Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-10-10

Some OF the interior papers do not stomach
Mosros's speech-they think it displays timid
ity.a natural characteristic OF bis EIcellency.
and letting down from the genuine Republican
platform As the organ will only publish pufs,
and rot critcisns. We propose to publish few
extracts occasionally. TO show that the Governor
don't carry bis party with him by good ways
Says the Delaware County Press:
Governor Morton made e speech at Rich
nond las, week, IN which he discussed the va
rious proposed methods of reconstructing the
Southern State governments, as we'll as the ques-
ton OF negro suffrage. lie is svdehtly badly
fpddled about the proper method OF reconstruc-
Jon, while hs plan Tor settling the question OF
negro suffrage il utterly imprscticsble Like
all the politicians who attempt to dodge the real
issue. ard refuse TO meet the question fairly upon
its merits. his arguments and deductions are
nothing but mere stuff
Says the True Republican
Approaching the suffrage question, the Gov
srnor favors it in its broadcast sense. No man
should be excluded on account of colsr, in Indi
ana or elsewhere The right to vote, he also
argues. implies the right % hold office. TO be
voted tor The time will come when all this
will prevail Everywhere in our country But he
thinks tie negroes in the South too ignorant;
they need probation Here. he says. most of
our negroes can read and write; many OF them
are very intelligent. excellent citizens, welltodo
in the world. and we'll qualified to exercise the
right OF suffrage" We are glad to have the
Governor thus explicitly esp0usng the cause Of
negro suffrage IN Indiana for he commits him
self fully TO universal suffrage. save az TO the
ignorant negroes in the South We are as much
surprised gratfed 20 End Governor Morton.
With all his known conservatism, boldly planting
-
thsr, and defends the right of our negroes to
hold Office we almost doubt our own ears, and
the report of bis speech in the Gszstte. And we
arc more inclined TO doubt from the fact that 10
longer ago than last winter the Governor forgot
in his message even to recommend to the Legs
ature the repeal OF our Black Code, which he
eloquently condemns. aud that now. in
the very speech under notice, he argues, in
other connection, thst"a war of races" would
be the result OF giving the negroes the ballot and
the right to hold Office "
Says the same paper:
After Parson Lozier had sung some of his
entertaining doggeres, il being near midnight,
ia naturally to have been expected that the
meeting would have adjourned. But the work
OF reconstruction" in the Burnt District vas
evidently not considered finished. The circle
around the Governor on the platform resolved
itself into mutual admiration society" for
some tins Alter which the governor intro
daeed Mr.. NewcOmb. editor of the indianapolis
Journal, as zone of the abest, If not the ablest
editor in the country"-the original discoverer
Of the brilliant theory of an amendment 10 the
Constitution by which the three fifths clause was
TO be abolished. AZ % limit the power of the
South, without permitting the negroes to vote
"Mr Newcomb proceeded TO demonstrate the
fsisity of the Governors praise and his destitu-
ton Of good sense, by launching out into DO
htical harangue at this late hour the audience
leaving in steady stream all the while He
eOmplaeently proceeded to assert as the Gov
ernor had said, that he was the genuine Old Doc
tor Jacob Townsend, who had discovered the
patent mode of lodging the negro suffrage que.-
ton, above referred to He took ground, drily
apd heavily, against negroes being permitted to
vcte. He - evidently one OF those Sir Oracles
who repeat the most prosy platitudes some
thing previously unheard of. and who fancy WIS.,
dom will die with them. The meeting melted
away very rapidly under his eoquence," so that
by the time he vas through, or perhaps before it
had spontaneously dissolved. and no formal ad-
journment was necessary"