The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-04-07

there may be war without g battle,
and 50 our navy has thus far con-
quered without q shot, that lts pres
ence in Hayti and Dominica was war.
He then minutely reviews the tesa-
mony to this effect furnished by the
Slate and Navy Departments, from
which it appears that the very agent
who signed the treaties officially re-
ported that usurper was maintained
IN power by our guns. But interven-
tion in Dominica is only one part Of
the story. Even according to the re-
luctant confession of the Navy De-
partment, ia the effort to secure the
too much coveted territory, our gov
eminent was not content in mairtain-
ing the usurper, Baez,in power by oo-
cupying the harbois Of Dominica
with war ships of the United States,
but sent other war ships, ,amongthem
none other than our powerful moni-
tor Dictator, with the frigate Severn
as a consort, and with yet other
monitors in their train, to menace
the black republic of Hayti by an act
of war. An Admiral was found to
10 this thing, and an American Min
lister, himself of African blood, was
found to aid the Admiral. The dis
patch of Secretary Of State, institut-
ing This act Of war, is nos eommuni-
Gated to the Senate, but we are sum
ciently enlightened by that Of our
Minister at Port au Prince, who, un'
der date Of February Is, 1870, in.
forms the State Departmental Wash.
ington that be had transmitted to the
Haytien government q notification
that the United States asked and ex-
pected it to observe strict neutrality
in reference to the internal afisirs Of
San Domingo. This assault upon
the independence and equality OF
the black republic, Mr.. Sumner adds,
appears more fully in the report Of
the Navy Department, which is an
authentic record of acts hagrant
and indefensible. Mr.. Sumner pro-
ceeded to show that this conduct iS
q gross violation of international
law and of the Constitution of the
United States, and every employ
ment of these war powers, in pursu-
ance of this assumption, was usur-
patton; and that . sumption in the
San Domingo treaty is exceptional
and abnormal, being absolutely with
out precedent. But, continues Sum.
ner, even admitting some remote in
finite semblsnce of excuse or apollo
gy during the pending of the treaty,
all of which / insist is absurd be-
yond question, though not entirely
impossible in a quarter unused TO
constitutional questions, and heed
ing them little. Conceding that the
assumpsits inserted in the treaty by
the Secretary of State had deceived
the President into the idea that he
possessed the kingly prerogstive Of
declaring war, it is his own mere no
ton; and wishing to deal most gent
". even with an undOubted usnrpR-
ton of kingly pre-ogative, 50 long
as the Secretary of State, the sworn
counsellor Of the President, supplied
! the formula for the unsurpatiOn, and
you will bear witness that / have
done nothing but state the case. Il
is ha d to hold back when the same
usurpation is openly prolonged after
the Senate had rejected the treaty
= on which the erercise of the kingly
: prerOgative was founded, and when
: the assumpsit devised by a Secre-
: tary of State had passed into the
: limbo of things lost on cath. Here
! there is no remote, in6nitesimsl oi
excuse or spolOgy-ncthing, abso'
lutely nothing. The usurpation Of
pivots on q nonety, always except.
ing the kingly will of the President
+ which constitutionally is q nOnety.
The great artist Of B0longa, in q
much admired ststue, sculptured
Mercury as standing on puff of air;
the President has not even q puff Of
! air to stand on.
Enlarging upon the declaration
chat the President had placed himself
, at the head Of more powerful and
: costly Ku Klux than those in the
South, Mr.. Sumner proceeded: Had
the President been SO inspired, as TO
bestow upon the Southern Unionists,
white and black, one half of the time
in zeal, will, personal attention, per-
sonal effort and personal interces-
sion, which he has bestowed upon
his attempt 70 obtain one half Of an
island ia the Caribbean Sea, our
Southern Ku Klux would have ex-
listed in name only, while tranquility
would have reigned ever within our
borders. General applause IN the
galleries, and Kisses.
The Vice President-The Chair
cannot consent that there shall be
manifestations of approval OF dis
approval in the galleries, and he rep
rehends one as promptly as the 9TH
er. If they are repeated he must
enforce order in the Senate.
Mr.. Sumner proceeded: Now, as
I desire the suppression Of the Ku-
Klux wherever it shows itself, and
the elevation of the African race, I
insist that the Presidential scheme
which instals the Ku KIux on the
coast of San Domingo, aud which at
the same time insults the African
race in the black republic, shall be
fairly represented. 1 speak now Of
that Ku Klux of which the Presi-
dent is declared the head, and I
speak for the African race, whom the
President has trampled down. Is
there any Senator in earnest against
the Ku Klux2 Let him arrest it on
the coast of San Domingo. Is there
any Senator ready at all times, to
seek the elevation of the African
racer Here is an occasion for his
best efforts.
After speaking three hours and a
quarter Mr.. Sumner, at half past
three o'clock, concluded.
A PLEASANT house is not a house
where one is especially talked to, but