| Show of ell P MORTON of the may many distinguished met sol rol jien dier and Tin liao who have been brought into inlo prominence by elm stirring e events T C ot f iha ia last stu sixteen eor ar eawh few have alq beoo booro con 1 11 a ol 01 9 1 or I 1 u use 1 e lul fill than oliver 1 P morton blotto of r 1 indiana d la n a ills his political tire began in ISSO 1856 when as the candidate for goter nor ho he majo lo 10 a joint i n 1 canvass n rass wilh on gov arnor A caf P IN Will lio aril 1 ono or of the iho most I 1 U 1 lr slid effective orators of the west at C S t la in that canvas lie ho proved him self ii a bold and ready read debater and majo maje himself f immensely popular with the IR a publican parly in tho the calvas of 1860 he was a candidate for lieutenant governor with the understanding der that col laoc lane iho he candidate for governor governor over nor was to go 1 to the be senate ir if the republicans carried the elco election tion and that morton was to site BUC elp him as governor of tho the state tatti and so ji it was but the leyouta of mortona subsequent publio public life was wag sounded before he was inaugurated governor or 0 r in ia a delivered in ig indianapolis p 0 11 9 at nl a eating held to ratify the election fec tion of mr lincoln it itwara was a cold drizzly night and tho the courcy bouat y court house home was filled with will an expectant audience diance measures loid booling log to had bad already been beco binau inaugurated fuated ln in somo some of the southern states a aad ad the h a lt kerub lican hean party which was soon to assume the responsibility of conducting coo ducting the iho government bd not declared its policy for the iho emergency thrust upon the nation by br the be action ot of tile of the south col lane governor elect made a concilia nellia Co tory ory speech io in which he alluded to the bero heroic io deeds of tho the keilt who he camo me to indiana to defend her bor pioneers from tho and be ing kniat of abo Indian Jud ians fl and appe ye ed to dahis his hearers to cultivate a spirit of 0 forbear once toward the misguided cd people of the southern states and if blit to avert bloodshed ly by comero compro compromise disc rho jhc eloquence of governor laoo did do not produce the desired effect on the hud and ianco it was evident there wu was a deep fealing in favor ol of maintaining the union at all hazards even if it involved tho the dreadful dreadful sacrifices of a prolonged prolong td war norton lorton followed sad find after a plowing glowing cu upon the union nod and the adian advantages sad and nece necessity clity of its pre re ho he depicted in forcible lao an guage the aggressions or of tho the slave power and declared that if the issue were disunion or war he be and its als he believed atio republican party were herfor for war 1 I 1 IDU li is sentiment was rapturously applauded and when norton finished his address the whole audience wa was in ia a state ot of patriotic tic lie had the sagacity to 1 0 foresee what tho the temper of tho the north ili and from that day to this no man dian has haq been able to measure it more PrOui pt aal accurately thin than be lanos election to the senate mado made I 1 morton horton governor and for four years ho be stood as the iho embodiment of the put pat notise of tho the state of indiana lie he has been called the grast war cov Or rOlOf indiana and with perfect itice justice justlee within taix t ii houra bour of ill the receipt of Lincol ns call for vol bertona Mer AlOr tona tOns agents were on their heir way to now york city to purchase lisee arms for indiana troops and six indiano indiana regiments marched by camp wn and equipped into west virginia V n i 3 before a single musiker was in the hands ds of ao an ohio volunteer A k dome demo cratic legislature of indiana appropriations in 1963 governor went to new kand on oft has hi own personal credit raised faisca millions of dollars to carry on tho the sta to govern A democratic conspiracy to lease tho the rebel prisoners and inaugurate a revolution in indiana was detected odd and by the ibe military militar author alies 1 I acting in 10 concert with him lie ile waa the he first state executive who undertook iho 1110 of furnishing han ban gitary S supplies e to soldiers sol in the 6 geld da and t the b a cora care with which he wat watched 1 over the mt FEL all example imitated by other northern in Gover governors BOYL during the whole period of the war lid his days bays and ni lits were occupied died in raising volunteers organizing gan gail izing and I 1 equipping troops and in enc encouraging and the union sentiment or of the north his overtaxed at length b buc combed hm uld call and ho was pre prostrated b bv a paralytic which bas ba probably 1 1 t A cripp crippled C fura for the iho remainder of b 4 fe a most men into would have give up pub ab lie life idd under such an affat led but morton went to iho senate scullin a aad il in the first sension took front rani danl the tb ablest a and nd debaters arloof ro 01 the land anil and today to day friend and foo athle concede to MCI LO of his party ty in that body his labori inborn aro are not confined c 0 to the an sol acl member important important cone uj wit tees and during eions he is always actively iu ill tho the tho the barioni state tt tomo onlo idea or of fic 5 prodigious lov ii labor performed by li forrIn ws be gathered irom from the fact that agolig g lab Is so 0 crl crippled as tojo to bc xa to stand whito peaking bo be the people ol of indiana in 62 the latt adjournment of 0 ad and has boken to at least 0 mo hearers flee face to face i W hat inay acir to many I 1 morton morion haa bus never loa enany gily od ad areas e private ol of A 4 political appo neilt ile his has adopted th tho 0 true licit ica that the anil ad lie in ol at 0 men holding and and see I 1 ing high hib official are proper au suh jocia of ver versi onit is broo to daceno dace nj to person prfto tl del jacl ions abu is 11 ill all tho the more Rini mr fular tular irod from the laut that no publio public vall haq ot of tho the nation has baa ileen occa so bitterly biL terly led anil and so EO befouled with tile ilima or of filthy as he be no man who has heard or read liis speeches need be told that I 1 on hu his part ii 1 I not for any ant uck lack of to pu F lih h the basili efio I 1 have haro presume so long 0 on n 1 ill patience II 11 ilia IS course 10 ill this thin parti fOular is is dictated by a lofty con tit abo obligation obliga Lions of dignified and is ii a convincing roof of the strength or of his bis II 11 hob I 1 a is yet auna forty five fite and fifty years rear tf age Q but bul tharo is no bo loan inan in ODO gag eifle wit who las has dono done more for the eaty aai ty honer and prow penty offic or I 1 lie ia n tio tion id rt R t i |
