The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-08-21
Morton Put That IN"

One OF the best OF the many pointed shiiiSs
OF the day illustrating the unfitness OF Gcae'al
GRAST to manage the Government Gas Tue
late Mr. STANTON said) is given in state
ment publicly made by General FARMS
woarH. Il win be remembered by most Oh
our readers, we suppose, that soon after
General GpAST entered upon the duties Oh
President he sent in message recommends
ing chat Georgia should be hauled up to the
+ebull-ring" for alleged contumacy--the
iron-clad oath be prescribed for oilice-holders
there, aud, In effect, that Bullock, the now
thief and fugitive, should have the power 70
turn out most Of the white men from tue
Legislature and keep the negroes III, ana
thus hand over Georgia to negro r''ic.
This was q recommendation so inconslst-
ent with General GRANTS avowed opinions
in relation to the reconstruction OF Virginia
that It occasioncd general surprise; but the
Republicans in Congress were sinSuiarly ST.
lent upon the subject. They considered the
Georgia question without referring to the
Presidents recommendations, and passed
measures TO meet the alleged exisency i'll
that State without respecting at all the views
of the President.
This recommendation in the message, it
appears from General FARNswoRTH's state
ment, did attract attention in Congress on the
Republican side. He went to the President
to inquire the meaning of the recommends
ton. We let General FARNswoKTH tell his
own story:
81 went up to the President and said,
tMr. President, find passage in your ines
sage here which do not quite understand.
Will you be good enough to explain to me
what you mean by it:' and read him the
passage ] have read to you. The President
took his cigar out OF his mouth, after Il de-
liberate Whit or two, and looked it over,
and answers me thus: well, really cannot
say exactly what that does mean. MORTON
PUT THAT In [Great laughter.l Nor.
ton put that in! The Constitution Of the
United States provides that the President
shall annually deliver to the Congress bis
message, with such recommendations as he
may make; but Morton put that in {. ! did
not pursue my inquiry in that quarter an.
further, nor did 90 to Morton to ask him
what he meant, tor did not recognize his
right to. send his recommendations to Con
gress through message Of the President OF
the United States"
A very wonderfully plant and conliding
disposition indeed is General GRANTS to
wards alt those bitter and relentless men like
MORTON, to whom he has submitted as adj
visors and guides. They twist him about Il,
suits them, and he has the frankness to
acknowledge that lie has been OVerreacbed
This facility of acquicScencc of President
GRANT in the malignant suggestions OF the
ultra Radicals for suhjecting the southern
people to pains and penalties utterly incon.
sistent with his previously ayowcd policy is
the very worst feature of his Administrl'
ton-sbowing not only incompetcncy, but Il
proneness to relapse into the views and dis
positions of the coarse, selfish, ruthless, and
yindictiye class of men. No man Of intcili-
gence and dispassionate Judgment can fail to
detect i'll the history of General GRANT
presidential career his natural proclivity for
the coarse, sensual, greedy, and yindictiyc
men in politics and social life. Any Of these
may get his ear and his confidence, and
"twist" him "arourd" (as he once said
himself to distinguished Virginian), and
"put in" what they please in bis messases
and official papers. "MoRToN put that in,
and anybody else rs cruel, brutal, and sen
sual as MORTON, who found his way to the
Presidents chamber, could do the like. liz
has no respect for consistency, and no con.
sideration for The public peace and the rights
of men when they stand in the way OF tllt
schemes OF the sordid and INSCRIPTIONS per
sons who surround him.