Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-11-08

wise. Often he seemed narrow, pre-
judiced and bitter, but in tine of
much mental and moral tiabhiness il
it was wholesome spectacle to see one
naasw host like rock for what be
believed to be right. He was actuated
BY one idea-to secure iTrevocably the
results ofihe terrible var in which he
had borne q darihg and important pert,
a PRECIOUS AND PRICELESS LEGACY
Philadelphia Press.
Morton dead is an object of praise to
those who assailed him living. They
stand over his corpse and praise him
for the great qualities which they deni-
| ed when he held them ali at bay We
do not write in censure. This is the
curse of parfisansflfp. II was 80 with
Clay, Webster, Jackson, Dou. :. Lin
clio, and Sumner. Ali parties 10 turfl
followed the same course: Execration
in life, eulogy in death. The grave
equalizes praise of the real merits ol
our great ones. Like all theae others,
Morton died almost poor. He toiled
ior cOIntry and friends, as they toiied,
Like them he was the willing sacrifice
aud staff of his great party and hi
greater country. He enriched Others,
taking for his share the bitter burden.
|of leadership, not in sullenness, but
with the pleasure of the great captain
who never thinks of himself NJ hf
plunges into the thickest OF the iatallesI
fray. He left behind precious and
priceless legacy. His example is not i
fortune to his poor widow, but vas
opulence to the Republic. ID
CCincinnati Gazette.
4 He was man of positive qualities
There was nothing negative about him
In the advocacy of the principles 0
the party to which he belonged he hat
no concealments. Whenever a Politi
cal contest was to be opened he wa,
Iselected to sound the keynote, anC
when he spoke no one could he il
doubt as to what he meant. In this re-
lspect he might be said to have been
man of the people. he never go
iabOve the coin APPREHENSION of the masses
His public ntterances were Away
lpractical. He studied living issue
and devoted himself to the question
lof the day, evading nothing, and neve
failing in expounding the principles h
lespoused.y In this line ne was grea
power, and he WIS looked up to b,
those who were attached TO tie part,
TO which he belonged, while he wa
feared by his political opponents
Plain, strong. forcible argment wa
his forte. He was not an orator, so ia
as regards towering eloquenee; as tina
term is generally understood, but in tn
ability to hold, interest and. infiuenc
an audience and mold public opiDio
he had few equals. In the fighes
sense ofthe term he was a statesman
There are those who have more P0iisi
ere are many greater scholars; DC
D whatever he lacked in polish or SchulaI
ship he more than made up by HI
.lsuperior knowledge of men and thing.
and in what may be called practice
f. common sense ESQ f--r-
= 2 Cincinnati Enquirer
1t would be idle to deny that No,
: ton was Il great man. SOcially he ha
quhlities which could win the love
woman, and, therefore, ne must hay
been capable of tenderness. Riding q
' the impulse of the war for the Unio
= he wf-s kingly man. He made lau
and men to beud to that indomiiabi
will hich even death could srarcl
I tconquer. Taxing as it was given hin
,, tthe aH-commandidng z cry on behalf
: the negro he could make men forg,
:. the Constitution of the fathers in u
strhctiBg the statutes Ofthpir children
His enormous influence will be NOR
lasting than this generations af .mel
t His death will be an irrepdrtble loss
t the Republican party in an hour " he
Q ii can i'll afford losses. -.