The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-09-11

Ii w II ENDlLNo DAiA
/ ,ho chances Of another election, and the
chances Of The suppression Of the rebel
lion and The triumph OF the Government.
7 made calculation OF how much
money Il would take to carry on the
Government till January, 1866. They had
LEFT ME WITHOUT MEANS
10 take care Of tho sick and wounded
soldiers in the field; they had made no
provision for soldiers families; they had
left me without any means 70 organize
troops or 10 pay the legion. Alter max,
| ing this calculation / thought itwould
REQUIRE about $250,000 more, and went
on to Washington and consulted Mr.. Lin.
coin and laid the matter before the Cabi-
net. Mr.. Lincoln determined that l
should have the money, and through an
act Of Congress, passed in. 1851, for the re-
lief Of Missouri, they advanced me $780,
900. l then felt in tolerable good cir:
cumstances Laughter and cheers and
came back full oiconfidence. My advcr-
saries found that they were defeated, so
far as the general administration oil the
State Government was concerned, and
that l would not call back the Legisla-
ture. They then tried another expedient.
There was a law on the statute
book Of Indiana, under which the interest
on the State debt had been paid fourteen
years. It was a continuing appropria-
ton; II did not require an appropriation
from year 10 year, but was such as we
now have on the statute book OF the
United States, under which the interest
on the National ldebt Is paid every six
months without any appropriation from
year toyear. They trumped up the pre-
tense that there was no law authorizing
money to be taken from the State Treas.
ury to pay the interest on the State debt.
It afterwards turned out that those four
men, appointed to hold the military
power in the State, were members OF the
aSons OF Liberty" The Democrats tried
every means to force the Governor to
again call the Legislature together. They
trumped up q sham lawsuit, and rushed
It through the court, and got decision
in their favor. In this strait, tho Gov
ernor applied to wealthy banker in
New York, was provided with means,
and the Democracy was again checkmat-
ed. a I'D, a. ST..
Indiana, said Gov. Morton, was
HoSEYcoMDED IN 1904 WITH SECRET soCI-
H' ETIEs.
Their iayorite name was "Sons Of Libet-
IT," During that year they arranged for
q grand mass meeting at Indianapolis,
when they were 10 be armed, release
prisoners, and dispose Of the Governor in
their own way. But the thing leaked out
the order to the lodges was counterman-
ded, and the plan defeated. Evidence
was discovered that they had arms con-
cealed in large printing.house in India
napolis, and the arms we're found, togetll-
or with copies OF the ritual and the names
Of the members. Some, the Governor re-
GREETED to say, were once residents OF La
porte County. A voice, "Namc them
Many OF the men were arrested, but most
OF them had conveniently run away.
Shouts OF derision.) AT the next election
Republican victory followed, and yet
the Governor was called upon for an in.
yestigation into his accounts. He had
occupied two offices all this time, Cover
nor and State Auditor, and he did not
suppose he would ever hold Us many Of
fees again. Iaughter) The Demo.
Gratis were going 10 investigate him be-
cause lie had given the State an cconom-
ical Government. daughter and APP
plause.
Going back to the history Of 1864, Gov.
Morton said he had procured the pardon
OF man named Milligan, one OF the
"sons OF Liberty" and the man showed
his gratitude by bringing suit against
him for 100000 for false imprisonment,
and Gov. Hendricks was his attorney.
Gov. Morton said he told Gov. Hendricks
no would present IN Offset TO that for
damage done to the Nation by saving such
a worthless life. Laughter.
HENDRICKS sHELBYvrLLE SPEECH.
The Governor next took up Gov, Hend.
ricks' shelbyvillc speech. 1t started off
in rather u pious vein, and charged that
Gov. Morton had, in Gov. Hendricks alb.
sence, charged him Hendricksf with
being in sympathy with reasonable
organization. Gov. Morton said he would
divide his time with Gov. Hendricks, and
give him the opening and close of every
debate on that question. Laughter. II
was true that Hendricks was never III the
Order. he stood outside, so that If it
succeeded he would reap the benefit, and
il it failed, he would not be caught. APP.
plause and laughter.1 He never con-
demned 1t, or took public ground against
1t. The evidence Of Gen. Darlington, in
the Milligan case, showed that on March
%, 1868,
GOV. HENDRICKS SAID
"The majority Of the people Of Indiana
are desperate under the despotism Of the
Government, and no one can tell how
long II will be endured" Gov. Morton
also read and called attention to the
peace platform adopted at the Chicago
Convention in 1854. The. resolution
stated in plain terms that the war was a
failure, and now Gov. Hendricks was
going around the State saying the resolu-
ton had received wrong construction,
and that he did not see that it denounced
the war as failure. Gov. Hendricks, in
his late speech, denied that he was
member OF the Convention at Chicago!
Truly, the world moved Hendricks
actually denounced Gov. Morton for say
ing he had been member OF the great
Democratic Convention. Laughter Al
though he might not have been dele
gate, yet he was OH the inside Of things
and knew how they were going. As
for Tilden, he admitted that he had
been member Of the Convention.
Tilden and Hendricks had both accepted
the platform and approved Of it, but now,
when the platform stunk in the nostrils
OF honest men, Hendricks came forward
and said: "Goy. Morton lies about me;
! was not member Of that Convention"
and Mr.. Tillen now said: II was not re-
spoasible for that particular plank"
Laughter and applause. Gov. Morton
then quoted from Gen. J ohnson's nara.
tive Of the rebellion to the effect that II
the Democrats had succeeded in electing
their candidate for President in 1864, il
would have brought the war to IN imme-
diate close. The war was actually car
ried on for two years after the South was
virtually beaten, with a hope that change
OF feeling would take place in the North
.