Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-08-18
GUBERNAT0RIAL CANVASS.
SPEECHES AT BaowNsTOwN.
FROM Our SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.


Indianapolis on the same train tbs morning, 10
renew their debate at BrownstOwn, the county |
seat Of Jackson. Leaving the Jacksonville
road at Seymour. where over one hundred per- |
sons were waiting to join the party We took the |
Ohio aud Mississippi cars for BrownstOwn station.
1t was raining in the good old times, and the
lowering clouds, which looked like Jupiter
Pluvius. intended to do i: up strong. if be was
slow in getting at il, indicated that he possibly
thought moro just then of the interes; of the
farmers than of the candidates.
Brownstown lies about a mile back from the
station nestled in a romantic little valley and
surrounded by gently sloping hills Mr.. McDoS-
AID and his party were met at the depot by Hon.
Jason BRowN, Mr.. HOLMES. the County Auditor
and Others and driven TO their hosp,abe man
sions where dinner was waiting for them
1t still rained persistently. On the way out
we passed tie grove appointed for the speaking
and some hundreds of people, men and women,
sitting quietly in their wagons under the drop
ping trees. Ii became grave question, where,
if the food continued. the debate would be held.
There was no building capable of accommodating
the one-fourth part of the gathering. The peo-
pie wished to hcar-they had come for that pur-
pose aud were willing to be rained on il by get
ting drenched they could hear. Ii decided
by the committee TO crafty them and that the
debate should 90 at the spot selected if each
separate drop of rain should grow to the size OF
barrel. OF course the speakers did not object.
The larger the crowd before them the greater
the Inspiration
How large the crowd was il would be diff
cult to say. Just around the stand there were
probably two thousand persons closely packed.
Other crowds were huddled together under heay-
lily leaved trees where they supposed the voices
of the speakers might reach them, and around
the edges of the assembly every covered carriage
and buggy was loaded down until the springs
were Aattened. Your correspondent must con-
fess that he did not often stick his head out from
under the umbrella, which kept the water out of
his mouth and eyes to send it in stream down
his back, TO calculate closely the numbers pre-
sent. 1t would be safe, however. to say that be-
tween four and five thousand persons were on the
ground.
Reporting under such circumstances was ex-
ceedingly difficult. and it is to be regretted as
new topics were brought into the discussion.
During Mr.. McDonalds first speech the rain
poured down in what it would be no great exag-
geration to call torrent, and my notes were
washed almost to pulp.
MDoNALD's OPENING SPEECH.
Mr. Mcdonald opened After stating the or
der of discussion agreed upon he enjoined upon
the audience to preserve good order, that they
might hear and determine for themselves. In
the large crowds at the north the best of order
had been maintained, and he was sure that the
same could be said hereafter of this meeting At
the close of some of the meetings some of
the newspaper correspondents from Cincinnati
had telegraphed in hot haste to their papers that
he (McDonald) was about to abandon the con
test. He not in the habit of paying much
attention to ours that barked at his heels, but he
deemed il right to caution his friends against
such rumors, however and by whoever stated. He
had determined "to fight it out on this line if it
takes all summer"
He proposed first to comment on the acts char
acterizing the administration of Governor Nor
ton-or rather he should say Lieutenant Gov
ernor Morton, for he understood that the Gov
errors friends cai.-ed that he never had been
anything more than Lieutenant Governor of In
diana
He then reviewed the financial policy of the
Governor with the same arguments, but more
compactly stated, as those used heretofore. He
asked Governor Morton now. as he asked him at
Laporte, how the $3.50 900 borrowed in the East
was obtained-on what kind of vouchers. and
what kind of receipts he gave for it. 1t was the
| right of the people to know.
| On last Monday the Democratic State Central
Committee published an address to the people,
and Governor Morton this morning issued
proclamation about it. He read the address, as
it was short. Governor Morton had thought
proper TO stigmatize this as a revolutionary doc
ument. He not able to see il in this light.
1t was only the earnestly expressed desire of the
people to preserve the purity of the ballot box.
The Governor says they shall have fair cleo
ton He was glad TO hear it. But when Gov
Morton asserted that nothing had transpired to
create apprehension, lie in error The Gov
ernor had not noticed passing events In his
(Mortons own county of WAYNE, Democratic
newspaper Office had been leveled TO the groundI
for expressing an honest opinion. La MarioH
where Governor Morton ana himself both hid
the right to vote, the elective franchise had been
openly violated. At one election the list regi
ment marched TO the polls, and against orders
voted At ten o'clock no Democrat dared ap-
proach the precinct. One of the proprietors of
the State Sentinel had been driven away The
grossest outrages hal been committed. He was
pleased to hear that such scenes were not to be
re enacted, but that they bad occurred too
well known to be successfully contradicted The
balot-box in Marion county had become the
merest farce and sham. Was this to be contin
ued-were the people to be compelled always to
submit to such indignties and insults-was this
condition of things TO De allowed to spread? for
il not checked they would spread until the whole
State was completely enslaved were the
Democrats Of Marion county. He was pleased
to hear that the Governor determined TO give
once more free election. and ii he did il the
people will be content
Gov. Morton charged that the address advsAl
the people to arm to resist the laws. Ii did NJ
such thing. Ii asserted the right of the peopl4
10 bear arms--a right guaranteed 10 them by they
Constitution, aud it enj0ned obedience TO the
laws. Could not and should not the people re.
sist unjust aggressong Why the Loyal League
the proiessed friends of the administration and
the partsans of the Governor. were an armed
body, organized without law and for partisan
ends. Gould these mes meet in armed organize
tons, and the people be forbidden to bear arms
for the defense of their dearest rights?
In discussing the question he would ask
Gov Morton a few questions before he got
through. lie traced the agitation of the slavery
Observation-Disclosures starting out and con-
tiuuing TO lead one extreme, while South Caro-
Ina represented the other. To this agitation the
Democratic party had always stood opposed, ami
the old Wing party had done the same. He read
from PROCEEDINGS Of conventions the preiictions