The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-07

Cured in New York city TO prevent the draft
that had been ordered, and which that
Governor took no measures to suppress
eeSOs Of tssr e for Sm This
traitorous insult to the Governor and the
State was followed immediately by bill
to transfer the constitutional prerogatives
and duties OF the Governor. as the CON-
msndcr-In-chief of the military forces or
the State, to the State officers. three
of whom a. stated were members
of that oeth-bound, secret, trea sonable
organization. and to assign that bill place
on the calendar ahead of tho general appro-
priat,on bill, distinctly and defantly an
nouncing that not dollar should be ap-
propriated for any purpose whatever, ex-
ceDt Tor tho payment OF their own Sala-
ries until that bill had become law, and,
trne to instructions from their grand
lodge, their supreme authority. they
persisted in their scheme until the Re-
publicans bad to meet this vile revolu-
tiOnary measure, so fraught with blood at
home and danger to the army, by the less
dangerous revolutionary measure of re-
signing and accepting the hard alternative
they offered. And now. after the lapse
of thirty years. it makes n loyal man
hold his breath when he thinks what
side by side with South Caroline In
rebellion, If the man had been Gov
ernor who b0asted that he never advised
any man to go to the field TO pro-
delight, born of their sympathy with their
brethren in arms. these copperheads re-
turned to their constituents boasting or
what they had done. and waited and hoped
to see the Governor capitulate- But they
were not then as we'll acquainted with
Oliver p. Morton as they became later on.
He did not capitulate. Though there was
not dollar available for the insane and
the blind and the deaf. nor q dollar for the
soldiers and their families. nor dollar to
meet the interest on our bonds, not
wheel of the car of State even slowed MP,
much less stopped. The wards of the State
in the several benevolent institutions never
felt jar; the soldiers in the hospitals and
their families at home received their usual
help. and the bondholdor in Wall street
clipped his coupon from Indiana bonds as
regularly if the copperheads had
mot 9on tried ds tho to sas sy d IsPqss
ton, and even the Knights of the
Golden Circle. who were officers of State,
were fed and clothed as usual. though
later on they failed to enjoy some of their
America, other than Oliver Z. Morton.
would have dared to attempt to run a
State two years without dollars appro-
priatIon from an overlooking treasury to
succeeded In doing it. But madder set
of men never lived than those discounted
knights. Having failed to disarm him
by transferring bis military authority to
their representatives In the State offices.
and, failing to starve him into surrender
by withholding supplies, in their secret
lodges they planned to capture. II not to
kill him. and that not by hired midnight
assassin, but as a part OF grand scheme
which was to turn loose the rebel prisoners
in Camp Morton, armed for rapiue and
slaughter. This was to be done by stealing
the livery of q onoe loyal and honorable
party. Under the name of tho Democratic
State convention the clans were to gather
hcfr Rrrf
had not yet taken the measure of their
man. HIS machinery, which cared for the
wsrds of the State and paid the interest
on the State bonds entered into their secret
their plans, SO that instead of finding the
city asleep, and the prisoners in Camp Nor.
ton half guarded. they were confronted
By batteries of cannon trained In
the principal streets, and armed soldiers
under tried officers everywhere. who were
not to interfere with any legitimate busl-
ness of Democratic convention. as Demo-
cratic conventions had been in the days of
Joseph A. Wright and James Whitcomb
and Tighlman A. Howard. and which
that assembly of copperheads secretly
armed for reasonable purpose
that the so-called convention ad
journed IN haste, and VICTORIOUS.
their guns into Pogue's run, leaving Gov
ernor Morton alive and master of the situa-
tion. with the rebel prisoners still in dur
anee vile. The facts as eliclted later
from the testimony OF some OF their num-
Der. who turned states evidence against
their co-conBpirltors to save their own
worthless necks, show one OF the most
cold blooded plots ATTEMPTED during that
sacred name of the Democratic party.
do not say that no other man In America
could have met such On emergency "a well,
but / do say that no other man was called
upon to display the same mental and moral
courage as Oliver 7. Morton was durln 2
those years of trial.
THE RECORD OF TREASON.
These allegations against citizens of our
own State Will almost challenge the
faith of those who have come to man.
hood since those dark days. seeing that
the chief movers in these schemes are now
tolerated In social and civil life. Let us
see The record is against them. Every
where. In the once-nonored name of the
Democratic party, they held conventions
and formulated creeds. Thus, In
Auguet,. 1863 they resolved: "As Demo-
Gratis, in mass convention assembled.
We are opposed TO furnishing men or
sSs nS sans
livery of once honored party for an
unholy purposef Else what becomes
of that modern political literature which
credits tho Democratic party with being
in the front rank in furnishing soldiers
and befriending the negro2 In Clay couD-
ty. at Bowling Green, on the ed of
January, while that Legislature WIS vet
In session plotting treason. these Knights
met In the name of the Democratic party
and resolved: War means disunion and
hOstilities should cease" At Millsbury. in
the same county, in the sacred name OF the
party that had been bonOred by An
drew jackson, and Thomas II. Benton.
and Lewis Cass, on the 2lst of February,
resolved. that If certain war measures we're
persIsted in. "they should be resisted by
the strong arm of the people" 1t was to
resist these that few months later 1.-The
strong arm of the people" met in the So
called Democratic convention in Indlenap-
oils. to which have referred, and which
retreated so lngloriousiy on discov-
erIng what kind of n reception Governor
Morton had prepared for them.
At Auburn. DeKalb county. 200 miles from
Mlllbury, on the same 2lst of February
these same Knights. in the same sacred
name, resolved: ave are unwilling to
furnish either men or money for such
q war;" At Bloomfield, Greene county,
they had the honesty not to smirch
the Democratic party by meeting
in its name. and they met as But
ternuts" on the 27th of that same Feb
rnary. that Legislature still tussling with
that stubborn Governor Morton, and re-
solved: I'VE are not in favor of furnishing
another man. gun or dollar for such a hell
ish. unchristian crusade" You see they
had furnished SO many men and guns and
dollars the suDDly WAS hausted If some