The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-01-26
FROM THE CAPITAL,
ValedictOry Of Governor Morton
Scenes In Both HOuses-C. G. S.
Band.

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. %, 1867.
! Editors Journal:
At three o'clock yesterday afternoon
the resignation message of Governor
MORTON (already published), was
transmitted to both Houses of the
General Assembly. It will strike Il
responsive chord in the heart of every
| Union man in the State, and will be
read by future generations-with an
interest which thenlapse Of years viii
but deepen and infensify-as the last
public utterance of a Governor whose
indomitable energy, exalted patriotism
and Splendid intellectual powers gave
him a pre-eminent position among the
great men who most efficiently. served
the nation in the dark days of her
peril, Governor whose proud mis-
sion it was to rescue the-Hame of his
State from threatened infamy, and to
give undying lustre to those pages of
her history, which, but for him, would
have borne to future ages the humili-
'ating story of her shame.
On the reading of the valedictory
in the House, Judge HUGHES intro
duced the following concurrent reso-
luton:
ResolUed, the Senate concu,ring, That
the General Assembly of Indiana re-
spond to the resignation of Governor
0. p. MORTON by the following adj
dress:
Governor Morton-It is with senti-
ments of high esteem for you person.
ally and approval Of your admins
tration, and full confidence in your
ability and capacity to render distin-
guished service to the country in the
new position to which you have been
chosen, that the General Assembly
part with you as the Executive of the
State 'is ~ ~'4 2ik-
You will bear with you our sincere
wishes for your health and happiness
and our hopes that you may long con-
tinue your course of usefulness in the
public service, and receive, as you GER
tainly Will, renewed proofs of the con
fidence and favor of the people.
Z In the person of your successor,
Governor Baker, we recognize an APP
proved and faithful officer of distin-
guished ability and unqueSti0ned pat
riotism, in whose hands may well be
entrusted the important powers of the
Executive office.
Approaching his worth and abili-
ties, we congratulate the people of the
State that-the action of the, General
Assembly in ira nsferring you to an (
other field Of labor in the public ser,
vice Leaves their II interests IN safe and
Any other legislative body would
have adopted such an address to
retiring official without open dissent,
the minority, if they could not APP
prove, contenting themselves with
silence. Such was the action of the
last General Assembly when Govern
or MORTON left for Europe. Then an
address of sympathy and kind wishes
was adopted with entire unanimity
1t was easy for the Copperheads to
hiss a Goodbye to their natural
enemy when they believed, and per-
haps hoped, he was going away to die /
in a strange land. -.
But that he should live to return,
and when-ignoring their damning
record Of treason and blood-guiltiness
they were preparing to assume the
reigns of State government, it was his
hand that hurled them back to their
Shiny nests, and his tongue that
branded them, for all time, as
6 traitors, " " draft-sneaks and
" bountyjumpers p surely these
were ofenses beyond their forgive
ness, deserving of unrelenting and
eternal hate. They therefore opposed
the adoption of the address, and call
ed for the ayes and noes.
Upon this Judge HUGHES, who is,
by the way, the ruling spirit of the
House, and PROFESSIONALLY the ablest