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Show MORTOH'S BOHEME. Judfjinfi from the speech of Morton and other republican aonabsrs who opposed the eompromUo bill to count tho electoral -votes, the country will havo escaped a very perilous situation by the passage of tho peiulint meas-uro, meas-uro, uo matter which of the candidates candi-dates shall be declared elected president, presi-dent, Morton in his aupplcrooutiyy speech on Wednesday night developed devel-oped considerable of tho partisan deviltry dev-iltry ol which he is poaacsaed. ' Here is what ho is reportod to have said: Tho vieo prmidont was not bound to opon .any fraudulent cerlitlcato from a state. If thuio should bo half a dozen piuikafcoa from a etato in his possession ha wan nut rrquired to open thorn all, but waa only rotjiiirnd to opon that package which oamo from tho electors. He was bund tu take notice as to who had boon olueted ulw.'tora by the ft Mob and act upon his intolliK-Mioi', junt as otlior public pub-lic otlloors do. 'L'hero woro two certili-cuius certili-cuius from Loiliina in tho hands of the vii-e proaidont. lio win nvt required to op-in them both. If ho refused to opn and pr-ieoiit tho socond roturn, how was it to bo not out of his possession? If he r-fuod to opon such actum was that a cause of revolution? Did ho understand tho democratic party threatened violonco or revolution if tho president of tho een-ato een-ato wilheld n bogus cortiiicate? |