Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-04-13
The Presidents Message and His
TradUccrS.

IraOUccrS.
Ex-senator Sumner were not so con
ceited and so arrogant as to be inca
pable OF feeling n regret, he would bow
his head in shame upon reading the
Message Of President Grant, accou.
panying the report of the San Domin-
go Commissioners, and which Mes
sage gives the plain unyarnished his
tory ofthe connection the Admins
tration with the annexation scheme
The President has issued no paper
which by its clear, frank, unImpas-
stoned character carried more GER
tain moral and intellectual conviction
than this Message. 1t is the history
of a square business transaction,
leaving no taint upon any one. con-
nected with it. In its inception it
has nothing but a due regard for the
interests of an oppressed people who
seek our shelter, and the benefit that
would result to this country by ex-
tending to said people the protection
of our laws.
The President in his Message says
"Those opponents annexation who
''have heretofore professed to be pre-
''eminently friends of the rights of
''man believed would be my most
"violent assailants if | neglected SO
"clear duty
Let Senator Sumner, ''pre eminent
''ly the friend Of the rights Of man."
take that shotto himself; il is point
blank one, and the quite, unexcited
manner in which it is sent should add
to its force. Had the President
tnrned deaf ear to the appeals of
San Domingo, had he sent back her
representatives without a hearing. had
he failed to inquire into the facts
those representatives presented, had
he neglected the appeal on behalf Of
that blighted island, no sooner had
such knowledge Of such neglect come
to the ear Of Sumner, than he-"the
''pre eminent friend ofthe rights of
''man"-would have denounced Gen.
Grant as false to lis high trust and a
foe to struggling humanity. The
speech Of Sumner would have been
10 less abusive of President Grant,
but it would have abused him because
herepelled San Domingo.
And how completely the devilish
insinuations and charges of usurpa-
ton, made by Senator Schurz, are
exploded BY this plain statement of
facts. The whole message has not
a lisp OF Sumner nor Schurz, nor any
other Of the intellectual hounds that
have been running down the Presi-
dent. The omission Of any mention
of the names of tlrese, the Presidents
traducers, but makes the message the
moro emphatic. the more dignifed,
the more crushing to the slanderers
of President Grant. The onslaught
made in advance, when bat a few
days would have brought the report
of the commissioners, only showed
the deep malignity of the attack. It
was shameless attack, because the
President had not the privilege of re-
ply. It was malignant attack, be-
cause the existence of the facts in the |
case could have been assertained bv |
a few days delay, from Commission |
against whose integrity and capacity
not word could be Hsped. Fortu-
nately the report of the Commission
ers afiordedthe President the orpor-
tunity OF giving the history of the
whole scheme, and by such history, !
proved to be true in every pGrtIcula. !
by the testimony Of the Commission
ers, the Presidei t has swept from
under The feet Of his Senatorial ma
ioners their refuge Of lies, and has
FAGicatcd his character for honesty.
patriotism, and square dealing
CIeceiQn0 HerG7I.