Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-07-13

began 10 make the Democratic heart sick.
The governor negotiated an arrangement
with the loyal house Of Winslow, Lauier
d Co, by which they came forward and
paid the interest due from the State up to
1866, thus preserving her credit and de-
feating the Vaccinations Of her enemies.
During all this time the State authori-
ties labored without eessing to supply the
troops called for by the President, but the
task had become jone of great difficulty
and labor.ii Through the incessant eKer-
tions. of the Democratic leaders, and the
fierce Recommendations of their press, the
spirit of volunteering was greatly weaken
ed. and sometimes apparently destroyed,
but would again revive and go forward
with success; and the number Of troops |
raised in the State under the circumstances
and their splendid behavior in the field
excited universal admiration The diffi-
Guilty, however, in procuring volunteers
greatly increased in 1865 and 1864, as
the organization Of the ''Sons OF Liberty 4
was extended and consolidated, and their
hostility to the government and war be-
came more open and outbreaking. sq
Enrolling officers were murdered ), re-
cruiting officers shot at upon lone roads;
and numerous bodies of armed men fire.
quently assembled, performing military
drill, and declaring their purpose to resist
the authority of the Government Var
-ious schemes of instruction and murder
were frequently formed in the secret lod-
ges Of the order, which fell through from
time to time, and Others succeeded, until IN
the spring and summer. of 1854, a defl-
mite plan of revolution was. agreed upon,
to the execution Of which all the energy
and, power OF. the order in Indiana and the
Western States were to be directed. The
arms and ammunition at Indianapolis we're
to be seized, rebel prisoners at Camp Nor
ton. to be released and armed, and the
combined forces, after dispatching the OBJ
noxious; Governor and seizing the Capital,
were to march through the State raising
the standard of revolt in favor of the Con-
fedefacy. But here again bitter, disap-
pointmens was in store; the mighty secret
could not be kept. The armiug Of the.
reasonable bands had been going onifor
TIVE years, but the unexpected discovery
and seizure of large quantities of arms and
ammunition in this city brought on an ex-
plosion, and the prompt arrest by ten
Hovey, of number of the ring-leaders
struck 4error into their ranks, and sudden
ly brought to an end the great conspl-
racy.r, When the arrested parties were
put upon trial, quite number OF them
turned States evidence, and laid bare a
desperate plot, which, for magnitude and
deliberate and atrocious wickedness, is al
most without parallel in the annals ofcrime.
In the election which followed in October,
the Union party carried the State by
large majority, and was equally triumph
ant in all the Northern States. , In Janu-
ary following, The Legislature assembled
and. the attention of the members was i'm.
mediately invited to the examination of
the various accounts presented by the GoY-
ernor-the moneys borrowed, the expendl7
ture of the same for the asylum, peniten7
tiary, military purposes, relief of sick and
wounded soldiers, payment OF. interest on
the public debt, DC, all of which was re-
ferred to competent joint committee of
both Houses for examination, who, after
Investigation, approved the account IN
every part, not taking exception to a single
item, and especially commended the man
ner in which it had been kept, and rec
commended it for adoption by the State
officers. The report was adopted, by the
Legislature, and appropriations made I'M
mediately to pay off the money borrowed
by the Governor, and thus ended the. eli
nancial Bureau" tsiiio H-qo'i.i s-i.e
1t was a grave responsibility, assumed
under extreme necessity, and could not
be forgiven by the disloFal because it was
successful. .s..3,, sa,t,H yat re nsaf|
Another Institution which was Of great
Importance to the State, and the Govern
ment during the wsr, ,land which gave great
grief to, the disloyal, was the State Arse
NAL 1t was begun at the very beginning
of the War to furnish Indiana troops with
ammunition, which they could procure
nowhere else, and was afterward continued
as necessity. to, the State, and by the re-
quest of the Government and furnished
ammunition AT prices nAed py Ae "al
Department. and said to be lower than
those. paid elsewhere, It was only de-
sired by the State that the prices paid
should cover actual expenses, and they were
adjusted upon that basis; but so well and
economically was the institution managed
that upon final settlement it was discovered
that net profit of eighty-three thousand
dollars had accrused, which was paid into
the State Treasury. This was the first
time the State had engaged in an enter
prise in which she did not lose money!
and the arsenal proved of more advantage
to her in pecuniary point of view than
the vast donation of swamp lands, out Of
which, she had been swindled, in every
part. --I - ...a....s --s. .sss.a
..rt .. CONCLUSION. f. 49,. f
i have not attempted TO anticipate the