Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1875-08-13
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speech at Urbana, Ohio, the other day,
which we suppose we must consider as
great speech from the pains taken to tele-
graph it far and near. The Washington
Chronicle calls it a splendid address" and
says ''this speech will be the keynote of
the campaign now going on, which will
terminate with the October elections, and
we would observe, in all its important
points, the keynote, as well, of the great
presidential contest of next year" With
this official endorsement and the high
standing of Mr.. Morton in his party, to-
gether with his known prominence as an
aspirant for the Republican nomination
for President, we took up the splendid
address" with interest. which soon tagged
when we had read but few lines, for we
found that the Senator was lat it again"
We had confidently expected to find in
the key note" something new, but we
were doomed to disappointment and only
saw the same old 'bloody shirt" Haunted
before our eyes, which We have become so
we'll acquainted with ever since the war
ended. But still, owing to Mr. Morton's
high position and acknowledged talents,
this "key- note which he has sounded.
familiar as it is to our fatigued ears, must
again attract passing notice He insists
upon it that the Democratic party is the
party of secession, and that the doctrine
of States Right under the Constitution as
claimed by it, logically and necessarily
leads to secession. He then arraigns the
record of the Democratic party during the
war, sings the usual song about the dan
gers to result from its accession to power
and the return of the Confederate leaders
to Congress through the usual 'out-
rage" stories as showing the existence of
a lawless and rebellious spirit anon. the
people of the South, and their purpose
again to reduce the negroes to slavery, to
pension rebel soldiers and pay the Confed-
crate war debt. In short, this splendid
address" is but rehash of what we have
so often heard-the gospel of hate and
distrust, which Republican leaders like
Mr.. Morton have preached so long and
with such remarkable effect, as last year
to convert nearly the whole country to
Democracy. One would naturally have
supposed that it was evident the Ameri-
can people ''did not scare worth cent" on
this point, and We can only express our
surprise that so astute \ politician as the
Senator from Indiana should have com
mitted such blunder as to have under
taken at this time to re argue the issues
on which his party went before the jury
of the country last fall and met with
verdict so disastrous. Somebody has said
that lie consistently told and persistent
ly adhered to will oftentimes pass cur
rent for the truth, or words to that effect
1t may be that Mr.. Morton has said these
things SO often and persistently, that fail
ing to convince his hearers he has succeed
ed in convincing himself of their truth,
and therefore is honest in his wish to
alarm the people with sense of their
overwhelming danger. But we fear this
requires too great stretch of imagination
| and too much charity. On the whole, we
confess we are pleased with this address
Of the Senator, because if this is the best
the Republican party can do, and we
know of no man among them his superior
in talent, we are not much afraid to face
the music now that we have heard "the
keynote" But if the Outrage" mill is to
be run to supply campaign material we
want to know who is to be chief miller,
now that Attorney General Williams has
retired