The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-07-07

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Retirement OF Hamilton Fish-Con-
grcssionaI Investigation Imperative
iy Necessary.
Mr.. HAMILTON FISH is about TO retire |
from the Office Of Secretary of State 1t is
notorious that lie has prostituted this Office
in manner to disgrace his country before
The world. He has made this great and
proud republic to be tool, scavengcr, an
assassin, an executioner, in the base service
Of the Adventures of Madrid and the Span
lsh volunteers of Havana. No man in all
our American annals has ever left Office with
such an amount of popular od!um upon him
ls HAMILTON FISH.
Why should this be SO? He had a fair
reputation as a citizen when he became
Secretary of State He had no standing as
politician or as n patriot but he was re
Vartlod as an honest, respectable man and
now, before he is released from the rcsponsi.
bilities of Office, IL is Indispensable for tie
mfcty and he good reputG Of the country
hat Congress Should cause all Me trdHsac-
lions of TIC STATE Department IN connection
NTH Spain and Cuba 10 be ri70rOusiy inreS-
Rgdtcd
This investigation should bear especially
upon the relations TO Spain and Cuba of SID
NEY WEBSTER, Mr.. FIsn's son-in-law, and of
JONI c. b. DAVIS, the swindlcr of the Erie
Railway, Mr.. FIsus Assistant Secretary of
State. WEBSTER has been openly in the
pay of Spain, ns counsel, and has received
very large sums of money-largcr than the
public have supposed-uot merely in consid-
Grafton of his services as such, but In
consideration of his control over his father
nlaw, and over the State Department.
bANlS bNNu SONiNAiF "a NNAi''i'i' ''NH
persons acting in the interest of Spain; and
both DAVIS and WEBSTER have been and
are partners in a scheme in which men in
Cuba Madrid, and Washington are con.
eerned, whose purpose is 10 make millions
for themselves by the sale OF Cuba to third
parties who are to sell it to the United States
This project was some time since partially
unveiled in our columns by one of our cor
respondents in Washington and now we
charge that DAVIS and WEBSTER are both
deep in it, and that The po'icy Of the United
States on the Cuban question has been dictated
md controlled By these iHso!eat and knari.i
peculat0rs.
We call upon Congress to investigate these
facts before HAMILTON FIsH-who is respon-
sible for the acts which WEBSTER and DAVIS
have done and caused to be done under
cover of his name and authorty-has finally
left the Department in which he has accu
INFLATED such shame upon the fair renowI
Of the nation As it will be impossible t
DO this work before the approaching adjourn
ment, committee, with full powers, shoulC
be appointed to sit during the vacation o
Congress As 1t may possibly lead to tn
impeachment Of Mr. FISH, the inquiry SHOULD
be made by the House of Representatives
but no member Of the House who is himscl
secret partner with DAVIS and WEBsTE
should be in the committee. To make n
investigation complete, il triH be necessary
authorize suitable agent in -Nadrid to pr
cure the evidence on the subject which ca
only be obtained there.
But at any rate let the people know IL
ruth respecting this degrading episode
our history. And let those who have thu
ronspired to mako merchandise Of the goo
name and the honor of the American poop
be at least put in the pillory Of public not
riety and universal scorn, even (which
by no means certain--a moro adequate pu
shment should prove to be impraclicable.
The Reign of Small Men. and its Col
sequences.
FRANKLIN PIERCE was a statesman
very moderate dimensions. One of his Nc