The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-03-28
SUMNER SMASHBS. GRANT.
Il FIERCE DENUNCIATIoN OF EHB
HoUID-BE DIOEATOR.
Stunning Up the San Domingo Busi'
ness-.9rant as q Ku-Klu1 Chief:

WARRINGTON, March 27.
Senator Sumner occupied the Senate all day.
He sums up the San Domingo case thus:
ssInternatioal law has been violated In two OF
its commanding rules: one securing the
equality OF nations, and the other providing
against beIllgerent intervention, while dis
tinctive fundamental prihciple Of consttp-
tion; by which the President is deprived OF q
kingly prerogative, is disregarded, and this
very kingly prerogative is asserted By the
President. This is the simplest statement.
Looking still further at the facts, we see that
all this great disobedience has for it's object
4 the acquisition. Of an outlying tropical
island, with large promise of wealth, and That,
in carrying out this scheme, our Republic has
torcibly maintained a usuFper in power, that
he might sell his country, and has dealt
blow at the Independence of the black Repub-
Nc Of Hayt, which, besides being wrong to
that Republic, was an insult to the African
race; and all this has been done BY preroga-
tive alone, without the authority Of an act OF
Congress. If such a transaction, many-head-
ed in wrong, can escape judgment, 1t is dih-
cult to see what securities remain; what other
secret rule of international law may not
be violated; what other foreign nation may not
be- etruok at; what other belligerent menace
may not be hurled; what other kingly preroga-
tive may not be seized ?" In the course Of his
speech, enlarging upon the declaration that
the President had placed himself at the head
OF more powerful and costly Ku-Klux than
those Of the South, MI. Sumner proceeded !:
Had the. President been SO inspired as to be-
stow on the Southern unionists, whites and
black, one-haf the time, zeal, will, perso-
nal attention, personal effort and perso-
nal insercession which he has bestowed
upon his attempt to obtain half an
island in the Caribbean sea, our Southern
Ku-Klux would have existed In name only,
while tranquility would have reigned every
where within our borders" General applause
in the galleries aud \hisses.l The Vlce-Presi-
dent said: stThe chair cannot consent that there
shall be manifestations OF applause, or dlsap-
prevail In the galleries, and he reprehends one
as promptly as the other. If they are repeated,
the chair must enforce the order of the SEN
ate.o Summer proceeded: SNOW, as destre
The suppression Of the Ku-Klux wherever 1t
shows itself, and the elevation of the Ari-
can race, insist that the preside9tai
scheme, which instalh the Ku-Kluxf ton
the coasts of St. Domingo, and which, at
the same time, insults the African race IN
the black republic, shall be rejected. speak
now of that Ku-Kux of which the President
ia the declared head, and speak for the African
race, whom the President has trampled down.
Is there any senator in earnest against the
Ku-Rlux? Let him arrest 1t on the coast OF
st. Domingo. Is there any senator ready, at
all times, to seek the elevation of the African
race Here Is the occasion for bis best
efforts"
The House Ku-Klux committee, to whom
the Presidents message was referred, had two
Important meetings to-day. -
The subscription to the new loan is forty
millions. Collector Balley's defalcation is
sl32, 900.
IN IMPORTANT DECISION.
IN the case of Giniers Vs. Campbell, d7om
the Circuit Court Of Louisiana, the Supreme
Court affirms the decree Of the court below,
sustaining contract of a promlssory note of
which the consideration was the price, OF
slaves purchased before the war.
-. THE CENSUS.
The census returns present an Increase In
the Lumber OF farms in. Alabama Of % per
cent, Arkansas per cent, Florida so per
cent, Georgia per cent, Kentucky IS per
cent, Louisiana as per cent, Mississippi ~
per cent, Missouri IS per cent, North Caroli-
ma 81 per cent, Tennessee 43 per cent, Vt-
giuia ls per cent. massachusetts, shows loss
of 26 per cent, New Hamphire 2 per cent,
Texas aud South Carolina. not made up. The
per cent. of increase OF establishments Of
productive Industry is: Alabama AZ per cent,
Arkansas 76 per cent, Florl,.a 2sS per cent,
Georgia 81 per cent, Louisiana l42 per cent,
Mississippi At pr cent, Missouri 242 per cent,
North Carolina per cent, tennessee LOG per
cent, Virginia As per cent Texas and South
Carolina not made up.