Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1871-03-24
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tFrom the n. Y. Tribune.l
Mr.. Summers failings at once arrest
attention. A dogmatic temper, which
renders him impatient of contradiction
and unable readily to comprehend that
another may differ widely from him and
| yet be honest; a stateliness of manner
which distances him from all but the
few; an honest but somewhat too man.
fest pride IN his position and his we'll
earned fame-these exhaust the cata-
iogue; and whose faults are fewer or less
grave On the other hand. are an eye
50 single, heart so pure. career so
/ spotless. that the most ribald and hcen-
tious press that everimPeded the progress
of civilization has never vet dared to
Impeach the purity of his motives or the
| loftness of his aims. In an age when
/ nearly every public man is accused of
venality-often most unjustly-no one
has even ventured to suggest or insinuate
/ that Charles Sumner ever gave a vote or
made motion in difference to any sor-
did impulse, or in the expectation that
his always modest income would thereby
be increased The most reckless and
scunilous Democratic partisan orator.
while abusing Mr.. Sumner without
scruple or stint, under the stimulus of
4pplauding yells. would have instantly
chez ked the flow of his hearers enthusi-
tsm had he ventured to assail the integ-
rity and moral worth of him whom they
III detested as a fanatic and deadly
Toe to the integrity and perPetuity of our
| Union.
After all fair deductions and qualifca-
ions have been made, Mr.. Summer
.tands to- day the foremost American
senator. Say, if you will. that he has
leen needlessly harsh and bitter in his
opposition TO Santo Domingo-that he
might have strenuously, forcibly resisted
innexarion without making a personal
issue with our mild-mannered President
md his most urbane Secretary Of State
that emitting his speech against An
nexation ''NabOth's Vineyard" was ex-
cessively severe and Offensive-what
does all this amount to but that he might
better be somebody else, andinot Charles
sumner In this world Of limitations
and impei fections, It seems wiser TO
value every one according to the good
We find in him, and not exacI of each
he possession and display of every con
eeivable excellence.
From rhe Pittsburgh COmmereiaI.l
Almost without exception the Repub-
/ tican press of standing and influence in
Jerpret the New Hampshire election as
d pointed rebuke Of the Senate and Ex-
ecullve for their treatment Of Senator
summer. Il is clear now that there must
be change of policy. No adminIstra-
ton that substitutes Simon Cameron for
Charles Sumner can expect to carry
elections. Cameron never vet carried
anything with the people. Whatever
success he has achieved has been with
money. 1t was ad enough to put
Charles Summer down, but infinitely
worse to put Simon Cameron up. AS
between the two, and concerning the
proceeding in every light. New Hamp-
shire has spoken. Have Mr.. Cameron
and his supporters heard the news
tFrom Harpei's weekIy.l
The amazing reason for his removal.
stated IN The Senate by the. chairman of
| the caucus committee, was the unfrlend
| ly E5s7 S01t4lk, not off lal, relations between
/ the Senator and the President And
the Senate sustained the pretext No
reason was offered 10 show, if un.riend-
/ ly relations existed, that the Senator was
20 blame. Ii was not even suggested
| that ID the Senator had privately spoken
harshly of the President, one of the
President s Confidential friends and sec
retariss had, IN an article in the Galaxy,
publicly charged the Senator with false
| hood. Il was hot even alleged that in
his public criticisms the Senator had
misrepresented the action of the Presi-
dent. The personal relations between
/ them were unfriendly, and therefore the
i Senator must lose ms place at the head
of the Foreign Committee. How long is
/ il since the Senate was unwilling that
the President should remove his own
Cabinet advisers at his pleasure? Is it
now willing that he should name the
chairman Of its own committees
The President came into his office
pledged TO have no policy of his own
Yet Republican Senate is willing to
make unfriendly personal relations with
the President, growing out of difference
of opinion upon measure which is not
a patty policy, and for which the coun-
Try has not asked, the excuse for con
senting to the humiliation of a RepubIi-
can statesman of unsurpassed ability,
experience and spotless character, whose
long and honorable career is identified
with the greatest glories of the country
and the party. The Senate declares
that friendly personal relations with the
President shall be the tenure of its high
est positions. Then the President has
but to interrupt personal relations with a
Senator, and he loses his place at the
head Cf a committee And this. al
though upon the subject involved in this
difference the Senate is constitutiOnally
the peer OF the President The Senate
of the United States has forgotten its
own dignity and responsibility. In re
moving Senator Sumner for the reason:
stated by the committee, which Il sus
tanned, il has been guilty Of what car
only be called servility. Aa
From The. Toledo Blade.l %
The question is: Can the Republican
party afford to set its condemning branC
upon courageous and independent
Senator for daring to set his face agains
i scheme of plumber, in the track O
which must follow large increase O
our expenses, the expenditure Of vas
J. sums Of money, and in all probability ;
Y war with Hayti? Dare we inaugural
:. the policy that President has a right /,
make support Of the measures which b.
favors a test Of party fealty Must Re
3. publicans give.uP. their right to judg
for themselves Of measures not embraces
in our party platform Can we affor
3 to override the conscientious judgment
of our best men in this manner