The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-12-30

sharpened.
SOME MEN, from having their abill
ty recognized, become ostentatious
others dogmatic, others superlative-
/ ly ambitious, and at last because Of
having faithfully represented the
peoples views they are thrust for
ward into Offices of honor and trust,
imagine themselves to be leaders Of
the people, and Aliases upon whose
shoulders are supported the fabric
which they merely represent. Such
men are not rare, although not so
numerous but that, when they make
their appearance, they are readily no
ted. A memorable man of this kind
exhibited himself in the United
States Senate, one day last week,
and assumed to speak for the Repub
lican party, which, he vainly imagin-
ed, he carried upon his shoulders;
and in his fury lashed the President
like a cowardly knave who had found
his imagined enemy with his hands
tied.
1t has been generally known that
because the President would not con-
cede certain appointments to the
Massachusetts Senator, he had be
come enraged against him, and only
awaited opportunity to rush upon
him and reek his vengeance. But so
anxious was he to become the Presi-
dents executioner,that he misjudged
the time and the occasion, and like a
self-willed boy,ayailed himself of the
first opportunity, whether relevant to
the issue or not, thus exposing the
animus of the man, and not the wis
dom of the profound statesman he
had been conceded. Henceforth he
must be a much weaker man than he
has been, as his complete defeat has
shorn him of his locks as completely
as Delilah sheared the head of Samp
son.
The occasion was one where Seua-
ator Morton urged the passage of his
Joint resolutions, providing for the
appointment of a Commission to ex-
anime into the facts relative to the
proposed San Domingo annexation.
The issue was a plain one, simply:
should such hcommission be appoint
ed to make such examination and re-
port to the Senate,or not? and there
was in it no grounds for an attack
upon the President, other than that
the resolutions expressed his wishes.
It desired to have the fact ascertain
ed and reported, SO that if the project
were Objectionable it could be avoid
ed, and the Objectionable features be
laid bare. If Mr.. Sumner were the
honest guardian he assumed to be,
and really believed all he asserted, he
should have been the one to demand
the investigation, in order that the
evils of the plan and all its objection |
able features should be exposed, and |
the people, as well as the Senate, sat
isfed that his position and not the
Presidents was the proper one for
the country. In this he might have
gained a triumph, if his assertions
were reliable; but his action would
give rise to the assumption that he
had no confidence in his, own state
ments, and feared that the report of
the commission would prove him un-
true. Then, again, his assertion that
if the Senate passed the resolution,
it would be pledged to annexation,
was as weak point as he could have
made, and proved that his malignan-
CIV had more to do with his attack
than his honesty. 1t can only be
counted an absurdity, fathered by
relentless hate, and so contemplate, |
in its meanness, that scare a Repub-
Iican excepting Schurz and Sumner,
was found to vote Cor it. The reso-
ution proposes only to gather the
acts and collect the evidence, that
Congress and the country may
udge of the merits of the proposed
In the defeat which Mr.. Sumner
las achieved for himself, it will be
veil if he can learn his weakness
hat he does not own the Republican !
,arty, and that only Democrats SYM
oathize with his present humiliation. |
In his statement that the President !
had sought to exclude him from the s
Senate Committees, Midsummer gave f
member of the Senate" as his au- !
Shority; but when the name of the t
Senator was demanded, he refused to :
give it, demonstrating himself a viii !
fer or coward-or both. "A yillifier t
in that he failed to produce the proof '
when it was demanded; acoward, in
hat he sought to injuriously wound I
m enemy and then took refuge be, !