Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-03-28

Massachusetts should have deferred his speech
until the report was made. While he did not
know anything of its character, he, Morton, felt
confident that many charges against the presi-
dent and large part of the senator's speech
would be answered by the report, and the vim
dication Of the president upon all tie charges
here made out would be complete upon a state
ment of all the facts. We had heard
to-day of war made by usurpatiOn of the
presidential power; but after all, it was
the most peaceful war ever heard of; not gun
had been fired, nor an act of violence commit
Ted upon single Haytien, so far as the evidence
went, and there was no evidence of the slightest
complaint by Hayti; not one word of complaint
ever came from that country, aud it had re-
manned for the senator from Massachusetts to
bring in the complaint.
Mr.. Morton then had read by the secretary a
dispath TO United States Minister Bassett from
the Ilaytien secretary of foreign affairs, as
surfing him that Hayti had no disposition or de-
sire to interfere with the Dominicans. As
further reply to Mr.. Sumner, he reminded the
senate, as evidence that the administration had
not proposed to take any immediate action up
on annexation, that the committee had no power
TO negotiate Il treaty, and no one went
with them who could take single
step in that direction The Haytien
government, in violation of the law of ma
lions, had given free passage across its terri
tory TO Cabral, and furnished him with war YES
sells to attack Dominica; and the United States
had merely notified Hayti that while our nego-
tiations were pending with Dominica, we would
not allow her to make war upon that island.
This the United States had an undoubted right
to do, because our government had information
of organizations on foot in Hayti TO defeat an
neXation. No one need tell him, Morton, that
the senator from Massachusetts was a friend
TO liberty or the colOred man, when he so in
dustriOusly spent his time in an effort to put
the democratic party in power. The senator
IYaNf 10 4 fhIttf
at the same time, striking a.blow at the repub-
lican party.
Mr.. Howe cited various historical instances,
in which public men who had been regarded
with universal esteem by their countrymen, had,
by subsequent acts OF misguided zeal and pas
sion, forfeited that confidence and relapsed into
obscurity, or assumed positions at utter yari-
ance with their former declarations. In this con-
nection, he referred to the prominence and intiu-
ence of eX-Secretary Seward, Chief Justice Chase
and MIR. Sumner in 1861. The last seen of the
first of this great triumyirate, he had turned
his back upon the hopes, lessons and friends
OF his better years. and was iacting as mas
ter OF ceremonies in political pageant wherein
an itinerant president was the principal figure.
The second had employed the authority OF the
great office of chief justice of the United States
TO undo and annul the most benefcent acts of
his civil administration. To-day the republican
party experienced some Of that anguish which
swelled in the breast of Caesar, when,
having already been struck by Casea
and CaSsius, he saw the third dagger uplifted
by the hand of dear friend, and there was
wrung from his agonized bosom the exclama-
ton ct tn, Brute pr For to-day we had heard
the remaining member of that great triumvi-
rate, that senator who had so earnestly urged
upon the reluctant senators the purchase of
those rigid, far-off regions of the North
Pole, now turning a deaf ear to the
echoes which brought back his own exultant
prophecy that "Our city could be nothing less
than the whole American continent with her
gates upon all the surrounding seas" Today
the senator arose, not only to oppose the annex
alton Of an island at our very doors, but to de-
nounce, as criminal, the president who had ven
tured, in the exercise of strictly constitutional
prerogative, to advise its acquisition. He, Howe,
had sought the privilege of entering an appear
ance here for that illustriOuS respondent. He
would file no demurrer nor nterpose any dilato.
ry pleas, but preferred general issue.
At this point, Mr., Howe yielded for adjourn
ment, when, at 80, the senate adjourned.
HOUSE,
The attendance of members was small and
little interest was manifested in the proceedings
Mr.. Hubbard of New Hampshire introduced
resolution in regard to a revision of the tariff,
which was referred to the committee on ways
and means.
AT 10 p. NJ. the house adjourned