The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1869-09-14
from the New Albany Commercial. g.
That Bad Man, Morton.

Governor Morton was requested by
the Republican Central Committee Of O.
to open the canvass in that State. He
opened it, and closed it too. at Whining
ton few days since. His single speech
came down on the moribund Democra-
CIV like trip hammer. He exhausted
the subject and the Democracy at the
same time. All the speeches that will
campaign will be but repetitions and
Celebrations of his arguments. No won
der the New Albany Ledger is shocked
into momentary horror at that bad man
Morton 1t was bad, it was cruel, per
haps it was wicked, in Governor Mor>
ton to smash the Democratic bladder
when he might as well have punctured
it artistically and allowed the thing to
float yet little longer down the stream
of politics and time.
tits a fashion Governor Morton has
in opening campaigns to tersely, clear
ly ard explicitly state the issues, and
then, with logic so compact and unans-
werable as to compel assent from all
unbiased minds, absolutely demolish the
sophistry of the opposition. His last
word closes the argument. No room is
left for demagogues to wriegle in when
he has concluded. Vague and indeter-
inmate phrases do not befog his argu-
ment, leaving opportunity carping dem
agogues to air their rhetoric on.
Governor Morton has another bad
habit He will not forget the past rec
ord Of the Democratic party. He will
not allow the people to forget it. Time
is q wonderful anodyne It soothes and
softens the bitter memories and harsh
recollections of the past. Much of the
past, it is true, should be forgotten,
but much of even it's miseries should be
remembered by this people forever. If
the Democratic party would have US bu-
ry the past. why does it, hyena-like,
crawl out at night to snarl over the
graves of our dead Union soldiers? If
it would bury the past, why will it ever
parade its putrid carcass on the recur>
renee of each campaign, revisiting the
glimpses of the moon and making both
night and day hideous Of all things
above ground nothing so much needs
burial, deep and eternal, as that loath-
some and disgusting organization which
in the hour of the Republics struggle
for life, allied itself with the bandits,
the guerrillas, the slave drivers and the
defiant traitors of the South.
Never, in the history of parties here
or elsewhere was there so grand an op
portunity for q great organization to
viudicate it's unselfshness and its patri-
otism as was afforded the Democratic
party of the North when slavery attack
ed the citadel OF our liberties. How
basely, how dastardly, how truculently
the leaders Of that party deserted the
Government and how seduously, how
untiringly, how insiduously they labor
ed for the slave power and the assassins
the country knows and history with i'm.
partial pen must record. It is to many
of the Bourbonic leaders Of the Dem oc-
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forget nothing, unpleasant reading. 1t
is little wonder that Governor Morton's
speech operates like red hot coal in a
hornets nest. 1t is not strange that
small editors, bound to the corpse Of
Democracy. solemnly and dolefully hold
up their hands whenever Governor Nor
ton makes speech and calculate, That
bad man p
They have been at this same lugubri-
GUS business these many years. All
through the war, whenever a promin ent
Son of Liberty was arrested, they howl
ed in unison, That bad man, Morton
Whenever box of revolvers marked
Sunday School Books was seized on
its way to the lodges of the noble
Knights of the Golden Circle, up went
Democratic hands all over the land and
Democracy groaned, That bad man,
Morton If a cunning scheme to seize
upon our State Government, murder its
Executive and turn it over to the South
ern Confederacy, was discovered at tn e
last minute before it's execution, that
bad man, Norton was cursed and an
athemised for it. AS old Bowles disap.
peared behind the walls of the Colum.
bus Penitentiary, he sobbed. that bad
man, Morton! and bowed his shaved
head and wept-we suppose. When Gov
ernor Morton, by his matchless admin
istrative ability, foiled the vilest nest of
traitors that plotted in any Northern
State during the rebellion, all over the
State, wherever there was circle of
Knights, a lodge of the Sons of Liberty,
cabal of snarling traitors, that moan