The Portland daily press., 1870-05-24
THE PRESS.
Tuesday Morning, May "a, 1870.
BABES in the Wood.

the forest, has always been an affecting one to
us. In the language of Fisher Ames, "the tears
which flow on the fond recital will never dry
up" AS it is the moral IN. B. The compos-
itor must not set this word up MorrilD aspect
OF the case and not the mere physical suffering
OF the helpless, prattling victims which moves
us, we should feel greatly relieved to be au-
thoritativaly assured that these children,
whose unhappy fate has SO long haunted our
imagination, were in fact accidentally lost
and not deliberately and cruelty abandoned
Similarly are we relieved to learn that when
Mr.. Morrill, sought in 1869 to gather more
Senatorial laurels in "The Political Wilder
ness" he was not treacherously stabbed by
pretended friends and left to die there, but was
accidentally lost through the ma ura errors of
an honest miscaIculation of the real situation,
and mistake as to the true path out of the
jungle. We naturally expect the personal
friends and personal champions of the Senator
to share our qualification on being assured by
him that this is the truth relative to his mis-
adventures. Such, however, is not the case.
Like Mawworm they -" l0ue to be prosecuted"
rancorously reproach him because he denies
that he was the guileless and gerdant victim
ofmispaced confidence" They insist upon it
that he is so innocent and unsophisticated as
not to know when he is cheated; though one
would suppose that the experience of the man
who was leader of the worldly wise democ-
racy, (then in the plentude of their power in
State and nation) when his over Jealous and
hastY newspaper friend in this city was con-
STRUNG Greek and Latin under the eve and
rod of his tutor, ought to count for something
even ii he possess less shrewdness and politi
cal Sagacity than has iIfttIcr
him by his opponents.
When pr4.-c A--1al.- 4hia-uiew, those who
denu,lnce his manly letter to Mr.. Blaine say
that Mr.. Morrill, knows that he ,ods cheated,
and that he would never have written this
letter had not Blaine retired from the con-
test this year, but that he lies now because
he has entered into a combination to cheat
his former supporters and aid his late oppo-
nents i'll the matter of the gubernatorial |
nomination, that he may thereby prevent the |
recurrence in 1871 of the mishaps of 1869.
The Adoertiser, which in January of the
last-named year exalted Mr.. Morrill, as the
incarnation of every virtue, and entitled to
his Congressional seat by the right of emil
nent domain and bleathed out threatenincs |
and slaughter towards every one who did not
think Mr.. Hamlin ought incontinently to
withdraw, with equal heat and passion now
calls out loudly like the voice of one cruino |
in the aoilderness') in terms of bitterest de-
nnnciation and suggestions of corrupt and |
base combinations such as were never used |
toward him by the friends of Mr.. HamIip.
who showed forbearance, charity and cour
tesy that it was not in the nature of these
violent and turbulent spirits 10 appreciate or
ieciprocate. These accusations are the more
reprehcnsible because couched in the form
of insinuations and inuepdoes which cam
not be met and denied. Instead of direct as
sertion admitting of contradictions they are
expressed in pretended explanations of the
possible purpose of Gov. Morrill, in writing his
letter, not conceding that desire to express his
honest convictions and to do justice to per- .
sonal and political friend could possibly be his
real as well as his only ostensible motive
Iney Turk beneath covert sneers and distort-
ed presentation and analysis of groundess
and visionary estimates. The rea, cause of
the Advertisers dissatisfaction is that the is
sue of the Hamlin- Morrill, contest in 1850
showed the possibility of its editor being mis-
taken as TO facts and figures; that he could
not cast the horoscope of the immediate DO
Itlcal future with perfect assurance that the
event would exactly verify his predictions.
lie now chooses to attribute determination
II the struggle the reverse of what he indi-
'ated to anything rather than his own mis-
preferring to accuse his associates l
Is well as his opponents of treachery and l
raud and his candidate of duplicity and cor t
'upt motives and combinations rather than TO {
confess himselr mistaken. Disappointed that |
lis favorites are seldom those of the people
md that in the distribution of honors those
Who dispense them select their own REGIMENTS /
md soured by the persistent roryersitv Of b
vents in not occurring as he has sare,old I
hem, the times seem out of joint to him. ~ L
inds everything in "a muddle," and the plain VI
st path of the political future just before us
pen to the day and straight forward in its :
curse is but political wilderness" a