The New York herald., 1866-07-15
The Omlium Gatherum Of Big and
Little Fishes.
THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE.
Guthrie, the Old rogy; Salisbury, the DeIa-
ware vaiIandighan, and Garrett Davis,
the Old Seoid Of Kensucky.
mcDougall, or Eloqusnes Run Mad....BewnrS
Of the Dog.
Our wa.hingson Corrsspcndenee.

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WASHINGTON, July IL, 1880.
The present limo to a!ord . fitting occa.
sion for review OF the OF to-day who succeed
those eminent statesmen and lofty patriots Of the past
n whose praises posery will 10 join with
annually increasing fervor And will not b. necessary,
in order 10 heighten the between tho
day and those Of ninety years ago. spend
favor OF the dead heroes We are now In the
or small men, and the littlcness OF the promi.
nent actors the stage OF pablo fe win furnish
Its contrast with the historic record Of tho greatness
OF the early fathers. Then statesmen controlled tho
legislation Of the country aud directed public Affairs
now alas small potato politicians the sscendency
and legislation Is mainly composed Of the political
trckery and schemng Of despicabs factions seeking the
retention OF place and power
JOHN v. rugSEY.
Such general observation will need no further srga.
nep In lis support than tho simple reference the fact
that such demagogae and ,ncsrrying politician j.
w. Forney Is permitted 10 exercise Influence and power
in the Congress OF the United States aud is put forward
ny The majority faction of their leaders aud
prominent men 4 man VITO, within twelve short years
has nototosy advocated oppo ed alternately every
distinctive political issue chat been raised and with
Ike consistency to Inconsistency, has supported
and deserted every public man that has been
called to power whether az President, Cabinet
minister OF NouEtessTli sttntS upon tne
record to-day, his Signature, ready 10 harer
away his professions of principle his allegiance TO
party for any political prccrucut that may be rendered
him. An offence In the nostrslof the nation, despised
because of his evident lack of public virtue and morality
how opnpw appears tho title conferred upon him by
the President" Dead dnrk" Dangerous only in the
eshalaons OF his degnnct system Aud such Is the
man who rallies TO nj support the leaders Of the thirty.
ninth Congress Of the Untcd States and s kept place
power by their par,ality Can any vivid COM
mcnary the composition Of that Congress written
HISTORIC CONGRESS-
Who tho that make up this great American
Senate OF o.dayihis "historic body. whose great
nes difuscd generally, forbds the uprising OF lead.
ing m nds. since all leaders, in with whom
the Clays and websiers and Cases ana Ben,ons and
Raudophs and Jeersons and Jacksons and other grca,
men OF former days sink into nsignincances Who
thess wonderful men, and what hangs their great
ness
nos. CHARLES sUsSEs, or MASSACHUSETTS.
Charles sumner the apostle OF idea, the
whose consistent creed Il freedom the black mamie
whom the cudgel Of southern bully made martyr;
poetcs, visionary, ambitious, aristocratic philan.
thropist--Chsres Sumner answers hrs TO the call for
the great men ON the majority side of the Senate
to-day, because Charles Sumner II the only man
OF them all who has had the political
honesty TO adv idea from Its inception 10 It's
triumph and IN the days of his remains un-
nnchisgy faithful 10 that single idea which has under
lain all his public acts His persistent advocacy Of sbo
htonsm secured for him ha first in the Senate tho
1rs occupation Of which would In all probability have
beer his last but for his unsparing vindcaton OF the
idea OF his life, which, exciting the hostility OF thce
opposed 10 him, brought upon him the wsl-remembersd
and brutal assault OF Bully Brooks at once transform
Ing the impractcsble and harmless dreamer OF NsssA
cbusetts into martyr 10 principle; securing him fame
and influence, and giving 70 the cause no advocated
an impetus that could again be resisted From The
moment that blow fell upon Summers head he became
marked In every respect and 10 long 40 the prn
ciple the advocacy Of which drew upon him this dss
tardly outrage-so long A. that principle survives,
Charles sumner must live, ts apostle and defender.
With sbotonism he must live or die With II h. lived
and faithfully batted for H. and to-day he enjoys its
triumph and in this triumph he stands before the Amer
lean nation the giant Of Their senatc-the only consist
eni uncompromisine persevc cring successful advocate
OF distinct idea principle and therefore the greatest
Statesman Of them all among those Who control the
actions OF Congress But when We have written him
down Statesman the greatest In the Senate day, We
have given him no exalted position. II Is little enough
TO cay OF any marked man ~ much 10
say Of Charles Sumner Aside nom his one
idea Sumner s a nonenty. Not single other practical
idea poescsses his BRAN and ho seems 20 know a. His
sctoa eyery question that arises Ia determined by h
ssarns uvon hs controlling des Of the freedom Of the