The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-03-07

TWO 70 make happy home, ana that
if the wife is one party, the husband
must be the other.
MORTON AND SClIURZ.
utter Faiaups sr Astsssrs bAy NJ.
.cacss lepst Ar. Aortss Il s1.lse
IL In the personal tilt between Messrs.
Morton and Schurs in the Senate, ON
the 18th, the latter endcavored to
place the former in false position
before the country by setting up the
pretense that he had, through Mr..
SchurE, spoken sneeringly and disrc-
spectfully of our foreign born citizens.
Mr.. Morton's enemies have not been
slow to seize upon this pretext for the
purpose of misrepresenting him, and
in their hands Mr.. Schurz's insinua-
ton has grown to the proportions of q
direct charge. In order to disabuse
any fair minded person of the impress
sion sought to be created by his po-
litical enemies, it is sufficient to read
the following official report of Mr..
Morton's reply to the institutions of
Mr.. Schurx. Mr.. Morton said:
Mr.. Morton. Now, Mr.. President;
one word in regard to the Senator
from Missouri little while ago. As
| had occasion to say yesterday, the
Senator in his speech devoted . very
considerable part of it to me; and it
was made quite as personal and as Of
fcnsive, not only in matter but in man
ner, as it could we'll be to be parlia-
mentary. When I said / thought the
Senator did not understand this cOun-
try, l did not mean by that to say that
all our foreign born citizes do not un-
Sderstand this c0untry-no such thing.
The Senator has no right to give the
remark that construction. He has NO
right to make himself the represeta-
tive of all our foreign born citizens in
that way. / think my friend tried the
experiment some two or three years
ago Of putting himself forward as the
representative Of citizens of foreign
birth, and attempted in that way to
lead them out of one party and use
them in experience was not very salts
factory, and it would hardly be worth
his while to try the experiment again.
He says that / have changed my
opinions oftener than any other pub
lie man. think that remark will re-
quire some qualification, especially at
his hands. 1 have had occasion to
change my mind several times during
my lie upon questions, and l shall do
it again whenever ! think / am in the
wrong. / started with the Republi-
can party in 1854, and 1 have never
changed my mind to that extent that
I was required to get out of the party.
I have never betrayed my principles.
I have never betrayed my friends.
have never betrayed those who eleva-
ted me to power, and sought to use
that power for their destruction. II
have changed my mind upon this
question or upon that, l think that is
what happens to all men who hold
themselves amenable to instruction
and to learning from experience and
observation.
Mr.. Schurx. I expected from the
Senator from Indiana the reply he hal
just made. I want him to point out
in my record = single principle that
ever betrayed. / want him to show
in the platforms Of policy I have sup
ported, . single contradiction. He
will not find one. He has never lef'
his party. have never betrayed m,
principles. There is the difference
between him and me. I alluded t.
the fact that yesterday, when we hap
pened to differ in opinion, one of the
first things he threw at me was that
did not understand this country; h,
spoke of Germany as ''his own coun
try, meaning mine. understand tn,
meaning Of that very we'll; and I re
peat again that l think it betrays yer,
little appreciation of the rights of thl
foreign born citizen If he is only re
cognized as an equal when he happens
to coincide with the views and serve
your interests. maintain that / hav,
| just as much right to differ with tn,
Senator from Indiana as he has to dif
fer with me, wherever / may have beel
born; and shall always claim tha
privilege.
/ But now, in conclusion, ]. will sa,
to him that if my remarks to him yes
terday were offensive to him, on
free to say [ regret it. / am sure tha
| I made my remarks very general, IN,
when 1 addressed them to him / com
batted his arguments and not his per
son. But can not refrain from say
ing, also, that in the reply he made
found . tumble Of misstatements s
atrocious and SO willful that l ca
hardly think they were made unwit
tingly.
The President, pro tempore. TIL
Chair thinks that is transgressing par
! liamcntary rules.
Mr.. Schurx. Then I retract the ex
preston / have used and say foun
misstatements which, if the Senate
from Indiana had listened to me wit
desire to understand me, he coul
not possibly have made. / did not re
ply to him on the spot, as at first al
tempted-I had without being permit
ted to do so, tried to interrupt him
for when misstatemcnts become S
gross and manifold, then at last eve
your desire to refute them may Civ
way.
Mr.. Morton. Mr.. President, m
speech is in the hands of the publ
printer. It will appear whenever tn:
Of the Senator appears, following
Immediately; and If there are mi,
statesments in that speech, the Sen.
tor will have an opportunity and Il
means Of pointing them out; and if
can show substantially that / ha,
made . misstatement, I think wi
have the magnanimity to confess