The daily gazette., 1877-05-29
MOrtOn,s Letter.
WHAT THE rEwsPAPERs SAY ABOUT IT
NOBODY THOROUGHLY PLEASED.

WHAT THE EEWSPARERS SAY ABOUT IT
NOBODY THOROUGHLY PLEASED.
He thinks it prudent, and perhaps ne
cessary as well, to raise, so early as this,
the warning cry of a t.sOlid South" and Of
I"southern domination" His fierce and
almost ferocious Idenunciation of the
southern whites, and his dolorous and, we
must add, absurd prophecies that unless
there il ''sOlid North" the southern lead.
ers will some day repeal the constitution
al amendments, extOrt pay for their slaves
and pay the rebel war debt, are really Q
confession that Mr.. Morton sees his own
party gong to pieces aud seeks to hold
them together by danger signal. There
is something of the unreasonable and un-
reas oning haste of panic in all this tir-
ade of his. We are far from doubling the
political shrewdness of Mr.. Morton; he
can see further into milestone than most
men; but in this case it is very clear that
his wish is father TO his thought; a "solid
South" is necessary TO his purpose /; he
needs that bugaboO to frighten the North
with, and if he begins 80 early to exhibit
it he may reasonably suspect that il is be-
cause its exhition is in his opinion neces-
sary to keep his party together.--Ne,o
York Herald.
The letter is intended as an admonition
to Hayes to get back as quickly as possi-
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throughout an ignoble and contemplate
confession that the Republican party is
utterly incapable of controlling the gov
ernment of this country, unworthy the
confidence of the people because its CRY is
for eternal discord when peace isdemand-
ed. On such rotten platform Morton
stands-Louisvilte Courier Journal.
The truth as Mr.. Morton states 1t, and
as we have often asserted 1t, simply is
that whatever the primes of the southern
democrats, and we have never attempted
to hide them, the President was compel
led to act as he did. Mr.. Morton's letter
ought to comfort good many doubling
republicans. For years he has been one
of the most assiduOus wavers of what the
democratic brethern call the bloody
shirt."-Philadelph'a a Evening Bulletin.
His letter on the southern question just
given to the public is one of the most
studied and subtle assaults upon the poll
cy of the President that has yet been made
since Ben Wade's rude attack upon him
1t is unworthy of statesman, inasmuch
as it is uncandid and cowardly, and hurls
the deadliest blows while protesting SYM
pathy and even passive assent to what
the President has done.-Philddeiphi
Times.
Senator Morton has written very long
letter about the administrator. He might
have written a very short one and con-
veyed the same information, namely:that
the arrangemementf tor the distrib button of
patronage and the reform of the civil SER
vice in Indiana met his personal VIEWS
Ne1o York World.
1t is curious to see Morton of Indiana
praising Hayes as a consistent repubh-
can, and apologizing for his southern pol
icy, while waving the bloody shirt, up-
holding the legality of Kellogg's election
to the Senate, and crying aloud for asolid
North.-Neto York Sun.
1t will be seen by the closing passages
of the letter that the distinguished sena-
reasons for materially modifying his we'll
known opinions of the southern demo-
cracy-Philddelphi Press.
On the whole, the senator's letter seems
to have been framed to suit both the
Hayes and anti-Hayes republicans, and
maybe it will. We shall Philadelphia
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