Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-03-30
The Vermont Press and the Sumner
Case.
From the Montpelier watchman.l

From the Montpelier Watchman.l
When Mr.. Sumner charged Grant with
opening and leading a "dance of blood
in this Santo Domingo matter, he sscri
feed truth and friendship to ringing
and incisive phrase. With right cause
on his hands, be surrendered it to the
vanity of a singing sarcasm. In this way
be has lost his influence in the Senate
has wounded and offended one after an
other of his colleagues who admire him
and is at last displaced from the con
fidence of the administration and the most
honorable position in the body of which
he was a member, by a large vote of his
political associates. We do not think that
this affair will result dissstrously to the
Republican party. The cause is not suf.
fcient to create division. 1t is purely
personal and not political, and Mr.. Sum.
ner will be the sufferer more than the
party to which be belongs. Nor does the
action of the Senate help the Santo Do.
mingo matter. Already unpopular. il
will diminish the chances of annexation,
for the Senate to pack a committee with
refer ence to it.
From the st. Adams Messenger
Now all we have to say is, let neither
the President be pulled up nor the Sena.
tor cast down. Let neither base any
hopes for the future upon this action.
When we form parties in this country we
form them on principles, not men, and
there are no principles involved in this
little affair worth half the noise it has
made. Mr.. Sumner can still "stick" to
his views about San Domingo and tho
y,an mil cta hxy
cause to change, but at the same time the
Republican party will continue to uphold
its honest and capable Administration
and stand as a perpetual menace to all
who would adopt the old policy of "rule
or RUM
from the Newport Express
We are not of the number who believe
that this removal Of Sumner means the
annexation of San Domingo, or that any
great injury will result to our relations to
other nations on that account. Believing
as we do in the ability and superior states
manship of Senator Sumner, we are vet
foolish enough to believe that we have
many Senators equally well fitted to fill
the position he now vacates. Put Senator
Edmunds there and we think the country
"ouiN 10 Jucb os sdlc as ever. we 90 not
believe in the infallibility of the Pope or
that any one man, be he statesman, divine
or citizen, is so far superior to all others
that none can be found to take and COM
pletely fill bis place.
From the Montpelier Freeman.l
The predictions that are hastily made
in some quarters, as to the consequences
that are to follow, are but the ebulitions
that always, more or less, accompany a
defeat. Whether it is regarded as an
administration triumph" touching the
Santo Domingo annexation scheme, or
the result of other causes, it is not a mat.
ter that need necessarily disturb the har.
mony of great national party, or affect
it's general policy. The two honorable
senator's from Vermont did not think or
vote alike upon the question, but dis.
rupture of the Republican party of this
State is by no means to follow, even
though by direct vote nine tenths of
the party might have expressed wish to
have had Mr.. Sumner retained at the
head Of the committee from which he has
been removed.