The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-06-22

The campaign in Indiana opened
with an enthusiastic mass meeting al
Indianapolis, Tuesday night-the great
feature ofwhich was speech byGover-
nor Morton. We clip some choice ex-
tracts, which apply here as well as in
Indiana. Although the Governor was
obliged to sit in chair, on account o.
feeble health, there is no feebleness in
his patriotic utterances:
WHAT DEMOCRATIC LEADERS HAVE
DONE. rIstA
The leaders who are now managing
the Democratic party in this State, are
the men who at the regular session o.
the Legislature in 1861, declared that
tif an army went from Indiana to assist
in putting down the then approaching
rebellion, it must first pass over theil
dead bodies.
They are the men who in the Demo-
tcratic Convention on the Sth of Janu-
| ary, 1862, gave aid and comfort to the
rebellion, by resolving that the South
had been provoked and driven into ths
contest by the unconstitutional and
wicked aggressions of the people of the
I North.
They are the men who in speeches
and resolutions proclaimed that
"Southern defeats gave them no Joy,
1 and Northern disasters no sorrow
They are the men who eXerted influ-
ence to prevent their Democratic friends
from going into the army, and who, by
their inceSsant and venomOuS ISLANDERS
against the Government, checked the
spirit of volunteering, and made draft
ing necessity. And when the draft
had thus been forced upon the country,
their wretched subordinates, inspired
by their devilish teachings, endeavored
in many places, by the force of arms
and the murder of enrolling officers, to
prevent its execution.
They are the men who corresponded
with the rebel leaders in the South, Civ
ing them full information of our con-
dition, and assuring them that q revo-
luton in public opinion was at hand,
and that they had but to perseYere d
few months longer, and the National
| Government would fall to pieces of its
own weight.
They are the men who, in the Legis-
lature of 1868, attempted to overturn
the State Government and establish q
Legislative revolution, by seizing the
military power of the State and trans
ferring it into the hands of four State
officers, three of whom were members
of the reasonable society known as the
"Sons of Liberty" I'd -eaa
They are the men who, having failed
TO overturn the State Government by
seizing the military power, determined
to defeat its operations and bring about
anarchy, by locking up the public
treasure, and thus Withholding the
money necessary to carry on the Gov,
ernment. ~
They are the men who,t for the pur-
pose of private speculation, and to dis
. credit the State before the world icon.
4 spired to prevent the payment of the
4 interest on the public debt, by with
holding, through fraudulent lawsuit
the money received from taxes paid fol
that very purpose. This lawsuit was
fraudulently smuggled through, The
Circuit Court and lodged in the Supreme
Court, before the minutes of the case
had been read and signed by the Circuit
Judge, or he had been made cquainteo
with its character, and was hastily de,
cided by the Supreme Court against
the credit of the State. -
They are the men who introduced
and organized in this State that danger
Gus and widespread conspiracy knOwL
as the stKnights of the Golden Circle ,
and afterwards as the "SonS of Liberty
which had for its purpose the over
throw of the State and National Gov
ernments. Not all of them, it is true
belonged formerly to this ~, infamous
order but such as stood on the outside
had knowledge of its Existence, pur
poses and plans, and carefully con
ceaIed their Knowledge, and stood ready
to accept its work, ssi
To accomplish the hellish work o
this conspiracy, military officers were
appointed. military organizations crea
fed. arms and ammunition purchased
in immense quantities and smuggleC
linto the State, correspondence openeC
with rebel commanders, and military
combinations agreed upon, rebel Off
GERS and agents introduced into the cap
ital and concealed in hotels and board
ing houses, and II was uellperatelS
: planned and agreed that upon day
liked, they would suddenly uprise anC
murder the Executive, seize the arsena
and its arms and ammunition, and re
leasing 5000 rebel prisoners in CamI
Morton, put arms into their hands. anc
with their combined forces effect a mil
itary fand bloody revolution in the
state. This dreadful scheme necessa
rily, involved murder contiagration
robbery. ,and the commission of every
cTiI1e which makes black the chroni
cles of civil war, and yet its authors
and abettors, with the proofs of theil
i guilt piled mountain high, are agar
strnpplins for power, and asking thu
| neopie to put into their guilty hand:
the Government and prosperity of tn
State. Some OF these men, who ar
high in favor and authority in thei
party, and are largely entrusted will
It's management, have heretofore occu
pied offices of great trust and responsi
bility. in which they proved to be recre
ant and corrupt. .rr.t--,.
They are the men who, in the Legls
lature of Indiana, bitterly opposed aut
denounced every effort to confer tn
right of suffrage upon soldiers In IN
field who could not come home to vote
They are the men who wrote letter
to soldiers in the army, urging them L
desert, and assuring them of supper
and protection if they did.
They are the men who labored witt
ldevilish zeal to destroy the ability Q
the Government to carry on the war b.
u denreciating its financial credit. The.
assured the people that "gresnbacks
, would die on their hands, and warne'
them ysolemnly against Governmen
4 bonds, as a wicked device to rob tnen
\ of their money. -.-.., !.
They are the men who refused I
contribute to the Sanitary Commissio
for. the relief of sick and wounded Sol
diers upon the lying and hypocrltIca
nrntence that the contributions wef
consumed by the officers of the army.
They are the men who excused then
selves from contributing for the relic
of soldiers families at nome oy tne ~
famous slander that they were I1yln
better than they had ever done, and b
foI,I imputations on the chastity of SO!
Thav are the men who declared i
!. sraaciTes. resolutions, and by their vote
p IL, Congress, that not another man nc
!. dollar should be voted 10 carry on
; cruel war against their Southern pretr
:, rem. ~, La.
II the last great campaign of 1854, at II
time when Sherman was fighting d
way, step by step, from Chattanooga
: II Atlanta, and Grant was forcing Le