The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-06-14
scathing Arraignment Of the Ad'
ministration by Sumner.
TInmercIful Review Of the Personal and
Political Record Of Grant.
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chusetts, delivered his long.promisec
speech arraigning Mr.. Grant for his SIM
II omission and commission. Our lin
tied space prscludes the publication in
mll OF this mastery and scathing re
view of the corrupt personal govern
ment with which the country is afflicted
We present, however, the pith OF this
very able speech.
Mr.. Sumner opened with the an
nouncement that he was a member Of
the Repubiica party, and proceeded to
review the rise and progress OF the
party, and his connection with it. lie
next alluded to the personal pretensions
of President Grant, his ill-considersd
and i'll .omened scheme for the annex
alton of San Domingo, and his high
handed measures for cavrying into effect
that n efarious scheme, denouncing it as
= manifest violation of the Constitution
and fragrant outrage Of international
law. After stating that the name oil
Grant had become a sign of discord in.
stead of concord-dividing instead Of
uniting the Republican party-Mr.
sumner proceeded:
"Let the party split" says the Pres.
dent; 81 will not renounce the chance
Of a second term" The extent Of this
personal pressure and subordination Of
marty to the will of the individual com.
pel us to consider his p-etensions. "On
what meat doth this, our Cesar, feed
that he should assume so much?" No
honor or victory in the world can justify
disobedience to the Constitution and to
the law, nor can it afford the least
apology for any personal immunity,
privilege, or license in the Presidential
Office. The President must turn into
the King before it can be said of him
that he can do no wrong" He is re-
sponsible always as President. He is
the foremost servant OF the law, bound
to obey its slightest mandate, with an
abrogation OF self, seeking nothing for
self, but everything for the country.
And now, as we regard the career of this
candidate we find to our amazerlent
how little it accords with this simple re.
ouirement. Bring it to the touchstone
and it falls. Not only are Constitution
and law disregarded, but the Presiden.
tial Office is treated a. little more than
q plaything and perquisite-when not
the former the latter. The details are
ample, showing how, from the begin.
ming, this exalted trust has dropped to
be a personal indulgence, where palace
cars, fast horses, and seaside loiterings
figure more than the duties Of office |;
how personal aims and objects have been
more prominent than public interests !;
how the Office of President has been used
to advance his own ia mily on a scale Of
nepotism dwarfing every thing of the
kind in our history, and hardly equalled
in corrupt Governments, where this
abuse has prevailed; how, in the same
spirit, office has been conferred upon
those from whom he had received gifts
or benefits, thus making the country re.
pay his personal obligations how per.
sonal devotion to himself, rather than
the public or party service, has been
made the standard of public favor how
the vast appointing power conferred by
the Constitution, for the general wei.
fare, has been employed at his will, to
promote his schemes, to reward his
friends, to punish his opponents, and to
advance his election to second term !;
how all these assumptions have matured
in personal government, semimilitary
in character, and breathing a military
spirit, being species Of C@sarism or
personalism abhorrent to republican in.
stitutiops, where subservience to the
President is supreme law how, in
maintaining this subservience, he has
operated by q system OF combinations,
having their orbits about him, so that,
like the planet Saturn, he is surrounded
by rings. Nor does the similitude end
here; for his rings, like those Of the
planets, are held in position by the sat.
ELITES; how this utterly unrepublican
C<esarism has mastered the Republican
party, and dictated the Presidential
will, extending into the Senate Cham.
Der itself, while vindictive spirit visits
good Republicans who cannot submit;
how the President himself, unconscious
that the President has no right to quar-
rel with anybody, insists upon quarrel.
ing until he has becsme the great
Residential quarreller, with more quar-.
rels than all other Presidents together,
and all began and continued by him.
self; how his personal followers back
him in quarrels, insult those he insults,
and then, not departing from his spirit,
cry out with Shakespeare, "We will
have rings, and things, and fine array"
and, finally, how the chosen head Of
The Republic is known chiefly for Presi.
DENTAL pretensions utterly indefensible
In character, derogatory to the country,
and full Of evil influence, making per.
sonal Objects a primary pursuit, SO that,
instead of beneRcent presence, he is a
Dad example, through whom republican
institutions suffer and the people learn
wrong. 1t is easy to see that C~sarism,
even in Europe, is at q discount; that
PERSONAL government has been beaten in
that ancient field, and that {" Cesar with
Senate at his heelsn il mot a a. model