The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1871-04-27
MORTON.

MORTON.
A Terrible Keel-IEauIInR for the
"Frontier POIitIeIan,'-George Alfred
Townsend PrIcIks His Bubble After
Sehurz. - ~ 80 u -----. -i-l-~''i
rFrOm the Washington Sunday Capital.
One of the biggest bubbles in public
life was prieked last week. In the Arab
story, cloud of sooty smoke encompass
ing what was supposed to be mighty
| genius, was cloyen one day by bright
spirit, and 10 only a chameleon leaped
forth. just so the dark superstitious
guise of Oliver P. Morton, which was
thought to enclose vast reservations Of
power, has been tested by the rapier of
Carl Schurz, and a political chameleon,
| impotent to annoy anybody, tumbles to
| our feet, g. ls--4 ~ a-i7i 9-'--ii+jiit $3.50 .
There was never anything of Morton
but self-willed, third-rate man. of bur
ly frame and swarthy complexion, who
4 got reputation on the name of the .sThe
Great War Governor P''-- We had several
fine State Magistrates IN the war, like
,Andrew, Tod, 0Buekinghan, and Blair,
who worked subordinate to the National
.Magistracy with eye-single sarifce, but
there were few, and of these Morton was
the head who used their lords Iieutenancy
to make noise and halloo themselves in
to the Presidency. - Your denagogue
must have pass name toibe identified: /:
'"'The Stormy Petrel." or The Little Gi-
an" or 'The Man of Destiny, or lastly.
The Great War Governor. % Reduced to
lothis buff, the true War Governor IS a pol
iticign across whose term current Of vi,
olence strikes, and if he be of a loyal ma,
ture he will merge his personal reputation
into that of his President, and his officers
an example Of modest abnegation. Not 50.
with our Great War sGovefnorgSEoq
y He kept full at his elbow to snrfeit
the press with daily kilograms of his per-
sonal exploits. He Ietarded and discour-
| aged the promotion Of Indianians Of force,
least they might become his rivals and
select the subseryient for his chief idigni-
ties, He tolerated no pee1 m his State,
| and for years scowled at Mr.. Golfax. while
he endeavored to pack the Committee on
Resolutions IN the Republican State Con-,
vention Of February, 1864, SO that Indiana
should not pronounce for iMf.. Idneoln's
second term. 1t was his object to slip IN
between Ian coin and Chase as -sGreat
War Governor" and crowd both to the.
wall. The resolution was written in the
executive chamber of the White House
IN Mr.. Lincolnss presence, which did dpass
the Conventions ViVa g0ee, when offered by
CelonelIG. MdLA1len, Of XIncennes, and.
Morton sworel vengeance upon the abet5
tors of it. :, - -. =
Fhis is another bubble quality iiit4 his hiis3tt ter. :.
| nbleness. 1t may scare small Office seek
ers IN local quarters, but we are thrustinp
it through with our rrapier, as SohurZ
prlcked bus intellectual zholloWness. There
is nothing terrible IN our day except ones
"reminiscences of his worst self, his abah+.
donment to ambition, revenge, indulgence
intrigue, and the other forms Of fFuinous
| selfshness The melodramatic age EXISTS
only IN theatres now, and, Merton5sipeTer
to harm Is mere allusion. A few OBJ
scure newspaper in the West abuse his
critics, but they con say nothing worse or,
trpec than has been printed Of himself 8
r. When the war was done, Morton has
tened to ingratiate himself with Andrew.
Sehnson, and in speech delivered at,
Richmond, IN his natlye county, Septenr
Der 29, 1865, he pronounced for the john
SON plan and against negro outrage. He
! declared at the same time for rebel am
| nesty5 and said: 11sSIs it desirable to have
eolored State Governments 2, / say 1t ia
not. Such States would continually con-
stitute- a balance Of power. .Ga,A IS three
hundred thousand sla4eho ldses7 by "a eoIaI
mono tie were iablsi 20 g0oeln this natlou
for a long time, so four millions ofGblack
people would constantly vote and aot TO-
sgether. IL would give them tenor fifteen
years Of probation, or until immigration
can make them permanent miuorit4Y1 Z
Instantly on the heels of this fulsomo
Speech Morton's 'rnnnersf of fWhom he has
J a herd some of them his police dstectives
! whom he maintained in the war1came to
] Washington to get Johnson to, make him
/ Secretary Of War In Stanton's place.
] Johnson refusing and partial paralysis
occurring TO Morton about this time, or
at the early age of forty-tWo, he visited
Europe, and returned to the United States
Senate stern impeachment Radical =
ha In the vindictive and costly episode of
impeachment he was the chief inquisitor,
and well he looked the role He. found IN
Grant boy to be Wheedied, and estab=
lished congeniality with that. prince of
nepotism by asking the favor of a COZ pie
of brothers-in-iaw to Be pat i'm office. In
alliance with Butler, his superior in abili-
] ty, lbutln many prospects ms counterpart,
Morton assumed the lord lieutenancy of
the South, whose scalawag politicians re-
sembied, his -chums and runners ino Indiana
iAssumIng, also TO demand the San ol)o-
mingo folly, he blew himself afoui of Carl
SchurZ,s nimble foil and prestoi the bub-
BILE of his ability burst to the soap with
which he rubbed down Grant and the
choler Of his impatient ambition There
was nothing left, not even the potency of
his dark and wrathful fece, (which { had
given the bubbleits tint Crude fat, un-
informed, ungraeious, mere frontier pol
itician with biacksnith,s face, he per-
ished like bat on the point Of a scholars
blade; and so goes down the man who-was
naneuvering to ruin Grant and then to
succeed hin.====az-z=s-