The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-11

havior at this critical portion of his points
the moral that the ownership OF slaves was
enough to ruin the common sense patriotism of
any person good while before the war and some
time after ii.
Mention has been made in this notice of Ed
ward A. Hannegan; he was peculiar episode
rather than current in the politics of Indiana.
An Ohio born boy, he also received his character
about Lexington, KY, and settled at Covington,
on the Wabash river. where he practced law
and ran for the Legislature. He had SUI
perior speaking talents, soon went to Congress,
and in 1912 he beat the regular candidate of his
party in the Legislature for United States
tor. He sat In the Senate six years, was in favor
of war with the English on the question of Ore
gon. and made bitter attack on President Polk
for not being more radical on the Oregon ques-
sion Nevertheless ai Polk, wh had not much
lister to Prussia; the administration of Taylor
soon recalled him, and he began to run for the
Legislature again, and was defeated, and in a
fit of the cups he killed his brother in-law
Captain Duncan at Covington stabbing him
with Spanish dagger. His brother-in-law had
been an officer Ia the Mexican war, from New
ark, o., and was bachelor. There appears to
have been no cause for the trouble. except
liquor No trial at court was held on thessub-
ject, and Mr.. flanagan removed to St Louis
and soon died there and is buried at Terre
Haute.
John D. Defrees had good deal of influence
in Indiana as an organizer, and was especially
strong about national conventions. he was
snative of Tennessee, and printers boy, and
studied law with Tom Corwn at Lebanon, Ohio,
and from there went to South Bend, Indiana.
While in the State Legislature he bought the
Indianapolis Journal, in 1885, and kept it for
eight years. and he employed Henry Ward
Beeeher, who was then preacher in Indiana
polls, to write him one of the first agricultural
articles for his weekly edition, which was ever
published in this country. Defrees carried out
the idea of his Tennessee extraction by always
being in favor of some old Wing who was little
behind the risen day. He wanted Edward Bates
for President when Lincoln was nominated;
nevertheless President Lincoln made him the
Government Printer, but Governor Morton be-
ing sent to the Senate and disliking Defrees,
joined scheme to turn him out of the Office
Schuyler Colfax, who had been brought up by
hand by Defrees, took no part to sustain his
friend, and consequently Mr. Defrees had no
political child TO be bringing up for the latter
part of his life. He did, however, more to nomi-
nate Cofax in 1868 than any other individual in
the country. President Hayes put Defrees back
in the Government Printing Office. He took a
little home at Berkeley Springs, in Virginia. and
there he died, and his body is buried in Indiana
polls.
The Dunn family, of Madison, Ind, were of
Irish extraction, and of Virginia and Kentucky
pilgrimage, otch-Irish Presbyterians and good
soldiers of the country in all the wars. The
chief of this family migrated to Indiana in 1909;
though he had three slaves, it is said that he
emigrated in order to set them free, and to have
no more to do with slavery. He laid out the
town of Charlottesville, gave the ground for two
Indiana colleges, and died in 1854. He had two
or three sons in the Mexican and slavery wars,
and one of the family became member of
Grants staff and judge advocate of the army
Old Madison, where many Of the high spirits
of Indiana lived long had great power in the
State. The Cincinnati Enquirer sent the first
distinctive local editor to Indiana, in George
Bennett according to the interesting reminis-
cences of Mr. Woollen. Berry r. Sulgrove,
who is still living in Indiana, was probably the
first distinctively good writer on the State press.
Colfax established paper at South Bend in 1916.
and ran it for ten years; the year before he gave
it up he was sent to Congress, became Speaker
and Vice president, and died a professional lee
turer
Oliver P Morton, who had the greatest oppor-
tunity Indiana presented to become
mighty parsonage, and filed the opportunity
with strange mixture of patriotism and barbar-
ism, was born in the State in 1923 and died in
1877. He was apprenticed to halter, was
forcible and audacious, and resolved to be
lawyer, and, having obtained partial education,
he studied law and got some of his law educa-
ton in Cincinnati. He was Democrat, and
never was in full accord with the people of his
county until 1854, when he resolved to oppose
the matters which followed the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise lie, therefore, helped
ganize the Republican party, and easily obtained
one OF It's leading nominations at the early age of
thirty three. He had not much imagination, no
nlfcent stump weapon In the world in his speech
His sentences were shois, like a short club, and
they knocked everything down that he could
reach. Consequently, when his audience be-
came smaller, as from the open air to the SEN
ate the club he welded was more deadly than
ever.
Being defeated for Lieutenant governor in 1856
he thought that had ended his career, and he
never quite forgave any body who opposed his
having another chance That was the cause of
his hostility to Defrees. The Republicans
ticket in 1860 instead of Henry S. Lane but
they had to put the secondary man in the front,
as is the case with all presidential conventions
nowadays When he became Governor of In
diana, and the war broke out, he was unQuestion-
ably the most powerful man at the head of a
State in all America There were other war
Governors who got some kindred reputation to
Morton's, but he took the chances for all the
reputation he got He was the jeff Davis of the
North. He never compromised with the small
est part of the tail Of rebellion and slavery
last breath. At the same time he was very am
bilious, and rather indisposed to follow the
powers put over him. He thought Lincoln at
times was too weak, and was disposed to sup
port Andrew Johnson. His methods were those
which obtain ia fiercer races than ours. He gen.
orally antagonized his equals, and took his lieu
tenants from among his interiors. Therefore
among the politicians of Indiana there is mixed
opinion as to Mortons character; but among the
people, especially of his own party, there is no
hesitation about pronouncing him the greatest
man the State has ever had
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