Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1876-05-25
MORTON'S ADMINISTRATION.
Endorsement Of Senator's Anthony and
Cameron of the Conduct of Cover
nor Morton during the War.
SENATOR ANTHoNY's REMARKS.

Mr.. ANTHONY-I well remember,
Mr.. President, the bold and patriotic
course that was taken by the Senator
from Indiana, then the Governor of
that State, at the interesting period to
which he has referred. | wildly recall
the thrill of exultation which passed
through every loyal heart when lie sent
to their homes the men who, traitors
alike to the general government and to
their own State, false both to the Union
and to the pretensions of state rights
upon which those who revolted against
the Union alone defended themselves,
gave aid and comfort to the common
enemy in arms alike against the United
States and against the State of Indi-
ana.
liz Is not strange that that act, as ev-
cry other act of every public man,
right or wrong, good or bad, true OF
imputed, is made the occasion of Will
tication; for we live in time of public
scandal, and no man who holds any
public position, scarcely any man who
interests himself in public affairs, es-
capes the general vituperation. Men
whose lives have been passed in the
reputable and even in the illustriOus
service of their country are held up to
the excavations of the people whose
good Will they enjoy and whose graft
tude some of them have earned. The
testimony has been worthy of the accu-
sation. Discharged employees, broken
down contractors, illicit distillers, dis
appointed Office-seekers, men compared
to whom, Titus Oates was credible
witness, have been permitted to drag
the regulations of honorable men be-
fore tribunals which in their methods
of Jurisprudence remind us of the star
chamber, and whose Interpretation of
the laws of evidence and of the rights
of the accused were borrowed from the
Spanish inquisition.
Nay, Mr.. President, the penitentiary
and the mad-house have given up their
dead in this general resurrection of
falsehood and perjury. 1t is but a few
days since the whole country was star
tied with the foresbadowing of some
terrible revelation against the elected
chief of the Republic. We were told
that he had committed a crime so afro
cious that it could not be named; but
when it was exhibited to the American
people in lis unparalleled enormity,
nothing but the shortest methods OF
the quickest Impeachment would stand
between you, Mr.. President, and the
White House, which / hope, at some
day you will reach by less circuitous
route. And, Mr.. President. when this
accusation was put to the proof, when
the testimony upon which all these
charges had been made was adduced. it
appeared that crazy man was ready
totest-.y, with solemnity that left no
doubt of the sincerity of his conviction.
that the spirit of General Grant was
accustomed to pass through the key
hole of his chamber by night and to
stand beside his bed. And upon the
promise of that testimony, and nothing
else whatever, thousand newspapers
opened their batteries upon the charac-
ter of the man who had borne the flag
OF his country in triumph from the fll-
len ran.parts of Fort Donelson to the
captured citadel of the rebellion, and
who had been twice elected by the
people to the highest place in their
gift.
The miserable instruments of all this
scandal will be likely to escape or will
be beaten with few stripes.r Repu-
tation they have none to be injured;
generally as poor in purse as they are
in honor, they laugh at fines and con-
fiscations; and tie universal contempt
in which they are held by those who
suffer from them and by those who en-
ploy them will probably preserve the
penitentiary from the contamination
of their presence But, sir, behind
these are men who have a name and a
stake in the country, men who employ
or encourage these miserable :nstru-
ments in sandals with which they
scorn to soil their own hands, but from
which they expect profit to their party.
Let these men turn 10 history. Its
pages are full of illustrations of
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to
plague the inventor
And history will be reversed if the
poisoned shafts which they nave placed
in the hands of others be not turned
upon their own defenseless bosoms, if
their own regulations do not suffer by
the methods by which they have allow
ed others to be assailed, and if the dis
tress which they have carried to the
innocent homes of others is not return
ed to their own.
SENATOR CAMERON's REMARKS.
Mr.. CAMERON, of Pennsylvania-It
happens, Mr.. President, that at the be-
ginning of the war l was in position
whiah enabled me to know something
of the conduct of the then Governor of
of Indiana. 1 have listened to his
statement this morning with interest.
because / have always felt great re-
gard for him personally. / remember
well that he was perhaps the youngest
Governor i'm the Union at the time the
rebellion broke out. He lived in a bor-
der state. A great portion of its peo-
pie had come from the South. They
were not only citizens there, but they
were citizens of great influence. He
ton in everything he did; but no mat
ter what the difficulties presented to
him he surmounted them all, because
he was determined to 10 everything
which an honest, able ant patriotic
man should do for his country. At the
of the rebellion he sent mcre
troops, and with greater alacrity, than
any one of the States, to the seat of
war; His State had no al senals and no
arms; and when the government at
Washington was unable to furnish his
troops with guns and munitions of
war he bought them on his own credit,
trusting that the government of In
diana would pay for them if the
government of the United States should
not do so. AT this day men haye for
gotten the straits to which those i'm
DOwer at WASHINGTON had tn resort tn