and shouting at
the top of his voice, "I am going to vote for Abe Lincoln. I am--I am, if I
am damned for it!"

In all probability Morgan's raid in Indiana and Ohio made more than one
vote for old Abe. Of all the thousands of Knights of the Golden Circle in
Indiana and Ohio, not one took his rifle to join Morgan, not one raised
his hand to help him.

In speaking of this to General Shackelford, who captured him, Morgan said,
bitterly: "Since I have crossed the Ohio I have not seen a single friendly
face. Every man, woman, and child I have met has been my enemy; every
hill-top a telegraph station to herald my coming; every bush an ambush to
conceal a foe."

The people who lived along the route pursued by Morgan will never forget
his raid. What happened has been told and retold a thousand times around
the fireside, and the story will be handed down not only to their
children, but to their children's children. Morgan was everywhere
proclaimed as a thief and a robber. They forgot that he had to subsist at
the expense of the country, and that he had to take horses to replace
those of his own which had broken down. Not only that, but it was life to
him to sweep the country through which he passed clear of horses, that his
pursuers might not get them. The Federals in pursuit took horses as
readily as Morgan's men.

Those who proclaim Morgan a thief and a robber sing with gusto "Marching
through Georgia," and tell how "the sweet potatoes started from the
ground." They forget how Sheridan, the greatest cavalry leader of the
Federal army, boasted he had made the lovely Shenandoah Valley such a
waste that a crow would starve to death flying over it. The Southern
people look upon Sherman and Sheridan as the people of Ohio and Indiana
look upon Morgan. These generals were not inhuman; they simply practised
war. It is safe to say that less private property was destroyed in
Morgan's raid in Indiana and Ohio than in any other raid of equal
magnitude made by either side during the war.

One can now see by reading the dispatches the panic and terror caused by
Morgan in this raid. From Cairo, Illinois, to Wheeling, West Virginia, the
Federals were in a panic, for they knew not which way Morgan would turn,
or where he would strike. From the entire length of the Ohio, the people
were wildly calling on the government to send troops to protect them from
Morgan. There were fears and trembling as far north as Indianapolis.
Governor Tod, of