Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-08-17
Hare the act. Of Gov. Mosros in other re-

Have the acts Of Gov MoRroy in other re-
.pec,. been such a. 10 inspire confidence in bis
professional Has be not permitted meetings oil
his political opponents 10 be broken up By mob
violence under his very ewes. and seen prominent
citizens composing them fleeing for their lives
before mobs of hi. political friends?
Has he not permitted a number Of the news
paper Offices of the State to be broken up by
his friends withou, furnishing them protection or
administering word Of rebuke!
Has be not stood by when hundreds OF the citi-
zens OF our State have been arrested and thrown
into prison for political reasons, and many of
them hurried to dungeons beyond the borders OF
the State without intervening for their proiec-
ton?
We know of old man being thrown into
the Marion county Jail, without even beng
| charged with crime. AID detained for weeks upon
an order from his Adjutant General, the present
Republican candidate for Clerk of the Supreme
| Court; aud when prominent Republican law
| yer of this city importuned him to interfere to
secure the old man his protection, he was haugh-
|
so solictous about a disloysl person could not
be very loyal himself
Early in the session of the Legislature of le6a
the following preamble and resolution were
passed:
"Whereas. The Secretary Of War in bis las
official report has declared that the several ar
rests made throughout the United States wer,
made bv the advice and with the consent of the
several Governors thereof: therefore be it
"ResoIred, That His ExcelIency. Governor o
+. MORTON, be requested 20 furnish this Hous'
with the facts in regard to the arrests that hay'
been made in Indiana"
Week after week passed, and Governor Mon
rox did not answer the Legislature, and they ad
journed without his condescending to answer.
:. If MoRroS was not responsible for these ar
rests, why did he not answer!
MoRroS has been active in stirring up strf
among the people of the State He has. by hi
. speeches and acts sought to inspire the belle
that his political opponents were traitors to til
Government. In his reception speeches to on
gallant veteran volunteers, large proportion O
whom are Democrats, he aud his assistants hav
told them, using such dignifed titles as Copper
head and Butternut. that the Democrats of Ind
ana are the same men they have been fghtin
down South, and who have been Staying the
(, companions and has sought to impress ther
with the belief that the Democracy were hostil
to soldiers
All this MORTON knee to be false, and to pr'
vent the detection of his miserable fraud he an
his friends have procured prohibition upon III
circulation of the Democratic papers in til
camps.
Will MoRroS be kind enough to inform III
people of Indiana, what one constitutional pro
vision or statute he ever respected, when it stoo
II in the way of the qualification of his ambition
i or the advancement OF bis partisan purposesY
! In conclusion. we desire to say to Governc
MoRroS that the Democracy OF Indiana desli
d nothing bnt the maintenance of the laws, and th
: preservation OF order; that they claim the rigs
to have fair and free election; that they ca
: have no confidence in his promises until he fu
'e nishes them some evidence of his sincerity th'
/; they are thoroughly acquainted with their right
1t and the additional fact that he may just as we
IS be informed now as hereafter, that they do nj
: intend to be frightened by his threats, awed
a his overpowering dignity. BE as obedient to q
J. laws as we are and occasion will not be furnshe
you Cor issuing pompous proclamations, and exh
IS billions of bad temper.