New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-06-03
the WAR FOR THE UNION,
ERNax WASHINGTON.


and no again rushes TO your arms, the Joy Oh
meeting is largely enhanced by the tender
grief for his loss, from which you are 30 sud
denly taken. The numerous admirers OF Gov
Charles 8. Morehead, many Of whom supposed
thai the monumental marble was standing senti"
Vel over his final rest, upon which the craft oil
the grayer had exhausted both his Imagination IN
dehneatng virtues, and his skill 10 tracing them
for the /" Old MOrtal.ies of distant but not re'
mote ages, will be passiOuatey glad to know that
he is stln aliye--nsy more, not to be unguberDa-
toraIy familiar, is Eckipg-rather feebly to DO
sure, but still with enough of muscular action to
settle the question OF hs st possessing the tlnc-
lions of life.
Better, however, had it been for hm that bis
hatcbment had been hung over his portal than
that the evidence Of his living should have been
declaration Of treason TO his Government. Bet
ter that he should have died with the faint repH-
tation which hedges a Governor with an unno-
ted and uneyentlul administration, than to have
his obseurity made infamous By the utterances OF
rebellion. Never seeing but dimly, Gov MORE
head discerns no course for Kentucky but resist
spce, if tho Federal power do anything more
than to sit at Washington, draw their salaries,
give GOOD dinners, and let everybody do as hey
please. In effect, abdicato all authority, surren'
dor the exercise Of sovereignty, and give iuii
sway to popular outbreak, and free range to IN
subordinaton and turbulence.
Gov, Morehead is but little known, md only
deserves attention from the recent position he
has held. Indeed, he reached that by m organi-
,b.k De- E1pl1
10 q large city--a common receptacle lot AL
GRADES and classes of mortality, from the friend
less aud unknown stranger to the ruftan OF the
Five Points and the robbeT of pockets at the
prize.fght and the Long Island race-course tie
was ralsed TO doubtful honor by breath OF SUI
ferage as foul, and rank, and pestilental TO
healthy administration ever lifted moderate IN
capacity into place, or gave the sword of the
State into q mediOcrity both Of capacity and char
aeter
His public life began in Congress, where be
took. with self-devOtiOn which should move to
tears. his mileage and per diem-made speech
ar two. in which he argued both sides, and ended,
perhaps, by stepping into the lobby when the
yeas and nays called him to tho record. But to
do him fun justice, BIO was reasonably constant IN
his attendance at the sittings Of the House, IN
hess the resulting headache Of O Congressional
vassai Kept him to bed and wet napkins beyond
the hour of meeting
He assisted in saving the Union In 1850 BY
impressng upon the minds Of some gentlemen of
Northern education, but of facile virtue, that
several dissolutions of the COnfederacy were i'm
handing. unless the South could have, for time in
Of fha ola fata md full i'm.
muuity for new territory. 1t is just such men al
Nr. Morehead who have done all this mischief.
With good looks and fair address, tact enough to
gain a seat in Congress without the talent to ill
with usefulness, to his constituency or honor TO
himself, the chair TO which be has been eleyated,
no debauches his associates in their policy, and
Aepraves their fidelity to their own section, and
ends % no has done, by openly becoming an
apostle Of rebellion.
have wasted more paper than the station OF
Che individual demands or deserves, but lie is n
representative type of character which we hope
may die out in the coming advance of a new
generation. Our Legislatures, National and State,
have been full of such men, and with the newt
able consequence, Of course, We have, in effect,
the troubles which are gathered upon us in
armed instruction, defiance OF law, and assaults
On the Constitution itself. No one now thinks of
stalking of quolifcstions-tbe only question ia, Can
he get votes Education, brain, study Of govern
ment, knowledge Of history, breadth Of apprecia-
ton, are as the small dust of the balance to shall
low pretension, plausible hypocrisy, and seductive
manners, rude or refined, TO steal tire hearts Of
the voters. Now ia not the time for these re-
fections. When We arc puIged of disease, and
again in the renovated health Of hospital dis
charge, pass TO the ordinary walks Of duty, We
shall have lessons learned in the fiery trial OF the
errors which have led US to the borders of de-
struction which has been ayertea only by the
latent virtue Of the people.
But. ask, have We not had enough Of Border
State healing and quilting-party Adjustment Who
earef, now whether Kentucky gathers together
"a Convention, to drink old Bourbon to draw
resolutions Of amtyl Caucuses arc now held in
camps Bayonets, and not ballots, are to settle
questions of long controversy for which the
Statute Book has had no effective remedy. Ken
lucky is for or against us. There is, and can be,
40 neutrality. We know where Mr.. Breckinridgo
1--we know where Gov. Mago6il is-and now
We can find the Judgement of Mr.. Morehead and
We also know where they each ought to be- and
where they would most aSsuredly be, if the Gov.
ernment would make q wholesome example of
traitors. Somebody must be hung in this eml
hroilnent md IL the painful duty il TO he per.