Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-03-30
Charles Sumner, the Republi.
can Party and the Country.

In common with every thought.
ful man, we observe with regret
the unseemly exhibitions OF III
temper and bad manners in the
Congress ofthe United Statts, and
one cannot help wishing that the
members ofboth Houses had learn
ed more Of the spirit Of the A postle
Peters injunction-"be cohrteonsh
but none need conclude that
therefore the Republican party,
or the Government, is going to
immediate wreck and dissolution.
We have read, with some amuse-
ment, the comments Of the press
upon the removal Of fSenator Sum.
ner from the chairmanship of the
Committee on Foreign Relations,
and while we regret deeply The oc-
casion Of such removal, we cannot
see that the world is going to be
turned upside down because of it.
We notice one thing-the papers
which have been the most persls
tent maligners and prosecutors of
Sumner for his noble adherence to
principle are the ones which are
the most loudly indignant at his
treatment by the Senate. Demo.
Gratis see new beauties in Ills Char.
acter, and men who exulted in the
cowardly and murderous attack
upon him by a South Carolina ruff
| fan, men who exhausted the lam
guage in epithets Of contempt when
be so bravely battled for the rights
Of the oppressed and the down
trodden, now exalt him into a
hero, in the hope of widening the
breach between him and his friends,
that they may, peradventure, 90 in
and possess the land. But though
the opposition may indulge the fer
vent hope and use their best en-
deavOrs that permanent evil effects
shall ensue, and though the timor-
GUS of our own political household
may fear it, we think a moments
cool reflection will convince any
candid man that we are not so
loosely bound together as to be
shaken apart by every ripple of per.
sonal feelings at Washington. We
have the highest veneration for the
scholarly requirements, the firm
ness and integrity of Senator Sum-
ner, but with all that, we can con-
ceive of circumstances which would
render him unfit for the delicate
and important position of chairman
of the Foreign Committee, an office
which requires frequent and conf
Dental consultation with the Pres
ident and Secretary Of State, and
through which, more than any
other, harmonious relations be.
tween the Executive ard the Sen
ate are to be maintained. We are
on the eve Of an adjustment of
grave and important claims be-
tween our own country and Eng
land, a matter which has at times
threatened to involve the two
great nations in war, and in the
settlement of which great wisdom
and prudence should be exercised,
and if majority of the Senate be-
licve that any officer stands in the
way of such settlement, they have
as undoubted rightto remove him
as they bad to appoint him, ard
the whole political fabric of our
Government need not necessarily
be shaken to its foundation if they
do it. Admitting that this action
of the Senate is blunder, uncall-
ed for, unnecessary and unWise, are
we therefore to consider ourselves
doomed to destruction because of
it? If Secretary Fish chooses to
intimate doubts of Senator Sum-
ner's truthfulness, and Senator
Sumner concludes therefore to re-
gard Secretary Fish as an alien
and a stranger, if President Grant
wants San Domingo and Senator
Sumner does not want it, need the
great body of the people, whose
servants these men are, turn pale
with alarm? If the opposition,
ever ready to foster disturbances,
and cultivate dissensions, cry out
that the Republican party is going
to pieces, is there anything in such
an old scare crow as that to fright
en- anybody? Presidents and
Senators may flourish, and may
ia Ie," they maE~accept or refuse
each others invitations to dinner,
they may be examples of gentle
manly bearing and dignity, or they
may be the laughing stock of
school boys, but the people of such
a country as this should under
stand that their unity is grounded
deeper than any of these things.
Tha poise of a nation that has
withstood the shock Nof civil war
is not to be seriously disturbed by
the petty quarrels Of statesmen.
Let not the hearts Of good Repub.
licans be troubled.
Fear not each sudden sound and shock,
'T'is of the wave and not the rock,
'Tis but the Tapping Of the sail
And not rent made by the gales"
Cambridge { Guernsey Co. Times.
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Soldiers OrPhdns--COl. Ellis Vote
Against Supporting Them.