The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-23

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has made the quarrel Of Sumner with Grant
war to the knife, as was the quarrel between
jackson and Calhoun to the bitter end.
Sumner takes the place Of Calhoun. as Massa-
chnsstts has taken the place Of South CARO-
lima. Calhoun, when Vice President, got up
Q Cabinet social quarrel with President jack
son. Martin Yam Burcn, then Secretary OF
State, settled It in favor Of Jackson by re-
firing from the Cabinct-a step which COM
PEELED oil his colleagues to follow suit Jack
son then appointed new Cabinets but, not
forgetting tho good service Of Van Buren,,
nominated him as Minister to England The
| vote In the Senate on his confirmation was q
tie, and the decision rested upon Calhoun as
| presiding officer. His casting vote was cast
| against Van Buren,, and that was the fall Of
Calhoun. Jackson gave the hint, and Van
| Buren, al the next Presidential election Q632)
was run for Vice President with Old Hickory,
and elected to the place OF Calhoun as Presi-
dent of the Senate. To complete the triumph
of Jackson he had Van Buren, made President
in 1886, thus leaving Calhoun hopelessly out
| in the cold.
! In 1870, the whirligig Of revolution having
| put Massachusetts, in tho place of South
| Carolina In the government, Sumner substan-
TALLY turns up In the place of Calhoun.
Mr.. Motley, literary protdge of Sumner, is
appointed by General Grant Minister to
England, but, after he has been short time
at London, the President, for certain reasons,
recalls him. The wrath of Sumner is thereby
awakened, and he resolves upon the rGle OF
Calhoun. He begins the war openly with the
introduction into the Senate of the st. Domingo
question, and his first indictment against
Grant surpasses all the indictments of Calhoun
against Jackson. 1t surpasses in it's speciica-
tious of wrongdoing the worst phillippics of
cold Thad Stevens" against Andy Johnson.
IF Sumner is to be believed Grant is stupid,
would-be dictator, like Johnson a weak but
obstinate old demagogue, like Buchanan;
trading politician, like poor Pierce, and an
audacious speculator Of the school of Jim
Fisk If half that Sumner says of Grant is
true, then, within the next two years, we may
look for the fullilment of Frank Blair's
prophecy, that eff General Grant ever gets
into the White House you will not get him
out till he dies. He will stay there. if he has
to make himself Emperor by a coup gftat like
Louis Napoleon"
But we don't and we can't believe the half
of Summers accusations or Blair's prophecies
But Summers charges are full Of mischief for
all that. They plainly mark the beginning of
II,
worse than that of Calhoun. Already Sumner
is boldly backed in the Senate not only by
Schurz, Of Missouri, but by Patterson, of New
Hampshire; Morrill,, Of Vermont and Upton,
Of Kansas, on the St. Domingo test question
Of the administration. On the tax question
we find Trumbull, of Illinois, dead against the
Presidents financial policy, and on this and
other questions we find the administration all
at sea in the Senate. On this st. Domingo
resolution the President has gained profltlosS
victory, for what does it signify? The resolu-
| ton is passed by vote of 81 to 9-apparently
| decisive victory; but it is no such thing. 1t
provides for a commission of three members,
with secretary who can talk Spanish, to 60
to the republic Of Dominica, and to make up
from their own researches, travels and obser-
vations complete history of the republic
natural, political, social and industrial-em-
bracing everything in the heavens and the
| Earth, and In the waters under the Earth
men, beasts, birds, fishes, vegetation, mine
rails, rivers, bays harbors, boundaries, treaties,
debts, public opinion on annexation, an inquiry
int the diseases of the island and into its sea-
sons and its earthquakes and tornadoes. When
they have made up this budget which Schurz
thinks will occupy at least five years, the COM
mission are to report to the President, and he
| is to report to Congress, and they are to de-
eide according to the evidence, ON annexation,
yea or nay.
| The Senate have voted for this commission !;
| but the resolution has still to pass through
| the fiery furnace of the House. VIII IL pass !?
Perhaps yes; but not without a Donnybrook
Fair. Banks, Of Massachusetts,, is all right,
and so is Butler; but we fear there ara many
republicans Of the House ready fer bolt.
Meantime Morton, Conklng and others Of the
Senate demand the removal of Sumner from
his place as head of the Committee on Foreign
Relations, and even his expulsion from the
party. But In 1859-60 the Southern oligar-
;. chy, backed by Buchanan, tried this game
upon Senator Douglas, and how did they come
out? Ask jeff Davis. But what can the
President do in anything on our foreign affairs
with Sumner at the head of this committee in
the Senator A nice question, this; and we
can only see that it increases the difficulties of
the administration with the republican party.
| Sumner, they say-as "Honest Old Abe" said
of his Secretary, Chase-'has the buzzing bee
| Of the White House in his ear, and he won't
be quiet" He goes also for annexation; but
the Canadas are his hobby on those Alabama
claims. Very good. General Grant is an