Year: 1867

Morton; would organize and march from
thence vast army to unite with others from
Northern States, and join those Of the rebel
lion. That such is part OF the history Of the
Democracy Of Indiana is proved not only by |
the facts that their guns and other arms were /
found concealed in indianapolis; that the !
rebel flags under which they were to march I
IN the work Of murder and burning in Indi- /
and were found the imported rebel officers to
assume command we're found; but the details
of this profound villany have been confessed
by some VI its authors, and the leaders have
been convicted aud sentenced to death. The
develish scheme SO detected and defeated in
Indiana was found to exist in al! its frightful
details Of horror in Illinois, where at least
two seperate days in the summer of 1864 were
fixed to begin the work of slaughter and
burning in Illinois, and the Democracy Of
that State began actually to assemble to begin
the carnage under the command Of Marina.
duke and other rebel officers. These rebel
officers were found concealed in Chicago by
the United States Government, whittier they
had been imported, ready to assume command
of the Northern wing Of these rebel armies.


THE GOVERNMENTS DANGER.


Such was the state of relations Of the
Democratic party to the country in the sum-
mer Of 1854, when another scene in the same
fearful drama was enacted And it is most
proper to look at what was the state of your
country then Was it at a time when your
injured Government had become master in the
awful conflict, and when it's foes were defeat
ed and prostrate? Could your Government
then safely meet and defy that accession to
the moral forces Of the rebellion to which We
very climax of liberfy's conflict with slavery
for life-a conflict, a climax which has come
but once on our continent, and which, may,
Heaven grant, shall never come again. 1t
was when the scales of battle hung doubtful
and trembling in ths heavens, whose turning
was to decide whether souls of the poor, turn
Ell by human slavery in to the tyrart's chat
tel, were to be thereafter and forever the





awful moment it looked to men as if one life
thrown into the rebel end of the scale might
decide the issue for slavery forever Ii was
when the Government hal already endured
the bloody conflict for lis life for more than
three years. A million of the nations cLild-
rem had put their lives into the scale for the
Government, and near three hunred thousand
of them had been lost Almost every family in
the Ia nd wore the yestmenss OF sorrow for
there was scarce house in which there was
not one dead It was jus, when Sherman
was going victorious from Chattanooga, by
Atlanta, down to the sea, and was strewing
sons. 1t was when Grant pushed back the
rebellion from the Rapidan toward Richmond
and was scattering along the line nearly a
hundred thousand more IF the nations dead.
1t was at this crisis of the dreadful conflict,
when all the good men Of tie world-a.l lovers
of free government eyerywhere-stood spec
tators of the conflict, and breathless with fear
that liberty might lose. OF these spectators,





to know that then the existence Of the Repub.
! lie and the cause Of human freedom on the
continent were staked on the issues of the
fight-that the battle stopped or the battle
lost, the Urion and Liberty were lost
But it was then-YEs, THES-that this DEM
ocrasic party, having before, as have told.
organized and drilled their hundreds of thou
sands of sworn traitors, armed to join the re.
bellion, met in national convention at Chica-
60, remorsely threw the weight Of its partys
power into the scale for the nations death
It declared the nations conflict for life unjust
"A failure, and that it must stop. 1t was the
decree Of the Democratic party solemnly pro.
nounced and recorded for the Republics over
throw. 1t vas the judgement Of three hund-
red thousand conspirators, banded for that
judgements enforcement, that the treason in
arms against the life Of the nation and Of all
free government should triumph. And from
that tribunal which made the decree went
there out instantly to the work Of its execu-
tion the combined moral and hysical forces
Of the Democratic party, already secretly or
gAnised, armed and drilled for their work Of
murder!


With profaae beseechings aud fearful pa
thos these men whom you have just seen to
be authors, both Of the wars beginning and
Of its long continuance, are now praying the
American nation not to think or talk about
the subject which have tonight talked of;
facts showing that the Democratic party,
North and South, contrived, began, sustained,
and to its end, executed the most causeless,
goddess, cruel and gigantic war for the des-
truction Of the Republic and of human liberty
Of which history ever told, or tie Imagination
ever dreamed. In exact imitation Of the man
who hearing in the courts the sentence the
recitals Of his enormous guilt, mildly inquir-
ed Of his honor 'wheather he could not put
into his slligant spaich little something
about whisky these culprits at the bar Of
history and Of public justice imp!ore us to
talk shout s'the public debt and to overlook
The fact that rctribution is just making up tho
records by which their loathed skeletons are
oeing pinioned in the pillories Of universal
nfamy, and the slow, unmoving finger Of the
,ation's scorn is just being fixed on them for-
'ver. These men implore the nation to talk
'bout the public debt. ss
It also appears that it was this Democratic