Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1877-11-29

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attract the best New England and
eastern elements. George Rogers
Clark seized the Indian posts during
the American revolution, and his
military orders and summonses have
the accent OF new whisky in them.
Poor people generally speaking, set
tied Indiana, as was shown by the
religious distribution at the begin
ming of the war. when there were
only twenty-four Episcopal churches
in the state and over twelve hundred
Baptists and Methodists.
The Wabash river, alleged to he
manageable for 400 miles out OF its
winding length of 600, is the duct OF
this huge state, which is more than
twice as large as Switzerland, and
throws up its clay plateaus 600 feet
above the Ohio, without a mountain.
Covered in general with timber or
vegetation, Indiana was rough and
dirty state to tackle; it smeared the
hand and soaked the cart wheels.
Yet it was occupied by white men as
early as Georgia, and several years
before New Orleans, and from its
territorial paternity Michigan and
Illinois were both detached nearly
seventy years ago. The first battle
OF the second war with England was,
in reality, Tippecanoe, and the dec
laration Of war directly followed that
battle. Indiana was the sixth state
admitted into the union, and owes
her privileges to Nathan Dane of
Massachusetts,, who prescribed sla-
very from her limits. Dane was
member of the Hartford convention.
He said that no only thought OF leav-
ing slavery ont of the northwest
territory few hours before he SUBJ
mitted his bill. Here is an idea for
a public statue, to which the govern
ment has In vain invited Indiana and
Ohio, tOO
The Erie canal and the national
road, works Of Dewitt Clinton and
Henry Clay, started Indiana on her
career OF marketing about 1877.
She then built canal system Of her
own, the Erie and Wabash being the
longest in the country. Her canals
and banks got her in the panic of
1887. which. nevertheless, elected her
first territorial governor Harrison)
to the presidency over Mr.. Van
Buren,. The state debt was then
sl4, 600.
That which made Indiana was
clearing the land and getting the
crops to market, and the civil war
gave It great help, making a home
maxket-a western as we'll as an
eastern market-for everything |
ridable and wearable. and |
also extending railways east and
west across the state to flank the
insuIgent south and the river meth
DDS Of transport alton. The man or
men who squared tire harmony Of
Indiana with the, national cause were |
therefore her best material states
men, and it win be very hard to de-
tract from the colossal influence of
Governor Morton in those respects.
He adhered by political fortitude for
Indiana what Stephen A. Douglass
did for Illinois in farming the rail-
road lsnd grant hills.
The state capital Of Indiana has
also proved to be exceptionally sue
csssful among mere arbitrary cities.
Corydon was the first capital, Indian
aPolis, the site of John Pogue's ac-
ton in 1919, became the capital of
the state two years before Oliver p.
Morton was born, and its material |
growth, almost wholly the result of
railroads, is as remarkable as the |
public action and unification of
sentiment which 1t has given the |
state. The state gained really "a and |
2-3 per cent, during the war decade.
while Ohio gained less than IA per
cent 1t has IL representatives OF 3
more than its parent, Kentucky. and
as many as both states of Virginia,
Kentucky's parent.
Although free state, Indiana is
very little plagued by negroes, pos
sessing only about twenty thousand,
OF only one-ninth the number OF pro- |
slavery Kentucky. As it was the |
sixth state to be erected by the gov
eminent, 1t Is sixth in rank Of power,
and Is creeping along to two mil
lions OF inhabitants.
. Being now well cleared and attain
able very generally by rail, the coal
supply OF Indiana, said to be 100 |
square miles In extent. will undoubt-
sdly come to the help OF her popula-
ton. We have heretofore furnished
our dwellings, with her forest OF wal
Indiana plate-glass Is
familiar in the east. II we
remark that the climate OF the state
is of tho temperature CT Bordeaux. In
France, we may appreciate the
pleasure OF life among her vineyards
and towns when the earth has been
civilized and the political acid and
aIkali has been drained of. To the
outside observer her schools and
colleges have called no special atten-
ton to them: her bar has not doomed
up. But at last they have agreed to
spend two millions on a state capital
at Indianapolis, and dispense with