Report and Evidence of the Committee on Arbitrary Arrests, in the State of Indiana baixar o livro de graça

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863. Excerpt: ... EVIDENCE. ABRAHAM B. JETMORE (blackford County) SWORN. Examined by Mr. Gregory--Answer--My name is Abraham B. Jetmore; aged twenty-four years; residence Hartford City, Blackford county; I am an attorney at law; I have been and am yet a life-long Democrat, when political questions should be agitated; voted for Douglas for President. On or about the second day of October last, at a Union and War Meeting combined, at a school house in Nottingham township, Wells county, at which one John Phipps went with me for the purpose of raising recruits. After I had delivered my discourse, or the principal portion of it, Dr. Theodore Horton rose and said he wished to speak. I had asked before or after, and perhaps both before and after, the said Phipps (who was recruiting officer for the Thirty-Second Indiana Regiment, ) to come forth and ask for volunteers, and he did so. Whereupon Mr. Horton came forth and began his discourse, and used, as near as I can recollect, the following language: "I always knew this (meaning the present) war was an Abolition war. The late proclamation of the President has capped the Abolition climax. You have been called upon to-night to volunteer; but has any of you volunteered? No, not one. You will not volunteer under such a policy." I do not think said Mr. Horton answered over one or two points made in my discourse, he having came at a late hour. I think that he principally heard me in my exhortation for volunteers. I have never had any personal difficulty with Dr. Horton; on the contrary, I voted for him in 1860. I can not particularize any other language he used derogatory to the interests of the Government, but I know he used other. The greater portion of what he said in his said discourse, if believed, would have a tendency to alienate...