Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1877 — Senater Morton. [ARTICLE]

Senater Morton.

The parrtljftio stroke which causes so much apprehension and alarm to the friends of this distinguished statesman excites sympathetic anxiety throughout the country. Mr. Morton has been for many years a leading figure among our publio men, and has Hardly an equal for boldness, energy, nnd that species of segacity which is the mark of a great politician. He may not quite deserve to be ranked as a great statesman, but be makes a to that character than any man in the Republican party, with possibly two exceptions. Should his present illness prove tatal it would create a chasm in our public life which could not easily be tilled. Senator Morton has gone to extremes in the passionate controversies which arose out of the war, but he has exhibited qualities which would fit him .for great usefulness in the new era which opened with tho accession of Mr. Hayes to the presidency. Of the eminent leaders ofthe Republican party he' was the first who had the penetration to see that the Southern question is dosed and the frankness to act on that assumption. While Mr. Blaine has put himself in antagonism to the President, and Mr. Conkling’s position is even at this late day undefined, Mr. Morton had the prompt segacity to see and the courageous candor to publicly acknowledge that President Haves acted in accordance with events which left him no choice, and that his policy is as patriotic as it was inevitable. Senator Morton is a man who knows a fact when he sees it, and is too sinoere and earnest to continue a battle after a dear perception that it has ended. Should be bo taken away now President Hayes will lose the most imporlaut companion of his administration in the Senate. This would be a great public misfortune at a time when the wise policy of the President stands in so much need of able and strenuousdefenders, With Gonkliog cold, Blaine hostile and other Republican leaders halting atid doubtful, the loss of so dearbeaded and courageous a supporter as Senator Morton would be a public calamity. Mr. Morton’s disappearance from publio life would be regrotable on otlior grounds. In the vast mats of legislation which is outside of party politics a man of his ripe judgment nnd great experience Is invaluable, and qualifications lik e his are not soon acquired, even by legislators of strong faculties. Moreover, be has been devoting a great deal of his time and thought to a reform in. the method of electing our Presidents, and there is little prospect that this important reform will be carried without bis propelling energy and unequaled mastery of the subject, should his life be spared and his health be ■ efficient. Tho number of our publio men is small indeed whose usefulness in the present state of our politics is likely to bo so great and solid as that of Senator Morton. We trust that be may recovar from this alarming illness and live

many ytearato give the benefit of hin ripe experience ff> tin; conduct at public affairs. - .Now York Herald. • ‘ •