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| their interests. II they will, Reforn>wiT pain
three Congressman.
:: SENATOR MORT0N's SPEECH.
Sen ator Morton's speech at Central Hall. On
Thursday evening, was in his best mood, and ex-
hibited fairly his order Of mind which is yigor-
| GUS and cunning, but without those moral quail
| ties which excite respect. He has a certain
! forte in soaring an audience by n cunning ap-
peal to their selfish interests, or what he may
induce them to imagine such, though in allow
ing themselves to be frightened they may feel
in no way impressed with confidence in either
his integrity or his Judgment. His chief aim in
his recent speech WAS to alarm hia
hearers into the notion that reconciliation with
our lately rebel population would produce, in
stead Of ayerting, another war, that We must
have security for person and property at the
South before we can have reconciliation
whereas most people would suppose thnt recon-
ciliation must come before person and property
can be secure-and that continued suspension
Of specie payments is essential to our business
prosperity, although, as his audience freely re-
minded him, his own platform promises that
specie payments shall nevertheless be resumed
His chef GGuUre of political cunning, e1celled
by nothing else in his speech, WAS the masterly
de1tority with which he stabbed the reputation
of General Tora Browne, the Re-
publican candidate for Governor, who
has just been defeated in Indiana. Morton's in
tense fear Of all rising Republicans in Indiana
who may come into rivalry with himself is
equally amusing to the Indiana Liberals and
exasperating to his own political associates. As
there is e Republican majority Of only Il votes
on joint ballot in the Indiana Legislature, Nor
toms recollection depends On the absence Of all
rivalry. And 60 Morton spears Browne by
charging that be ran behind his ticket, be-
cause the Temperance voters we're satisfied
that Browne VAS drunkard. His own denial
that Browne is intemperate is the mere feather
that conceals the barb, for, OF course, every one
who heard, or reads, his charge Will know that
no "calumnies could deceive the Temperance
voters Of Indiana into believing that Browne
WIS drunkard If he WAS not.
Mr. Morton'a charge that the Liberals stand
opposed to the National Banks il aheer false
hood, intended to scare the banks and bankers
themselves into contributing their money and
votes to re-e1ect Grant. Chief Justice Chase,
the author and fniaher Of the National Banking
system, as well as the greenback
currency, is Liberal, so that
tho country is indebted to men Of the Liberal
party for the system and our existing Uniform
currency. Mr. Greeley, the New York Tribune,
TIE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, the Cincinnati Commer-'
cial, and most Of the other organs Of Liberal
opinion, have always advocated the present Ma.
tional Banking system, and still as earnestly up
hold it, while the most active and ir1econcilable
asaailant OF the National Banks has been Secre-
tary Boutwell,.
Rr. Morton tried to be funny, at the expense
Of Mr. Greeley, by alleging that he had recon-
mended irrigation to the farmers in the Wabash
Valley, which he probably never did. 1t all
events, Mr. Greeley might retort with grim
smile at the exquisite statistical force of the fol-
lowing sentence from Governor Morton:
There have been fewer failures in the las. three
years in this country, than III any sx years before in
its whole history.
Are VIC to understand that, as a rule, more
failures might be expected to occur in three
years than in sx7
Senator Morton, after declnring that the
Liberals had no financial policy to offer, assert
ed that resumption Of specie payments was one
Of their policies and the sale Of the gold reserve
a1n{har Rac1runf;cD ha 1ar1pra5 II,
breath, could not be accomplished without
bankrupting the country, and that any person
who doubted this had not the brains
OF an oyster; but, when Informed
by his audience that resumption YVES demanded
by his own platform, he added that Grant would
resume without hurting anybody. Are we to
infer that on this question Morton may justly
lay claim to the brains Of an Oyster?
The assertion that our financial welfare is in
any way dependent on Grant is disproved by
the present condition Of trade and industry. |
Mr. Morton assumes, however, that there will t
who will swallow anything that il told them
with Morton's degree Of animal 'assump-
ton and physical vigor, particularly
il it relates to finance. Most business men in
Chicago, however, tnow that the only monetary
panic We have had in twelve years Was pro-
duced, or at least aggravated, by Grant himself.
He it was that gave the order to Boutwell,, On
Sept 4, 1869, which stopped ali sales OF gold for
that month, and resulted in the Black Friday
catastrophe of the 24th September. The order
was procured from him by his brother-in-law
Corbin, Jay Gould, and Fisk, Jr., and for Cor
bins influence in the matter Gould turned over
to Corbin s., 800 ,000 in gold, on which Corbin
acknowledged that he netted profit OF
$25, 600, and got the money. Grant knew OF
these speculatons in gold, and was stopping at