The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1876-12-30
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.

SuD-ulVlSiOD OF TIE w 6SteFn DenOcfd
cy during the war, known as the Son
of Liberty and knights of the Colder
Circle, Senator Morton is perhaps bet
ter qualified to render an intelligen
Judgment as to the purposes of thu
military organizations now in process,
of completion among the Democracy
of his own State, in other Western
States, and extending as far Eastward
as New York, and perhaps into New
England, than any man in public OIL
private life within the borders of the
United States. In recent converse
tions he is reported to have expressed
himself satisfied of the identity of the
leaders of the present movement with
those who sought to array several OF
the great States of the West in armed
hostility to the Government in 1863
and that while he believes the intelli-
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that section, as we'll as elsewhere, will
discOuntenance the evidently mis-
chievous designs of these disturbers, he
thinks little scrutiny of their move
ments may be q prudent provision
against accidents. knowing the trea-
sonable antecedents of many of them
as he does.
The President has, within the past
few months, been as roundly abused
for talking too much as he was former
ly for talking not enough. Certain
Democratic organs are as difficult to
please as the most confirmed coquette.
Through his loquacity of to- day he is
said to reveal schemes of the treachery
to the Republic as profound and as
wicked as any that ever agitated the
subtle mind of Catiline against the
cherished institutions of his country
while yesterday his reticence was
alleged to very tllinly cover from
public contempt congenitally
feeble. intellect still further inca
pacitated for any but the most
simple mental processes by his be-
sotted habits HIS iatest offsnse was
in very brief and comprehensive
statement of the situation according
to his view, to Il correspondent in
which his estimate of the Western
Democratic demonstration did not diff
fer materially from that of Mr.. Morton;
and from their own statements, it APP
pears that Secretary Chandler and
Post Master General Tyner, among
other prominent men who have ax-
pressed themselves in the matter, are
about the same mind. The President
further said that many representative
Southern men We're to be commended |
for the moderate position they occupy
relative to the ali-absorbing matter
of the Presidency, and believed that
their example would have a very salu-
tary effect upon the rank and file of |
their party that the moral sentiment |
of the whole country was unalterably |
opposed to any resort 80 violence and |
would restrain the evilly disposed |
within the limits of legal opposition.
Relative to his own duty he was clear
that it dictated turning over to his le-
gally declared successor, the reins of |
and that he considered |
amply clothed by the Consti-
tuition and laws with power to suppress
any armed resistance to the inaugu- |
ration of President and finally that |
the government would be found pre-
pared fora any emergency. While there
is no positive evidence before the pub
ic of a stampede of Southern Demo-
cratic members ofCongress to the ranks
of tile opposition it is very evident
hat they will take up>arms in his be-
aalf; and there is no question but
what Northern Democrats have been
lettled and exasperated By the un
sind allusions of their Southern
brethren to the war record of the
copperhead party" and that the
lose followers of Tilden have been
Is often afflicted with sad forebodings
rom the iukewarm utterances of their
X Confederate associates.
The final success of Duke Gwin's
oregon scheme appears about as hope
ess as does Randall's plan of proceed
ng by the dead twenty second joint
ule, buried under the Senate's almost
vote arainat its ayaila |