The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1866-05-31
From the CincinnatI Gazette.
A Son Of Liberty on the Platform.
CREsTLISE, O., May %.

An ovation was Yesterday given 10 l.
T. Milligan, the Knight of the Golden
Circle, who with Bowles and Horsey. was
tried in Indianapolis, eighteen months
ago, and convicted of treason. Mill
gan was sentenced TO death, but Presi-
dent johnson committed his punishment
to imprisonment for life 4 few weeks
ago he was released from further punish
ment. His friends and neighbors OF
Wells county. Indiana. rendered him a
formal reception, and after taking time
to prepare an elaborate Grafton the af
fair came oil yesterday at Button, the
county seat. raE
A welcoming address was delivered
by DR.. Brown. his law partner. to which
he responde,iin written speech of an
hours length
1t was in large part an uninteresting
and historical and philosophical disquis
ton on the theory ard practice of hu-
man government; but he reserved space
enough in which 20 manifest his Conner
head malignity against all who have had
anything to do in preserving the Gov
eminent and preventing him in his eff
fort to overturn it.
He attributed to New England puritan
ism the origin of all the evils of the
land, and describing soldiers as the mer-
cenary, unprotected, thieving instru
ments that executed its designs He
characterize, them as foreign soldiers.
quartefed upon the people of Indiana
and OTTER States.
TIE power of the majority was more
v..st than that of a single monarch. for
no one man could possess, in high de-
gree, all human yices--not even Lin
coin, Brough, or Morton. Among
the greatest sinners against God right
eous will were these three individuals,
and though he was not prone to believe
in special proyidences, their fate was
otherwise unaccountable One had been
summoned to the bar OF retributive jus
tice with his sins unrepented OF. An
other, covered all over with the mildew
of debaucherv and wrapped in exhala-
tons from which buzzards would turn
their offended noses, carried to the grave
the impress Of intamy, while there yet
remains enc of the Goddess trio; but
the pleague 5 on its W Westward march.
his limbs are snote with the blood of
crime. and tremble under their load of
corruption. Still he prayed that the
Governor might live long enough to re-
alize in this world, rather than in the
next, that G cd is just
Thus the Techl ass old man raved
against the men WHO saved his neck from
the halter that was his due. He renew
ed his adhesion to the Democratic party,
and exhorted his hearers, in the precise
language he had used on a former occa-
sion, to maintain the organization of the
party. though cowardly men may have
shrunk from the boldness of its truth
ant attempted to corrupt it's ritual and
interpolate its constitution.
e. The fendish utterances Of this
vile traitor. in regard to Gov Morton, is
a fac sinaAe of the Julian slang that has,
from time to time, flowed through the
sewer Of the True (Julian) Copperhead'
family organ of this city, and no doubt
will be rolled as 4 sweet morsal under
the tongues of these implacable and
malignant personal enemies of the Gov
ernor, as well as by his political enemies
of the copperhead stripe.