The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-03
REAL AND SHAM POLITICS.

From the NJ Y. Times.
How much longer are the people going to
stand this perpetual uproar from Republican
Senators over their miserable wrongs and
grievances? When, for instance, will Mr..
Sumrer and Mr.. Schurz make an end of their
lamentations? Every day one or other of
those Senators seems to feel himself under
the obligation which afflicted Eneas-inf fan
dam TenOgdTe dOlCTe11--whereas what people
really want is that they should bring their
wailipgs 10 an end, and come to the plain
matter fact business of the nation. We
appeal to MI. Sumner, as a man of distin
guished abilities. Is it not time that he
summoned up patriotism enough to put
aside his wrongs" whatever they may be,
and think of the perils which lie before his
country? He has now had a good inning
at General Grant, and might give few days
to national questions. He must have noticed
that the growth of a depraved and
utterly unprinoipled section of the Democratic
party is prodigiously rapid. He must have
seen it stretching out its arms from State to
State, and aiming, as it has done before, to
subveIt the National Government itself. Can
be gaze on this phenomenon without the least
interest? Has he no word of encouragement
to offer to Republicans who are endeavoring
to fight with the giant which boasts of its
power to strangle civil liberty, and place q
degraded being called ''Boss" over the nation
instead of President? Granted that Mr..
Sumner has been as ill-used as he aud his
friends assert. Surely a man of high prin-
ciple and character would rise superior to his
own wrongs at a moment like the present,
and use his influence for the preservation of
all that nation of freemen hold dear.
To stand by the wayside and scold may be
effective enough for certain time, but it is
not an occupation adapted to make or pre-
serve the reputation of statesman. If we
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! carefully examine them, what shall we find
attached to the names OF MIR. Sumner and
the rest of the ''irreconcilables What
have they originated except fault-fnding ?
They have neglected all the really great
questions of the day, and wasted their
time and energies on their great bugbear,
San Domingo Take single case. The
condition of the South cannot be deemed
satisfactory by any discerning man. 1t is
not the existence of violent conspiracies here
and there which awakens uneasiness, SO
much as the permanent discomfort which
appears to be settling down upon the people.
! No one can read the very careful abstracts of
! Southern opinion which we have prepared
| and published recently, without perceiyihg
that the South only regrets the RebelliSn be-
! cause it was q failure, and that the sentiments
! now being Dursed within it must, id the natu-
raj course of events, lead to another outbreak
sooner or later. A large section OF the Re
| publican party is practically contesslng that
its Southern policy is failure 1t calls out
now for a general amnesty, in the
teeth of the seditious cries which are being
raised from almost every part OF TIE
| South. The moment seems inoppnseune,
but at least the subject ought to be discussed
| with the gravity which it is well calculated 10
inspire. Now that Thad. Stetens Is no more,
there are few living 9'dth th mno rtbor navo of tha
| noIicv nursned jr relation to the South since
The war than Oharies Sumner. Does he forget
hov tlrT ha VI from chamber to chamber urging
bis PSpublican associates to vote for this
-. nat repressive measure? Does he forget
cow Senator sitter Senator fell under his lash
| because they were not disposed to 60 far
| enough to please him? Some who ventured
! to recommend those conciliatory measures
which Republicans now say we ougnt
| to have adopted, were expelled from the
party. Time seems to have brought the
bulk of the party where these men stood IN
| 1SGG-a barren triumph. Irreparabie MUS
tice has been done to some Others are be-
yond the reach alike of our praise or re-
proaches. They care nothing for the vindl-
! cation of time. And now, with JenersoH
| Davis proclaiming that the cause for which
! the Southern people fought is destined 10
! triumph. we have no inconsiderable section
| of Republicans demanding policy which
would instantly put Jefferson Davis BACK
| into the Senate. Five years have wrought
| great changes.
What is MIR. Summers opinion on these
subjects? We submit that nothing san be
more natural than for us to look fo' some
expression of opinion from the chie} author
of the policy which MIR. Summers owl friends
are now pfoclaimiDg a failure. We have
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