The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-05-31
SENATOR MORTON AND THE PRESI-
DENTS POLICY.

The Indianapolis Journal publishes q
letter of two columns and half from
Senator o. P. Morton, in which he de-
fines his position on the PRESIDENT
Southern policy. The following is a
Geographic synopsis of the main points
in the letter.
The opening paragraph is devoted to
Kellogg and his claims to a seat in the
| Senate. Mr.. Morton reviews the legisla-
| tive action, and holds him to have been
fairly elected. In nut shell, it is that
the Returning Board was a lawful body
to declare who were the members of the
Legislature, and how they made the
declaration is of no weight. They did
declare the members in the prescribed
manner, and these elected kellogg and
Packard. The latter's subsequent with
drawal does not effect the formers title.
This leads Mr.. Morton to say that the
Republican Governments OF Louisiana and
South Carolina have yielded to force;
have gone down before an armed and
aggressive minority. The Government
of the United States decided that there
was no such state of instruction as al
lowed the interference of troops, and
they were withdrawn.
The blame is thrown on Gen. Grant.
If ne had promptly recognized Messrs.
Packard and Chamberlain, who were
lawfully elected, says Mr.. Morton,
President Hayes would have kept them
in place. Gen. Grant did not do this,
and Mr.. Hayes has simply accepted the
situation bequeathed to him on the 18th
of March He characterized President
Hayes action as wise on the ground of
expediency, not Of right
The Democratic House of Represen-
tatives refused to make appropriations
for the army and would have destroyed
the army if President Hayes had used it
in the South, and thus the President,
according to Mr.. Morton, yielded to the
| inevitable rather than to proceed only to
inevitable defeat. The Presidents
Southern policy is thus by inference
made matter of necessity and not of
virtue. On the heels of this, Mr.. Nor
ton asserts that he believes in President
Hayes patriotism and high integrity,
and in his undivided purpose to make
his administration beneficience to the
country. He does not believe he in
tends to destroy the Republican party
and build up another on its ruins.
The remainder of the letter, about
half of the whole, is devoted to de-
tense of the principles of the Republi-
can party, an assertion of the reasons
why it should not cease to exist, and a
declaration that the intent and purpose
of the Democracy is to override all dis
tinctions between loyalty and treason;
to pay Southern claims, rebel debts, and
| the like.
The Democratic maiorities in the
Southern States are asserted to be the
direct result of armed force; that politi-
cal and civil rights there are shams; that
there is a large Republican majority in
all those States, which dare not assert
| itself because it is weak and unarmed;
that the Southern Democrats are solid
to pay for rebel war property destroyed
by our armies and will unite with any
party that will bring this to pass; that
there can be no peace till the principles
laid down and sought for by the Repub-
lican party are accepted all over the
land.
The last paragraph is as follows: Gas
the Democracy have acquired solid
South by force, the Republicans should
acquire q solid North by vigilance and
the eternal justice of their cause. North
ern Republicans are now admonished
that they can endure no division that
will endanger their success. Should
the North by unhappy discords, be
divided, and thus fall prey to solid
Confederate South, the rebellion will
have been suppressed in vain, the fruits
of the war will be lost, our last con
dition worse than the first"