The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-03

nom the beginning. Two-thirds OF our In
diana people will remember what snb1ic
opinion was in November, $780, on the ones.
ton of coercion. Jerry Wilson's effort To
exhibit Morton as the discoveret of a new
political principle is nonsense. Every
BODY, nearly, talked az Morton did "a that
speech at and before that time. It is Edicu-
lous to set this man up as a great propbet
ana discoVerer, when the masses of north
ern people strongly urged that view Of the
case In November, 1860. Morton is a political
weathercock. Every honest, fair man in
Inolans knows this. See his course on ne
gro suffrage and reconstruction. He made
a speech in Richmond, Indiana, in 1865. OBJ
posing negro suffrage and favoring Andy
Johnson's plans OF reconstruction. Soon
after he did make a discovery. He found
that such position would not be popular
with the republicans, and prestoi
change! He was soon the -Rdjcal
OF the RAIDS in urging negro suffrage
and Thad. stephens plan of reconstruction
as the only truly loyal plan. No, sir. The
decent republicans of Indiana are not ready
to give Mr.. Morton patent right to all the
loyalty to the union and patriotic war feel
ing oil our people against the rebels. It is sur
prising to those of US who have known Jerry
Wilson to find the digDified judge and gem
tleman lowering himself into the selfish
pool of humbuggery in which Morton
swims. Morton is small potato. but by
system of cheek and assumption like this of
giving him the credit of discovering the pa
triotism that saved the country, and which
even taught Lincoln to stand by the union,
be (Morton) is made to appear as a huge
wonder. He is an ambitious selfish hum
bug. We Indianians will confess it to our
disgrace some day. Don Piatt, in his paper,
the Washington Capital, gives this most APP
propriate and perfect estimate of Indiana's
great war governor, viz:
In Kaulbach's great nicture of Naro hddIino
while Rome burns, the most noticeable feature is
the sycophant who precedes his royal master,
applauding his drunken differences and cruel
DEGREES. After once seeing this creature he be-
comes the one prominent object in the great
painting. The half naked, MISUNDERSTANDING,
lures being enacted, the royal despot himself all
fade into background TO this one embodiment
Of political decay: He is a heayy-built man,
are rounded up as if made so by a heavy collar,
while his face is fairly enameled with a sicken-
ing expression of subServiency-it is COM
pound OF meanness, cruelty and selfish ness
There is a volume of meaning in the motion of
his fat hands as he applauds. What the syco-
h fhe Il TO s9e Is o. M0Tt1n
OF brave nature and fine intellect, he has sold
out all 10 the dictates OF 4party based on the
only obeys its dictates with the ready subser-
viency of an obedient slave, but before its repre-
sentative the coarse, ignorant soldier of the
White House, he bends and applauds and
hung.
If Mr.. Wilson thinks he is strengthening
himself in his new district for reelection to
congress, by this fulsome svcDphancy to
Morton, he is previously mistaken. The
people are opening their eyes to the real
character of that public man who can calmly
commit nameless crime, and flaunt his
debauchery in the face of moral constitu-
ency. ORIGINAL REPUBLICAN,.
INDIANAPoLIs, Jan. 26.