Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-04-13
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FEssENDEN ON SUMNER.
We challenge any of the self-styled
"radical" journals to produce such sever
ity Of comment on the President by any
Senator as Fessenden INDUCES in on Sum-
ner. Yet the New England delegation
remains pretty thoroughly Republican !
Read the following from Fessenden's re-
ply to Summers great speech on the Blaine
Constitutional Amendment. Fessenden
is elsewhere not less severe on Summers
opinions and argument, than he is here on
his rhetoric:
Having thus drawn my distinctions
with regard to debate land l suppose Lam
as we'll entitled TO draw them as anybody
| else) l wish to call attention to the speech
| that under the head of argument was made
| by the honorable Senator from Massachu-
sets. On this subject I think he has oc-
| cupied about eight or nine hours OF the
time of the Senate, and On the last occa-
sion, while saying that principles were to
be considered, he has undertaken to desig.
nate the character of this proposed amend
ment. l have already stated who the men
were who were in favor Of it. What does
the Senator call it, I have chosen a few,
and but a few, flowers Of rhetoric from the
speech of the honorable Senator: COM
promise Of human rights" violating the
national faith," ~"dishonoring the name OF
the Republic" "bad mutton" "new mus
cipular abortion" "a new anathema ma
rantha," "abomination," paragon and
masterpiece Of ingratitude," "abortive for
all good" shocking to the moral sense"
"the very Koh-i-noor Of ~blackness," "es-
sental uncleanliness." disgusting or
dure," %'loathsome stencil; " and the men
who support it. if they pass it, will be
"Harpies," "Pontius Plate. with Judas
Iscariot on his back" 1 think l cannot
do better than read a few extracts from
the honorable Senator's speech:
Hooking at this compromise in its most
general aspect. it reminds me, if you will
pardon the illustration, Of that leg of NUT
ton, served for dinner on theroad from
London to Oxford, which Doctor john
son, with characteristic energy, described
.as bad as bad could be, ill-fed, ill-killed,
il-kept, and addressed So this COM
promised adopt the saying Of an eminent
friend, who insists that it can not be called
an amendment but rather a : detriment
to the Constitution-is as bad as bad can
be and even for its avowed purposes it is
uncertain, loose, cracked, and rickety."
Again:
Regarding it as a proposition from
Congress TO meet the unparalleled exigen-
cies Of the present hour, it is no better
than the 'muscipular abortion sent into
the world by the 'parturient mountain "
That is a specimen of composition that
very few of US would attempt. Again:
adopt this proposition, and you will
be little better than the foul Harpies who
de6led the feast that was spread. The
Constitution is the feast: spread for our
country, and you are now hurrying to
drop into its text a political obscenity, and
to spread on its page a disgusting ordure,
'Defling all you find,
And parting, leave a loathsomc stencil
behind"
And what do you think the honorable
Senator calls this: He says:
"If I use plain language, it is because
the occasion requires it."
Plain language! Again:
alt was no such thing. It was a COM
promise ; and such is the precise character
Of the present proposition, which, by its
very words, is a plain license to a disgust
ing tyranny in consideration that the ty-
rants pay in political power. The primary
element in the case, which stands u in
darkness visible, is the license I; the second
airy element is the pay. Here is nothing
less than q mighty House Of Ill Fame,
which it is proposed to license constitu-
tionally for a political consideration"
will quote nc more Of these. flowers Of
rhetoric. The application Of these phrases
and epishets to a proposition coming from
a committee Of the Senator'S wi political
friends, and most of them his personal
friends, one of them certainly his very in.
innate friend and colleague, passed by
more than two-thirds of the House Of Rep
resentatives, among whom were the greater
number Of his own colleagues in that
House, supported by G large majority of
this Senate, among whom is his colleague
who sits by my side, not applied in the
hea. of debate, but prepared in the closet,
printed, the proof corrected, and brought
in here to be retailed before the country
upon the men with whom he is associated,
is a matter the propriety Of which must be
left to himself to judge. I only allude to
| -. f..s 49, .,,ak = kka .ttoeL raola ,tn0n
this body and upon the House Of Repro
sentatives.
Did President Johnson ever make such
a bitter assault upon the Union majority
Of the Senate and the House of Represen-
tatives, as Senator Sumner here makes on
his own political associates. And yet,
the party is not broken up, nor Senator
Sumner read out as a renegade -