The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-05-05

ed the delivery of his notorious attack upon
President General Grants Santo Domingo
jobbery. That Mr.. Sumner justly arraigned
the President, So far as Jobbery was con-
cerned, may be trues but it is equally true
that the crazy and splendiferous rubbish was
we'll calculated, in some respects, to invite
sthe reign OF loafers, blackguards and vis-
.sionaries." In that San Domingo speech
Senator Sumner begged ever so sesqulpeda-
lianly that the election about to occur in
that monsrel island should be absolutely
free. He likewise collaterally denounced
the presence of soldiers at the polls. The
burden OF that speech was, in brief, in
its better aspects, a ponderous protest
against usurpation OF power on the part OF
the President, so far as it touched the case
of horde of negroes and mulattoes in for
egn island. So much was the bile OF Sum-
ner stirred that he did not hesitate to apply
to the Executive nickname which must
have been CALLING insult, viz: 'The head OF
sthe San Domingo Ku-Klux!" But after Mr.
Summers beautiful theories in behalf OF alien
negroes were expended, how did he imme-
diately afterward act when his own white
countrymen were at the bar Of the Senate?
he acted as Radicalism ever acts when the
visionary fanatic is beset by the plunderer
and the knave who have risen upon the
revolutionary wave to the solid land of domi-
nance and empire. Mr.. Sumner exCorlated
the Force Bill when it threatened an island
in the Caribbean Sea tenanted by a rabble OF
blacks. But Mr.. Sumner praised Force Bill,
thousand-fold worse which menaced the
happiness, the honor, the lives, the property
and liberties of the people Of the United States,
North as well as South. Mr.. Sumner lasbed
the President General for a feeble usurpation
of power, in the one case; but Mr.. Sumner
was eager to confer unlimited despotic
authority on the same dangerous man,
in the other case. Mr.. Sumner deemed it a
horrible atrocity that our war ships Should
even hint at battering down few negro
shanties; but Mr.. Sumner actually exults in
demolishing the organic law and civic free
dom in America. MIR. Sumner fairly howls
at disturbing the nurity of the ballot in San
Domingo; but Mr.. Summer deliberately
clothes our 'ssmoky Caesar" with power to
re-elect himself military as well as civic die
tator, by the utter suppression OF the popu-
lar will. Mr.. Sumner bleeds at every pore
when the presence OF armed mercenaries is
possible at the polling booths OF San Domin-
go; but NJ. Sumner would make every vo-
ting precinct in this so-called Republic q
fence Of bayonets. Mr.. Sumner deemed
Grant the 'head of San Domingo Ku-Klux, J"
and, as such, believed him fit for the halter;
but Mr.. Sumner has helped constitute this
very man very grand Cyclops against the
lives and liberties OF millions Of his country
men, and as such pronounces him worthy Of
o diadem. Verify, the COLOSSUS OF igno-
trance" clad in mail, has triumphed i'm
measurably over the COLOSSUS OF gas" girt
about with frothy verbiage, self-conceit and
hdeous paradoxies.
II this is picture OF Mr.. Sumner, a frag-
ment of Radicalism, how can Radicalism in
its entirety be ever portrayed in all its terri
BILE deformity?
Is the American Commune, then, any bet
ter or more consistent than the French mons
frosty? Is it not incalculably more horrible
If the French Commune is justly warred
upon, what is there in the American mon
sler which saves it from assault? In France,
circumstances made it necessary that blood
should flow. No such necessity, thank
God, is found in America. There must be
war indeed upon on, Commune, but it must
be war of public opinion at the balot-box.
The freeborn citizens of this country are not
yet ready for chains and slavery. In spite
of the Radical party and it's ku-KluX bill, our
liberty can be reganed. By the peaceful
method of the ballot must we conquer at
last; for, to quote the words OF true phi
losopher and patriot, 'let enthusiasts say
"what they will, however fondly we may
"cherlsl our ideals of freedom, we must yet
"bear in mind the wholesome wholesale
truth of history that 10 actual liberty is
reached by the dagger, or by massacre, or
's founded on bad blood or bad. faith. -