Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1877 — In his Oregon speech Senator Morton said: [ARTICLE]

In his Oregon speech Senator Morton said:

The People’s Bank, of Logansport, has suspended. Brigham Young died on Wednesday last of inflammation of the I owels. John She? man, speaking of the resumption act, says “It can be, aught to be, and will be execute 1.” Anything, aside from the address, written on the face of a postal curd, subjects it to letter postage, Internal Revenue Collector White, nf Terre Haute, is a subject of investigation. The State Savings Bank of Illinois has closed doors with two or three •millions of dollars belonging to depositors unaccounted for. Mr. G. Lowe, who lives near Bradford, White county, is 'the owner bf- a steer which weighs three thousand six hundred pounds. Who can beat it? In White county, a few days ago, a gun in the hands of Philip Mikesell accidentally discharged, the contents catering his wife causing, it is feared, a fatal wound.

An ingenious swindle is being practiced in some parts of the country, by which one dollar bills are made to »eturn a large interest to tin manipulators. A one dollar and a fivv dollar bill, greenback or of some national bank currency, are carelessly torn in two in the middle, and half of the ■one and half of the five are pasted together. Unless closely scrutenjzed they will be apt to be taken for fives. Thus, with six dollars, the swindler will make a profit of four out of the two fives which he manufactures. Gov. Hendricks is enjoying himself in his own quiet and unostentatious way in Europe, as the following extract from a private letter to a gentleman at Indianapolis shows: “This is not so great a city as London, I ut it is more beautiful than you can conceive of. The objects of interest are so numerous that it is a great undertaking to visit them. I think we will go to Germany next week, probably reaching the Rhine at Cologne. Senator Bell and his law partner, Judge Morris, of Fort Wayne, are here, and we find their society very agreeable. lam glad that the railroad strike (which was a startling movement)’has subsided, and that the injury is no greater than it is. I was greatly concerned about it for seveial days. I am sure that it must have give: Gov. Williams great anxiety.

In the south they are to-day teaching in every school, academy ami col- ! lege the doctrine of state sovereignty , and state rights—the same doctrine that they taught before the war. It : is taught in every democratic news- | paper.in the south, in every book that ' they publish of a political character, more industriously than ezer before. | It is a part of every young man’s ed- 1 ucation. When the rebellion came on they determined to secede; they in : listed they had the right to withdraw I at pleasure; that they came in volun- j tarily and could go out voluntarily. South Carolina could go out by the same |M - ocess that she. catne in. Virginia could do the same thing That doctrine is being taught in the south to-day. While he was making this speech, Wade Hampton was addressing a crowd of “ex-rebels” in Virginia, and be said: “Let the people of the North remember this: We recognize that the Union is restored; we recognize the Constitution of the United States. And when Isay that I mean the Constitution with all its amendments. We have surrendered in good faith. The Southern States now asltxjor equal laws. Let Maine be put on n par with South Carolina. Regard Lonisana as you do Massachusetts ond i you will frnrf no men in rhe Union ' who will stand by the Constitution of j the United Startles more loyally than the men of tire Soutlk” Mr. Morton did not expect his utterances to be branded with the lie so soon,.and from such a source. Mr. Morton, the demagogue, aiming to strengthen' his party by stirring up sectional hate, is confronted on the moment he appeals torhe passion of his section, and by an honorable, truthful and intelligent representative man of the South, his staremrrrfs are erearly and beyond cavil proven to be untruthful and entitled to no consideration whatever. Morton has had His day—but the days of such base calumniators and partisan tniebiefmakers are fast drawing to a close. They have sown, the wind and the peopie have reaped the whirlwind.— They have grown boasttul and rich with power and by plunder, bnt the people have been oppressed a»d impoverished. “Let us have peace.”