Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-03-15

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B spoken Of as Mr.. Summers successor,
is cOnspicuOusly unfit for this place;
neither his health, nor his character,
p nor his abilities, would place him
there. 1t is hinted in some of the
journals that Mr.. Sumner is not on
{ good terms with the Secretary Of State.
! but this is not true; they are in con-
stant intercourse, and when the hos
tility supposed to exist between Mr..
Z Seward and Mr.. Sumner, while the
former was Secretary of State, is re-
membered, this excuse will appear
weak. Nor can il even be truly said
that Mr.. Sumner has opposed the an
{ neXatiOn of San Domingo. He has
only opposed, as it was his solemn
duty as a Senator to do, the unlawful
and unconstitutional means which the
President has used to bring about
this thing. Mr.. Sumner has never
discussed the advisability Of the an
neXatiOn. 1t is not known whether
be is for or against IL. But he has
shown that in the acts by which the
President has tried to carry il, aga inst
the wish Of Congress aud against the
desire Of the people, he has gravely
exceeded his constitutional powers.
| That is all Senator Sumner has done;
and for thus daring to do his duty as
/ q member of an Independent body,
the Congress Of the United States, he
is now, at the instance of the Presi-
dent, whose wrong he has made pub
lie, to be disgraced." ."
From the Philadelphia CFOrney's)
Press (RadicaD:
So Can the Republican party
afford to do this thing? Can d Re |
| publican caucus which allowed men
to sit ia its councils who voted to
acquit Andrew johnson, justify this !
wrath upon Charles Summer for eXeT-
cising his privilege in differing with |
the administration on one measure?
San Domingo can never be made q |
test in the Republican party, and |
ought not to be. But if il is deter
/ mined to make it so, the poorest way
] to begin the Wretched business is to |
| strike down the great man who led 1
I the Republican hosts, when thou |
] sands who proudly enroll themselves /
| were either Democrats or dOubters.
! The managers in this very bad pro- /
! ceeding will realize that their party |
will be even more outraged by this 1
! sacrifice than the Democracy in the /
case Of Douglas. We hope the rash 4
| act will be reCOnsidered at once. Re
| publicans cannot afford to copy or
! commend the miserable prescriptions
Of the Buchanan administration"
From the lafayette Ind.) Journal
(RadicaD:
as It was, doubtless, very
inConvenient and annoying for the
President to have such a powerful
opponent of his views upon foreign
policy at the head Of the Foreign Re-
latiOns Committee, but as he was not
elected to acquire san Domingo, nor
to settle the Alabama claims in
particular way, Republicans, whose
fidelity TO Republican principles has
It's roots away back in the freesOil
DAYS when Garrison and Whittier and
Phillips and Hale we're hOOted as
traitors or lunatiCs, are not willing 1
that any new tests Of party fealty shall
be introduced by those whose Repub-
licanism, in their estimation, was
never very clearly defined, and whose
conversion, if genuine, is COmpara-
lively recent. This is about the atti-
tude Of the large minority aud the
small majority in the Senate. We
hope that it menageg no serious weak
ening Of the Republican army in the
face Of the common enemy. To say
the least, the quarrel, on its face, does
not promise great amount OF good"
From the st. Louis Republican, {
(DemOCrat):
so What, then was the cause I 5
Of the ssachusetts Senator's degra- !
4 - ma rsl.aa ! =
the edict for his overthrow came from Z
the White House. Mr.. Sumner was S
offensive 70 an executive, whose dis | {
likes are mortal, and who will not {
brook opposition from an enemy {
whom he can reach. He was faith &
full in all things to his party, but dis &
obedient in one thing to the EXecu-
tive, The masses Of his party ap- {
proved bis views on that one subject; s
and, it might be said, with perfect {
truth, that the majority in the Senate
preferred him above all Others for the q
Craftsmanship of the committee from q
which he was depOsed. They did not I
wish 10 depOse him, and would glad {
ly have avoided the disCTeditable task G
assigned them. But the tremendous 7
powers which this party have confer \
red upon the present Executive S
make him so completely their c
master, that hs has been able c
to mark the Senatorial leader Of 8
the party for execution, and force the d
party to drag him to the block. He {
has compelled a servile Republican C
Senate to rend to pieGez its most '
trusted counsellor. RepubliCanizm | j
has made its President too strong, ?
even f0r itself He uses the weapons {
il placed in his hands to strike down, d
one by one, its fagOrite champions. q
It taught him 10 rule iH Georgia, in i
Mississippi, 10 Louisiana, in Texas 1t Z
taught him to interfere in Missouri; 8
it encouraged him to prescribe Brown a
and SchurZ; and it is its own fault, II, y
prOfiting by all these lessons, be has p
assumed to invade the Senate, dictate v
its chairmanships, devote its leaders r
TO vengeance, disturb its ancient TOu- /
tine, and change that once august =
body into dOcile and Obedient re- 81
tinue of his person. Wendell Phil &
lips recently declared that the Re n
publican party ought to die. Can any ]
and patriotic Republican, il
with the case Of Sumner before his s.
eyes, doubt that Phillips spoke the Y
Iuth?" s.
From the New York Tribune, (Rad- il
ica):
'-The Senate Of the United States is
q deliberative body, Wich properly il
divides itself into committees among
which the subjects which require its q
attention are primarily distributed for +,
scrutiny and digestion prior to action y
thereon in its public sessions. 1t were IS
absurd to contend that this body /,
should not assign to those committees 81
the members whom the b
majority shall from time TO time con- O
slider fittest for the discharge Of their o
respective duties. We cannot, there q
fore, consider the removal Of Mr.. o
Sumner from the Cbalrm6nship Of the Z
Committee on Foreign Relations as an o
outrage or anything Of the sort; yet q
We will not conceal our profound re- j
gret that any such action should have h
been deemed necessary or advisable. o
Mr.. Sumner has fOibles-as few have N
nOt-but he is eminently a Senator. Ii
and has earned the love and trust OF u
the American people. We could wish b
that this seeming lBdignity could D
have beenIspared him." o
From the Cincinnati Chronicle, Il
Radically: Z
- What no one dared to entertain, o
sven secretly in his thought, and what b
luly a few weeks ago would have suf b
iced to I'll with unquenchable indig- p
nation even the most frivolous and b
east reVerential minds, has, alas! n