Year: 1876

FLu0..X SHaK'r riUixTON


Senator Morton has again been
pouring out the venom against the
white people of the South with which
his system is SO fully charged. He
seems to be never so happy as when
waving the bloody shirt and giving
utterance tc expressions of animosity
and hate against the Southern rebels,
as he persists in calling them, though
the war is supposed to have been
ended eleven years ago. IT there is
any rebellion so called or any eviden-
ce of disloyalty towards the govern
ment at present existing,it will require
keener optics than most men possess
to discover the faintest shadow of an
approximation. This continued mis-
representation of the South, misrer.
resentution known to be altogether
false by those who persistently in
dulge in it, seems to be the principal
camp aign document, the whole stock in
trade of tho Radical party. 1t matters
not that the charges brought against
this section have again and again been
proven false, it matters not that every
evidence a people can give Of their
anxious desire for the restoration of
harmony and good feeling has been
gwen, almost every advance made by
the South towards permanent recon
cillation OF the sections has been met
by the cry of ''rebel' and the epithet
of "traitor."


Most prominent araong the many
| who have exhibited the most malig
| nant hatred against un and whose
venom. ,us tongues are unceasing in their
| abuse, is Senator Morton of Indiana.
| In a recent speech at Indianapolis he
gave full vent to his malignity and in
speaking of the Radical party at the
| South Carolina, Alabama and Missis>
sippi, that party had a majority of
| ninety thousand, and in south Carolina
"A majority of thirty thousand, and yet
that despite this overwhelming major
| ity, two of those States voted the Dem
ocratic ticket, Alabama recently by a
tremendous majority, and he charged
that this result was brought about by
intimidation. Now if the Senator s
| STA ement is correct what sort of peo-
Pile must they be who, composing a
majority of more than ninety thousand,
vet allow themselves to be intimidated
and beaten down by a minority so con-
temptible in numbers q? If with their
numerical superiority they cannot sus-
tain themselves. then they are utterly
unfit to be citizens and deserve no
better treatment Tue idea which the
Senator intended to convey was, that
the greater part of this large majority
was composed of blacks, indeed he
admitted it, but if it be true he unwit-
tingiy acknowledged the superiority
of tho Anglo Saxon race and the incas
pacity of the blacks to appreciate the
inestimable right of suffrage and with
wl1ch he and his party had clothed
| them.


But is Senator Morton's statement
true The facts show that there has
been no intimidation, nor even any
attempt at it. The late election in
Alabama was perfectly orderly and
| quiet, no disturbance occurred, and
every man voted precisely as he wished
without let or hindrance. Had the
result been different, we should
never have heard word about intimi-
dation, but it so happened that the
people thought differently from
Senator Morton and his colleagues, and
the result was democratic triumph,
a stinging rebuke to all those who in
this centennial yeat continue to excite
strife between the sections, and be-
tween the races.


The waving of the 'ensanguined in
tegument"b by the blood thirsty Senator
from Indiana has not done US much
harm as yet, certainly not in Alabama.
It hos been held up too frequently of
late to the eyes of the people and they
hava become sickened and disgusted
They are anxious for reconciliation
and quiet, despite the efforts of poll
ticians to the contrary; they have had
enough strife and bloodshed, and we
| look for such an overwhelming demon
| stration of their wishes in November
next, that even the Senator from Indi-