The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1862-07-30
Senator sumner.

Mr. SuNNEs, our Massschme ts Senator, labors,
as a statesmpu, under tWo disadvantages by
one portion oi The people he is loved and admir-
ed as the representative of large and generous
ideas Of liberty, sud II he had no practical talent
for affairs at all, his popularity among this class
would not be seriously impaired. They judge
him simply by his heart There is another class
Of our citizens who have imbbed deep prrju-
dice ugaius. him, as a well.meaning, hut tanaticsl
phanthropist, who can look at 90 question from
a practical point OF view, aud who dsposes
every thing that comes before him as statesman,
in % ial.e relations to one dominant idea OF Ne
gro Emancipation. This last class Is az bitter
in its opposition to him "a the hrst class Is warm
10 his praise.
It is useless to tell an ant.slavers man that
Mr.. Sumner il anything but an sbolitionist. IL
il useless to tell Boston conservative that Mr..
Sumner, us a Senator, subordnates his abolition
ism to what he considers the practical necessi-
ties of the war. Both his radic, friends and
conservative enemies are combined 10 an attemp!
to presen him to the people as deficient 10 prac-
tical common sense.
Fortunately for Mr.. Sumner events have arisen
which have enabled him to demonstrate that he
is not ridden bv one idea. As Chairman OF the
Committee on Foreign Affairs, the most i'm
DortAut post that n senator uf the United Ststet
can hold ia the present emergency OF the nation
he has shown talents aud requirements which
every fair mind cannot but appreciate. The "in
evitab negro" is banshed from this arena. and
the country has been astonished by the sohdtl
o. Mr.. Summers learning, the amplitude OF h'
understanding, aud the sagAcity OF his judgmen
on all the vital questions which have arisen IL
his special department. Ills speech on the aifai
of the Treut is a masterpiece. He goes beyon,
all the preccdcnt5 OF the conservative lawyers o
New England aud NIL the arguments OF the Sec
re,ury of State, to he essential principles of in
tetna ional law, as recognized by the great think
era and Statesmen of the continent OF Europe
/ and as contpniri for bv our own government
! He, the uan who has most cause to hate Slide
/ and Mason, aud who, from his aholitionist pro
/ cvities, would be )st opposed to deliveriu!
/ them up, is found To exceed even Mr.. Seward il
! his desire to establish the rights tf nu'rals an
! ignore q e passions Of the hour.
The truth il that Mr.. Sumucr is lawyer and
iuris. 'end, rly sensitive to the latest authorith
| in municip Il aud international law, as well as
| philanthropist A. II member of the Legislature
of the nation he has shown an almost pedanti
reliance on "precedents," and to no man woul
the charge less properly apply ct substitntin
general principles for Constitutional ues. tt
ms ority OF the questions on which he has spoke
in the Senlte have been questions in which ne
gro slavery has not entered, snd in these he ha
exhibited an amonnt OF industry, All extent {
learning and a calm exercise Of truly judicial "a
ga1ity which the most bgoted conservative coul
not but applaud A hrge portion of the propert
i and int lligence oi the country were fairly con
| mitted to n war with Englan !, to defend the cal
/ ture OF Mason aud Slidell, At the very time tll
"fanutic' they denounced was hunting up Ame
icln precedents to show that the capture wa
ndefensiblr. .-BosiOn Transcript.