The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-06-09

Senator Morten's 0sasien 1T Green.
castle.
From the Indianapolis Journal.
The speech of the Senator over
tho graves of the Federal soldiers
at Greencastle has produced a pro-
found impression upon all who
have read it, and he is q man of
such mark that whatever he says
before the people or in the Senate
always commands attention. So it
may be safely asserted that the ad-
dress will be widely read.
1t was right for him to remind
Indiana there of the greatness of
the struggle and the immense sac
rifices made by her citizens to carry
on the war. Lives and treasure
were unstintingly furnished. Gin
cinnati has not forgotten that when
besieged by the rebel army and
threatened with capture and pillage.
and our own strength was thought
to be, and doubtless was, unequal
to our defense. Governor Morton
hurried forward several regiments
to our relief, which gave confidence
to our citizens and was the turn
ing point of the siege, for Kirby
Smith very soon began to retreat.
Cincinnati felt grateful for that
timely succor, and as a testimony
OF her gratitude has kept the por
trait of our great War Governor
hanging in the Council chamber
ever since. But it is not my aim
to dwell particularly on his hercu-
lean and successful efforts to sus
tain the nation in those dark hours,
but to applaud him for the clear
ness and prominence which he has
given in his speech to the real
cause and issues of the war. The
rebellion, as he truly says, was
fought and put down to maintain
the greatest political fact of our
history-that we are nation, not
compact of States with inherent
rights of Independence to such ex-
tent as permits any State to with-
draw under any assumed provoca-
ton by one or more associate
States. or by the general govern
ment itself. The Governor has
elucidated the terrible evils that
have grown out of this heresy SO
fully that not much more need be
said to give greater force to his
argument; but it seems to me that
if the people would seriously con-
slider the evils that would follow
acts of secession, admitting that
''the erring sisters would be per-
mitted to go in peace" there are
few men who would dare give them
utterance. Each State must then
maintain standing armies and
fortified borders, precisely as the
petty States of Germany and Italy
have done for centuries past, but
which are now coming to or have
reached greatness and power by
the acts of unifcation. It would
require much more time than I
have to write it, or you space for
it, to attempt to set forth the ems
barrassment to commerce, the
freedom of movement of citizens
everywhere, the crushing taxes and
imposts that would follow the
breaking up of the Union. Men
who advocate it should be regard
ed as public enemies, and the Gov
ernor has powerfully shown that it
is a conviction of this sentiment of
the inseparable nation-this pa
triotism imbuing each citizen and
the mass of citizens-that will
make us strong, irresistible, intel-
lectually, morally, and in every
way in the future growth, develop
ment, and government of the ma
ton. Yes, let this fundamental
truth be kept in sight, that no
single State, or small number of
States, by separation can make q
nation. When this view becomes
great principle, North and South
East and West, then, and not till
then, will jealousy and animosity
die away, and that which has been
hitherto so fruitful in sectional
strife, by being buried with the
calamities which it engendered,
will be changed to 3 deep sense of
mutual dependence and obligation
for brotherly love, and will assist
not only to develop the material
resources with which our country
abounds, but unfold the richer
mines of spiritual truth, and create
living consciousness that shall
pervade our whole social and DO
itical system, that the happiness of
the individual and society are per-
manently secured.
1t is very evident that Governor
Morton's political ideas are based
upon conception, truly philoso
phical, that national prosperity has
it's germs deep in the soul of the
people; that just in proportion as
their sentiments are just, impartial
commensurate with the demands
OF humanity and the real equality
of mankind before God, shall
validity and stability be the basis
of the nation.
Finally, chs man, 80 true in the
hour when destruction was i'm
pending; who displayed such vast
powers of mind for the conduct of
the war, and whose career as a
statesman is 80 brilliant, is worthy
of the highest honors the nation
can bestow.
He has sounded the keynote for
the next great campaign, Let him
be our standard bearer, and his
grand motto. s'THE NATION ABOVE