Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1866-07-13
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BELLOWS FALLS. JULY 10, 1866.
A Tremendous Indictment of the
Copperheads.
SPEECH OF GOV. MORTON, OF INDIANA

SPEECH OF GOV. MORTON, OF INDIANA. |
Gov. Morton addressed the great Union
meeting at indianapolis, at the Masonic
Hall, on the 10Th ult. More than two
thousand persons were present The
multitude, who could not find place crowd
ed the streets and square each way, and
were addressed by other speakers.
Gov. Morton's speech is tremendous
indictment of the copperhead leaders for
their conduct during the war.
/ The spirit of the democratic party, be
said, had not improved since the war
-Four or five weeks ago convention was
held at Louisville, the members of which
did not disguise the fact that they were
rebels; aad northern democratic leaders,
believing that the time for Furnishing trea-
son has gone by, now make haste to de-
clare that they are, and have been, united
with them in restoring what they call
their rights, and in repairing the damages
done them by the war. Prominent Indi-
ana democrats met with that convention,
mingled their tears with those who weep
over southern heroes, uttered glowing eu-
logies upon the memory of Stonewall
jackson and John Morgan, and approved
their most ultra and reasonable doctrines.
The leaders now managing the demo-
cratic party in Indiana are the men who
declared at the session of the Legislature
in 1861, that if an army went from Indi-
ana to assist in putting down the rebel
lion, it must first pass over their dead
bodies. On the 9th of January, 1862,
they passed the resolution that the South
had been driven into the contest by the
unconstitutional and wicked aggressions
of the people Of the North. They pro-
claimed that southern defeats gave them
no joy, and northern disasters no sorrows.
They corresponded with the rebel leaders
in the South, giving them full information
of our condition. assuring them that they
bad but to persevere a few months long
er and the national government would
fall to pieces Of its own weight.
They attempted in the Legislature Of
1868, to overturn the state government,
and establish a revolution by seizing the
military power of the state and transfer
ring it into the hands of four state Off
GERS, OF whom three belonged to the trea-
sonable organization known as the g Sons
of Liberty" Having failed in this they
determined TO defeat the operations of the
state government by Withholding the
money necessary to carry it on. They
conspired to discredit the state before the
world by Withholding, through fraudu-
lent lawsuit, the money received from the
taxes paid to liquidate the interest on the
State debt.
They are the men who introduced and
organized in this State that dangerous and
wide spread conspiracy first known as the
(" Knights of the Golden Circle" and af-
terwards as the Sons of Liberty" which
had for its purpose the overthrow of the
state and national governments. Not all
Of them, it is true, belonged formally to
this infamous order, but such as stood on
the outside had knowledge of its exist
ence, purposes and plans, and carefully
concealing their knowledge stood ready to
accept its work.
conspiracy, military officers were appoint-
ed, military organizations created, arms
and ammunition purchased in immense
quantities and smuggled into the State,
correspondence opened with the rebel
commanders, and military combinations
agreed upon, rebel officers and agents in
troduced into the capital, and concealed in
, the hotels and boarding houses, and it
. was deliberately planned and agreed that
! upon day fixed they would suddenly up
rise and murder the Executive, seize the
arsenal and its arms and ammunition, and
releasing nine thousand prisoners in Camp
3 Morton, put arms into their hands, and
!, With their combined forces effect militia
Z ry and bloody revolution in the State.
', This dreadful scheme necessarily in
Z volved murder, conhagration, robbery, and
the commission of every crime which
II makes black the chronicles of civil war
. yet its authors and abetior's with the
: proofs of their guilt piled mountain high
a are again. struggling for power, and ask.
ing the people TO put into their guilty
hands the government and property o.
/ the state.
+ Some of these men who are high in IA
d vor and authority in their party, and are
= largely entrusted with its management
have heretofore occupied Offices of grea
Rs trust and responsibility, in which they
: proved to be Iecreant and corrupt.
g They are the men who, in the legisla
j ture of Indiana, bitterly opposed and de
nouucsd every effort 10 confer the right O