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The speech of Oliver P. Morton, 1860

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This is a speech by Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Indiana, Oliver P. Morton, delivered in Terre Haute on March 10, 1860. Morton (1823-1877) discusses campaign issues including popular sovereignty, his position on the Constitution's application to new territories as it relates to slavery and the fugitive slave law, violence in Kansas and the Missouri Compromise, "sectional parties", John Brown, the fugitive slave law, hostile relations between northern and southern states, slavery, abolition, tariffs, and homesteading legislation. Morton and his running mate Henry S. Lane won the 1860 election. Per their agreement, the new majority Republican General Assembly appointed Hale Senator and Morton became the 14th governor of of Indiana.

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