The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-04-07

Those ssDisappoinGed Men,"
The President, in closing his capital st.
Domingo Message to Congress, says that she
who undertakes to conduct the affairs of
great government as a faithful public servant,
If sustained by the approval Of his own con-
science, may rely with confidence upon the
candor and intelligence of free people,
whose best interests he has striven to sub
serve, and can bear with patience the censure
of disappointed men,"
That's true-true as Gospel; but who are
these disappointed menp Their name is
Legion. They are, great and small, ten thou
sand strong, and Senator Sumner is chief
among the ten thousand. From the day of
General Grants Inauguration Mr.. Sumner, in
the Senate, undertook the difficult Office Of
director and manager Of the President and his
policy, foreign and domestic. From the day
OF the submission of his first Cabinet to the
Senate General Grant was made to feel
that Mr.. Sumner intended to take care Of
him, and that he would be allowed
only a little more line than was given to the
unfortunate candy Johnson" From that day
down to the removal of Mr.. Sumner from the
Senate craftsmanship on Foreign Relations by
the usual action of the Senate in the reorgani-
zation of its committees, the ''irrepressible
conflict" between the Senator and the President
had been pushed so far that either the one or
the other had to be displaced or disgraced
On the Tenure of Office law Mr.. Sumner
struggled hard to hold General Grant in the
Senatorial leading strings of Johnson; and
though finally compelled to give way, the Sen
ate still yielded something to Sumner in sort
Of patchwork compromise. On the st.
Domingo question the Senator, from the out
set, undertook the part of dictator and to make
the President contemplate before the country.
Minister Motley, at London, the special pro-
tfg< of the all-powerful Senator, in the next
place, appears to have been so far emboldened
by his hacker as to disregard his instructions
from the Secretary of State. Hence his
recall; and with his recall, it appears, Mr..
Sumner ceased to hold any social relations
with Secretary Fish and the President.
AS it was simply impossible that the
Executive Department on this footing could
conduct the foreign affairs Of the government
with the Senate chairman on those affairs, the
Senate recognized the necessity of his re-
moval, and he was removed. Mr.. Sumner,
therefore, is chief Of the disappointed men"
referred to by the President In this st. Do
mingo message.
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sidered himself as entitled to the lions share of
the government spoils in Missouri, and SO
made his requisition upon the President. But
General Grant could not see the matter in
that light. So Mr.. Schurz bolted with his
friend Gratz Brown, and between them they
made republican split which gave the State
TO the democrats; and 80 Mr.. Schurz, like the
dog in the fable, lost the marrow bone which
was his in jumping at the shadow in the
water. The patriotic Schurz, then, as the right
hand man of Sumner on st. Domingo, is an
other of those disappointed men" whose
head fits the cap Of the Presidents
on this question. Senator Fen
ton is another disappointed man. He thought
that he had little clear" to the New York
Custom House and all the fat places and pick
ings thereof and put in his claim accordingly.
But Fenton, like Schurz, in demanding more
than his fair share, lost even that which he
had secured. Mr.. Fenton's 'Mordecai sit
ting in the Kings gate" is ''honest Tom Muir
ply" ssitting in the place of the receipt of
customs" and as custodian of the feshpots of
Egypt to the republican party of New York,
while Fenton is out in the cold.
There are several disappointed men, in
connection with the New York Custom House
two or three in reference to certain ''castles in
Spain" or elsewhere in foreign lands, and here
and there all over the country the ''disap-
pointed men" who sympathize with Mr.. Sumner
are numerous. They are breaking out as
revenue reformers," as Independent repub-
licans, as denouncers of General Grant cup
stairs and down stairs and in my lady's cham
ber;" but the Connecticut election, notwith-
the detection of Grandfather Welles
among the rest, shows that General Grant has
still the inside track and can afford to ''bear
with patience the censure of disappointed men,"
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