The history of the state of Indiana from the earliest explorations by the French to the present timeContaining an account of the principal civil, political and military events from 1763 to 1903 . VICE-PRESIDENT THOMAS A. HENDRICKS. OPPOSITION TO THE WAR. 65 war in Indiana. There were disturbances on tlie borderand invasions were threatened, but most of the arrestsmade were in the central and northern parts of the State,where no war was even threatened. An election was pending for State officers and for mem-bers of the Legislature, and at that time partisanship inIndiana was greatly inflamed, a
The history of the state of Indiana from the earliest explorations by the French to the present timeContaining an account of the principal civil, political and military events from 1763 to 1903 . VICE-PRESIDENT THOMAS A. HENDRICKS. OPPOSITION TO THE WAR. 65 war in Indiana. There were disturbances on tlie borderand invasions were threatened, but most of the arrestsmade were in the central and northern parts of the State,where no war was even threatened. An election was pending for State officers and for mem-bers of the Legislature, and at that time partisanship inIndiana was greatly inflamed, and the arrests only tendedto further inflame party rancor. The elections went againstihe Republicans. Many bitter opponents of the war wereelected to office and they made the mistake of believingthat every man who voted for them endorsed their opposi-tion, and their violent language against the Government,and thus they were led into greater extremes. The nextelection, and those which followed for several years, dem-onstrated how greatly they had mistaken the publicfeeling. The Legislature of 1863 was a turbulent body and partyfeeling ran high. Both the Democratic majority and theRepublica
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