The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-11-06

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The State Capital OF Indiana has also
proved to be exceptionally successful
among mere arbitrary cities. Coryaon
was the first Capital. Indianapolis, the
site of John Pogue's action IN 1917, De-
came the Capital of the State two years
before Oliver P. Morton was born, ana
its material growth, almost wholly the
result OF railroads, is as remarkable rs
the public action and unifcation o. SEN
timent which it has given the State. The
State gained really 244 per cent. during
the war decade. while Ohio gained less
than IA per cent. 1t has eleven Repre-
sentatIves, or three more than It's parent,
Kentucky, and as many rs both States Of
Virginia, Kentucky's parent.
Although free State, Indiana is very
little plagued by negroes, possessing only
about twenty We thousand, or only one
ninth the number of pro-slavery Ken
lucky. AS it was the sixth State to be
erected by the Government, it Is sixth
In rank OF power, and is creeping along
to two millions OF Inhabitants.
Being now well cleared, and sttalnaoie
very generally by rail, the coal supply OF
Indlania, said TO be 800 square miles IN
extent, will undoubtedly come to the
help OF her population. We have here
tofore furnished cur dwellings with her
forests of walnut-trees. INDIANA plate
glass is already familiar in the East. If
we remark that the climate OF the State
is of the temperature OF Bordeaux, IN
France, we may spprehend the pleasure
of life among her vineyards and towns
when the earth has been civilized and
the political acid and alkali drained on.
To the outside observer her schools and
colleges have called no especial attention
to them; her Bar has not loomed up. But
at least they have agreed to spend two
millions on State Capitol at Indiana
polls, and dispense with the Jeers on
parade days. The Governor received uutll
, within Jew years only $1,000 salary
and the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS three dol
lars a day, while the best lawyer IN the
State, rs the Attorney General must be,
cot $1,000 q year. The whole State
expenses, on account OF canal debt, &c,
were but one million and third IN 1861,
when there was very little to show.
OllNGT L -hOIlOu "n' W. II ~ ~ 1890
there were yet "a few slaves and less than
two hundred thousand white cilizehs IN
all Indiana. He was an orphan baby
when Thomas a. Hendricks, nephew OF
the Governor and Senator, was oeglnn-
lag to run out OF the front gate. From
the State Us public man, Morton do
not emerge until 1861, but he was as
well known then us Teeumseh.
Before Harrison became President
John w DAVIS, OF Indians, was Speaker
OF Congress Like many notable tsml-
les OF this State, the Davises congregated
on Indiana from every where. Jeti
Davis was nearly born there Judge
DAVIS from Maryland, covered the
Indiana circuit. Reuben Davis next
WEI thence TO the Mexican war and into
the rebellion. John Il. Davis, OF Ken
lucky, was an Indiana Congressman.
Henry S. Lane, of Kentucky, was the
first Republican Governor OF Indiana
Amos Lane, the father Of jim Lane, OF
Kansas, was Speaker OF tho Indiana
LEGISLATURE, and came from New YORK
Stste Joe Lane was not from Indiana
at all. The Wright family, OF Indiana
and Iowa, went from Pennsylvania: so
did the Hendricks family. Jesse ID.
BRIGHT. 4 native OF New York, WAS Presl-
dent OF the United State Senate from
Indiana. Coltax was an otficie mt presl-
ding officer OF the House and the Senate
also. and although Morton never was
martial TO Colfax he always declined to be
quoted to Colfax's injury. Mr.. Kerr S
tragic accession 10 the Speakershlp and
regretted death are still fresh In Inc
public mind The elcquence OF DanleI
w. VOORHEES, on the stump and at the
har. and of Henry Ward Beecher 10 the
pulpit. the credulous earnes.ness OF Rob
rrt Dale Owen, the economy of Mr.. Hol-
man the reaction OF MIR. Julian, and the
Cabinet work O. Messers. Usher, Caleb
Smith. aid McCulloch need be only allud-
ed to.
In this State, with common resources.
Morton arose on the brink OF u great
occasion. Few men sPauned 1t better
In little while his name rolled through
the country; as he stepped forward IN the
rublic SIGHT he grew even large. de
WAS ever dreadful to his opponents, and
one of them said the truth the other day
when he hoped Morton wouldn't live.
CHARACTER OF o. P. MORTON.
The Republican party survives the
lives or the loyalty OF most OF It's found
ers. Sumner and Wilson are gone In
massachusetts,; Lincoln and Trumbull in
Illinois. Cameron is rs good as dead, and
Forney has no papers tooth dslly) LETT.
Chandler is retired, and Governor Austin
blair turned Democrat. Hannibal Ham
lin and John Sherman are the only
conspicuous early Republicans left. L
might add Banks. Morton was hardly a
founder of the party but was one OF It's
subsequent leaders His friends may fair
~ claim that he had influence over the
! Administrations of Lincoln, Johnson,
Grant and HAYES, and that he advanced
Indiana by his biography and surround =
ines out Of the personal medlocrlty she
occupied. Morton was the first distinct
ivelv great man Of that State. can
| think of nobody else OF much proves.
There wss jim Lane, but he figured IN
Kansas mainly. Mr.. Lincoln lived a
| Wllle III luulhIh. NNAi'4H4 tA''' - N'-'
though resting ut North Bend, over the
Ohio line, holds traditional relation to
Tippecanoe and his posterlty in Indiana.
Coliax, of course, lives At South Bend,
and has held the second and third best OF
political positions. But Morton
was the greatest of his State.
Hugh McCulloch is generally supposed
to have been put in Johnson's Cabinet
! on Mortun's nomination.
The war Governors, of whom Morton
was one, issued an address TO President
Lincoln from Altooss, Penn, September
%, 1868. indorsing his act of emanclpa-
tion. The decision OF the President
said they, "to strike At the root OF the re-
bellion will lend new vigor to the, efforts
and new lite and hope to the hearts OF the
peoplep lie. us see where those twelve
Governors in the war have dri!ted:
A. e. Curtin, TlldeR Democrat, Penn
sylvarls.
John A. Andrew, dead, Massachu-