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COUNTY REPUBLICAN.
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PLYMOUTH, INDIANA. THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1864.
WHOLE NO. 313.
VOL. 8 NO. 19.1
MARSHALL
She glcjuiMita
OFFICII
Over
rrni.itiE Ain raorairroa.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION:
If pjid in advance, or within three months, $2,00
If not pawl within three mnnths f-M tQ
SOT No paper discontinued until all arrearage
are paid, unless at ine option ui mc
. 4 . r . 1 . i. it V. r .
TERMS OF ADVERTISING:
Ooeaquucof H)mM or less, three weeks, or
leas, $1,01, e tch additional insertion 25 cents.
Larger advertisements in proportion, Less than
alt a square to be charged as half a square, over
Waif a square .to be charged as a whole square.
Agents in other towns and cities will be allow
ed twenty fire per cent, conmiasion, but no ad
Tertisemcntof any kind, will be inserted at lew
than regular riktea.
BUSINESS CARDS.
N
TEW TAILORING ESTABLISH
JTET IN PLYMOUTH.
RATTY
l Stair. CnrMiT BUvk.
OVER S. tt .V. BECKER fS STORE.
FLYMOUTH, INDIANA.
JCtrrT ING DONE TO ORDER .3
fc by 1 4, IMt-a U!ii f
SHOEMAKER. Dealer in
WATCHES,
C locks nnd
Jure! rtß.
Ku Jwt -in buna
tatw x'l Aim- MMrt-
1 ,. W:lrli
Pn it Pili?. Vmt al
Rirjr-. Wai.h Ch u". SW ' ''' D'1 rylhiag 1st
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Wi-oU-anl'n Dri.kBniii INwi.- it. ti". i'l-yl
ZOUAVE HOUSE,"
m. HISSOW:. Piopririor,
Comer of IN y mouth anJ Tipp,:,noc street,
BOURROX, 7 AD.
Thi FI u h-iü recently l.een thor.mshly repair ,
fli and refuniUhed. Every e(r..tt will be made by I
r&JSm
Junel. l"u.l.
.
9 k PrtfrTP T RP.l P. WORKS I
l i. '.ill. a,a.-r-a- w
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if im'j'tetvrtT f mi!lil o f
Momimcnts. Tomb Stones,
lead Stones, of all Sizr and Forms.
MARBLE TABLE TOPS.
Birrm Taj C oaatf r Slabs, ie.. Lt.
IT wlln-ilf k!n1 fJW3sfrta mivMl.rr
aMisameat in N Tihera Indiana c a, aul aariaut ati
action i I! . .
lt. S. LEMI VRT, Censral Assent
A. MYi), Local Aent, Plymouth
act l.:
FAIRBANKS'
T A N I A K I
SCAL
Or ALL Kl- I
Vise, Warehouse Trnrk, Letter
PresfS C.
FAIRBANKS REESLE.4F & r.d.,
L:ilic St., CfclcafJi
tjr Be? rreful to buy .only the geuuine.J
Jn ' la jr I
jyj WOOD ROW, Aa.xT,
'HiOMcrrui axo dealki im all kids or
Ckatrs, Farttititrc. Mattresses
LOOKINC-CLASS PLATES, PICTURE
FRAMES, U1LT MOULDING, tc., kr.
ALSO
Ready -fl.ide Coffins,
ALL SIZES. ALWAYS Oli HAND.
No. Michisan Street , PI vnaouth, Indiana.
April 30, l?63 'JCtf.
J S I A C K MORRIS,
Notary mi"fclio,
MARMONT, MARSHALL COUNTY, IND.
Will makp nnt and taltr arknnwinljeilirnt ot I)m-.I aixl
thrr Lk1 lniitmiii.-ur-. f.Ml'ISiVI nl'lT
DR. T. A. BOR TON,
rHYSICIAX AST) fiVRKEQS,
II... in -1 Iii W) to th new bniMin; on
AiUra r t, i -..i ir.-r.i-t "1 I i- Srnnn.irr l.uiMing.
Om. r .rtr Hill fiakrrT, iii Ir. A. . norton' Ilm
tal K-M.m. WfWt .Mr Michigan trirt, riyawi.h, lad.
Jay7,iai nWtf
B
A N K
OF THE
OF ISPIANA.
STATE
Branch nt Plymouth.
. ( fr.-m tOa. m .to tm., arnt fr.-m 1 ti .1 p. m.'uO
THEO. rRE..EB. ..-!:.-. 9
8. a. rLPTi llKR, Jb., PiwIA nt,
aca, i oa- ."t t
E
DWARDS HOUSE,
iWeiCn ST, PLTIOÜTH, !ÜD.
C. Jt W. U. McCU.VX EL. Proprietor.
Omnibufsos to and from an train?, and also to
any part of thc toviv when orders aie left at the
iiouw. nov 19 '63 n3
REXBARGER, SADDLE AND
Daraess Make r,
sorrn siite ot
ILftporte St.,
OjiU CUmrelmmCt
Ply mo nth, Intf.
aniroaaatf t I 1m patillc is reaprctfaUy cljc itt-.l.
ii..HV
East SMaJikkiiraa street, ppite Wfceeler's laak
P LT MOUTH,
INDIANA.
novo863 -ltf
i
rVR. A. O. BORTOJJ.
JLJ surgeos DEXTIST.
ruXÄ'S OA
th rTi.,ofthnatnraitth,ndirreg-(QTje
alai-Ur of Cfci Mron'i r.-Mi . rr.-ctt-.l.
atufxatarwihoatcio.
aaraac lOcintMii
roKmn. Vtn ft -onnltl at Iii oflice at n Urn except
tm onJ .T and TneaO,. OHlca oU tfiVa Bakery,
ni WM iKm;tii treff. I -"7
JOÄX O. OSBORNE,
AtUney ni Counselor at Law.
mmrorrtct ix bank intntxG,
octl -HtI, PLYMOUTH, WD.
JOHN M.
x. tt -m aBH SB r
GOV. MORTON'S GREAT SPEECH,
fl f thP RDllbliCin St2lt6 C3B.-
oeiore P l864.
ion,
. .a.
In introducing the wriUen ma. er o
speech, after thanking the Convenuontor
the honor done him, and doc ainvg m i c-
termination to make it the l'.e V j
best effort m the future, he sai ia in
times like tho present, and in view oi tue
great events whose issue depem s on wise
deliberation and energetic action, men are
k0 considered a
nothing an' measu.es ,
' '
ng been
9 ,
everything. If any man,
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tried, is found incapable, inefficient or nn
e l : . ' . .
faithful, he should be set aside. If we fail
in this great struggle, then all is lost. If
the administration of National and State
Governments is placed in the hands of
men who favor compromise and concession
to those iu rebellion, which would carry
with it the ultimate recognition of the in
dependence of tho Confederacy, then all
for which so much blood had been shed,
and so much treasure expended, the unity
of the nation and her iustituions would
bo lost forever.
It seemed an appropriate occasion to
pass in review the political affairs of the
State dnring the past two years, and as he
dösired not to be misannrehen led or mis-
. V I 1 I
understood, ho had taken auch time as lie )
could gain from oflv:ial untie? and ireuur nt
illness to put in writing what he was about
, to say. He theu read as tollow:
COrPERnEAD ACTIOS IN THE LEG1SLATCRE.
Tlie beginning of the late session was
signalized iu tho House by an act as ab
surd and lusuiting as it was revolutionary.
The Constitution imposes the obliga
tion upon the Governor of communicating
with tlie Legislature ly messages trom
' time to time, and it imposes a like obliga
. tion upon the Legi?laturc of receiving and
considering such messages, in diacüare
I of this obligation, the Governor sent his
semi-annual mesj-ago to the Senate and
House. The Senate received the message .
and ordered it to be printed, but the House
lefused to receive it, and returned it to the
Governor, and passed a resolution receiv-
in.T an, I n ntttim' I ie tnessaire Ol tno IjOV- I
dopting the message of the Gov-;
.nr nf York. Laughter. 1 1
From such a beinniuir it was not hard
i: .. ii n,i TWi ilnrw had Unn,
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its Legislative cmne by a wauton insult
to the Executive, by a llagiant viulation
I II n I L I 111 I II 1. . III. 1 I Ml . V III! . . ' ' . . I
0f the ( 'un t it utiun, which
It had, but a
fcw nyirs jjCfore( SWOin to Slippor'.. The
revolutionary policy thus inaugurated was
- . i i
pursued with increasing violence and open
.tirprard ol 'Constitutional oblL'ati ins. !
mm mm - - - & i
I c 1 1 tn ums r hiellv rnnsnmed bv tha in-
1 1 tl'l ULIIU U 111 UIOIUI ai noumiivii.i, mi-
I.i., ..f .I! J,.... ...nnl mim I nt
terance of factious and treasonable senti-1 lhC i'ry power once in tne nana oi
menu, intended to excite the people a- tho conspirators, it would be a matter of
gainst the Qorernmeat, and destroy ju no importance what the courts might de
power to anppreM the rebellion. ' c'le: J lf the question took the course of
The necessary and legitimate subjects of! 011,6,8 bcfore thc Coart- ,l
U gi.Ution wWc diMcgarded or kept back, j l month or year bcfore ,he
a,kle from an ao1ar..rii lation for their own was niaJe- T,,e f'tV of duty was the path
per dien
Ahe first
;ppropr
rdicm ad mileage, which was n&cd ou
-..
t iav ut the auKsion. livery other
.1,... uinr.
I, - a a ft )
unui r ii iav, the last day dui one oi tue
iMSMou. when it kaown that no c,o-,
rum
was nivM'in in i lie uouse. ABiuni:
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the appropriations wnicn Mioniti nave oeen ,
Ihird A sum sufficient to nay tlie mil
itarr ciain which had been allowed by
the Auditing tonimittee, ami about which
there was no divpute, some ot litem having
been standing for many mouths.
Fourth A sum sotrtcient to pay Fflecial
snrgeons foriservicca aud cxwiies, render-
li ui Ul t Vl . uv v vviaav La r a va
t . u-- , . , j
rilth A sum sumeient to sustain and
continue the operations cf the State i
f the State Arse
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1 , I. ... 1 .... 1 ...n 1 1 ilin.cn that I hit lnll.
U. It uaiiui: iwii 0.1" u uu u-.-.i
' 1 j .1 c..
tution had
been piohtable to the State,
and of great service to the State and Gov
. . -
ernment.
Sixth A snm sufficient to pay the offi-.
cers and men of the Indiana Legion, for j
their set vices rendered in protecting thc j
border.
I am informed by Mr. Dranham, who;
was a member of the Committee on Ways
and IVfeans, that he repeatedly urged on
the Committee immediate action in these j
important tmattera, and also that bills ap-1
propriating money necessary for the up- j
port and operation ot the State Govern
ment should be promptly brought forward,
but every effort was unavailing, the legit
imate biuineas of legislation was subordi
nated to the great purpose of the session
to the grand scheme of the party for
seizing the military power of the State and
witn drawing the State from the support of
the General Government in suppressing
the rebellion.
Shortly after the October election in
186'2, it was given out by various Demo
cratic politicians and paper that tho Le
gion law would be repealed, and a new
law parsed depriving the Governor of all
control over State arms, and stripping
him of all military power whatever.
On the 17th day of February a military
bill wa introduced by Hay less W. Wanna,
Chairman of the Military Committee in
the House, in pursuance of the conspiracy
formed months before. It completely
overturned the Constitutional authority of
the State, established a military provision
al government, ami placed all military
power of thc State in the hands of tlie four
Democratic State officers. It will not be
improper to make a brief summary of the!
leading feature of this remarkable meas-
QTO.
First. It provided that all the arms
should be placed in the custody of the An-
3 ditor, Treasurer, Secretary and Attorney
MZ . I " mt A. " K4 : ! m m m
General of the State, to be kept, issued or
! disposed of only by them.
Second. It deprived the Governor of
! all tho power to call oot tho Militia for
anv purpose whatever.
rr.A n n,AvMl thai ttw no-nr nffi.
X UHU. a UIV ' iwvu ft u v ftuv aai
cers to be credited under this bill ehonltl
be commissioned bv certificates issued by
the Auditor, Treasurer, Secretary and At
tn-nom ( ;0n.rl nf Slolo
loJ7 treilOTmi Ol Dtate
and dispensed
with commissions issued by the Governor,
aa is required by the Constitution of the.
State.
Fonrth. It provided that the above
namel State officers should hare power to
appoint all Major and B.igadier Generals,
m. . In t iL hm. nninir o the session were: ,,VJ and her ur nrosoects fi,r utiire nrnsnnntv .k i lJ . r lL .
1- irJt A ;fticientu,u for the relief o. "'"a .ne-urei; before they took up the ap- j b'!ight,u. Her reputation ' Conr ' a rcco of the cl op r and I V iS?7 T , " S
-l.luW families. p. opnation bills.' ...... forbad faith and bankruntev for manv fi.T t tu'l SJHS N WH
V i ... .nfti .t.nt A ,l,i-oih Tho .Militat v Dil v o ated absolutely 1M . nf ;,,:r.,;rtn i . , , v , was some sträng fataütv attending Indi-
öecoud A sum Pf.Bicient to reliec tue - .J years ca'ised the current of immigration to otcs in thc Court below liad been read or i i i ai .
i - iWfc ,l. mnii no less than seven plain and vita provis- ' Mlin.i uar .,1 -r hr n Ji- 1 v.uun uuuw iiji uten rcau or anft securities, and declared their intention
necessities and oroM're for tne sick and , , . ' . , . . sweep around her and over her to .Mates sunned- without the character of the rnse r j- , v . " . .
i i i i;OP ; .L.CJJ "ons of the Constitution, and tibverted en- ... ... . . ..... mwt , . m M -M rtf f 8 . 1 , 1 1 , c,,ara"er, OI PJ case, of sending them back to America, and get
wounded soldiers in the held. in the noi th and wes, and for a series of having been brought to the knowledge of . i r .u 4 e
, , ia:. : i. ,t m tire v the scheme of Government invented . . . 4L ; i..:... j un.1 .. , h. . . . Miww.cug oi , . Q2 ear 0f them at once and forever.
and conferred upon the officers thna op
P'nteJ to dcct a numerous and expensive .
KlÄ i
Fifth. It provided that the lour State
officers, upon the requisition of the Brigs-
jjej. QeBer48( should issue the arms to
8Uch persons as be
agreed upon
xvjt)0ut requiring bunds to be given for
their preservation and return, and could
o piace,j n lhe .mjii 0f jrresponsi-
bJe panjes for reTOiulionary Md treason-
porposes.
Sixth. It nrovided for the renral of the
prese.it Legion law, the dissolution of all
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brigade, regiments and companies foim-
. 1A.V tlfi dissolution of all
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lades, regiments ana companies ioim-
ed under thai law, the surrender of their authority for its application, I will not of Mai ion County, asking for a mandamus
arms into the hands of the agents to le undertake to determine. lean only say against Risline to compel him to issue a
appointed by the four State officers, and that in they were held to be a snffi- warrant upon the Treasurer for an amount
rendered null and void all outstanding i cicn warrant after tho October election, of money sufficient to pay tho approaching
commissions in the Sttte. ! Whatever might be the true aspect of the July interest. The Sinking Fund was the
In short this bill transfered to the four j legal question, I determined to procure, if holder of a large amount of our State
State officers the military power which possible, sufficient money to carry on all stocks, npon which it was the duty of Tal
was vested in the Governor by the Con- j the institutions of the State, and keep the bott to collect the intorest and the bring
stitution, and gave to them new ami dan-j machinery of the government in motion. ing of this snit was apparently in the per-
gcrous powers hitherto unknown to Con- j
dilutions or laws in regularly organized
governments.
lhey were to become four Grand Cora
manders, a Military Directory, a quadrn-
pic Executive.
The bill was defective in one particular,
i . r tr ft l ! . 1 rt niiMM In f. r t 1 1 nnnti nrrnniv
S J'iwf iut ava aiav- v. 1 1 4 , - i . i
of twQ of thcse Executive Heads differing )
from (hc other two jt 8nonM ,iave rat(le I
provision ia such case fur referring a din
a -
pitted malter to a Justice of the Peace, or
the decision of a Coroner's Jury. Laugh
ter. The legislative history of this bill could
not be better given than in language em
ployed by the Union members of the Leg
islature in their Address to the People of
the State:
ACTION OF THE MINOR1TV.
"The Military bill had come from the
midnight tancus to the House; had been
printed and forced to its engrossment with
out the change of a word or letter; all
amendments and substitutes had been vo
ted down; alt references to committee ha 1
b.'en refused, although ever)' othor bill of
a general character that had gone to the
second reading had been referred to some
--" n
committee; the previous question had been
sustained, the gng applied, and all debate
cut off, and the bill en-rossed.
Nothing
w
was left but for us to .sit by an 1 see this
infamous measure passed through, the re -olution
consummated and civil war begun,
or to quietly retire and leave the House
without a quorum; there was no other
peaceful and constitutional rcme ly. If it
had been left to the Courts to annul it, be
- . , ,
'ore qneation COilld
have beeu deter-
UlinC! I MO IBAV WOUIU IMTB
done its work.
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r . ! i l .1 i.A u :
U1 y-w' u uu uouu-s uor iicm-
w i ie cuurw b i fiin piMie.
- VI.TU wiiunu ! iiaiuiis, an i it-
II J a mfL - . r!a
IUI IIP. V II ni ilWt'il III IUH1 IV T.t lit.
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l"r" ano pass tu e pm op. lauon ... . , .;
an oiner iplt mm ate ami an icuisiai ion .
o.v w
nit i ii' v i t:i iw. i in us en ii i phi in m ti. v i iuil
i . . i . . . i t .
- r - - r
ely
bj the framers of that inssrument. It 9
passage would have been an act of revolu
tion inevitably attended by civil war and a
collision with thc Government of the Uni
ted States.
There were doubtless a number of Dem
h d'd
" v nd
spiiacy, a
ocratic members in the Sen
. . . .
not sympathize with the con
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; l'.. .j.p. .u
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prosress. liut the Union
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Houses believed lhat if it passed the Honso
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1 r va . , r 1 ! 1 - w 1 r 1 iinaio 1 n j oii ion ri
the majority was predetermined in secret rY5.wZ?JFT '!T?79 Vf mm fjy ac-
cancua from time to time, and the party I hcr8tf fil W th(5f ntmi f ' Jon could be had upon the subject. From
, . 1 -. 1 1 v. c nnually on the nn-t days of January and this last decision Talbott annpalnd tr thA
lash laid unsparingly upon the backs of . , . 3 , .-, t J; , appeaiea to tne
11 u 1 j. iL . 1 I . , July in each year, until the principal of Supreme Court. T'.o Snrpm fnnrt
all who daretl to talk ol doubts or hesita- : J, . . k . . ., r 1 , m ywi vuun. tue oupreme k,oort re
ted at the fearful .ehernes of the reckless th d,ebt. ?bou ü be PMd' le "angemen ccivcd and reta.ncd both records, and then
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the art
r.. ir 1 . mm,
Ihe Legislature was in session fifty out
e ., 1 1 1 ...
s-tt t ht h le int larti. alma . 1 n 0 nil t n m
l.a.1.t-o wltA or a jlirttarmrr flirt ipttitn nt
quorum present in each House, during
I ' O
ui tuu 1111 Y 11111; irunmu .1; . nmi u
which time, as before stated, no appropria -
1 tin I . I I -r u'drn l.r.iM rlil fn.tt4Pl A.- ...... fn.
I w.iia nnw uiwiill lui 'iniu CAWUI IUI '
1 their own pc: dtom and mileage, an.1, the
t Union raeinbcTs withdrew from tlie House,
only after every other mean had been ex
hausted to prevent the passage of the fatal
measure.
Thus en led this Legitdatnre, having
made the worst record, pcihaps, ever made
by any Legislative Assembly in the United
States. Loud cheers.
TUB BF.HEVOUtJiT IXSTITOTiaM
Immediately upon the adjournment oi
the Legislature, ii was announced by the
State officers that there wcre no appropri
ations for carrying on the benevolent insti
tutions and the penitentiaries, and that no
money could be drawn from the Treasury
for that purpose. It was the confident ex-
pectation that I would be compelled to call
back tho Ijogislature orsnspend the opera
lions of all those institutions but I de
termined to do neither. To have called
back the Legislature would have been an
act of madness for which 1 would have
been condemned by every irne man in the
State. To have suspended tbo Henevolent
, Institutions and scattered the unfortunate
inmatos abroad, would have been an act
of inhumanity, disgraceful to the State
i 4 .11 j
: BUU VU Mil ('Hie tunwi neu
T 1 O T. O rf IlT'll a
in looa uovernor vv uiaru, m eorase
quence of tne alleged want of appropna-
Hona tor their support, suspended the Be-
I I a T mmtm ml 1 . ft
nevoieni insiuutions, ami sent away the
oeai ana anmu, ine oiinu anu lusane. lhis
suspension took frTaceih the month of May,
but on the 2Ulh day of the November fol
lowing, after tho State elections had taken
nlaee. thev were re-opened, tbo mmniM
if w 7 ' 11 -"
; sent for-such as could be found-and the
money taken from the treasury for their
- j support. In tho meantime no legislation
hau been had and no appropriations made.
If it was lawful to tako money from the
Treasury to carry on these Institutions af
ter the October election, it was lawful to
do it before end their operations should
j never have been suspended, and the fact
that after the election had passed aud the
time had gone by for making party capi-
tal out of their suspension, they were re-
optmed and Mipportcxl from theTieasnry in
the ordinary way proves that the origi-
nal act of suspension was not a necessity,
but s jiarlimn motsure of (he must reprc-
bensible character. The Benevolent Inati-
fuiions of the State are provided lor in the
(Constitution of tlio State and are regn-
larly organized by statute the people of
the State have been taxed for their sup-
port, and bare paid their money into tho
Traasurv. whui-e it now is. Whether these-
(vnetitntinn:il and Ipiral nroviiona and
vi ........... ... ...... p - - - - , ......
the collection ot tue money, constitute an
This would devolve upon me great ami
novel responsibilities, but they were noth-
ing compared with those 1 should havo
assumed by suspension and failure. Mon-
ey was procured from various sources !
from the proceeds of the arßenal, from va-
nous counties private persons from one
1 . . , I- n , . 1 ', 1 ...... 1 aam n aa I
lca 11 t Ulli WHO laillVttU WVUipIIJ U Jill, J.
I believe, sufficient funds have been secor-
carfv forwaril tlu Slftle Government
until the 1st of February, löüf. I am
gratified te sUte that when tbo increased :
cost of all articles of food, clothing and
materials of every kind consumed in tho
Beuevulent Institutions shall have been
eonsidered. it will be found that thov havo
been cariied on at a diminished cost of
' f
ten or mtecn per cent., as contrastea witn
the expenditures ot former years, ror out and certified for the supreme Court. This
this I am indebted to the vigilance and ny first knowledge ol the case. Mr. Hord
t . j . e . stited that the case had been passed npon bv the
economy of the superintendents of these Court. The papers conted of a complaint', de
institutions, thc members of the Board of niurrer to complaint, answer and demurrer to nn
Trustcos, and especially to Andrew Wal- swer.andofan entry in the hand writing of the
lace; President of thc Boar!. Attorney General, reciting the overrulling of thc
' demurrer to the complaint, the sustaining of the
1XTEKEST ON TUE sTATK DEBT. , demurrer to the answer, and thc judgement of the
I now approach the history of a transae- c:'"rth:'t writof mandate h-uc in conformity
.i 1 r l i i .u c i Wlln UIP prajr of the complaint. The Attorney
tion the most remarkable in the financial Gtal wanted me to quit mv biher work and
records of tho State, and one which will make the entry in thc order book immediately,
bo rea 1 hereafter with mingled indignation whicl1 ' refused to do, nnd told him that the trans
and astonishment. 'WM
.i f. j. . . ' from the original papers, and before the entrr was
Shortly after the adjournment of the made in the order book . Mr. Hord replied that
Legislature it was brnited about that Mr. he would uke it in that way. I supposed it was
liiatine, the State Auditor, would decido nU ''j;ht, and that everything had been ordered by
that there was no existing appropriations th?.ourt , , , .
u - I , i i r rhc papers were then taken to the Clerk's of-
by tvhich the money could be drawn from fice ftnd t:.cm . 1(rnTr11 wn3 madc out and
the licasury to pay the interest on the certified bclore any step in jthe case had been en
State debt, and shortly afterwards the tered upon the order book and before thc minutes
opiaion of Mr. Hord, tho Attorney (iener- j oen read or signed. As on as the trans
I .u " , i j i 1 ci ipt could be completed in this mode, it was han-
al, to that effect, purporting to be address- U( l llie Attorney General, who was waiting at the
ed to Mr. Kutine, was published in the , Clerk's office for it; he said aa he received it, that
papers. luis graud discovery was a sur-
prise to everybody, and the nnrnoso of 1 1
could not be mistaken which was to drive
mc to call m extra session of the Legisla
ture. The proposition itself was an insult
to public ni oi a! s ami good faith, and in
utter disregard of the usage and practice of
thc State lor many years. In 1841, the
State having contracted a large debt for
the purpose of internal improvement, and
r
the system bavins provoJ diaastrone. fail-
- a a .ft I
w w
ed to pav tlie interest upon uer Donas, tue.
credU of lho State was at once prostrated
.i i- . t .l n i
in i Ka tii.ui.'V maibeta nf tho world hör
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i - I ...
i nitneito gooa name every wncre eiiecte.l,
-nnr )imS irrmvth in nonnlat iin and wealth
1" ET!:.
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1
do justice to her creditors. Accordingly
a compromise was finally agreed upon and
Äd0IUed y w,,icl1 ber creditors anrrender-
d and cance,,ed 01,0 Da,f f lheir debt,
amounting to over seven millions of dol-
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"v.rb ax v - ar.....wM, w.
, . , n f whj , , g
transferred to them the Wabash & Erie
Canal and issued new stocks to them for
was ininiv aavantacreous 10 the ta'c ana
1 w -r w
I d'U mXKU 'r U,e iramedi
her credit. For the crcd
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: one, for the abaah
I
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e v Horiu.ea. and h--3 8mce
hoon rrncl 1-.H 1 1 u ,rn n. I , 1.1 i
1 v, 3 -ou, ana tnoy uaa
oimiu -is- a iuu tust oue uan oi ineir en-
tire claim. .Legislation had in le4G and be paid upon the State debt. And here I
1847 in completion of the arrangement leave thc law suit.
was regarded as a perfect and continuing! In future times tho legal antiquarian
appropriation from the Treasury of aa will pause amidst his researches to exam
amount of money sufficient to pay the in- ine this cae ls the greatest curiosity in the
terest from time to time, according to the annals of American jurisprudence,
terms of the new agreement. It was to The dead lock was now placed upon
regrded and acted upon throughout the tho Treasury. It was full of money paid
remainuer o: tne Administration ot Gov
ernor Y hitcoinb, throughout the two
ministrations of Governor Wright
I.- l-. A 44.- r i w.
mo tatu ii.iiiiiiiuirauou oi governor vv u -
lard. In lt?57, the Legislature having
failed to make the usnal appropriations
for the support ol the State Government,
the Hon. Joseph McDonald, then At-
toiney General of the State, cave it a, his
..n:..;.l r,;;rt ,1.. u:U luL - '
".iMw44 him nicio ero do
appropriations authorizing he payment of
uoney from ihe Treasury for the support
of Benevolent Institutions, there was a le-
rvnl a r,A Aj-4-ftl.IMM aa - ----- a - 1
br. wi uU.K .t p.uF,..Mun ior ne
payment of the interest on the Slate debt,
and ia accordance with thi opinion Gov,
illard, in 1848, borrowed from tbo
Sinking Fund enough money to pay the
July imcicut, the Treasury at that time be-
ing empty. Ihe Constitution adopted in
r yp vooij air.uinu u payment o
1 W C ..M1 . - t 1 iL.
th
e priucipai ana interest oi lois oebt, anu
was regarded as of itself constituting an
payment of this .interest but so it did also
for the payment of the salaries of all the
State officers, the payment of tho State
Printer, and for several olher purposes, all
01 wnicu are now paiu out ol the Slate
Treasury, without specific appropriations,
These appropriation? were without signif;
icance, because no question had been or
was then miAM e4o the sufficiency of the
original appropriations to pay the interest
on the State debt.
Justice to Mr. Brett, the Treasurer of
r 4.4 4 - . '
the State, requires it to be said that he did
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not enter readily into this scheme of tepu
nntl f nrali lo a nnron r i a r .in until tha . . rm urvltr . K .1 ...... Ä 1 1 r.. I
T-Tr'ra.Tvrrr'Trt',p A y y uaiig aim puwer.css ior stocs but that it IS 1
' I .k 4 iö-ft i iöT -vT , 6.r 1 ,,u'"cu' """'. ftu ib-v " frorn the Treasury to
is true that in lbo9 ami 1861 the Legisla- etlort nntna lo to preserve the credit of the tkenisejve8 rethiced in
ture made special appropriations for the State, in the month of June I proceeded : ;,4
diation. and frequently expressed his en-
tire disapprobation of it. To seen re the
co-operation of Mr. Brett, ml to stem (he
current of public indignation which was
sotting in Rtrongly against the parties to
this scheme, it was determined in May to
procure an opinion from the Snpreme
Court, by which Brett could be coerced,
and under which Rist ino and his co-adju- i
tors could be sheltered. Accordingly, in
May, Hon. W. H. Talbott, the President i
of the Sinking Fund, and who, it is well
understood, was one of Ristine's advisers
in (hid scheme of rpnmliat inn rrinmenel '
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a suit against uisiine in tne L lremt our.
formance of his duty. It Was obvious.
however, that if such a suit was bronght
it would bo a mere sham, a concocted
thing to consummate the original schema
of repudiation. Tlie history of the case in
its progress through the Circuit and Sn-
prerue Courts clearly established the truth
! Aninlon TLa I. of K
Mi ''JMiiiwn. A IIU nntui Ul IIKJ (.ttU
in the Circuit Court is set forth in the
card of Mr. Smock, the Deputy Clerk of
that Court, which I will read
"TxtiAAroL-s, Mar in, 1383.
-in th case entitled The State of Indiana on
il,0 relation of the Commissioners of t'e Sinking
Fund vs Joseph Ci-tino. Auditor of State, the pa-
Pcr wcre fir9t presented to mc by Mr. Hon!, the
A t. ? I f .--.1 1IL .1 - r
. im. im . i im i ,ii ,' mi .uoiiu;i uit i mi u.iy ui
May, 'ilh a rennest that the entry prepared should
at once be entered ol record, and a transcript made
ne unpeu io get a aecision in the Mipreme Lourt
r" u ,,,ni inc c""" W0UIU l)e
"After this thc entrv was recorded. When
Judge Fitch read the entry he remarked that he
had not been informed of wh it it contained that
it had not been read to him. and if he bad known
in character, it should not have been reeorde 1.
He struck t'ie entry from thc order book with his
own hand, aud bclore tlie minutes, for the day had
been signed.
"W.C. Smock, Deputy Clerk."
This certainly beats any judicial time on
rooord. The MlllllliarY Drncoodinira of tho
Police Court of New Yoik or of tho Old
J K 0
Baiey j London cannot annro.ch it.
II..... U ..1 -. I! l . -i- 1 i
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, utic iiiK menu ntrs on nciiii s ,n nail noon
r
prepared out of Court in advance, indud
ik. 1 .. i f u. r: n 4 1. -
, tu uti igi; ui me c ircuit vouri, wno, upon
I iLSlÄftSS SP.
1 . ..ii ma wi. u uauu, uirj, aa k. iv.iiii uuiu
another source, sent a communication to
the Clerk of the Snnrom Conrt. atatina
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that thc record filed with hit
improperly obtained, and that
j decided anv such case. lie th
im bad been
he had not
, UUCItJUM I1V UCU CaSC- I1C UieXl tOOK Till
, pvam;nA, . . . . . , .
decided it invalid, noon th cronnd that
the proceedings were whollv nrtm.in
1 a n - - j aBaaav
!
! wcre delivered in the Supreme Court in
. . . . ..
, notn cases denying the existence ol any ap
nrnnrim mn v urtm
:h the interest could
in mm rtvA av.Ia.1 il.rt ....... C I
. Mialnnllni. f a 1 4. . , ve, IM DOODIO Ol IU li.Uia, BUU 'U. l.UillCr, IU
taÄaTi JJ 7?i ai PCpU Dj,Dß ,,n ll!C SuPreM0 ?M2 1 Us clear comprehension and able manage
FrTo Vlnal in . ' 'T' fJ ? Ca&9 P. tbe ' went of the affair, has displayed net only
rifu, V anal in a , Conrt below. In a fnw dAra nriinionfi I ,. i t-.-. t. . i.'i ....
vüv I'liriuivi njv i v v ii (vui aMi-ii ui l I - c I l : .1 At t -
Gov- into it by the people to defray the interest i the $ute Treasury the sum of fifty thoo
o Ad- upon the public dobt snpport the Benevo- j Mnd dolUr8f to inTested by him in onr
. and lent Institntious and Penitentiaries, and! i i i. .k o,..Ä .4 i
.. .. ' ..
: nquidaie an mo expense incident to tne
operations of tho State Government.
The situation was full of embarrassment
and responsibility to me, and the affairs of
the State were in a most critical and deli-
cate oositmn. To have ca ed an Extra
c.: r .u. r u "
UÖ9IIUU oi tuo uciriaittLure wuuiu uave re
ahzod tha hope of tha repndiatoni. A
careful examination of the designs and
temper of tho majority failed to present
I it. 1 J La a l 1 rr . V
u, ...jmc. prospe nat a ninerent poi -
cy would be adopted from that which
prevailed at the Regular Session, while tbo
danger and excitement which then pre-
vailed would bo renewed with increased
violence. Every Union member, so far aa
I could learn, was utterly opposed loan
r !. . o r i-i4 . . 4.i
-'on, ana & nave yet io nna tne
nrst union man in this btate who did not
protest against such a measure as
uem8
to Now York and opened negotiations with
ileesrs. Winslow, Lanier fc Co. That
able and disliniraished bouse promptly of-
lered to par the interest if the torooer evi-
. . . 4 4
donee could be procured as to who were
the stockholder entitled to receive it.
On the 23d day of June they addressed
a letter to John 0. Walker, Agent of thc
State, elected by the late Legislatare, res-
ident in New York, informing him that
they were prepared to pay the interest if
he would furnish them from tha booka of
the Agency in his office, a list of the stock
. ..
- holders, or allow such list to betaken, aud
offering to pay the expen e of having it
copia I. This list was made necestary by
the existence of spurious Stocks issued by
Stover, the former Ajrent, which could be
Selected from the genuine only by the
books of the Agency. To this letter Wal j
ker replied in a long, malignant and frivo-
lous communication, in which ho assailed
the Governor, and ended with refusing the
list or allowing it to be taken. j
In June they addressed him a second
letter, in which they urged him to pay the
internst nn tho Stat Storks in the uaal
arav hv iccninnr rhoeL-a tn tho ctncl hrw'. i
J ' J ' 1 1 11 q v . v . v v . w vv
ers lor tne amounts uue to tncm. upon
heir house, which checks they would pay
upon presentation, and also expressly ex
onerating him from all personal liability
or responsibility for tho money thus ad
vanced. The interest had been paid in this man
0 . t 1 . 1
ner through the house of Messrs. Wins- j
low, Lanier fe Co., for the preceding ton !
years, tne Agent depositing his money
with the house and checking upon it iu
favor of the stockholder.
.a a .
This proposition was also abruptly re-
jected by Walker. 1 have no lauguagc to
express the contempt and aversion for the
conduct oi vainer wuicn must be univer
sally entertained. No commentary can
add to tho intense disgust which it must
i . in
i . i- i - i t. ., .
inspire in
every honest and intelligent
mind, me omco ot Agent ot State was
created by tho Act of Settlement with our j
creditois in 184G, to which I have before j
referred. Through it the interest was to
1 ä n a i .) a imm n 11 it t n ,n- -1- . 1 !
a 1 um AT i m n .
'V
v j-.u eairwawui; m in xuiiv, uu .
the business of tho Agent was to watch
over and preserve the credit ot the State,
and for nhich he receives a salary of
5ü0 a year, and 8:2,500 more for offico aud
incidental expenses.
He was not, however, entitled to the
sole credit of defeating the arrangement
made with Messrs. Winslow, Lanier fe
Co. Mr. Ristice the State Auditor, was
present with him in New York aiding and
advising, and is entitled to share the glory
and responsibility of that transaction.
Walkar having thus defeated the ar
rangements with Messrs. Winslow, Lanier
k Co., the interest on our stocks went to
protest for non-payment on the lt of Ju
ly. Their value was immediately affected
in the market, and the fair lame of thc
State again became the subject of doubt
and discussion. Steps were taken to in
form the stockholders, as far as possible,
of the true state of the case to prevent
panic and sacrifice, I pledging myself to
make further efforts to effect an arrange
ment for the payment of the interest.
Determined not to be defeated if possi
ble in the effort to preserve the credit of
the Slate, I attempted to secure from oth
er sonrces a correct list of the stockhold
ers, and in this attempt succeeded iu No
vember. In the meantime the necessity
for action had become more manifest and
imperious than before. While thc Amer
ican stockholders in general hail a correct
knowledge of the tine state of affairs, and
but few stocks were changing hands or
beiug offered in the market, the case was
quite difTctcul With UUI alock-huldcia in
Europe. In Europe American politics
are always badly nnderstoa 1, and thc prin
cipal fact which they clearly comprehend
ed was that they did not receive their in
ting
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4 "order,. .ld
have been followed by great depreciation
and loss of credit throughout the United
States.
Having presented the list to Messrs.
Wind nrnni nt I
1 . , - 1 1- " '
11 uioivn iiitur-i vv ' j . , aav i'i wiiii.ii 1
renewea ineir oner, ana gave puonc notice
that they would pay tho back interest
which fell due in July, and afterwards
gave further notico that they would pay
the interest whi:h accrued on tho 1st day
of January, 186-1, and up to this time, as
I am advised, have paid out 3280,000.
The noble and generous conduct of this
house should and will be appreciated by
ship that should put to the blush the petty
and contemptible management of State of
ficials who for partisan purposes were wil
ling to disgrace the State before the world.
There is another trans action connected
with the refusal to pay the interest on the
public debt which must if possible increase
the abhorrence entertained for it in tho
public mind. On the day of August
Messrs Ristine and Brett, the Auditor
and Treasurer, advanced to Walker from
i war loan uouus ur tue itu atuuita, ui
which I h
j t- ftnj
j
ave been speaking. Messrs. Ris-
Brett have also taken from the
Treasury the sum of 850,000, with which
th ' uaJe prirCuas
i Ja v: :
ased In liana 5 per cent.
all the sum of 8100,000
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l8Ken rrora De troasnry ior imrpose.
lfn m at -4 -.-. a rt .1 . 1 T ft t-ft f t Vrtm a I 1 A
Me ipectacle of State officers deciding
th i j, no gw b which th can J
i ,ua c..,a cita k O.
i I lir llltLI(..-it l Illy LJ IBiti ii 1 1 V IV . . LM I W Ull i
1 j ,aw t0 takö m from the TreftSurv
, fothe wchmM of the stocks themselves
at a price depreciated by the failnre to pay
the interest. In what light mnst such a
transaction be viewed among private per
sons in the bnsiness world. A refuses to
a
pay his paper at maturity and then puts
, hijJ m in lho han,l3 of ß to b it
. ,i:.M r;.,;,,. Ar n AÄm u.
i it is unlawful to par the interest on our
I f j -
awful to take money
buy up the Bt0ck8
price by the failure
mi have taved this last disgrace,
ö- b
Surely the State
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STATE PRlVTINt.
I should fail to present the conduct of
! 1 1 o . . rr" 1 1 .fj:i
lD0 olie omcers in hs proper ngut 11 1 aw
; not allude to their action in regard to the
" 8 Printer. It is difficult to see upon
what legal or moral ground they could re-
nse t0 dvence money for the support of
thc Benevolent Institutions and Peniten -
tier ie, and at the same time pay large
sums of money to the State Printer; yet
.. , nnniiii nn tv nur a nrnm s nifismin-
- this the Cftse- VV hen tlie Sonate4taken away? If the right exists to destroy
t I . r 4I i4 1 c l 1 0 -1
Journal of the last da of tbo session,
Monday, wa. read, it w is found to eon-
tain a resolution, which tue roiunto show-
el to have been adopted, appropriating
twelve thousand dollars for the payment
of the State Piintei.
The Union member present declared
that no such resolution ha 1 been read in
their hearing, and that no quorum wa
present to pass that or ny other. Bo
that as it may. it was but the resolution of
one House. It was not a law, nnd bad no
force or validity whatever. L uder the
flimsv nrlpvt nf tli!d riiliiti..n ivtrnnlk.
were isnod tn ih Sirn P,-!ntr fnr ttcoFvn
- v v . . . , . . vs v. . v- III'- 14 . V I IIIIUI t V 1 4 V. . V,
thousand dollars, on which he drew the
money. Wlien this snm was exhausted,
there was a little delay in the payments,
but having become bolder, and tho necw
sities of the editor of the Sentinel becom
ing greater, they dispen-ed with all pre
texts or forms of law, and paid him largs
sums of money from time to time.
in all
Whon
amounting to ahmt 820,000
asked to pay for the support of the Benev
olent Institutions they plead the absence
of appropriations, and the terrors of the
embezzlement bill. But when asked to
pay the editor of a pavtizan newspaper,
they lanched at the embezzlement bill as
a good joke, ana treated tne plea ot no ap
propriations as a clever thing in its way,
but too trifling to interfere with the sup
port of the newspaper organ of the party.
i i v. . i a f
tar r a.. m
I am intormed that tho Attorney teneral
gave an opinion to the effoct that it was
legal to pay the State Printer. I should
havo been surprised it he had not.
mruiT OF THE COVERN JIEXT TOWARD HEDELS.
Passing from matters of local or State
interest, thc Governor next took up one
national condition nnd sail:
It is a truth taught alike by reason and
history, that the more terrible and des
tructive wars are made the sooner they
are ended. Lingering and protracted wars
are the most terrible calamities that can
befall Nations. Not only do they con
sume thc blood and substance of a Nation,
but they arc attended with a demoraliza
tion and dissolution of tho frame work of
society more dreadful than the loss of
even blood and treasure. Humanity, mer
cy and sonnd policy then dictate that war,
if it must exist, shall be made terrible and
destructive that it may soon be ended, and
demand that every legitimate means for
that purpose shall be promptly employed.
The power of the enemy may be over
come and destroyed in two ways: First,
By destroying or capturing his army in
tha field. Second, By withdrawing or
cutting off his resources so that he shall
not be able to furnish, clothe, feed, or
maintain an army, and whero this can be
done it is quite as efficient as thc former,
and far less costly and blooly to both par
tics. The resources to which I refer con
sist eh icily in arms and munitions of war,
tt asportation, food and clothing for ar
mies. The first great step adopted by the Gov
ernment to cut off the resources of the reb
els was the blockade of their ports, and
the exclusion of all foreign trade or com-
merce. This effort has been only partial-,
ly successful , and there is good reason to
believe that if its sneepss ha' mmm
plete, the rebellion would have failed be
fore this time for want of material ami
supplies for carrying it on.
Thc question of the power of the gov
ernment to blockade the ports of the rebel
St&tes was early presented in the courts,
and kas been solemnly affirmed in the Su
preme Court of the United States, every
Judge concurring. No higher exhibition
of tbo war power in cases of rebellion can
be presented than blockading robel ports,
and treating them as the ports of a foreign
r i i - . . . m -
enemy, ine constitution is sueni upon
the subject, bat the Court held that tho
right is a necessary pait of the war ma
king power to suppress rebellion. It waa
done by order of the President, and with
out authority or concurrent act of Con
gress. An attempt has been made from the bo
ginning to destroy rebel means of trans
portation and communication, by cutting
up and destroying their railroads, bridges,
steamboats and shipping of every kind.
The right to do this has not beeu seriously
questioned and is a part of the war power
vested in the President as Commander-in-Chief
of the Army and Navy of the United
States.
But how shall the ability of the rebel
to feed and clothe their armies, and clothe
and subsist their families at home bo des
troyed? That is a great question demand-'
ing our consideration. To answer it wo
must carefully consider in what that abili
ty consists. We rind that this ability con
sists chictly in the labor of abont lour
millions of negro slaves, who are employ
ed in producing food ami clothing for the
families at home and tho armies in tho
field, providing monitions of war, repair
ing railroads, erecting fortifications, mana
ging baggago trains, and performing near
ly all the labor in the field, tho workshop
and the camp. We shall find if this slave
labor could be withdrawn their armies ia
the field could not be fel and clothed, and
that the men composing those armies
'.voulil be compelled to return home and
labor for their own and the subsistence of
their families.
Their armies thus collapsed and dissol
ved, the rebellion would be ended, and
with it the war and elusion of blood.
But should thera be those who deny that
the withdrawal from the rebels of slave
labor would be decisive upon the rebellion,
yet even they are bonnd to confess that H
would tend powerfully in that direction
and greatly contribute to destroy tho vital
resource of the rebels. If, then, the with
drawl of slave labor from the rebels would
be so potent in its effects and disastrous to
tho rebellion, npon what ground can tbo
CJ r.L 4 : j : im
existence oi tu pu.. uuS
As before stated, tne right of the Govern-
, ",cu " ". f' "'""7
L. . . I Uz.. , I I .. ,1. ....I I iL.
O ( B uaa yecu simciuiiij uvmsicu vj lira
Supreme Conrt of the United States. Tbo
right to destroy or appropriate to the use
Qf our own Government their railr
- .. .. .
budges, shipping, growing crops and
.whatever property may be useful to ns, of
; the loss of which would be injurious to
them, is scarcely denied by the moat bitter
nemy of the Government. How then can
1 th0 right be denied, to destroy or remove
the labor which has produced all thaao
thintra and mav restoru them if tber am
' oNi- Ptp ox t'ovnin 1 auk.
T