The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-05

which duty oct before him. I can still feel
| the grip Of his massive hand and tho search
Ing look Of his kindly eyo.'
III.
Lst US turn to tho authors conception OF
| oliver p. Morton, the War Governor OF
Indiana. Inauaurated Governor Of that :
State In January, itei, Morton was q typical
| child Of q Western backwoods community.
Brought up by an old fashioned Scotch
Presbyterian aunt until IS years old.
his hsredity marked his early development.
Strong, earnest, logical, reading widely ana
devouring the Bible by the way. he revolted
from the narrow religious Quilt then pre-
valling In Indiana and became independ-
ent. 40 indicated by the well known term
'nop-professor.' At some sacrifice. being
intensely studious, he obtained q regular
legal education, oven attending school after
his marriage. He was eloquent by sheer
strength, q powerful and successful advo-
cate" At first q Democrat, he helped In
1854 to organize the Republican party. and
being possessed OF unhinchjng courage and
energy, OF shill In handling men and OF q
clear perception OF the impending issues.
he became at 50 years Of ago the natural
chieftain Of the crisis, so far as Indiana was
concerned. Hoar In his Autobiography
has testified that as a party leader Morton
! had no superior In bis time save Lincoln
alone.
Mr.. Weeden directs attention to the sharp
| and interesting contrast which Morton
| offers to Lincoln. Lincoln learned by heart
ak books, and these included Euclid. which
furnished. as we have said. his penetrating
and overwhelming logic. N one. no
even Webster. e1celled him in the grasp
OF q perplexed question and In lucid power
Of statement" Morton, on the other hand.
had the advantage OF schools substantially
good, and OF such culture as prevailed
among intelligent and simply educated
people In his environment. 'The minds OF
the men differed, and Morton's method was
| c~yolopean. A voraoious reader, he was
fully armed, and could shatter his oppon-
ept's position with q single stroke. His
! own argument was not 30 sucoinct. lie
gathered materials in heaps. and did not
build up q case with architectural develop
ment. Though the matter was exhausted
when he had finished an argument, he did
not leave the hearer entertaining q new and
positive thing. an actual creation In place
Of the antecedent matter
In his complete engrossment In his sub
jects our author disoerns a phase OF Nor
toms character wherein he differs from
Lincoln. Morton was not self-conscious,
but absorbed In the work OF the moment,
in the act Of doing; he did not stand without
and exploit the matter with a view to state
ment. This faculty made hin the great
Executive he was, and our author of!nes
that II Lincoln had had something moro OF
the same Napoleonio power OF action It
would nave been q great boon to the Amerf-
can Executive. Lincoln, on the other hand,
instead Of simply tr%ansacting the business
\ in hand, generally stood outside OF II and
employed himself in making q case which
he could handle before the American people
In q mastery manner. sincere In patriotic
| intent, he hardly ever lost himself In the
| force OF creative action, whether manou-
wiring for a convention or laying plans for
| Congressional legislation. In the largest
executive sense the creative spirit, the
eminent force Of the imminent crises. did
not enter into him and mould him to the
work. Morton said to an immense multi
tude: 4 am not here to argue questions OF
State equality but to denounce treason and
uphold the cause Of the Union Such a
speech naturally cleared the air. 1t seems
to Mr.. Weeden strange that Lincoln and
| Morton, bred in virtually the same way
though Morton was the more favored In
early education-should have differed 30
much in their conceptions Of the nature OF
the power required to ~subduethe rebellion.
Morton was In himself, by his own SUI
perior foresight and tremendous executive
energy, the power needed for the occasion.
Enough always meant for him the over
whelming heap which 10 bounding cir
cumstanoe could render inadequate, The
modicum OF sense and quiet living can
never be q revolutionary sufioiency. This
appears in the swift recurring facts OF the
record, even more positively than can be
stated now In sober words b this over
flowing patriotism did not exceed the limits
Of Judgment seems to our author to be
proved by the fact that the War Governor
Of Indiana maintained himself in his seat
OF authority throughout the most fiery
opposition ever known under constitu-
tional forms. Morton was the embodi
ment Of State support, Of federate govern
ment incarnate in the immediate local
representative OF the people; not merely
an instituted Executive, but a thinking,
acting head"
1t is on pages 1911. 3. in connection with the
l COutIoN0Iby ttut oho~ fSN f"sSS
Of the war between Major-Gen. B. F. Butler
and Gov. John A. Andrew, that a sketch
Of the latter's character will be found. We
are told that the active War Governor Of
Massach usetts always rode into the lists
Of controversy with his visor up. Care
less Of himself in every way, IL he could
strike for the right and the true, as he con
oeived it, ardently and vehemently, he laid
himself pen to any covert attack and any
captious misconoeption. While his eager
\ and restless oonscientiousness endeared him
to the inmost heart Of the people, it severed
him more or less from certain constant and
constituent elements in the mass OF the
people, as this mass surged up to sustain
and impel the State. The State is a body
polite, both actual and moral; its Exeou-
tive must bear all and forbear ALL" As Mr..
Higginson, the military historian OF Massa-
chusetts, has testified, Andrew was frank
and candid to a fault. -Concealing nothing
himself, he was impatient Of reserve In
Others. Recommendations, he was thin
skinned and could not bear IN adverse
criticism, however unscrupulous its mo-
tives Hippinson also comedies that An