The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-05-31
senntor lIorton,s VIoMs.

Senator 1fOTtOn's Views.
Senator Morton in a letter ia
the New York Times, after de.
scribing. what Grant might have
done intimatcs that had Hayes
proceeded to maintain Packard
and Chamberlain by using the
army, he would have proceeded
TO inevitable defeat. lie says:
"The Republican majority in the
Senate upon the Southern ques-
ton is but nominal, lift exists at
all. Five Republican Senators
voted az the late Executive ses
sion against seating Kellogg, and
to refer his credentials to a com
mittce, thus refusing TO recOg-
Mise the Packard Government,
and a number Of Republican Sen
ator's, sufficient, when added TO
the Democratic members, to con
stitute n majority, have steadily
refused to recognize the RepUb-
lican State Government in Louis
lana since 1873, by voting against
seating a Senator chosen by it.
While in my judgment it was
clearly the right of the President
,under the Constitution, to rccog-
nize the Packard Government
and support the military power,
the undertaking would have been
futile and the failure disapprov-
ed. With divided public opin-
ion in his own party and both
Houses Of Congress against him.
he would have failed in the end.
The Democratic House has DOW
er TO destroy the army entirely,
and from my knowledge of the
Senate, | am sure the Republican
majority Of that body could hard
ly be relied on to support him in
such a course"
Extract.-"I do not believe
that President Hayes intends to
destroy the Republican party and
attempt the erection Of a new
one upon its ruins. | believe in
his patriotism and high integrity;
in his undivided purpose to make
the Administration a b~eneiccnce
to the country
Extract,-"The large body of
the white people who engaged in
the rebellion are firmly united
in favor of several Things, and
they will stand by the party that
layors therl and oppose to the
bitter end the party that opposes
them. Among these is the pay
ment for rebel property taken or
destroyed by our armies. When
Mr.. Tilden wrote his letter, Just
before the election, against these
claims, he lost his hold upon the
South, and was made to feel it in
the late struggle in Congress.
No Democratic candidate will re
peat his blunder."
EXtract.-"In the late House
the dividing line between rebel
and loyal CLAIMS was ignored.
and in a single Democratic Ad-
ministration would be oblitera-
ted. When this comes to pass
about claims, the distinction in
the rebel and Union DEBT will be
obliterated and lost. Slaves will
be treated as other property sac
rified by our Government. 1t
will not all be done or avowed at
once, but step by step, already
more rapid, until the public mind
has become democratized, the
rebellion has ceased to be II
crime, scarcely a mistake. The
complete restoration of fraternity
will demand abolition Of all dis
tinctions in law between loyalty
and treason. The Republican
party was never more necessary
to the nation than it is to-day.
All talk about laying down the
Republican organization to take
up a new one with a new title,
INTO which old Confederates may
enter without wounding their
sensibilities, would be criminal if
it were not supremelY silly"