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be promptly restored and re-established’'.^^ The state Re- 
publican platform congratulated the country on the complete 
restoration of the Union.^*^ 
During the canvass Greeley paid a visit to the state. He was 
given a genuine Hoosier welcome. Old residents still recall 
the great crowd which came to Indianapolis to see and hear 
the ‘‘Sage of Chippaqua”.^*^ Evidently, many Democrats re- 
fused to vote for Greeley in the election. His vote was less 
than that for Seymour four years before, and Grant carried 
the state by a larger vote than in 1868. The Democratic 
candidate for governor, Thomas A. Hendricks, was chosen by 
a majority of 1,148. The Republicans elected seven out of 
eleven members to the House of Representatives.®® 
The Liberal Republican movemient achieved at least one 
thing. It brought the question of amnesty to the front. 
Early in 1872 Senator Morton addressed the Senate upon the 
subject. He opposed universal amnesty. Later he gave his 
support to Sumner’s civil rights amendment to the Amnesty 
Bill. The bill thus amended failed to receive the necessary 
majority in the Senate. The Amnesty Bill, which had already 
passed the House without a roll call, now passed the Senate.®^ 
It removed all political disabilities imposed by section three 
of the Fourteenth Amendment, except in the case of less than 
five hundred persons. Morton was absent when the vote was 
taken.®- 
The platforms of the major parties in Indiana in the off 
year election of 1874, for the first time since the close of the 
Civil War, turned aside from southern reconstruction policies. 
Both platforms reflect the growing interest in new economic 
issues, so long obscured by the absorbing question of the po- 
litical reconstruction of the South.®^ The historian of today 
is able to see that these financial and industrial problems were 
of greater importance than the political issues which loomed 
so large to the people of that era. In 1874, for the first time 
since the Civil War, the Democrats elected a majority of the 
members of the national House of Representatives. Indiana 
Henry, State Platforms, 40. 
^^Ibid., 42. 
■*9 Indianapolis Daily Sentinel, September 24, 1872. 
Tribune Almanac for 1873, 66, 67. 
Foulke, Life of Oliver P. Morton, 221-226. 
52 Congressional Globe, 42 Congress, 2 Session, 3736, 
52 Henry, State Platforms, 44-49, 
