Year: 1875

South he would refer to the fact that 1t has


its first application in Kentucky and Mas


sacbusetts, when in 1872, the presideD


called upon these states to furnish supplies
| to carry on the war. The answer was re
turned that Kentucky and Massachusetti


were independent states. Another appli


cation of this doctrine he said was wher


the legislature of Pennsylvania by 4
joint resolution declared that Pennsyl


vanis had a right to determine fol
herself whether congress had the power to
| establish national bank. But the greatest


and most important application of this doc
| triDe was by the institution OF slavery,
| bringing on the rebellion. referred to the
| few facts in the history of the doctrine to
show that it was not invented for slavery.
1t threatened the existence of the nation
from the hour of its birth, and the country
will never be safe so long as there is any
considerable portion OF our people who
believe in the doctrine. (Applsuse.) Further
in regard TO the war we believed we were
right. In


MY CAPACITY AS GOVERNOR


1 used all the power the Office gave me in
organizing and eqHipping men to so into
the field, and believe before God was
right. [Applause.] Nothing but the con-
viction of the right of the great principles
involved would have justified me in it. 1
believed / was doing my duty. 1t was my
custom, some of you soldiers will remem-
Der, when a regiment marched to the Union
Depot to march az the head of it, and never
aid so without being oppressed by the
thought, how many OF these men will never
returnl How many of these soldiers going
down the streets, cheering and shouting, are
to lay their bones in the Southern soil But
while oppressed by these thoughts was
strengthened by the conviction that was
doing my duty. These men thought so,
too. They didn't leave all that was dear TO
them on military spree, but they believed
they were fighting for principles, Tor their
country and for their liberty. 1 believe man
never died for better principles than
in the Southern SOIL And / want your
children TO believe to the remotest genera
ton that you were right and they on the
other side were wrong. We may forgive
them, we have forgiven them, but that does
not go to show that we sdjure or compromise
our principles. We should always remem-
Der, and your children and their children
should be taught that we were in the right
and they in the wrong, and that forgiveness
OF our enemies does not imply honor or re-
ward. A man may be ignorant of the nature
ofa crime and yet be punished for 1t. Men
must be held responsible for their


JUDGMENT UPON QUESTIONS OF MORALS,


politics, and law. The fact that the men
you fought believed they were in the right
makes no difference. When the Hindoo
mother throws her babe into the Ganges,
she believes she is right, but that does not
made it lawful. You were fighting tor your
country, for human liberty, fighting for
the hOliest cause man ever fought for. The
other side were fighting for human slavery,
fighting to destroy and divide our country.
You are entitled to honor and
reward, but they must accept the sit
uation they have made for them
selves. Personal animosities may be buried,
but never will the great principles upon
which we put down that rebellion be COM
promised or forgotten. Teach your children
to believe that the cause OF slavery was not
the cause of God. 1 want this whole nation
to stand on no diseased sentiment OF COM
promise, but upon the great, broad doctrine
proclaimed by our fathers nearly one hun
dred years ago, that all men are created free
and equal, and endowed by their
Creator with inalienable rights. My
friends, lets us stand fast by our
own conviction. While we deal kindly,
while we deal forgivingly with the people OF
the South, let us not forget that they were
in the wrong and we were in the right, and
in the right we were their friends. Wecan't
go to them; they must come to us, Tap
plausel and they will come to US. Re-
newed applause.l Isee JEFF. Davis has been
invited to speak in the Northern states.
think that is sickly and diseased public
opinion. [Applause.] Jefferson Davis was
something more than president of the
Southern cOnfederacy. He was living In
Richmond and the windows of his mansion
overlooked


LIBBEY AND BELLE ISLE PRISONS,


where hundreds of Northern soldiers were
starving to death and suffering the most
cruel hardships. Their groans must have
mounted to his chambers, and Yet this man
suffered them to die by inches. He suffered
these procrastinated, cruel murders to go
on. The darkest stigma upon his character
| and the confederate government was this
cruel treatment of the Union soldiers. /
| would not have you forget these things;


nor do 1 think it comports with sound
sentiment to honor a man whom
the chief responsibility OF this


thing rests [Applsuse.] We are hon.
ored to-day with the presence of Gen. Sher-
man, one OF the greatest leaders OF the war,
whose name mas filed the trumpet of fame.
Chattanooga to Atlanta, and the celebrated
march from Atlanta to the sea, and yet l
want to say to Gen. Sherman, fact which
/ be will recognize, that there was much oil
the war he did not see. The dead were
buried out of his sight, and the wounded
sent to the hospitals, and he did not know
OF the struggle going on in Indiana and
everywhere else during the war. He

didn't know what efforts it re-
quired to keep the public sentiment
in proper condition, what efforts were
made to keep a supply of arms. He was en-
gagged in another part of the conflict. In the
presence of this audience 1 would like to


know how many people there are here to-
day who have lost husband, father, brother
or a son, and will ask every man, woman
and child within the sound OF my voice,


who have suffered any loss in this way. to
Il .1.k -, r. !. -


great loss and suffering, by your love of
your children and the future of the country,


and coniure you here to-day to be faithful


to the great


PRINCIPLES FOR WHICH YOU sTRUGaLED.


am glad to meet the soldiers, although II


was not my privilege to be in the army. yet


L was closely united with them. was proud
of the Indiana troops. General Sherman
will hear witness that the trOOps of no state