Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-03-23

A WASHINGTON Correspondent of
the Cleveland Herald says in regard
to Summers removal frou the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations /:
The Storm, of course, will soon
exhaust itself, and the country, we
hope, will be made to understand the
real merits of the case. Republican
principles do not depend upon any
one man, and those who watch with
eagle eye for any serious disaster to
result from this i'll advised action of
Republican Senators, will, we trust,
be compelled to wait until their locks
are frosted with age, and they doomed
to shuttle off their mortal coil in dis
appointment, and with wishes ungrati-
fed. Some of Senator Summers
warmest friends here, those WHO have
stood by. him the long years past in
the battles of liberty, admit that his
course and bearing had been such of
late that it was impossible to act
harmoniously with him. His imperi-
GUS manner and dictatorial spirit
were highly offensive to those Sena-
tors and Others who were brought in
contact with him. Perhaps nc living
man exhibits so much Inconsistency
in his precepts, or the principles that
he inculcates, and his every day prac-
tice. To hear him speak on Repub-
lican principles, one would take him
to be in perfect harmony with the
people-devoid of all aristocratic
feelings or symrathies. Yet so dis
tant is he, and so far removed from
the masses-so aristocratic i'll his
feelings and department., that the
common people can approach or
come in contact with an emperor or
a king with far more freedom anu
ease than they can hold converse
with the naughty and arrogant Sen
ator from Massachusetts. He is a
giant advocate of the rights of the
peol lie but not one of them.
The papers talk much about the
effort of the President to degrade the
Senator, without scintilla of evei-
! dence to establish the fact, that the
President has even limited that he
desired the displacement of Mr.. Sum-
ner from the Committee on Foreign
Relations. They have nothing, how
ever, to say about the undeniable and
well known fact that Senator Sumner
did undertake to degrade the Presi-
dent without provocation or cause, IN
an assault which for yindictiveness,
injustice, unmanliness, and a violation n
ofgentlemanly propriety and courtesy
has no parallel in the annals of Sena-
torial debate. The President went
10 the Senator's home to confer with
him fully and freely on the San Do
mingo question, it was private in
terview, and what was said w&s not
intended for public comment, yet Mr..
Sumner goes to the Senate and makes
that unwarranted attack upon the
President, charging him with being
corrupt to the core" on this San
Domingo question, and divulging
many other things that were said in
the private interview among them
that he (the President) designated
him as Chairman of the Committee
OF the Judiciary" Mr. Sumner un
dertook to make a strong point
against him on this, charging that
this was not so much a slip OF the
tongIe, rs Ignorance of the executive
in legislative matters. If Senator
had, from some cause unknown TO
everybody, become so embittered
against the President that he would
not hold private conversation with
him at his own house sacred, but
must parade them in public debate,
iG is high time that he be admonished
in some way Of his discourtesy, and
that he is not the great l am, who
holds the destinies of the Republic in
the hollow of his Senatorial hand.
The facts when made public will de-
monstrate that Senator Sumner, with
out provocation, undertook to de-
grade the President, but most signal
ly failed.
1t is whispered from good authori
ty that Minister Schenck will soon
resign the English mission for po-
sition more remunerative-that he
has had an offer of $4,000 per an
mum. and will accept as soon as the
Alabama claims are adjusted.