The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-03
THE RlSLEY AGITATION.
Why Should Not Northern Copperheads b
Rewarded as Well as Southern Traitors?

4 the siito % vie AntIandQouS ourna
1t seems to me that there 10 q good deal Of
needless agitation In regard to MIR. Risley.
OF course he was q member of that
infamous organization known 40 Sons of
Liberty, or knights of the Golden
Circle. aud was thoroughly ao-
quainted with its murderous aud trea.
sonable designs; but hat fact is the very
best possible reason why he should DO hon.
ored at the hands of the Democratic party.
Why. in all consistency. should not those
patriotic % citizens who suffered so much
in the sacred cause of slavery and secession
be honored with the best places in the
party which always favored and some
times fought for bothf Are not those
who suffered in the North. who were
compelled to meet in sink holes
and other out of the way places. or to pack
their grips and Eight out" for Canada en-
titled to just as much consideration by
this administration as Hoke Smith. or
Wade HAMPTON. or any other of the good
Democrats who attempted to destroy
the government only o short time
aRoi Risley il only q link oat of
the same sausage. He is no better. or no
worse. than q majority of the hungry and
thirsty patriots who will hold positions
under Mr.. Cleveland. No more appropri-
ate appointment could possibly be made.
unless Steve Horsey, or l.. Z. Milligan,
or Andy Humphreys could be pre-
too late In the day for Democrats
to get their backs up" in regard to the
record of their party during the war. and
particularly in Indiana. Ii was simply in
famous. Ii any additional testimony of
thnt f 20 x-4 h-
they are most respectfully referred To
Minister Isaac p. Gray. or Secretary of
State Walter Q. Gresham. They know ell
about 1t. and can unfold that reasonable
record by the hour. Senator voorhees,
as he is disposed to screen his
brother-ln-iaw, Mr.. Risiey. Is Is
not to be wondered at that the
d~istinguished Secretary. of State would
favor Mir. Risley, for he himself has q
and a''ccmrade" of the new minister TO Swe-
den IN that grand army of traitors! He
may want an appointments under this
reform" administrator q little later on.
n 1t il we'll enough to have q precedent.
But 1t is really funny to see how fraDtlcaI-
~ Senator Voorhees, rushes to the defense
of one who is charged with having been a
s sion n d1rlng tho w.,. wST Fl. That Ssr,,1 kin .
friends and admirers in those troublesome
times. They never had much admira-
ton for Morton. or Lincoln. or Logan.
or Hovey. Singular. wasn't il. that
the special admirers Of the Sena-
tor in those days were the bitter
and unrelenting enemies of the men who
were doing most TO uphold the honor of the
old flag and preserve the UnIonf The
Senator's immediate constituents in Vlgo
and Sullivan counties wero not SO fortunate
in securing money with which 70 buy
arms. as they were In my old county OF
Washington. There DIR. Bowles's I'D.
the Southern Confederacy. See tes-
tlnony of Colonel Heffren, who con.
Guided to tell the truth" in hope of saving
his own neck from the halter. In 1868
Senator VOORHEES, presided over the
Democratic State convention. In bis
Of Clement l.. Vallandigham. the
convicted traitor was eloquent and un-
stinted. He called him that gallan,
tribune of the people," and sent
hun the s. mpathy of his Dem
Ocratio friends IN Indiana" Now,
Vallandigham wasthe commander-in-chiet
OF that organization, to which SO
many rothers-in-law belonged. and the
eloquent Senator must have known it
In any event ho knew that be
was y convicted traitor. and va.
ont of his country for hil
country's good. When the Putnam county
Democracy resolved against furnishing
cute the war, the Hon. Jason B. Browu
was there and spoke to the res
%OlutioE, making 'the greatest effort of hi.
life." SO 1t comes to pass, In these days OF
reform" that the fellows who were ''aGIr
the war" are the ones most likely to re
ceive favors from this administration.
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