INDIANA. 



your injunction to " all newspapers and public speakers," by 

 the term "for endeavoring to bring the war policy of the 

 Government into disrepute ; " and further, what you mean 

 by the phrase "actively opposed to the war policy of the 

 Administration,'' or what you use as a synonymous expres- 

 sion, "opposed to the Government"? 



Awaiting your reply, I am, respectfully, 

 Your obedient servant, 



JOSEPH K. EDGEETON. 

 M. 8. HASCALL, Brigadier-General. 



It will perhaps be well enough, in order to a full un- 

 derstanding of this matter, to reproduce that para- 

 graph of No. 9, which is claimed to contain ambiguous 

 matter. It reads as follows : 



11. The commanding general is charged with the duty of 

 carrying into effect the provisions of General Order No. 38, 

 recently issued by Maj.-Gen, Burnside. He purposes doing 

 so. Unmistakable evidence reached him that the provisions 

 of this order have been, and are being, violated in various 

 parts of the State. This is unfortunately done, in many in- 

 stances, by well meaning men who are led astray by news- 

 papers and public speakers. The latter will therefore be 

 held to the most rigid accountability. There is no use in 

 trying to dry the stream while its fountains are allowed to 

 flow. All newspapers and public speakers that counsel or 

 encourage resistance to the Conscription Act, or any other 

 law of Congress passed as a war measure, or that endeavor 

 to bring the war policy of the Government into disrepute, 

 will be considered as having violated the order above alluded 

 to, and treated accordingly. The country will have to be 

 saved or lost during the time that this Administration re- 

 mains in power, and therefore he who is factiously and ac- 

 tively opposed to the war policy of the Administration is as 

 much opposed to his Government. 



It seems to me that, taken as a whole, no one need 

 misunderstand anything in this paragraph unless he 

 chooses to do so. 



What I mean by the expression "or endeavor to 

 bring the war policy of the Government into disre- 

 pute is this : Certain measures have been determined 

 upon by the Congress of the United States and the 

 Executive, such as the internal revenue and tax bills 

 (necessary for the support of the Government in time 

 of war), the Confiscation Act, the Conscription Act, the 

 act authorizing the Executive to use negroes in every 

 way possible to cripple the enemy and assist us, the 

 proclamation of emancipation in certain rebellious dis- 

 tricts, and other measures having an immediate bear- 

 ing on the war ; and these I call the war. policy of the 

 Government or Administration. These measures, most 

 of them, have been concluded upon after very mature 

 deliberation and ' discussion, and after more than a 

 year's experience in actual warfare. Possibly they 

 are not the wisest and best that could have been 

 enacted. That, however, is a matter which does not 

 now concern either of us. Enough for us to know 

 that they have been agreed upon by the only rightful 

 and proper authorities Known to our Government, and 

 that they are likely to remain in force until time and 

 experience shall suggest some modification, and this 

 though you and I should talk ourselves hoarse in op- 

 position. The only practical effect, then, of allowing 

 newspapers and public speakers to inveigh against 

 these measures is to divide and distract our own peo- 

 ple, and thus give material " aid and comfort" to our 

 enemies. 



In this connection allow me to' call your attention, 

 and that of the whole State, to the following extract 

 of a letter written by Hon. Reverdy Johnson to cer- 

 tain citizens of Baltimore, who had invited him to ad- 

 dress them : 



The sole ministers of peace at present are our gallant of- 

 ficers, soldiers, and sailors. Let these be used as they may 

 be, and the end will soon be accomplished ; and let us, in 

 pressing on the foe, not halt to criticize the conduct of the 

 Government. Let us, on the contrary, give it a hearty, 

 zealoiis support, while the peril is upon us, reserving for a 

 period of restored peace whatever of censure_ we have to 

 pass on the conduct of the men who are administering it. 



If such be the sentiments of Senator Johnson, a 

 Southern man, it ought to be no hardship for you and me 

 and all the citizens of Indiana to live up to the require- 

 ments of General Order No. 9. Again, I give it as my 

 opinion that this rebellion will have to be either estab- 



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lished or crushed between this time and the 4th day 

 of March, 1865, or during this Administration, and 

 that, therefore, he who is factiously and actively op- 

 posed to the war policy of the Administration is as 

 much opposed to this Government. If my premises 

 are correct the conclusion follows. I never yet have 

 seen any one who thought this war could endure two 

 years longer. If there are any such it must be those 

 who intend to throw everything in the way of this 

 Administration in order that the war may be pro- 

 longed by some possibility, and another Adminis- 

 tration get the credit of settling it. As I value the 

 lives of our hundreds of thousands of gallant soldiers 

 in the field ; as I regard the feelings, bereavements, 

 and sufferings of their anxious families and friends at 

 home, and as I regard the true interests of our State 

 and nation, I am going to see to it that in Indiana, at 

 least, such men have no abiding-place. 



It is a more serious thing than' many are wont to 

 suppose to divide and distract our country and prolong 

 the war. In putting a stop to such practices I shall 

 hold the leaders responsible. As well might I estab- 

 lish a number of small-pox hospitals in the heart of 

 this city, and then punish the people for becoming in- 

 fected with that loathsome disease, as to allow news- 

 papers and public speakers to belch forth their disloyal 

 and treasonable doctrines, and blame the people for be- 

 coming contaminated therewith. Such things will not 

 do in these times. To kill the serpent speedily it must 

 be hit in tb*e head. General Order No. 9 has been ap- 

 proved by Gen. Burnside, and the force placed at my 

 disposal to enforce it. I shall do so in every case 

 where a palpable violation comes to my knowledge. 



Hoping I nave made myself understood, and thank- 

 ing you for your frank and manly letter, I am yours, 

 with great respect, MILO S. HASCALL, 



Brig.-Gen. Vols., Commanding District. 



To Hon. JOSEPH K. EDGERTON, M. C. 



Some resistance was made to the officers en- 

 gaged in making the enrolment under the act 

 of Congress, and to the officers and soldiers 

 engaged in arresting deserters from the army, 

 in which some lives were lost. 



No election was held in the State during the 

 year except for county and other local officers. 



A case involving the question of the military 

 power of the Federal Government within the 

 States was decided by the Supreme Court of 

 the State. (See MAETIAL LAW.) 



INDIUM. F. Eeich and Th. Eichter are led 

 to believe that they have found, in two Freiburg 

 ores, composed chiefly of arsenical pyrites, 

 blende, and some galena, together with silica, 

 manganese, copper and a small portion of tin 

 and cadmium, a new metal. Having roasted 

 the ores to remove the arsenic and sulphur, 

 mixed the residue with hydrochloric acid, 

 evaporated, and distilled, they obtained an im- 

 pure chloride of zinc ; examining this with the 

 spectroscope for thallium, no green line ap- 

 peared, but a before unknown blue line was 

 noted. Conjecturing a new metal, the authors 

 succeeded in isolating, as they believe, such a 

 one in minute quantity, in form of a mixture of 

 the metal itself, its chloride and hydrated 

 oxide. Submitting this mass moistened^ with 

 hydrochloric acid to the spectroscope, a brilliant 

 and sharp blue line was seen, more refrangible 

 than the blue line of strontium, and beyond this 

 another and fainter blue line, not quite reach- 

 ing the place of the calcium blue line. The 

 lines lie in the so-called indigo space; the 





