Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-12
MORrON,s SUCCESSOR.


the shoulders of Ben. HARRISON" the Re-
publican papers of the land joyfully exclaim,
and proceed to give him that niche in their
hearts and in their party 80 long occupied
by Indiana's "great war Governor" Their
claim is not without reason, if we may judge
by the speech Of Mr.. Harrison at the Re
publican meeting at Richmond, Ind, on
Friday last.
Morton was man of fine natural abilities
"a born leader of men. He commanded with
the air of one born to distinction, and by his
very impetuosity carried his partisans to the
most outrageous extremes. He wcs bold,
bad, inscriptions, malignant, ambitious
man. Hating the South and the Democratic
party with fervor akin to diabolism, he ex-
erted all his eloquence, and all his power of
invectlve, to harm them. His misrepresen-
tations of the principles and purposes of the
Democracy were daring and audacious. He
never gave them credit for a patriotic i'm
pulse-for an honorable motive Good deeds
performed by them were, to his jaundiced
vision, but trap set to inveigle the unwary-
a hypocr,tical pretense born in insincerity,
Graded in the lap of treason, nurtured at TIE
breast of hate He was capable of no I'M
pulse powerful enough to counterfeit the
malignity that welled up from his heart.
His distinction arose from his uuconquerable
hatred of all that proceeded from the South
or savored Of Democracy. He perverted
facts to suita purpose, and disregarded the
truth of history with brazen effrontery
never equaled by public man in this or any
other country. To these qualities the new
apostle of Republicanism in Indiana has
evidently succeeded, although it can hardly
be claimed by his most ardent admirers that
he has succeeded to the splendid intellectual
force of the deceased Senator. Harrison
has proved himself as capable of uttering
deliberate, unvarnished falsehoods about his
political opponents as Morton was, and here
the parallel between the two ceases.
In his speech last Friday Mr.. Harrison in
dulges in what the dispatches term "an ar.
raignment of the Democratic party He
says:
l luG HISTORY OI INC DeluOCrdU1C party IS
story of false theories of government and bao
practices in administration. It staked its life
for the perpetuation of slavery, and counted
the nation lifeas dung if it might win the ia
| vor and vote of the slave master. 1t did not
as party, relent or feel pity when brave mer
| were dying, and brave women were sitting il
sackcloth and ashes. 1t felt no throb of glad
ness but CRASHED it's teeth with rage, when tn,
| martyred president by the immortal proclama
! ton brought to the birth four million freemen
| 1t made most factious opposition to the amend
ments which have set in the constitution tn
war-given liberty of the slave, and dignifed i
with the freeman's ballot. When the war wa
in the South, and protracted and embarrasse,
| the work of reconstruction. 1t became the in
ventor IN the South and the apologist in tn
North of the Mississippi plan"
Every man who has read the history of tn
last seventeen years Alright knows that eacl
and every one of these counts in the indict
ment of the Democratic party is unquali
fedly and maliciously false. The Demo
cratic party did not stake its life for the per
petuation of slavery. It objected to tn
adoption of unconstitutional means to sc
cure its overthrow. but when the South re
sorted to rebellion to protect its pet institu
ton, the Democratic party acknowledge
that the slaves must be emancipated an
heartily assisted in the work. Instead c
glorying in the death of brave soldiers VIII
fought for the Union, the Democrats rushe
to the front as bravely, as self-sacrifcingl
and shed their blood on the field of battle q
freely as any in defense of til
{ country. More than million of Dem
ocratic soldiers imperilled their live
and sacrificed their property fc
the Union, and he who maligns them thu
is guilty of the most unmitigated, despics
! BILE and dastardly SANDER, which ought
consign him to an eternity of ignomin,
That the Democratic party factiously OF
!. posed the constitutional amendments or OF
, structed the work of reconciliation at til
South is equally false.
J How any man with the slightest regard fe
truth or decency could be guilty of utterin
such base and wholly unwarrantable ibe
j npon large and patriotic majority of tn
people of this country passes comprehension
II he expects to win political campaig
, through villifcation, misrepresentation an
, deceit, he will find himself mistaken. If b
. expects to make the public believe that IL
Democrats of the North, whose bones al
now bleaching by the tens of thousands o
Southern battle fields, were any less patriot
] than himself, he must have low opinion Z
the intelligence Of the people. The day hs
passed for charging disloyalty upon Demo