National Republican., 1877-11-06
A DemonLac Shirt.

The President of the United States. who
bestowed upon Senator MORTON recently the
most profound testimonial of affection and
respect that kisses and tears, could typify,
has just returned from the capital of Vir-
ginia, where he suffered the infections of q
hollow and hypocritical show of respect
He is now followed by the most diabolical
assault on the memory Of his muchloved
and highly -honored friend. 1t is from the
Danviile Re,rs, DemOcratic-C Conservative
paper published in the State of Virginia, not
very far from the point of the Presidents
late visit, and is supposed to reflect the SEN
timent Of the people Of that State:
MORTON is dead, and the national heart will
now throb with less pain. The political
thieves in public life will feel no more free
dom by his death, for he pandered to all save
when he had to ply the party lash. His party
associates will be easier, for now they will not
have TO resort to pitiable subterIrges to escape
the severity of party lash in the hands Of
~ unmerciiul u task master. The long pent-
up bird of peace can, after long trepidation,
now extend its wings over both sections OF a
country now again common, having been ce-
mented by blood, and now submitting after long
tribulatiOn to q common equality. We con-
gratulate the whole land on this happy rid
dance of II terrible beast and on its prospect
for peace and fraternity in consequence. That
he has died now is blessing to mankind, and
Is the contamination of an act dovoutly wished
bat long deferred. Had he died in fetal
state and passed oil ~ the slough of putrid
fungus, man would never have been cursed by
his spirits earthly incubation, nor worms had
50 much nausea over u winters supply Of cor
roded carri0n. Again we congratulate man
kind and tender our sickened sympathy TO the
worms that haunt the graves of Indiana.
We have been engaged in journalism for
some forty years, and never have we en-
countered so diaboical an assault upon the
dead coolly and deliberately uttered. Is
this the spirit that modern reconciliation
and paci6cation engenders? If so, much
time and effort has been wasted upon the
placation of mere hyenas in human form,
who are ready to howl in mortal hate over
the graves of the honored dead of the ma
ton. Such an assault upon the memory OF
great and wise statesman is unbecoming
the eommonest rites Of civilization, and only
goes to show how entirely the President is
wasting his fragrance upon q people who
are ready to insult him through the memo
~ Of a dear friend
The Petersbursh VA Inder aud Appeal
which is less rabid and far more decent
than its Danville cotemporary, refers to
the late Senator MORTON in the following
terms;
He foresaw that when the foot of military
repression was once lifted Of the South, her
people would regain their former ascendancy
and power, and succeed to the control, not only
Of their own States, but of the Federal Gov.
ernmsnt rs we'll. In this calculation he was
moi much in error but two blunders were in
yolyed, one Of moral, one of mental nature.
There is but one Interpretation to thu
paragraph 1t means that when the un'te'
States troops which had been placed II