel-
lans fault. bu: the faul, Of secret traitors
at the capital, who revealed to the enemy
our plans before they could be executed
Jus, as the bu,ternuts are doing now up in
Indiana. The unconstitutional acts Of the
President were mitigatsd ty sneering re-
marks i'm reference to the constitution t.
self The light of the President TO per-
form any act which he deemed proper or
necessary was fully justified. whilst all
constitutional restrictions were treated
with contempt and ridioule. The confs-
cation and the emancipation acts were
dealt with as being unquestiopably legal
and Justifyable. and only opposed by but
ternuts and traitors upon groundless argp-
ments. 1t is impossible for me to give
you q correctidea ofth contemptuous ges
ticulation and manner in which he invarl
ably used the word constitutional"
A stranger to its importance would have
been unmis!akably impressed with the idea
tha, it was some exploded political hobby
slready consigned to the shade Of obliv-
ion in disgrace.
He said "ths Butternuts held a meeting
at Indianapolis last winter for the avowsd
purpose of defaming the soldiers, aud they
did it in every possible manner. When
the meeting adjourned the members in
suited the soldiers and even fred pistols
At them in the Soldiers Home. As .hs
train was passing by. For which con
due, the train was stopped and 1900 re-
vovers taken from the crowd. Fifty-one
butternu,s voted, last winter, to disfran-
chise soldiers. If a man be covicted of a
high crime he is disfranchised. and il a
man enIists to sustain tho honor of tho
oil flag, these butternuts would disiran-
chiss him and place him or the same
footing with . convict"
1.-The conscriplion act is the best meas
ure of the kind ever known. it shields the
orphans. and old decrepid men from the
army; but it takes the butterauts whom
we will drive into the army and you must
place them in the front ranks. When
any Of you return homo. and yoa meet
= buiternut with his emblem on his coat.
you mus. walk up and take it off, and tell
him it 10 unconstitutional to wear such
things. But will frightsn them when
return home. will create a greater ter
ror among them than ever Belshazar
dreamed Of will tell shem you told me
that you had sworn q solemn oath. upon
the graves of your dead comrades at
Shiloh and Stone river that as soon ~ you
returned home You would destroy them
all. They will be Frightened so bad tina.
when you do come, they will fall upon
their knee. before you and beg for life.