New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-06-23
Gov. MORTNN,s SPEECH.

A speech so vigorous as that Of Gov. Morton's at
Indianapolis on the 10Th, serves to remind us whole
somey that the enemies Of the nation are not quite
dead. Much may be forgiven, but the Governor oil
Indiana teaches US that there is much beside
which the loyal voters Of the country would be
unwiso and unmanly to forget. His speech is
chiefly remarkable, first, for its general arraign-
ment Of the Democratic party and its fuller
revelation Of the conspiracy at the North during
the war, and second, its application Of this
infamous page of history to the problem of Recon
struction
None will be surprised to find that the Gov
ernor, who. with loyal men at his back saved In
diana from becoming Rebel State, characterzes the
present Democratic leaders as follows:
They who in the Legislature Of 1862 attempted
oyeurn the State Government and 10 establish legsla
tive revolution by sezng military power Of the State and
transferring into hands Of four state officers three OF
whom members Of the reasonable society known as the
To accomplish the hsh work of this conspiracy. military
officers appointed military organizations created. arms
ammunition purchased in immense Quantities aud Snug
ged into the State. correspondence opened with the
upon Rebel Officers and agents introduced into the
capital and concealed IN lne hotels and boarding Boar
day fixed they would suddenly uprse and murder the EIcn
sci1 the ersensl and MS arms and ammunition and reeas
900 prisoners In Camp Morton into their hands
their combined forces effect liiary and bloody
his dreadful scheme necessarily
involved murder lcration robbery and the commission
every which makes bcA the chronicles Of civil war;
vet its authors and abetors with The proofs guilt
piled mountain high again struggling Tor power ani ask
ing the people pat their guilty hands the government
prosperity Of the Some OF these who high
aud authority In their party aud largely trusted
With it's nagcment occupied offices Of
trust aud responsibility IN which they proved be reerean
and corrupt"
The Governor believes as thousands will believe
also who have been more direct witnesses of the trea
son he describes, that
The Democratic party has committed crime for which
history has pardon aud the memories OF men no Jrgefl
ness; whose coors grow darker fom age age and for
which the excavations II mankind become bitter from
generation generation.
The Governor thinks it hardly worth while row to
discuss the part in Reconstruction undertaken by
President johnson, inasmuch the State Govern
ments reconstructed on his plan in operation aud
the programme submitted by the Reconstruction
Committee does not Gas he understands
it) contemplate their dissolution or require
their modification beyond ratiiying the con-
,titutona amendment" But, while expressing wish
for the admission of the loyalsts Of Tennessee to
Congress, he submits as "a general proposition that
treason cannot be made odous and loyalty rewarded,
it. when u rebellion has been suppressed, Rebels are
admitted to make laws for the loyal and administer
the affairs of Government they have just failed to
DESTROY"