New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-12-28

light great principles though his speech may not have
really been applicable 20 tho question"
The Chicago Tribune, aftor quoting Mr.. Sum-
ners attack upon Senator Trunbuii. during tho last
sion of Congress, says:
"The Nemesis which often follows IN the foot steps
ofa public wrong ndscreton has been treadlng hard
upon the heels Mr. Sumner and has swiftly overtaken
HIM The senator he said To Mr. Trumbull only last Jan
much 10 regret can hardly be than thai
when others assume toward Mr.. Sumner tone OF de-
nuncatiOn and accusation impugning bis motives, mia
representing his conduct giving false construction 10 all
his actions, NE should rene niber That he now stands in
another and apply TO himself, let I'M hope with cOntr
that that speech on that occasion IL is he who shond
ina much to regret The spirit in which he assaied
Irum6u very similar to that OF his assaians toward
himself AS, in reading Mr.. Trumbul out OF the party
he forgot or ignored the long services and honorable
ing the office for him. forget or Ignore hs o%n
me Tribune sympathzes with Mr. Sumner his present
San Domingo scheme as because he occupies position
OF apparent hostility to the Administration. After the
admoniton quoted above the editor speaks OF Mr. sum.
ner as follows: Gle DC at times unjust or petulant
or dctatoria and domneering, self-conscious, or
oneslded OF mistaken, but he Is always honest What
ever he does. he believes IN IT, and sincerely believes
that he is bound 70 believe in as man OF honor and
man OF sense We believe that no personal feeling of
any sort could ever betray him into upholdng anything
that he did not hold TO be absolutely right Even his
personal resentments almost always have their root
wrong which he thinks has bcon done great
public cause which he has at heart"
The Cincinnati Commercial remarks that the
Democracy went BACK on Kentucky when all but IL
Democratic Congressman refused 20 vote for the Hon.
Thomas L. Joness resolutions OF General Amnesty be-
cause they accompanied by preamble declaring
that the right OF before the "dcbaa
bile question " that the Government was established rs
cOnfederacy Of cOequal saos, and that the practical
experiment OF secession made in accordance with
honest convictions "What N there" asks The CONNER
cd Gin the preamble that is embarrassing t0 true Dem
ocrat, whose principles, told every annual Jack
son jubilee unchanged the laws of Mcdcs and
Persansf Is IL matter Of doctrine statement OF fac
Is not this Government pact between cOequa Statost
least, till settled by the last argument OF naonsi
What is there In all this that should make Democrat
sensitive, and set tho correspondents OF Democratic
newspapers TO explaining away the significance OF the
small vote which sanctioned the recital Of Col JOnes's
reasons for amnestyi Has Democracy so changed
that 1t dare not put on IFS own
clOthes3 Protesting against the tendency TO
and recognition of which leading Democratic statesmen
held to be the best safeguard against that tendency
They make haste to negatively declare the absolute
supremacy of the General Government and the indis-
solubty Of the Union. They recognize nationality as
something than federation of States and take
away from their Southern brethren the only plea they
have for Justification of their conduct. Refusing by
their votes 10 sanction the assertion of the SecesOnsts
that they acted upon conscientious conviction as TO
their right when they withdrew from the Union 10 set
government OF their own, they place them In the at
tude of traitors and condemn their acts reasonable
This is cruel TO those who ask for full amnesty
and pardon their conduct WAS cOwardy when these
problem of Southern independence and had reason TO
expect it, The preamble of the Jones resolution may be
embarrassing but to he consistent the Democrats OF the
House should have indOrSed it.