Year: 1861

The Madison Courier, an ultra Republican or
gan, thus reviews the administration OF State af-
fairs by His Excellency, Governor MoRroN:


1t appears our articles of late have not given
His Excellency, the Governor of the State, the
same satisfaction our articles in the campaign of
1860 did Gov Morton, we have been told, says
there sis personal difference" Ii there is, it
is all on his side; we have none but the kindest
feelings toward him, and we wish most artently
for the success of his administration. We have
never asked favor OF him, and OF course have
not met with a refusal. We ehave defended every
measure of Gov. Morton's administration that
was deensbe, and we will continue to do so.
We will also speak plainly, comment freely. To
enable US to do this, we have carefully avoided
being candidate for office before the Legislature.
or at the hands of the State. We will speak
plainly no matter how offensive it may be 10
the Governor and to those OF his peculiar ad
mirers and benefciares, who are perhaps TO
some extent chargable with what we regard as
mistaken policy on the part of the Executive
We say mistaken policy. for we choose vet to
characterize it by no harshcr terms; but we fear
when the result is known and the evidence adj
duced upon which choose to designate it,
the people will be less lenlent than We are
Iii the mechanics and laborers of Indiana have
no better claim TO the taxes which iii the State
Treasury than similar classes in another State
which the employment of the latter by our
public iunctionaries in the manufacture OF uni
forms. clothing and shoes for our volunteers, in
preference to our own people would seem TO ndi-
cate and clelrly argue--by what reasoning can
they be held to closer allie glance to Indiana than
to Ohio any Other State? The obligations be
tween the State and its citizens are reciprocal and
mutual Ii the people are tixe1 To sustain the
State the State in the disbursement OF those taxes
should prefer the employment of the labor from
which those taxes are derived Heavy taxes will
be cheerfully borne, when necessary, IL the Gov
ernpent imposing them will expend them ecOnom-
| icaliy and udciOusy When labor goes begging
when industry is unrewdrded, when hun ger and
want arc staring our mechanics and laboring men
in the face, they could scarcely witness with pa
tence the Executive of the State take their
money and give employment to the people of an
other State, at least without good and sufficient.
reason for such course. The philosophy of a
government. and especially of government that
exists only by the suffrage of the people, seems
to be sealed books TO the present administration
at indianapolis. Cincinnati and New York get
contracts for supplying the volunteer militia of
our State, while thousands of unwilling idle
mechanics at home would be gratifed for the
work at even less rates. His Exceilency makes
contracts with Cincinnati founders for 6-pound
cannon, willis nearly every foundry on the Ohio,
from the mouth of the Miami to the mouth of the
| W abash, (many oil these extensive establishments
are as capable of casting cannon as similar estab
lishments in Cncinnati) are idle, and their pro
prietors contending with bankruptcy for want of
employment.


Again. The Executive of Indiana calls out
an army and locates it far away from that portion
of the State where its services ultimately and its
presence Immediately, will be and are required.
But, says that functionary, the present encamp-
ments only temporary. So much the worse,
for it costs the State large sums of money to carry
these troops to those encampments, and it will
cost the State additional large to carry
them TO their permanent quarters; besides which,
the temporary camps themselves are costly.
Hence. if his Excelency could save to the tax
payers one half the cost of transportation of an
army OF 5000 men and the expense of fitting up
temporary quarters, which he could have done by
placing them at once in their permanent military
homes, where they could have been as well
drilled, disciplined. cared for, &c, we think the
tax payers would have been more gratifed than
they will be inclined TO be- But We preaume there
,cere reasons OF military character that induced
and furnished an excuse for that policy; but the
common mind will fail to appreciate such reasons
when il involves an unnecessary expense and
wasting of the public money at a time when ordi


nary taxation itself amounts to oppression.