The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1875-06-01

| resOTteQ 10 IN OrQer TO foster tue opinion
! that MORGAN was killed, the body of a
man was found in the water near where
the killing was said to have occurred.
II was claimed at first that this was the
body of MORGAN, and the excitement in
tensified, but the attempt to identify it
proved that it was the remains of another
man. Nevertheless, it is said, the body
was shaved and dressed to correspond
with the description of MORGAN, and ora
tions were delivered overit to influence
public opinion and help demagogues into
office.
One distinguished politician, THURLow
WEED, we believe, was asked BY friend,
how he could join In these farcical obse.
quies, knowing that it was not the body
of MORGAN. His reply has become IA
nous: 1T is a good enough Morgan
,tntil after the election"
Every year, almost, we have repeti.
ton of WEEDS tactics. Some war cry is
agreed upon by the political leaders, and
handed over to the subordinates with in.
slructions to make Rome howl with its
echoes. No matter il it be sheer fabri-
cation. tits "good enough Morgan
until after the election" A great many
will not learn its character until after they
have voted, and the same MORGAN is not
| 10 be used again.
For several years pasta batch of re,
ports of "Southcrn outrages" have been
hatched just in time for effective use in
the elections, but that trick has become
SO hackneyed that it can no longer be re
| lied on, and new deYice has been resort
ed to.
tits now obvious that the Radical pol
iticians have resolved to raise,a storm
about the late Legislature, and. withou
making their charges too speciic,to pour
out such torrents of abuse upon it as will
induce the belief that it was the fouiesi
body of mcn ever assembled together -
The Radical platform will doubtless be
constructed with view to furnishing
Radical orators with texts Eom which to
harrangue on the subject, and Radica
newspapers will be fairly stopping ovel
with Trades of vi,uperation.
We have not heretofore, and We shall
not hereafter, interpose so much as a spi
der's web between the Legislature ant
any just criticisms. We have said, ant
J repeat, that that body did some things
and tried to do some others, which in oul
opinion were unwise. But its errors anG
misdoings are utterly insignificant whel
compared with the conduct of Legisla
lures in other States, or with other Leg
islatures of this State.
/ So far ast the clamor-makers have ven
tured to specify objectionable acts the.
have confined themselves almost exclu
sively to three:
i First, the GEGHAN bill, which is right il
principle, and the principle OF which th'
veriest Know Nothing among them doe
not dare to attack directly
! Second, the Toledo bill, which wa
wong in principle, but which never be
came law. Of this the Radicals can
mot we'll laval themselves as tteir party i
warty all over with acts embodying tn
same principle.
Third, the alleged bribery in the Wool
county-seat case But three or four mem
bers were implicated in this of these tn
most conspicuous was a Republican be
sides theinvestigation failed TO provean
bribery. 1t did prove that few Demo
Gratis and "a few Republicans had brougl
disgrace uponth State.
These together constitute the "Mol
gan" whichis to be paraded around til
country for the purpose of enablin
those who were long horne with, but 6
last emphaticelly condemned by the pee
pie, to get back into their old wellfeatl
cred nests.
Il EFOn Thursday last the dwellin
: house and out bnildings-seven in all