The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-02-01
THE SENATE GALAXY.

Gath on tho Heroes % Tie Day.
Washington Letter to Philadelphia Timca.l
Morton is bold, uuAiuching man,
who never calculates ultimate conse-
uuences nor remembers that he is max
ing laws and precedcnts. His object Is
the next move on the chess-bonrd--thc
next election. Therefore he will out
bid the Bourbons on imitation, eat up
his record on Feny's power to count
the vote, and will not pause to defend
his Inconsistency nor answer attack, 81
But it is impossible not to
admire his burbarc force and audacity,
his triumph over nature and disease
and the general intelligence Of his
conversation He is the Jef Davis
of the North. lie is Il union
of the Earl of Strah'ord and Porfrio
Diaa, desperate and revolutionary at
once. Senator Alcorn, Of Mississippi,
told me that Morton was the strongest
character in the Senate. lie is a
Robespierre without hypocrisy. John
Sherman, who sits at his side, is a
slender and shallow tender OF the old
Governor on the question Of the day.
Genteel and weak, wellread and yet
Of few fixed principles, Shermans
tougher FANNY hpte 10 an 'ii"v saws
MN from ranNii,E ~" "'
schuyler NoiI'H' W, 'lcn l''s ~,
was Secretary Of the Treasury sherman
was a good chairman OF finance. These
two men-Morton and Sherman-op-
posing the JOINT 'Ilounnl, r9prGS1n' we
genius o. oaroa'lS'l' "'''l','oH ~ 'n'
SPIRIT oil J'Snltry' oher!l'"" Ii " .. ,,lso''
aoie SpeRSer-,-'SGAii'nn,or'nS' uoii'i'o''-
place oyoFpiIGhed' MotVo,' s S,t' uo" /. u
IN the RUNS OF MS po'y anu 'aINS u "oFV
oil Gisah'G language, 'on''i,'' " ''',o ~,
swasger, strAiBht on, u''or''Hi''"''"'
dramatic, bold. ne cares LOT 'no n|'
man lie no more llail "r'h'' puV rio''
ton would take II IN peace u" wen rs
war. %.
The rising elements OF ciVill@a''oh are
OF course embodied IN softer ci'''raclefs
than the tenacious as'la''rs VI war 1hv
lactlon. IL happens, JUST now, '"'t
Edmunds ana 'ohkl'hS, hHJar" "hu
Thurman and FreInshuy11eh are al
gathered around the same affair iheif
motives ARE not SO various as TO o'iltti'
their paramount ldr" Wh'GN IS 10 fWS,
the senatorial standard oil men an"
laws Few sehales nave at one u'h'
had better circle OF men o. S"ch youtl,
ana prldc' thurman II 90, quo hnyar,
IS only 4S; ConNiInf, a., h,lm"hdS, ~
and frellnghuysen, o' lhelr average
age Is only %, and leaving out thurman
who IS not US positive splrit as th'
others, thoy average only D NO ma
ton oi the hrsCclnss displays sucI
youth IN the upper house, lh|'r "pp9
nent, Morton, Is only o. hahuoip'
and sherman, ] suppose, are the mex
IN intellectual consideration ana MN
doiph is only 2o' sherman IS 90; ih'
average therefore, OF lhe eight leoder'
oil the senate Is nut o. some bcoPi'
put Blame m WIN inns l'st, other'ht
rom me- Ior Mr' D'NhG Is hot " la"ye'
end no senator can be IirstelaSS eXcep
with thorough law training blain'
cannot even listen with patience to t
legal argument However he 'ohiN
oil Conkllngs age There isnot single
man from the South OF proN'ma'e guam
ty to these young men ueorSe uoar
fortunately, rs coming IN, ana as mac
hoped Ben I'M but the general cussed
ness oil southern polltics seems deSllhe'
to beat nm Stevenson, the STABILITY
OF the South Is gong out, to be replaced
by u KIND OF trader, Malt Ransom, OF
North Carolina, is the most useful ant
sincere senator from the South Jones
OF Nevada, Is able by temperament an'
strong, good impulses. Tho rest OF thu
Senate is second-cass or accidental
with both executive and Legislative
powers the Senate will ever be tho IN
iiuential body IN this country iut al
our past presidents IN one chamber an'
they will make no great Senate, Wash
ington himself had not the legal train
ing and creative though to be sena
tOrlai leader. Jackson III tho senate