The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-04-15
SENATOR NORTON.
An Outline OF His Views on PO-
Iitical Affairs In the South.

Senator Morton has returned to his
home in indianapolis, Ind, and is repre-
lepted to be in better health than for
yePrs past, He win spend tie summer
there, unless some uniavOrabls change
shall compel him to seek a milder climate,
The indianapolis Journal gives brief
statement his observations in the South,
1t says:
He enjoyed his hasty trip through the
South very much, and particularly his
short stay in New Orleans, which city he
had never visited before, lie passed
through six Southern States, and in all OF
them saw the same evidences OF depres.
sion, stagnation and unthrift. 1t was sad
and disCouraging to see such large sec.
ton Of country so completely devoid OF
healthy life and enterprise. The great
trouble in the South, he believed, was far
deeper than any political trouble, ltlay
in the character, education and habits Of
the people themselves, They seem to be
utterly lacking in the elements which con-
stitute progressive society. Labor Is
not honorable, and enterprise is unknown.
In nearly all OF the country that he pass
ed through blowing was going on. lie
saw hundreds Of negroes blowing, but not
one white man. The whites are doing
little or nothing toward rcgenerating the
South or restoring its shattered fortunes.
They are their own worst enemies, New
Orleans was mystery to him. The leyee
was full Of life and crowded with ship
ping, but the interior Of the city seemed
stagnant so far Us business was concerned.
Amusements were well supported, some
five or six theatres running all the time,
and the people seemed to have plenty Of
money; but he could not see where II came
from. There was no manufacturing in
the city, and no local enterprise or public
spirit. From the roof OF the Custom
House he could count only tive steam en-.
gine chimneys, and two Of them belonged
to hotels. The former trade Of the city
seemed to have found its way into other
channels, and the people were making no
eiiOrttO recover il or to open up new chan
ncls. Politically the city was perfectly
quiet The action Of Congress in recog-
nizing the Kellogg government had had a
marked effect in clearing up the political
atmosphere. Ii Congress had done this
two years ago, no believed nearly oil the
Southern troubles Of the last two years
would have been averted. The hesitating
policy Of Congress aud the division Of the
Republican party in the North had en-
coliraged the Conservatives to continue
their agitation, and kept the negroes in n
constant state Of terror lest they were
about to he deserted by their friends and
turned over to be dealt with by the Demo-
crats. Louisiana had been the centre OF
political agitation for the last two or three
years, from which a bad influence had
rRdiated to all she Southern States. He
was now more than ever convinced that
Congress had made a great mistake by
adopting dilatory policy in regard to
the louisianaIucstiOn. Never heless its
recent action unquestionably had good
effect, and he thought the general state Of
Of feeling throughout the South ut present
was better than II had heen for some time
past. Republicans were united and hope
ful, while the Conservatives were at least
quiet, and all violent demonstrations have
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