Wilmington journal., 1876-01-28

Succceds the eStOrm-FuneraIP Plat
itudes The Indiana War-GOv-
e-nOr Grinds the Outrage Organ
A Life Sketch. by an observer, of
the prophet Who Has Been M cas-
ured for Grants Mantle.
FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT
WAsHINGToN, Jan. "a, 1876.
The week just closed, in Congress,
has bee quite tame in comparison
with the Que which preceded it. Mr..
Blaine, in his double role of bull aud
matadOre, has cea sed to shake his red
rag aud paw the arena. The Senate
has spent much of it's time III the DIS
cussion of the resolution of Senator
Davis of West Virginia, relative to the
lS:repancles in the Treasury accounts,
and in decorous funeral orations
True, Mr.. Morton has been droning
away at his Mississippi election lnLim-
| ldatlon, aud outrage slogan; hut MIR.
Morton is such a well known star in
that particular class of opera, that his
part loses in interest, from the absence
of competition, and the spice of rivalry.
1t created discordant din just after
the ''let us have peace" lie, which
maintained the Republican party III
power after the war, but the country
is learning to endure it, with philo-
sophie resignation, as only another
phase Of the concOmitant demogogue-
ism of our form of government. Here
in Washington where the Indiana
senator sits down to it by the senate
rial term, it disturbs us no more than
lullaby. Indeed color, d mothers
frequently bring their babies to the
Senate gallery and put them to sleep
by it.
But however much we may deplo1e
this stuff, aud the occasion for it,
whether found in the polite Al necessi-
ty of failing desperate party; or
whether we view the ouGrages (if there
are outrages) as the fearful alternat We
between the greater and lesser evil,
forced upon the people of the South, -
Mr.. Morton's keen prescience in max
ing the most of them, as wings for his
ambition, begins to be apparent. Mr.
Morton is not great man, although
fanaticism may be all element of great
ness it is far from being all of i; but
he Is a much heavier weight than his
latest imitator from Maine. Mr.. Nor
ton is, in a certain sense, original.
do not refer particularly to his getting
his rOltlcal cOncience from Old Prob
abilities, or his financial views from
the Kaleidoscope. By the way I think
the truest carlcatureal most ever made
was that Whicn represented hard
money Morton forcing his soft money
alter ego to eat his words But he is
original in this that in spite of the
ephemeracy of his views, he actually
believes in them till the sun goes
down; and he urges them with the ar
dor of conviction, and the tireless
energy of Setan.
Then he is original in his expedients.
Religious fanaticism is political
dynamite as old as Bable, and Mr..
Morton can of course lay no claim to
Eovelty in its Cse, but who, but he,
would have thought of crammin9
Grant with the Des Moines speech, and
of using it with such effect in Ohio =?
MIR. Morton is by no means the ablest
man III the Senate, but Perhaps 10
other Senator is listened to with so
much interest by either the Senate or
the galleries. Edmunds of Vermont is
an ADLER lawyer, ,Conkling of New York
a reader debator; Thurman, of Ohio, is
in these and other respects his superior;
lhave heard them in both debate
and repartee, upon questions involving
law, politics and history, and I never
knew the Ohio Senator to come off
second best. But though defeats1, he
seemed the last to receive the inteIli-
gence of his overthrow, and he then
treated it as an idle rumor.
- There is something of the sublime
in the appearance of this Western Vul-
can with his helpless legs, triumphing
so manfully over his physical disabili-
ties-powerful from his loins up, pow
erless from his loins down. If he is
to live marble or in bronze as n,anyless
noted men do live, the artist will not
hhave to draw upon his ideality for
the element of the picturesque, or
grotesque either, for that matter.
1 will offer no apology for writing
so much about this distinguished man.
II there is anything in signs and the |
opinions of those here who are wise in