Show SENATOR MORTON GEo GEORGE itar ALFRED tov TOWSEND in in I 1 the chicago tribune renders tile tiie the following handsome tribute to senator morton senator morton with his great energies clear sagacity and adaptability and solid acquirements acquire ments can bo be one oue of the leading spirits of our period it if he continues to remedy and aud lighten and harmonize affairs as he has been recently doing lie he can assist ala aia t to make maka general grants closing term useful and illustrious and so far tar from factious opposition the journals jhb wh 1 1 t opposed general grants second election electro I 1 1 will 75 probably 4 ast with gladness in redeeming the tho tri e count country ayrom arom ita its moral misfortunes regardless of what bia bla biography is to be bene fitted we havo have never ha had a president for whom the times were more auspicious than president grant he has nearly four years before him of such repose and security as rulers seldom possess nothing in his ills late address was more touching than the admission of the fact that sometimes his mental labor and responsibility werd were more than he could bear boar we all know what overwork hsi LRI la and if the president must labor like the rest of us he belongs to mar war brotherhood the for myself who am about closing up fi nive five ve years yearb yea of continuous residence resi rosi dence denee here I 1 can yeaton Tot truly y sa say that nothing is moro more depressing tome mau man thau than comment animadversion and attack upon public and meu man I 1 in n the national ean eau cannot not es escape cape uhe the news the occurrences the facts public morals in america Amerl cA are as bad as they can well be we have a 1 try which providence has charged with all its IN bounties and opulence the elements which alch male up the country hereof were of the most admirable on the earth our of government is the most natural nu tural the most just and aud the most encouraging on the globe to td resist mesut the undermining of it to challenge those who encroach upon it like a sentinel often exceeding sly ply ay iy duty and comfort and often under the sorest temptation mp t on from plunderers amiable amlak conspirators 8 spira tors tons I 1 and people with gorgeous schemes I 1 hav have been my duty and my pains when hen men en like morton resume their rc re 6 risibility and relieve mere writers of tro these rou rough h task i let them be encouraged by the full applause of the country |