Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1871-06-21
SENATOR MORTON.
Pen Picture Of the Administrative Hench-
man--Thc Executioner I'm the Place of
the Vizier.

Pen Picture Of the Adm illustrative Hench-
man--The Executioner I'm the Place of
the Vizier.
From the Washington Patriot, April 25.l
If anything could convince us of the
existence of the Ku. Klux, it would be
Senator Morton's dread of that or.
ganization, and his repeated bewildcr-
ing descriptions of those midnight
dreadful enemies of tho Republic
For "the great war Governor knows
how it is himself He is a born con-
spirator. He is practical detective.
He knows how to put up jobs" and
how 10 have them found out BY the
right parties, so that all the suspicion
be averted from him. Hence, if there
be any truth in the old adagc of set.
ting a thief 10 catch u thief, Morton is
the man, Of all others, to find out Ku.
Klux and to cackle obstrepcrously
over the discovery. He is the man
who invented the Knights of the
Golden Circle, and made himself Gov.
ernor and Senator thereby. He is the
man who harried Indiana with detec.
tives and spies until the State was like
Paris under the Commune. Itwasun.
der his regime that the excellcntsystem
was inauguarted Of ofbanging men first
and trying them afterwards; of remov.
ing political opponents by ostracism
and Punishment; of making Testimony
against enemies where none existed,
aud of supplying, by the simple pro.
cess of forgery and perjury, those few
and general facts which even military
commissions required previous to con.
demning. 1t was during his regime
that Mr. Voorhees, locks were picked
under cover of lhenght, his furniture
invaded, his drawers stuffed with
forged matter to implicate him in
sedilions consipracies, and then when
daylight came the police were invited
in aud the whole world summoned to
rrprobate the damage thereon. Hence
if there be Ku Klux, Morton will
know how to find it; if there be
small Ku Kux, Morton will know
how TO magnify it; and in good time,
when the conspiracy is full blown,
Morton will know how to find his own
profit in it, even if everybody else
should suffer by it. For the Indiana
Senator, with all the unscrupulousness
of Titus Oates and DaingerIicd, and
all the black malignity Of Marat, does
not resemble these notorious conspira.
tors in point of disinterestedncss.
They gave their lives, their comfort,
their ears for cause. Morton gives
nothing, but cxacts everything for
himself Without Fouche's skill he
has all of Pouches traitorous spirit,
that would not let him rest easy, save
when he was false TO somo one. With
out Talleyrand's wit, or urbanity, or
spirit, he has a great deal of that happy
instinct which drove Talleyrand TO be
always seeking the winning side
Were il not that he lacks the gcner.
GUS qualities which are necessary TO
the party leader, aud did not the peo.
Pile recoll instinctively from dis dark
and selfish nature, full of greed, full of
filsencss, full Of bile, Morton would at
this moment be the most dangerous
man in America to our remaining ib.
critics. And this is not because Of
any commanding talents, for no has
none; nor of any towering mbilon,
for his is one always groveling, al
ways base. The Senator from Indiana,
indeed, cannot lay claim to a decent
degree of understanding; he is crude,
unlcarned, faulty Of judgment abor.
tive in conception, and Dotoriously
deficient at once in fact and originality.
He invents nothing but falsehood, and
stamps his tbird.rate powers OF apprc.
hcn,ion even upon the ideas which he
steals. Ho resembles one of those
crabs which frequent the Florida reefs,
and which, armed in front with for.
bidding tentacles and strong, preda.
ceous claws, but terminating behind
in weak, pulpy, ineffective, fnless
body, drop themselves into tho vacat-
ed shells Of other fish, and do desper.
ate battles for these, as if they were
to tho manor born. His speeches,
apart from their rancor and their
thefts, are mere apocryphal assertion,
rigmarole, "three blue beaus in blue
bladder The sordid gloatings his
bad heart over the catalogue Of the