The Sumter watchman. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1855-1881, 1871-03-22
SUMMERS PALL--lrS IMPORTANT
slGNIFICATION.

removal from the chairmapship of the
Natioual Committee Of Foreign Affairs
is distinctive, and significant, and
prominent act, Of the now transpiring
political DRAMAS nothing less than
the severance of the superannuated
head of the late dominant, aggressive,
Abolition Radical faction. This promi-
nent, leading, national and international
position had been accorded him, and
ruritanieal New England, because he
was, in an enlarged sense, the embodi-
ment, or representative man, of the
advancing idea Of the abolition of
African-American slavery. This idea
had its local or American origin, in the
Eastern States. The first Abolition
sneaker was heard on New England soil,
and the first decided demonstration Of
repugnance to the teaching was also
there developed, when, now little more
than forty years ago, an apostle of that
school was pelted with rotten eggs in
the town Of Burlington, Vt.
lu this position, South Cardinals
gallant BROOKS gave him pre-eminence
sent him whimpcring in Europe, and
invested him with National (New Eng
land Abolilion) importance. And the
elimination of the idea, in the over
throw Of the opposing force, after long
and bloody and powerful and terrific
appeal to arms, constituted him, in the
midst Of a coDcasenasioo Of uuspicious
circumstances, the great head and front
and soul Of the fanaticism that ruled
the hour and usuTped the powers ofthe
government of our fathers. This posi
tion he continued to mold, with uudis-
pu,ed sway, aud Increasing power, so
long as the advancing column, of which
he was the acknowledged and accepted
leader, was seized with aggressive mo-
mentum. During Andrew Johnsou's
ADMINISTRATION, his will or caprice was
we'll nigh the unchallenged dictun', and,
under hie leadership of the fauaticism
of abolitionism, and the accompanying
swelling tide Of Northern hatred and
gloatiog oppression Of the South, the
| eccupaus Of the Pr:::.ideutial chair be-
cam. . mere pigmy in the haas o.
Congress. Now the occupant of the
same chair, co operating with q sufi-
cient element Of the body be then
cbampioned, de,brones him with more
ease than Andrew johnson was disposed
of, aud the organic or Fundamental
positions involved are we'll nigh diamet-
ricslly reveraed. johnson was de-
throned and put away because he was
the firm official, constitutional, executive
| opposer of unconstitutional. aggressive
Abolition-Radiealism. Sumner is now
deposed and removed from o national
and international position Of represents
.ion and power, because, or when be is
but the neutralized leader of disintegra-
ting Abolition -Radicaiism. Mark the
change! And let the penetrating. phil
osophieal observer Of American politics
draw the conclusions SO clearly deduct
bic therefrom.
Another concurrent point: The
Radical presses Of the North aud South
| lift their voices, and fill the political
atmosphere uhh The elainor of their
disDay, Disappointment, fOreboding aad
| fimprecation. And why sof Thei'
chosen and almost vorshlpe Ieader-be
that had led them to glOss their jealous
|reveDgets and long cherished hatred. over
Eiha ruias efr.ha faiE,6slds Of the South.
lso thss hamslissisu Of their Southern
|breshren, With moral torture hitherto
uspsraIled IN f4s & aanaIa Of civilization
.laaid the tattared skrsds of esnssjssa
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