The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1864-10-18
The Trlnmph In Indiana.

|
diana, by twenty thousand majority, a
gain of thirty thousand on the vote of
! 1862, and Of ten thousand on the vote
of 1860, with the change in the Con-
gressmen of the State from seven Cop
perheads and four Republicans to three
Copperheads and eight Republicans,
the Overwhelming defeat of the malig-
nant Voorhees,, and the triumphant
election of Schuyler Colfax, make Tues
day last grand Field Day for the
Unionists of Indiana, and mark an i'm
portant epoch in the political history
of the State. As the verdict of the
people whom Gov. Morton has so ably
and devotedly served for four years it
proves that republics are not always
ungrateful. Gov. Morton has shown
how nobly the Constitution of our Gov
ernmcnt, in its disti ibution ofpower be-
tween the Union and the States may
cause each to strengthen the other
where the officers Of each appreciate
the value and possess the confidence
of the other. Indiana is praised
throughout the whole Union for the
leading and noble part she has taken
in the suppression of the rebellion.
Yet in no fee State have the Unionists
had more bitter, malignant or traitor
Gus opponents. Many of these, espec-
tally in the Southern counties, were
Southerns by birth, while the rest toad
led to the labor stealers with an in
stinctive baseness, which would earn
for them the hearty contempt of the
rebels themselves. In '62 by their
control of the legislature they stopped
all supplies and appropriations for car
rying on the war, enlisting, and equip
ing men, or paying the ordinary sala-
ries of State officers and expenses OF
running the State Government, sus-
tanning its asylums, prisons and other
institutions. Never was a more despi-
cable attempt made by sccessionists to
take State practically out of the Un-
ion, than this Copperhead plot to strike
down the flag and destroy the power OF
the State of Indiana. And yet these
suicidal acts were performed by men
who professed to be special advocates
Of State rights. In order still more ef-
fectualy to bind s.fe slave hand and
foot at the feet of JEFF. Davis, they dis
franchised so far as they could the l50,-
OoO soldiers of Indiana, by preventing
them from voting at the post of duty,
and compelling them to turn their backs
to the rebels in order to face the cop-
perheads. The latter scheme partially
succeeded. Hardly third Of the In
diana troops were in the State at the
election. Many thousand brave Indi-
ana boys were actually dsfr nchised
by these protessed advocates of Stree
elections who stand pledged by their
platform 10 rebel, unless the rebels in
the border States are permitted ovote.
But the former scheme through the
energy of Gov. Morton, signally failed.
BY personally pledging his own pri-
vatc resources, and the credit of his
friends, he raised the funds which had
been withheld by the copperhead trai-
tors. But the copperhead majority of
about thirty votes in the Legislature is
now reversed by IN equal Union ajor-
ity. This treason in Indiana is toiled
we trust forever.
Illinois has special reasons for con-
graduation over this triumph of truth
and the right cause in her sister State.
Their populations are identical i'll polit-
ical character. AS Indiana has gone
in her October elections so have always
gone both Illinois and Indiana in No.
vember. The victory in Indiana as
sures our coming triumph in Illinois,
Let us put forth the same vigor in the
canvass and nothing can prevent the
same result.