The daily gazette., 1877-05-04
May GIS1S.


North american Repieio comes to us this
week with very many good and refreshing
articles upon interesting subjects, which
we can highly recommend it for, Among
the good, however. there seems necessar-
lily always that which is not so commen-
dable, from our standpoint at least. Its
leading article is from the pen of the
Radical statesman, Senator Oliver p.
Morton, and is mainly detractive of the
Constitution of the United States, and
of course of the men who framed it and
made it sacred by their oaths and careful
obedience TO its directions. Mr.. Morton
finds it not TO his purpose. In fact he
does not like to obey it. There is The rub.
II Is greatest cry is now against the Elec-
toral College. Sometime back the men
he labored with held that the Constitu-
tidn was a 'league with hell and cove
nant with death" 1t did not suit their
purposes, although under it those who
observed it and yielded obedience to it
led the country to be ''the asylum for the
oppressed of all Europe" the land of
flowers, and one which more nearly
reached the point of actually flowing
with "milk and honey" than any otE er,
while subsequent facts demonstrate it to
have been in 1860 the richest country in
the world. ALI this was changed after
the government fell into the hands of
such men as Mr.. Morton, who showed
their contempt for the Constitution and
violated it with impunity, notwithstand-
ing their oaths oft repeated to obey it in
letter and spirit. Mr. Morton refers to
the late contest over the election of Mr..
Tilden, (because he and not Mr.. Hayes
was elected,) to prove "thdt the great
purpose for Which the Electoral College
acds originally intended had utterly
ftiled," and that vote direct for Presi-
dent by the people would remedy the
difficulty. The facts are clearly against
Mr.. Morton, The Electoral College did
not fail at all. The rascally Republican
politicians with a perjured President at
their head failed to do their sworn duty,
and assisted the Florida and Louisiana
Return Boards to set aside the clearly
expressed will of the people of those
States, and here the difficulty arose. These
Return Boards, backed by the presence
of United States troops furnished by
Grant and his Cabinet, set aside the pop
ular majorities of those States, and they
could have done the same thing under
similar circumstances had the whole
people voted direct for President instead
of for Electors. Mr.. Morton did not
want, nor does he now want, the people
to elect the President. He wants that
and all other offices to be chosen by 0. p.
Morton, through disguises that would
only make it appear that the people made
the selection. When the Radical poll
ticians got the ''purse and the sword" in
their hands they snapped their fingers at
the constitution, and they never will obey
it until the army is withdrawn from their
control. 1t is because Mr.. Hayes ex-
presses desire to conform to the Consti-
tuition and live up to it he has become
so unpopular with such bad men as
Wendell Phillips, Ben Wade, Jim Blaine
and Beast Butler He can never get the
praise of such pretenders until he yields
TO their personal schemes, and then no
matter what other bad acts he does they
will excuse and justify him as they did
Grant.