The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-13
Summers Speech.
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riddles the policy q the Presidmt
1t seems to have drawn together one Of
the largest Audiences assembled in
the Senate Chamber. The pressure was
so great that the ladies were admitted TO
the Senate Hobbies. The sympathy of
the Immense a of hearers was with
the Great Gained; The Vice President
had to repress the applause, And the
power of the huge speech has been tes-
titled to in the unusual fact of its expen-
siye transmission over the country en-
tire by telegraph.
"The points made by Sumner, are
ably sustained by copious quotations
from high authorities of international
law, while statements of facts arc sup
ported %conclusively by official docu-
ments.
Nh. Sumner shows hat Grant order
cd our navy to San Domingo and main
tanned Baez, the President of hat re-
public, in his revolt from the govern
ment of Hayti-San Domingo and Hayti
being at war. Summer claims that Baez
is a usurpor, and hat Grants navy was
o standing menace to Hayti, in favor Of
BaeZ, in violation of international law.
He quotes the instruction to Rear Admi-
raj Poor to threaten Hayti with war, il
it made any Interference with San Do.
mingo. Baez wished to sell San Do
mingo to the United States, and lie,
though a usurper, was upheld in this
project by our navy, while the neighboi
Republic of Hayti was menaced with
war if she interrered.
Sumner, therefore, charges the Grant
Administration, with having violated the
equality of nations and perpetratsd bel,
ligerant intervention in utter infraction
OF binding international law. He fur
Their charges that Grant, in thus using
the war-power without authority of the
act of Congress, has been guilty of usur-
patton himself.
To sum up, the interminable, but ar
~gumentative and, in this case, correct
Charles, puts the case strongly, by say,
ing that our Republic has forcibly main,
tanned a usurper in power that he might
sell his country has dealt a blow ut the
independence Of the black Republic Of
Hayti, which, besides being a wrong to
that Republic, was, in the irate Ian.
guage of the exasperated negropholists,
IN insult to the African race. And Ill
this has been done by Executive usupa-
ton.
Sumner appeals to Grant to make
peace between Hayti and Domingo.
In this connection, Sumner uses two
expressions that are II little remarkable,
in fact, we may ~truthfully say, are very
remarkable indeed, and which rebound
on Summer 50 hard, which rip the very
hide off of him so thoroughly, which
contain a rebuke to himself for his past
course towards the South, SO scathing,
that we wonder he never choked as they
fell from his lips.
In the opening Of his speech, among
the reasons that he gives for looking into
this heinCus case, he says it is for "the
sake Of Republican institutions, which
suffer when the Republic makes Itself
a pattern Of violence"
All, thou hypocrite! It neve occur
ed to this apostle of Africa, to heed the
voice OF humanity when the great Re-
public made itself a pattern of violence
to the subbued South. No more venom
Gus partisan has voted consistently and
un~Eearyingly for violence to the South,
than this same pieader for kindness to u
strange island of mi-barbarians.
But the next remarkable expression is
the following appeal to Grant /:
He that ruleth his spirit, is greater
than lie that taketh a city, and so the Presi-
dent, ruling his spirit in subsection to
the human principles of international
law and the Constitution Of his country,
will be greater than if he had taken al
the islands Of the sea.
It is late in the day for this acrid
champion Of q revolutionary and uncon-
stitntional, q barbarons and inhumane
reconstruction, to be recalling the Pres
ident to the benign influence of law and
the Constitution, when he has been one
OF the most relentless and savage advo-
Gates Of numberlsss acts of deyiltry to
the South outside of all law, humanity,