Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-08-15
INTERNATIONAL CANVASS.
From LapOrfe to South Bend.
MEETING AT SOUTH BEND.
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FROM orr srrcrAS CORRESPONDENT
SourH BEND, August 18th.

majority OF the crowd Yesterday i ulsputeu W
our friends. Oldresidents of Laporte, who know,
are positive that the Democratic element FREEDOM
mated in the proportion of four to three at least
| The evening passed off quietly. The Democrat
c delegation cheered Mr. hcDoxALD. at the
Parker House. as they passed out of town, and
the band, paid for their services. attended TO Gov
MoRToS, at the Teegarden House.
Our party took the train FOR South Bend at
O'Clock in the morning. 1t was still hot, dry and
| dusty The motion of the cars, however. stirred
the air. and enabled to enjoy the sights pre-
scented in ride through the garden spot of north
ern Indiana. The constant succession of rich
rolling prairie, clear lakes. sparkling like gems,
and luxuriant groves, spreading far away on both
hands as the train dashed onward, left vivid i'm
pressions of beauty on the mind. There was ev
idence of the long continued drouth which has
prevailed over the entire State. but yet the trees
looked green, and the corn better than in central
| Indiana The loose, sandy soil, it is said, is a
| better absorbent of moisture from the atmosphere
than the clay or loan, and if, as is asserted, the
drouth has been as great here in the center Of
the State, the appearance of the corn crop of the
| two sections would confirm the theory. Farm
ers in Laporte, ST Joseph and Elkhart think
their corn crop will be an average one this
| season.
| On arriving at South Bend, carriages were at
the depot and Mr. Mcdonald and his party were
drawn to the residence of Mr.. Slower, at whose
hospitable mansion he received the calls OF his
Democratic friends.
South Bend presents evidences OF thrift and
enterprise Some fine buildings are in progress
of completion, and it is adorned by many elegant
mansions. Without having that regularity of
beauty which lends such charm to its rival city,
Laporte. it has many striking features of interest
Its schools and colleges unriyaled, and they
are charmingly situated within sight of the city
Thest were thronged when we arrived
| | thought the crowd at La Porte an unusually
large one, but believe that of to day was larger
Along several of the streets for three or four
squares the wagons backed up along the
side walks and packed in that way as close as
| they could be, and numbers were camped on the
vacant ground wherever it could be found The
| people of Northern Indiana certainly awake
and eager to hear what the leaders have to say
| 1t is cheering to see and to believe that the peo-
pie are at length reused and determined to lis
ten to argument, weigh it for themseles and
draw their own conclusions If the meetings
| increase in size as the candidates for Governor
progress in the canvass they will soon be monster
meetings indeed
The meeting was held in pleasant and thrifty
grove of young trees on the Fair Ground. Be-
tween four and FIVE thousand persons were pres
| ent.
MR.. M'DoNALD's OPENING SPEECH
Mr. Mcdonald opened by stating that Gov
| Morton and himself, in the discussion during the
canvass, wOIld aim TO reach the reason and not to
rouse thepassions of the people He asked
| his friends to give respectful atten-
ton to His Excellency, he certainly
would demand the same for himself
| He would ask that there be noisy applause
He asked 10 be heard, and then receive or reject
the arguments offered, the iudgmen, of the
hearers might dictate He had as great an in
terest in the welfare of the country as those who
differed with him politically. He would deal
with the public acts of the Govern or, and would
handle them without stint Personally they had
long been friends. and were yet
|
bolt of the republican members of the last legis
lature leaving the Executive without appropria-
| tons. He read from his Greencastle speech the
| charge made then that Gov Morton had usurped
powers not vested in him by the Constitution.
and the Governors reply thereto. The Cover.
nor there charges that he. Mcdonald, advised
| Governor Willard to borrow money in 1857 to
| carry on the government in the absence of ap-
| preparations He Mcdonald, denied this He
| Att al Gov
call an extra session of the Legislature He
read further from the Governors defense and
taking the language then used, cOntended that
the charge of usurpatiOn was admitted He had
borrowed money without authority of law and
paid il out as he willed The report of the Fl
nancial Secretary showed that Se65 1875 So had
been obtained without authority of law and paid
out in the same way. The report was very brief
! Ii was like the supervisors report in county
! years ago--"all assessments paid in-all assess
ments paid out These sums of borrowed mon
ey were obtained in the Governors official
| pacity the orders from the county Boards.
copies of which he read, proved Will not the
State be called upon to refund this money with
interest, and have the people nothing to do with
itf
The Governor contends that a. there was no
law authorizing these loans, therefore he has
broken no law. The order from Warren county
| granting the loan specifies that the money shall
/ be advanced TO the Governor in his official ca
pacity with interest and upon his receptng there
for. lie did SO receipt in every instance
Mr.. McDonald then took the portion of the
the Governors defense which refers to the bolt.
aud said that the defense was an utter failure
! The seceSsionists OF the South had just as good
a defense for their conduct "a had the Governor
aud his friends for boiling from their seats, be-
cause they feared unjust legislation He offered
no apology for their conduct that the Southern
/ leaders might rot urge for theirs also.
Mr.. Mcdonald then took up the war and its
causes. Many persons said that we should not
now speak Of the causes of the war Whv not?
! What would YOU think OF physician who called
upon to see patient. when asked what was the
cause of disease should reply, il makes no diff
ference. will Kill OF cure him aud then discuss
/ the causes
Mr.. Mcdonald then traced the stormy agita-
ton down 10 the commencement of the war The
Democratic party had tough, against this agits-
ton and predicted It's result. Gov Morton in
| his early DAYS, had stood shoulder to shoulder
with him in the Democratic ranks, bnt living iu
the Burnt District he had to get over to another
party obtain office. and he took the leap
The Governor had left the party in lc54-0in
ing the Know Nothing organization. called the
peoples party. His version very sudden
AS much so as ST Paul's, but he thought not
50 sincere
The Governor spoke frequently of letter
written by him cDonald-in 1850 That let.
,er only proved that he had been for fifteen years
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