Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-08-25
sB.v.sT OH .NORTO.N"S SPBBCH

SB.NssT OH .uORTO.N"S SPEECH.
Senator Morton of Indiana made a speech
in st. Louis on the 10th inst st. Louis, it
must be remembered, is the capital of a
new German Empire in the interior of our
continent, which is already foreshadowing
its claims TO the political umpirage in all
our national issues. 1t is 10 st. Louis that
we are to look hereafter perhaps for our
political direction, instead of to Boston,
Philadelphia or any Atlantic city.
Some of the more prominent points of
Senator Morton's speech were as follows:
LIST. If the clerks in Washington were
to be appointed for life instead of for a
term of years, then ten thousand of them
would constitute an arstocracy sufficient
to revolutionize the government in twenty
five years.
"a. The Ku-Klux bill was one of the
best measures ever passed in Congress.
Tho mere passage saved hundreds of lives,
and thousands of men from torture.
Sd. Would the democracy of the South,
if successful in the next election, tax them
selves to pay pensions to Northern soldiers
uni ess rebel soldiers are placed on the same
footing. Mr.. Morton thinks not. The
power that justifies universal amnesty will
jus tify pensioning rebels. They would
use this argument in paving the national
debt. They would refuse to vote for the
pa yment of the national debt unless the
slaves of the South are paid for.
In reply 10 these positions of senator
Morton we would ask, if such a compleie
r evolution as he represents could tal,e
place by Il mere chance of uoriv. then what
has the government gained dlIjnl, the last
ten years? If il has failed to effect a st,-
bic settlement of the war question. so that
it can all be upset by mere chance of mar
ties. then it has accomplished nothing at
all unless, perhaps, in exchange for Afri
can slavery it will have brought enslaye-
ment upon ihe whole countr, Tiia;
calamity reasonably to have been appre-
hended from an administration so slocl az
that of Messrs. Seward and Stanton.
The first position of Senator Morton
viz, that ten thousand clerks of the do.
p ailments. might. i'm a certain c.so bavo
power to revolutionize the government IL
fact which is possible under tbo crcum-
stances which now c.ist Tho Eo,;o,o,
Christian Association onno,od - ..oa.at ~
cieties have warnod ,ba oou,,r,. u,a,tr A..
clerks in Wasbinoto, ,,oro a. - ~
cret sociot,, a,,,o,,1. ,I....-,-
fiji a II voc,no;o. q, ,,aI s-.i, -
own selec,ior and ,t,,a .,.'n,. ~ 'io',
control of ,ho troa.,,r1, a,,a 80 A. gu "1 'u"'
man, i,sol, 80, ".o " '"' so'oi"
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present dav IN Ioro,' po'i''e'oia " 'ne
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rim r.,o.'.,.- passage vi 'i'e hu-hiuh
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of 9th orc ,yo,,Ia ,,a,,o 49,, 49, a. AZ,
list aim urIoss a Low, ooa,,a, 80. w Wv
ty had been passed docs :, mot fol,ov "V ,ho,
the issues Of tbe war were NO, nronor,, as
tablished ON a sound basisp And Inns tho
faults of the party in power are made the
reason for continuing that marty in mower.
They have sadly boggled in the manage
ment of the war, and must now be contin-
ued in power in order to repair their f,,ul,s.
or else the democracy will take advantage
of these faults TO ruin the countryl
1t il certain that the Republican marty
viii have to reform itself; and that too. in
the face of rayenous democracy which
The faults of its adversary have maddened
for success as the blood of the victim en-
RACES the wolf. Where shall this reform
beginH That is the vital question which
no politician will venture to touch.