The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-08-22
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Tie distinguished senator FROM In"
dlnnn made n vcry long 0nd II very
powerful speech some weeks ngO NJ
'fcrrp ilnule, which has come to be re-.
gardcd ~ the first shot IN the preslden-
llal campaign Of 1870. II Is well
known that Senator Morton, with all
his physical lnlrmltles, has been look
Ing with wlstiul eye towards the
chief maglstracy Of the nation, and
that he had settled II pretty well In his
own mind that the succession was to
be his. Grants veto Of the imitation
bill, 50 deliberately prepared and 10
tenderly nursed by the Indiana sena-
tor, gave the said senator very black
eye, hguratively speaking, and Knocked
his chances for the presidency down
from the neighborhoOd of par to about
thirty-seven and II half per cent. Nor
ton don't love Grant bit, nor does
Grant look with amiability upon Nor
TOMS presumption in aspiring to the
position he now holds and wishes to
continue to hold. Therefore what they
say about each other in public has to
be taken with many grains of salt.
In Morton's Terre Haute speech he
touched upon every subject open to po-
litical comment, with the exception of
the vilainous government he fought
so hard to sustain in Lousiana-on
that subject he wasinum. In the course
of his address he dropped the following
in reference to Grant and his alleged
southern sympathies:
"a mischievous impression has been
cunningly made in the south that the
president sympathizes with the south
| prn democracy upon the subject of civ.
il rights. and will differ with the north
ern repubiicans,upon that question, and
| this impression emboldens the move
ment against the negroes, which is
growing in the south day by day. For
this impression know Of no founda-
ton. No word or act of the president
has given it countenance. In his De-
cember message he expressly recon-
mended 'the enactment of II law to bet
| ter secure the civil rights which free
dom should secure, but has not effectu-
ally secured to the enfranchised slave
and repel with indignation the sug-
gestiOn that the president will prove
false to the principles of therepublican
party"
The animus of this is plain to be
SCENT was thrown out for the purpose
of killing Grant at the south. While
we have too much respect for the
southern people to believe that any
thing would be necessary to choke
them off from supporting Grant, we
are glad to see Senator Morton's re-
minder of the position that Grant took
in his annual message last December
And, if we remember correctly, this is
the only thing we were ever glad to see
from the Indiana senator.
What we wished particularly to call
attention to is the mendacity and ma
Lightly of the honorable gentleman in
reiterating the old charge, that there is
"a movement against the negroes,
which is growing in the south day by
day." He knows well that the negroes,
with him at their head, have been
making a movement against the white
people of the south since 1868; that the
white people have exhausted every
means in their power, by fusion move,
ments, unification schemes, reform par
ties, and every other device, to brea k
! the force of the attack that was being
made upon them; that all their efforts
have been without avail; that the
blacks stand exactly as he and his con-
f,eres have always urged them to
stand, as IL solid mass of ignorance and
rascality arrayed against the interest
of the whites, and that at last the
whites, wearied with their futile efforts
to make an amicable arrangement
with the blacks, have concluded to lei
and that they will take care of them
selves. Senator Morton knows all this,
or at least if ne does not he has failed
to read the newspapers. He thinks
that the heart Of the northern people
is like his own, still reeking with bit,
terness and gall against the southern
people, and it is on this that he pro.
poses to bank in his presidential race.
We earnestly hope and sincerely be-
lieve that he does the people of his
section injustice. We believe that the
fires of hate naturally engendered by the
war are burning very low where they
are not entirely extinguished, and that
the great mass of the northern people
are prepared to hear our cause calmly
and to judge dispassionately of our
management of affairs in the anQma-
lous position in which we find our
selves placed. This is all we ask now ;
this is all We have ever asked.
Senator Morton is now at the Hot
Springs, in Arkansas, seeking relief
from his physical intirmities. While
we wish him the fullest success in his
quest after bodily health, we trust OF
the same time that the hot water may
boil some of the malignity out of his
heart, so that he may be able to look
at the south with less gangrened Wis.
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