Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-04-29
Those Disappointed Men,"


San Domingo Message to Congress, says
that che who undertakes to conduct the
affairs of great government as faith
tul public servant, if sustained by the ap.
proval of his own conscience, may rely
with confidence upon the candor aud in
teligencc Of free people, whose best
interests he has strivcn to subservc, and
can bear with patience the censure of
disappointed men,"
That's true-true as Gospel but who
are these disappointed men? Their
name is Legion. They are great and
snall, ten thousand strong, and Senator
Sumner is chief among the ten thousand.
From the day of Gen. Grants Inaugural
ton Mr.. Sumner, in the Senate, under
took 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, Gen. Grant was made to feel
that Mr.. Sumner intended to take care
of him, and that he would be allowed
only little more than was given to the
unfortunate ".\udy Johnson" From
that day down TO the removal OF Mr.
Sumner from the Senate chairmanship on
Foreign Relations by the usual action Of
the Senate in the reorganization of its
committees, the "irrepresslble conflict"
between the Senator aud the President
had been pushed so far that either the
one or the other had to be displaced or
disregard.
On the Tenure of Office law Mr.. Sum
ner struggled hard to hold Gen. Grant
in the Senatorial leading strings of John
son and though finally compelled to
give way, the Senate still yielded some
thing to Sumner in a sort of patchwork
compromise. On the San Domingo ques-
ton the Senator, from the outside, un.
deltook the part of dictator and to make
the President contemplate before the
country. Minister Motley, at London,
the special protege of the all-powerfnl
Senator, in the next place, appears to
have been so far emboldened by his
hacker rs 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 chair
man on those affairs, the Senate recoT-
pized the necessity Of his removal, and
he was removed. Mr.. Sumner, there
fore, is chief of the disappointed men"
referred to by the President in tlis San
Domingo message
Senator Carl Schurz is another. He
considers himself as entitled TO the lions
share Of the government spoils III Miss
ouri, and so made his requstion upon
the President. Bat Gen. Grant could
not see the matter in that light. So Mr.
Schurz bolted with his friend Gratz
Brown, and between them they made a
Republican split which gave the State to
the Democrats and so 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 San Domingo, is another OF
those "disappoin,ed men" whose head
fits the cap of the Presidents message
on this question.
Senator Fenton is another disappont-
ed man. He thought he had "title
clear" to the New York Custom House
and all the fat places and pickings there
of, 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 sitting in the Kings gate" is
"honest Tom Murphy sitting in the place
Of the receipt of customs" and as cnsto'
dian of the tleshpots of Egypt to the
Republican party of New York, while
Fenton is out in the Geld.
There are several "disappointed men,
in connection with the New York Honse;
two or three in reference to certain seas
ties in Spain" or elsewhere iL foreign
lands, and here ard there all over the
country the disappointed men" who
sympathize with Mr.. Sumner are numer
Gus. They are breaking out as ''revenue
reformerS," as independent Republicans
as denouncers of Gen. Grant sup stairs
and down stairs and in my lady's cham
Der :" but the Connecticut election, not
withstandng the detection of Grandiath
er Welles among the rest shows that Gen
Grant has still the inside track and cal
afford to "bear with patience the censur'
Of disappointed men."-N T. Herald
A perplexed Jew, who had made
garment for youth and found himsel
unable to dispose of the surplus fullness
which appeared when trying it on th
young candidate, declared vociferousl!
that "de coat is goot. 1t is no fault o
de coat. De poY is too slim"
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The chief art of learning is to attempt bu
little at time. The widest excursions of tn
} mind are made by short flights, frequently re
peated the most lofty fabrics of science ar
formed by the continued accumulations OF sin
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