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Show NOllTON ON "KINOL.Y PUKHOa-ATI PUKHOa-ATI VK." Our political opponents will bo glad to learn, on tho authority of Senator Morton, that "no blow can bo struck at tho president without at the euuio time striking tho Republican party." This prouunciamiento, which may be taken as tho delibcrato utterance of tbe administration, reduces things down to a very line point, and crams tho issues of tho hour into the smallest of nut shells. Louis XIV. created souio sensation even in tho proudest days of tho Bourbon dynasty, by enunciating enun-ciating tho famous principle, "I am the State; ' but now we find a leader in the highest branch of a legislative assembly assem-bly in a government professedly founded, not on tho divine right of kings, but on tho divino right of the people, coolly declaring that the president presi-dent is tbe party, and that opposition to ono man is enmity to the organization organiza-tion which elected him. This is a very completo confirmation of Sumner's theory that the president is claiming and already exercising "kingly prerogative;" prerog-ative;" for we know not what pro-founder pro-founder deference could be paid to tho temporary occupant of the executive chair, had ho all tho blood of the f lan-tagenets, lan-tagenets, Tudors aud Stuarts in his veins, and the ring of sovereignty around his brows. We have never placed a very high estimate on the dignity and independence of the dominant party, but we decline de-cline to believe that they have reached such a depth of subserviency as Morton indicates. President Giant may be a consummate statesman, an able politician, a chief magistrate in whom there is no guile, an incarnatiou of all the public and private virtues set down iu the calendar; but we hardly hard-ly think he carries the Radical party in his breeches pocket, or that his anathema will do any serious damage, though fulminated with all the terrors of bell, book and candle. The senator who represents the great German element ele-ment of that party; the senator who represents the intense New England element of that party, are already fully committed against tbe President's policy, and have given him bitter blows : but their Radical constituents have not repudiated them, nor are they likely to. Morton should recollect recol-lect that Washington is not Paris, the United States not France; that there is a country outside of the corporate limits of the national capital which is able to set up and pull down presidents; presi-dents; that there is a people who are yet masters and not servants, and that howevever largely his Excellency may loom upon the horizon of the Senate chamber, he does not altogether monopolize mon-opolize the vaster firmament beyond. Missouri Republican. |