Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1865-1872, 1868-02-07

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this distinguished light of the Democracy
upon the ticket fr Auditor OF State, In
asmuch as this il his old home, aud az lac u
an old personal friend. We know him we'll;
personally he 10 clever enough kind VI
gentleman.
ITO fortune stfahger,
And u fame unknown"
i only half true Ia biz case. lie il poor,
which il no crime, but he II not entirely
"upknowu 10 lame" hHviag served as-
sheriff of this county two tetms>rd In
1860 was delegate TO the Charleston Con.
vention. lie was not
"Born to blush unseen"
and at the Convention mingled freely with
such men Us Stephen A. Douglas, Aloxan.
DER II. Stevens, benjamin T. Butler aud
George u Pugh. aud came homeand talk.
cd IN n familiar way about Steve. and
Alex, and Ben. aud George for months.
Cont Ewing, who was then his law part.
ner, but very yonng, would say, ALEX
and Steve and Ben and George whoY''
why, Douglas, and Stevens of Georgia,
aud butler and fUgh."
When tLe war broke out he made up
company for The three months service. and
went to the field. His speeches to the boys
were always of the most enco uraging
character. The war was great mistake;
it might have been avoided; we were in il
now aud would have 70 fight il out, but il
would lay most Of them low 10 the grave"
They all got houier however, and in reor-
ganizng the regiment he made many re-
cruiling speeches which were considered
models for the times. lie always told tho
people the war might have been honorably
averted, but it was not proper that he
should say who was TO blame. The end Of
it no man could tell-twenty years would
be short time in which to wind up so big
job. His opinion was, and he always
considered his opinion worth giving, that
il would last until both sides were ''cleaDed
out" and that no one would be left to tell
the tale, The recital of the fate Of the
"Killkenny cats" was his favorite way OF
impressing upon the people the end OF the
struggle between the North and the South.
When President Lincoln issued the
Emancipation Proclamation, he quit the
army, he wouldn't fight to free the mig
gers, and devoted himself the remainder
of the war to the discussion of the Con
stitutional questions it involved. 1t would
be superfuous to say that he brought TO
the discussion of the questions much
learning and ability. His oratory was at
ter the finest models. His uniform exor-
dium in all his speeches was an imitation
of Antony't speech over the dead body of
Cesar:
Friends, Americans, Countrymen,
Lend me your earsi
The evil that men do lives after Oh EN-.
My heart IL In the coffin with my country
must pause till Il comes back TO me-
and he would lose himself in a fit Of un-
comfortable grief
"wili you be paiient9 viii you stay a whiie'
have o'ershot myself to tell you ofif'-
and eventually recovering himself would
go right to the bottom of constitutional law.
The war lasted but four years Of the
twenty he predicted II would take TO
"clean out" both sides. aud there are few
left to "tell the story" which was great
surprise to him, aud we have the charity
to say we believe an agreeable one. He
has been agonizng Eve years over his sins
in the early part of the war, has been
repenting ever since he quit the army, in
sackcloth aud ashes," has received forgive.
ness, and is now in full fellowship with
his party