Decatur Eagle, Volume 10, Number 43, Decatur, Adams County, 25 January 1867 — Page 1

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r -- --- -- _ ... ~ ; ——- ■- — -- — m Bu , || The Governor’s Message “Biicd Down.” j.iITTor Herald—Our worthy- Governor is an exhaustive writer, but a trifle [ too prohx for general use. Having plenty ut time, end being act.ui(,ed by i a humane to benefit my fellow ’ man whom the cares of business world j deter from tackling so ch a fonniJable | Soauhient, 1 Ifave; at cohsldlrable IkbSr, i' and no Uifling-expensem the, matter of: 1 coal oil and etatiopary, made a qandi-nsii-tion of his Excellency’s late ines-’?.g?, which I think will do.- Here It IS! fjtnllemen of-the Senate an I House of \ Representatives Anoljier year has been'-tumbled inte' the vortex of the past, and -Indiana l as, through its entire period enjoyed" al illi'isful exemption from the prevalent pestilence, except some light touches ct; i her where—'ronf some cause—the pestilence conl-I not stick; and consequently we h ive .been lteal:i:y to a degree. Short c: ops have occasioned great..[oat i and embarrassment; still we are enjoy-’ tag unexampfeJ prosper?y, and plenty cocks np her heels by the kitchen.fir/, and luxury indulges in l ot toddies in the : parlor. Agriculture, commerce, majufict.ures and public improvenn nts afe going ahead with the stride of a 2:40 courser The- war is over; the country—by the aid of our States has cume.asfely through —though it was a tight squ o-ze—and we suffered a few by it, st: 1 the trera n-1 dous stride we have made up the ladder I lof growth, prosperity and population I surprises the natives, and gi t;fi. s.lhe Governor. There is no doubt—taking a n tropestiva view backwards, through 'b... e -n«ns telescope —that if we continue to increase through all coming time, as we have in-1 crease 1 since I became Governor, thatwe shall ultimately get to he souve peo- : i pie. In this connection I can not forbear: giving three chearr for our soldiers wi. beat those of any Oth. r State. My peculiar physical condition requir- h cd my absence from the" State for about; t • five monJiS, during, wbfeli time-. Govt rnor Baker stood up to the rack of public duly-bstter than the best, and I thank:; him before you all, I do. 11 T-h* public debt of the Siate is pr-t’y t big—part of which is acknowledged— I and. the balance isn’t. But by selling high, and buying low, the Auditor thinks . we can pay the part we acknowledged— . : mid he ought to know. As to the other! ( part. I recommen 1 that, if the -State everi. means to pay it, she should say so, some ■ t time or other: and, if she don’t, the Leg-1, Mature shoul 1 take a piece of rubber, ! ; - and rub it off the Au litor’s book. , ( STATS DEBT'SINKING FUND. j | The special session of the Legislature ' „ 'did sotne things, and undid others. We h I used to have a Board of Sinking Fuu 1 .. Commissioners;but the Legislature, at , its extra .-esi»n, ktrek: d. th ’-nr into qb- , ' livion, and yet.failed to jyit anybody ’ n ' i their places—so that now we Lave no one . i Mjthorixed to receive money,..sell Jjipdp,; or make deeds. The fact is, that the 1 whole matter is a delightful kettle cf [ fish, and Ifihink y>u bad better fix it—if: ( I you can—and so fix it as to sell for Cash, 1 and close up.the books. c I' SIKKJKG FVNO INVESTHIATII'N. jt This turned out as everybody rx-* 1. ; pected it would —all for Buncombe. I See repart of committee, and keep shad) ■ ( ADJUTANT GENERAL’S DEPARTMENT. General Ter«H makes a bully Adju- ii tant General, and administers things by t ' the seven large volumes, anil I nope tue | ( Legislature will Lave the work s.ereo t i typed, and that the will buy the a plates. I reckon it is some history. e ' QUARTERMASTER general's department. General Stone has managed Uris de- c ipartraent as few men could. Out Oi 41, j 572 pieces of small arms, borrowed from Uncle Samivell, be has, like s good boy, e carried home, in good order, 41,212 J guns- and he has also got some body to i< swear to the loss of 530 guns, tnaking v total of 41,7*2 guns, besides all the ti I artillery and equipments; and I think u [that is doing well, seeing that he-ha I<l

O.ir country s Good shall ever be our Aim—Willing to Praiso and not afrsld to, Blame.”

DEC.ITI'R, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, JAUARY 25,1867,

such a cumbrous machine to manage J [If every other Quartermaster Getierafin '-he loyal States will send home 170 guns " apiece more than they borrowed, it may ■ leave the General Government -the trou-1 hie of sending Fremont, to buy useless foreign musksts, in case the Southern i [tebels kick uj> another rtitnpuj. paymaster general’s REIMIiT. Major Fisher has faithfully performed his duty in this department— Le has counted noses to the number of about 50,000, and dollars to the number of about 630,000, an 1 he will count more ■ ■ dollars jjist as satin as an appi-rprlulion ■ lis made .ijo h 4 can get his fing st - s on ' then. Mt I ITART SECRETAP.r. Cilouel William 11. Soh'.ater is a lit- , tie the fastest Military Secretary on re- : cord, iiri'l his recollection is ns accurate' ,as a Chronometer, while he and I have [ hob-nobbed «;th gn-qt pleasure. . MILITARY AGENCIES, Ihe Military Agenci-s have done a h- ap of business for nothing, an 1 I re- : ; commend a liberal appropriation to pay [ them for it. BENEVOLENT In s TIT UTT ■>n s. I reckon these institutions aiejust'i s about as good as they can-be, and I trust ! no pains will be spared to mk« them . better immediately. ' ■ PENITENTIARIES. [ A big fire last summer, in the Southern ; ■ : Prison, nearly burned the convicts out < f i [employment, but Hon. John I Morrison h .and I soon fixed things up, so that the i ■employes need n A be thrown out of work : and I hope the Geneial Assembly will ■ j thank us for it. f In the Northern Priion there is w in' J [ $ . about .® L 4 2,i'oD, so- A-:i> ncirs, etc land I gUiss yon will du wi II to .make : that Uitle appropristiin. What do you ' say? ' HOUSE OP REFUGE The C nstitu ion plainly commands , c you to provide such a thing, and though ; a I don’t care a rush for constitutions in u , 1 general, Gubernational or senitorial way ,; ” jet from some letters I have bad from a, c couple of Quakers, I sincerely and can-i 1 didly believe you ought to buy or build ( * a’’House of Rifuge” and start a "Re- " form School,” at an early day, say bj c ihe fi teenth of February, or at least be- • s fore yeti go home. j (SUPREME court. 1 This is pretty much sll the court we have, except petty courts, since military p commissions have been knooked into pie, a and I think it is time something was r. done for the coip-eniencb of the judges; and s'uce they are driven Stale House, the 1< ait you ought to do is I p to rent comfortable and convenient chain-11 : bers for them where they can study law <-• and judicial’ records. The clerk's r fiiee [ law library and chambers ought to be | n pretty ne»r togi-tber, ns the dignity 'of, g the court forbids that the judges should [ ti be left to shift about fora local habits- [ lion. Seo to this, ye guardi ans of the public weal, and sadeservs my thanks. ■ s EXUMI.RAIL.N AND MuNT. I Gentlemen, this little msti-. r must now be attended to, since we loyalists never ” can have a better chance. For full six j c years, (ever s : nce 1 became Governor,) c . Slate Senators and Representatives have | tl been ttooted withont, authority of lav.; ’■ r.n* rc HHoJier. an I b:;;L r < tficer now holds his iti plain violation of the . p Constitution, and intends to lak-c « still j higher posieh in equal disdain of said | instrument, the less said on that point the better, But this provision of the Constitution, requiring you.to so dis- g trict the State, for Legislative purposes. 'ei as that we uns can hold supremacy for- j ever, is postive and mand .tory and I ui-i , siit upon it that you do not let this ■ g( chance slip. I’ 1 registry law. jj" This is much needed r gulation, as ' every citizen of Indiana must Lave seen T< luring the last six vaars. It is a notor- oi ious fact that men who had no right to rote anywhere have, at our late elec-i°' tions, voted over and often, and limes in the day. at the same, »nd at s 0 diff-rent precincts. Vide the Masssch'i-

setrs regiments note at the Lest Presidential election. Bat now the state of the, public mind and the condition ol'partie’s is such- that I think you can fix this mat- ■ ter so as to make it look fair, and, in . connection with the apportionment,, work to" ettr advantage. True, there is a pm- [ vision .of ths state" Constitution iliac I stands right in your way; trut a Republican Leg:?l vura in Illinois has found n [ "’ay to get around just,such a -diEiouby, ; and 1 believe you are as sharp r.s liiinoic Legislators, anv day. SOLDIERS and CEAMAN'II HOM: - . When tho war ended, (I I rej- [ markbil a little while since that the war i wus endec ) a heap of -fellvrs was thrown ' upon our S atr.e who had nothing to do, aud a.s private charity would not i take care, nfthem, and the poor house was not good enough for them I issued an address, called meetings m-tde.spei<;h---:e» and did the general wind work; and large hearted i en 1 liberal bund cPtnen furnished the money for a horn’,in the dilapidfited bld building at the "Kurglitstewo Springs,” and I set Dr. Wisjiar.d io manage it—the Dr’s report will tell you all about it that you’ have any business to know. I think it is about time the State adopted the home, and gave it a treasury teat to suck: and then if Uncle S.im, by National Homes, shoqid r, nd r this one wi olly unnecessary, why, linn, wc can find some other use for it, mean while it will furni = h a place for William Hanna-’ man as suDsrintendent, whose heart is in I I.is work, and whose saL-.ry is tn his | pocket, I btsfoch you, provide liberally [ for wounded and disabled soldi- rs and saih-ra, do now. TUN SOLD: <-.r’s CI.SE AN. The late war killed iff ths daddi-s of 2,070 Indiana chilJr-n and Lft them ‘‘wards of the State,” and net of the ' counties, r-r, i I think we ought to have a State poi.r House f cute heir accoxnmoJa-' tion. Mr H-inn -man, who always has ! an'eye to nntnber one is looking- into this matter, and if the Soldier Home runs to seed, 1:0 is rtady to turn it into a S'ate Poor House ■ for soldier's orphans, ant 1 ■ >is supfrititendeot, thereof sue out writs oi'habeas . corpus against the several counties ftod reclaim the States wards, and takex'ire of them at Knightstown [ I recommend Mr. Ilmrtanten for the i place. CEMETERIES AND M NCMEKT3. C-.i L'n-I. James 81.-ke did a big tiling ' in the cemetery line down at Gettysburg, and only wants a little money to mnk<t a ■ nice thing oi it- Antletatn wants a little small change also. Crown Hill wants just $5 QOO. Then I want you to erect a tall m.ouument on that “high hill,” so ! th it every Lode fhe.t conus to the capti d can see it. In the sublime language ' of the'•tmorf'ftl Wehsicr,' ‘‘let it rise,” EMIGRATION. In January List, Governor Baker com-1 missioned John A. Wilntach, supernten- j dent ot ail fftreignSrs who may come to I this State with search warrant powers to I ransack this country and Europe, and i bring in just as many ns he can find ly-1 inquaround loose, I request your special at’entiop to-Mr. Wdstach’s rapert, and ; I earnestly arge that you provide hitn ; with a bureau us he thinks a book case will not be sufficient for foreigners, and [ ! that trey will stick up their noses at a cubbosrd, while the darkies have a bureau -Mr, WiLstech is going to Paris ini ihe.spring, and ifhe finds at the World,s !' Exposition, a bureau that will answer [ 1 Ins purposes, he has ray consent to buy i it and bring it home. Os epurse you will i pay for it. tCHO LA. Indiana has got the biggest school hnd of any State in the World; at the 1 ip.me time we have miserable schools and ■ lohl very short sessions; but when we ; ] jet a noimal school and qualified teach- ;. >rs, I hope we sh’sli do better. EnUCATION ok COLORED CHILDREN. ■' I told the Legislature last winter what i wanted in tilts matter; but just as soon is I went to Europe it was all neglected; r md I repeat the language to you, and 1 , mpe you will pay attention to it. j refer you to section 1, aiticle 8, of ouri' state Constitution, and if that don't give ‘ ou power to'do as I recommend, then > I if couise you will find the power somethere else, either in the Constitution, ori verit.it don’t matter’which. These I olored children are “ignorant and de- € raded,” and “a burden and injury to g ooiety.,’ and must be educated. o They are, by law, excluded from the u

public schools, and I want you to amend ■ the .laws so as to give tliena the full, s equal, proportiona' benefit of the school fund and thenprov:de them with s<parate school so that their morals may noth 1 contaminate I by association with the : children <4 Irish and Dutch Democrats. 1 am informed that such a system can t be devised. Devise it, ami then tax American of Afeicjin . dascunt to pay for it; hiiinamty demands it, and it I will increase the peroent»ge of State Su- , perintccdcnt ol Public School. Prepare . i to act! AGWPUI.TURAL €'• LLEOE. -j This Stateli' t-ds an ngricullurd col- ■ I'-go, Rild Congee s give us.land enough -1 to build, endow and maintain ons?.kwt * t commissioner;: I. vuit done anything, and the subject remains in sta’n quo, while ’ the commissioners have siibrai'.ted a re--1 port as long as the moral tew. showing », what they have not done, with-numtrons i ‘ reasons why tliey have not done it. THE THIRTEENTH ARTICLE. I 1 hank fortune wo have at last, got a Supreme Conrt that will decide just ns 1 i j directed; and Article Xi 11 of the State 1 (institution with all the laws nnde un- . teler it, have been declared nix, and 1 J now want you to “wipe it all out.” 1 ■told you that negroes bon. in the United States were just as good as ne- ■ j grees born anywhere, and the Supreme Court says so. Prepare to sta-nd from under! NATIONAL DEBT AND THE CTTRREKCY. It would be r bully thing to. p.-’ty out national debt right, smack off and would astonish the Old World like a elap of thunder in a clear sky-in January. 1 don’t think a national debt the great ' est of blessings, but I’m opposed to pay. [ ing jt yet awhile It’s enough for this generation to have [put down the rebellion; Jet the mxt g-ner.ation pay the debt. the South kicked up a muss anJ wo licked her, and now she must pay for it. but we stote an 1 destroyed so much i down there, that there is nothing left for ■ 'Lem to pay the d< bt wuh; so we must manage to pay the interest on the debt for i few years, till.tLe south gets an- ; other good start; end then, if she don’t [pay our national debt, we will thrash her again, see if we don’t, i toll you, we 1 .can t pay the deb'! o ere in an awful fix’ i.oik isn t wonli but. half as much as u was last year—and. cabbsge and potaV>?? in |>roportion. Shoul.i the Genera] [ Assembly‘concur in tl is List remark, ihey can send word to 'heir Senators) I and Represtr.'ativcs and Congress. Nuke I Ctei>! ; RSCoitsTßuctroN and c .n»titutional ! AMENDMENT. After pollyfating around all these lit- [ tic matters of State; I have at last r.-a.h ' I fd the point at wtiich I ainud * h*n I I started. Awake to listen! When Grant gave absolution to theofficers and soldiers : of the confederate army, we of ih l North ' .were willing to acquiesce’, bs’eanse we thought the people of the South were as ■ submissive as a kennel of whipped span- I, l i< h: and now. if the Southern neopte I will crawl on their belii-s in submission* : and lick dust at ourfeet, we will be just: ■ as gentle to them as sucking doves. But I, if they attempt to straighten up—l never < swear—but thcyjind letter net, just as q sure as you live! If they would cringe :; and fawn as much as we required, we would let them have a few things to com . ine.nce keeping ho*ise with, but if they ( don’t come down, al] I have to say is, confiscation, dii-fi*chisemrnt and punish- ‘, ment. We have gone ahead a lick oi ; two in the last two years, and now we ( won't begin to.do what we offered tl.cn. ; t We were some radical then, but wo are ( a heap more rndied now, and it keeps , growing on us. Ti e North never will, i let the South come back into tho Government kitchen till the South brirgs all her . 1 niggers Io take pot luck with har. t There you have it. \ t I’ve got a copy of the consitutional j amendment, passed by two-thirds of Con-1 ] gress—you may look at it, and I wiil tell 1 you all about it- The first clause estab ‘ lishes the fact that al) persons born in the j United States are ciziea.% whether they) know it or not, and that States have, I nothing to say in the melter- The sec- 1 oud clause establishes the fact that nig-j gers are just as good voters ns white i m< n' an 1 n little belter if th<-y vote to I ait tho Thirty ninth Congress.

I | The fourth cla u e knocks every • intelligent man in the c!i-v> n rebellious ' i States out of any chance to ho! I office in the future, tbu i tn ikinar rc-vra for al! such f'-’ilows as Brownlow and M iycard The filth clause declares th it we do owa 1 the public debt, and don’t owe the con- , federate d bt' and won't pay fo-free nud runaway niggern. The whole amemlmoot is a hang up good thing, an! establishes everything that ought to be established, an! nullified .'•JI w» want nullifi :d anil want you to , ratify it, and tell the world of it m : gbty : sudden. ■ BAtifthe Seuthern people rej et t’.e , amendment, and don't come toour terms j they had better floe from the wrath to ■ oom*. I tell you, they must not think ; I they can make us kill a quarter of a i million people and wnste billions of money, and they no: be made to pay for it. It can’t be diil 1 the co ns ■i tu tional provi.-i >n guar-.n-teeing a republican form of government to each Stato is broad enough and in the j hands oi tl.is Congress, elastic enough jto cover up and embrace any measure chat any e r.grgency nr contingency m*y demand, apd the present Congress will [ see that all the S'.ates have republican 'governments. I; they have to resort to dictatorship to secure it. ! '1 Le President amt anybody, and he I can't do anything without Congress, and it would "manifestly be absurd” to think I he could. ; VY Ii it the extent o’the power is no body' knows, a:ij nobody cares, an 1 leist <>' ail this Congres; but we do know that it is just big enough to cover the’ circumstances of the case.” ”The (' >verrinent is armed with power to keep the States in their orbits,” an 1 the only measure that can be given to this power, is ‘.h it which the dominant party may see fit to rocogniz i, for’ partisan tnl,and w* shall tn die it big enough • to suit our purposes. You bet I The subject of suffrag" ch-arly b' longs .to the reserved rights of the Slates and has done so from the ’ formation < f the Government, still the present Congress clearly has the power to confer suffrage on any body, or disfranchise any body as it may s< e fl:, for party p' rpteulty. | Congress can’t make a State c nstitui lion; but it can come within one of it 'lt can pack a State conv nfion so as to ' make just such a constitu ion as 0 ingress . wants. This is a very dingerdas power, an 1 ■ trenches directly up n the theory and i structure of the Governmsn's; in which ! all the negroes shall vote, an 1 all the whites shall be dirfrrtnehised—then it ie oil right, and si mote it be. Il is not at all necessary to regard, th--- r. be! Stites ns territories, because Congress can regulate all such little milters in States, The 1 Constitution says so! Negroes can’t long be k: pt from voting They nr? tax 'd, aud thero'orc, O'lg’.t to vote; It is thi ir natural right to vote. They are profoundly ignorant and wholly unfit to vote; but I am afraid we can’t keep up Republican party power without them. The necessity for Republican rule over rides every other consideration. If it should ba found necessary to over, ride all the State governments in th<» South, to cary out our schemes, why over they go; that is all, and the people of ihe South may thank thcais.-lvea that their condition is as bad as it is, and be very grateful to us that we did r.<,t make it worse. Let .hem take warning before we blow ihtir State govei iim.-nts higlier than Guilderoy's kite, and establish new governments that will pinch worse ti an a light boot on a tender corn. This nation is bound to live an I prosper. That's so! It has withstood a four years civil war, and it mighty sirnige if it can’t stand four years oi radical Congress; ami that is as much as anybody can hope tor. Go 1 led this nation through blood and lie will lead it to safety when be gets ready, am! we shall boa fraternal people an unbroken people—a people who shall be fat, and sleek, and as full ol blessing is Au. ust is of fi. g dayg, 1 believe I have said my say! His Excellency.

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