Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-09-24

traitors under an avalanche of votes for Gen.
Grant. Vermont has just given fresh heart
to the nation, by the immense loyal majority
cast at a mere local election. What COM /
fort IL would be to the Democrats, could they
only prove, that those American born, Puri-
tanical Green Mountain boys arc notorlously
the most ignorant and degraded community
In the land, and that consequently nothing
better could be expected of them than to
vote the Republican ticket en- nadssc; where
as an educated and viriuous people, such as
compose co the body of the foreign born voters
in New York city, support with equal unan-
unity the regular Democratic nominations!
[From tie N. Y. independently
Charles Sumner.
There is no orator in America, Wendell
Phillips excepted, whose career Is more fruit
full of splendid examples, or more flattering
to the character of the nation, ,and especially
OF the state he has honored by fiawless
public life, than that of the greatest advocate
of Equal Rights who ever sat in the Senate
of the United States. 1t is needless TO name
him. For the Senate has not given us more
than one man who has never once equivocat-
cd, or faltered or bent the knee to the Amer
ican Baal OF Political Expediency and
everybody knows that this solitary senatorial
| Cato of our days Is the illustriols Heppbli-
can orator of Massachusetts
| Charles Sumner is the most successful po-
litici In America. His senatorial career
has been one unbroken aud continuous tri-
umph; and there is every probability that,
If his life shall be spared, 1t will be quoted In
time to come as the longest as well as the
most unsullled career.
How has he achieved this wonderful sue
cess2 Not by flattery Of the people, either
personal or political. To those WHO know
him well he is an unassuming and genial
every motive that has governed him, always
ready to give freely and fully OF the vast
treasures Of knowledge he has gathered up,
without reservations in describing his asso-
ciates In frank but kindly terms; man in
whom there is no deceit, no love Of deep
strategy, no shadow of shade of belief that
It Is even unsafe or unwise to dare to enact
the highest conceptions of justice and truth.
His political strategy is like the military
strategy Of Grant. any idea Of strategy,
said the leader of our armies, . is to get as
near the enemy as you can, and then-hgbl
him." Summer has fought his long cam.
paign against political injustice on this thso.
4 ry, and he will fight it out o this line If \
should take him all his lifetime.
But while to his friends-to men who moi
only syp,pathize with him in his poltica
ideas, but whose lpge of letters enables thpn
10 call forth and enjoy his literary stores
! he is thus familiar companion, there is
nothing Of The -fellow-well- in hi
manners tow ards tham or others nor doe!
he know how to make friend for life, Al
Henry Clay did, by magnetic reception Q
? a common visitor there ID certain cold
ness and preoccupation In his style, entirel,
! involuntary, which sometimes rather chill
than cheers his casual acquaintances. Thi
!, does not arise from any aristocratic spirit
= it is mainly owing, we think, to his scholas
! tic habits, and TO several generations q
i New England training which he has inhel
), tied, and which seldom fails to put this dis
= tinctiye mark on the Yankee to the n,anne
A born.
~ ~ Hundreds of men have reached hig
. round in the ladder of official life simply b
a their popular personal manners. Charlie
Summer owes nDlhing to this meanB. ThOus
> ands have gone up higher than they ougl
= by diving lower than they should In the tu
: bid stream of flattery of the people and the
:. preudices. Charles Summer never cOurle
+, his own party even, and never equivosate
i in the presence of either friend or foe. :.
,. He owes his greatness to fidelity to b
. own soul. Among huge mob Of fawne
- and Democratic courtiers, the people saw
- this orator-A MAN. They soon found tina
Y If they applauded him, he received the
q goodwill in good part but that, If th.
hesitated TO sanction his bold courage,
=, still marched onward to his goal, witho
;;ss haste, but without rest. He has never 'e
IL ginecred" his own elections; and yet he b
a never failed of an election wherever his nan
',o has been put in nomination HE has nep
y ~ even lifted his little finger to procure y
highest honors that his state can bestou
iv and yet there is no Office In her gift wht
~, he cannot command
" Two incidents of his career illustrate
infexible adherence to the doctrine that I
office should seek the man, and not the m
of the office. When his election was pendi
lat before the legislature for the first time
an needed only single vote to decide his Ia
ite m He was importgned to give private ass
at. ances that lie would act In the main W
M mr. the majority Of the party. The only ansV
20 they received was that he stood by evt
aSs word of every speech he had made on
.a ~. question of slavery. Again he was ask
~, o simply to go up to the state house, one mo
~" ing, and shake hands pleasantly with {
- s.shakey" legislator, whom this trifl
.s, courtesy would have won to his side.
M step would he move.
Again, after the assault of Brooks,
ms 10 election was pending, and it was desired
' 70 make it unanimous. A Democrat called
~, him one morning, and told him that he
not ,S, often said, in private life, that, after
u ua. outrage, although he was opposed to
Sumner in politics, if ever he had cha
" to vote for him, he would assuredly do SO
acv a rebuke to the barbarism OF slav'
,nd ssNow," said the Democrat, II am a m
,r tha ber of the legislature; can vote for J
tod t but my party are very hostile to you.
,,r,, Sumner, what would you recommend M
u sne dor" The senator did not coax this wa
'''o ing legislator to abide by his old decision
10 only answered "Sir, your case reminds
hev of a line In Wordsworth:
blic Tho soul may reach hight it cannot keepr
1ery Never was there public servant indu
N. into office who 80 little cultivated the ar
popularity. Appealing always and ev
the where to the conscience of the people
few career is a triumph Of the moral elemer
and our politics, and should serve as an as
Blair ance that the best way to win enduring
ured lie favor is faithfully to serve the higher
vice ture of ones constituents.
ition Next to his integrity Of character and
}. atty to principle Mr.. Sumner owes mos
i we his success to his indomitable and tir
, do Industry. He is an amazing worker.
Lead and early he is at work, with all the en-
will sasm of his youth. Aided by mel
md" which never fails to keep whatever he
hose hears or reads, he always brings to VIII
and er topic he deals with variety and apl
Il be of historical illustration which makes
Sd an almost indispensable authority in
debate. He has probably made
/ will speeches OF the character termed py
If the French sans repfsque-speeches, TX,
famous Kansas oration, unanswerabl
were solid and unbroken ranks OF admitted
dent, than any other member OF either ho'
tes of Congress. :,
on in Again he Is always at his appointed
9 pos always where statesman ought 70
{ out in the van of the party, fearlessly, cl'
lgress and eloquently urging the duty OF the
23. The blind leaders who love to pro
er he smooth thiugs--the Fessendens, for ,
Ieston pie, and the Trumbulls-and the false
ed men who seek to betray their party
alra 4o | Iobnanna for nyamnla md the Dnnlij