Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1877 — Senator Mortcn to President Johnson. [ARTICLE]

Senator Mortcn to President Johnson.

Knoxville, Tenn., Nov. 24.77. To the Editor of the Herald:—There can be no impropriety in publishing the following Utter from Senator Morton to President Johnson, as it is ereditabic to tile memory of both. I made the copy from the original, and it is accurate. ‘ Respectfully,

FELIZ A. REEVE.

New York, Dec. 7, 1865. , Ron. Andrew Johnson, President United States: | Dear Sir —Since the publication of your message, I have conversed with l a number of the first men in New York, in the financial and commercial depaitments of business, and have ! found all to heartily approve it. T can not be rnistmten in the opinion Iha t the great body of th • people in the North will indorse your doctrines and policy, and th ; s the mem hers of Congress will find out before t hey are ninety days older. The firm* n ss with which you may stand to ; th< m will make you friends and coui quer opposition. It. is as I expected, j and I believe told you. Congress wo’d i begin wirii a majority against your p Hey; but there should be nothing j i i‘heartening in this, for it will sure!ly melt away in a short time. Were | I in your place I would not fail to emi ploy every power and instrumentality in my ha ds to sustain my policy and the friends who sustain if. While it is ; understood that members of congress i can oppose you, and in breakingdown your policy break down your administratio .and vet control your patronj age, you may expect to have opposition and to fill. The ie olute wifld- \ ingof your patronage in favor of your friends, inside the Union party, cannot fail to build you up with the people and disarm the opposition in conj gress. Believing you to be right and guid- ! ed solely by the desire to rebuild per- ! manentiy our broken and disordered | country, and besides feeling great interest in your personal success, I trust you wiil excuse the freedom of these j suggestions. T 1 e joint resolution which has passed the House to which is to be referred the question of the admission of Southern members is cunningly devised, and is intended to entrap your friends in such a manner they can not escape. How can either house make the question of admitting members depend upon the action of the other? “Each house shall be the judge of the qualifications of its tn> mbers,” says the Constitution, and the power can neither be abdicated nor delegated to the other. I am sorry to say my health is no better. My arrangements are made to sail next week, on Wednesday. With earnest wishes for your health ami success, I remain your friend. O. P. Morton. On which the Lcwistown (Pa.) Democratic Sentinel thus truthfully comments: “The publication of this letter of the late Senator Morton helps to a futther elucidation of a public character, undoubtedly the most astute of his radical co-laborers in mis chief and retarding the conciliation the country. No man subsequently was more relentless in persecuting the late ex-President Johnson than Morton. and intuis he was true to himself, as he was to the latest hour of his official life. While the ablest, not excepting Conklinr, lie was the .most conscienceless of them all in pursuit of party ends. He was on record on every side of every prominent issue that engaged discussion in the country, and he veered aronnd from one extreme to another with equal facility, and every shift and turn was for parti/.