The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1872-09-18
THE BETTER PART OF VALOR

MIR. sumner has not lOunu IL con-
venient to remain in the country and
participate in the conflict he so valiant
ly provoked. He has gone to Europe,
and will not return before the opening
of Congress; will not be here to vote
for the ticket he has attempted to lead
others to vote for; will not be here to
oppose Grant after spending three
years in getting up false charges against
him; will not even make an attempt |
to carry Massachusetts, for the Liberal
cause, after having led Greeley and
the rest to believe that his influence
there could be depended upon. This
| is fine exempli6cation of the charac-
ter and public services of the man.
All the hard fighting in elections had
to be done by others, while he strntted
about ain-gloriously, jackdaw- like,
in borrowed planes. Cabinet minis
ters, governors and the most illustri-
Gus statesmen of the Republican party
have never shrunk from the severe
and arduous labors of the campaigns.
But Sumner has always played the
J part of Miss Nancy, whose delicate
: nerves would not permit of such exer-
: tion.
, And this is the man who has
I cudgelled his brains for three years
e past to ruin the character and blast
/; the fame of the greatest soldier of the
Republic, the hero of more victories
u than any other commander of the civil
II war. The sufferings and trials of four
y years in the most terrible of wars pass
e for nothing when compared with the
q delicate nervous sufferings of gentle
g man who never shouldered musKet
Ell nor carried a sword who would moi
'e even do election duty, and who hee'
ID ingloriously from a conflict himsel
=, has provoked. His associates in the Lib
IL eral cause will now learn to know anC
Sc estimate the man at his true value
re Just as Grant did. Trumbull, Greele.
40 and Schurz might have kown bette
ul than to trust him, or to 60 off upon
Il side schultz through any advice Of hi
RI. For now that he has got them fairl
); off from the party he has gone to Er
ty rope, left them in the lurch, and ma
or perhaps return to Congress claimin
ar that he is still a Republican, hopln
thereby to regain his standing in Ma
I'm sachusetts.
% % But before he went some one in Ne
,no York asked him whether it was trl
". y. that, when he gave up the portfolio
"l9 &c the Committee on Foreign Relatlo
VI of the Senate, nine treaties were foul
nie therein, which he had received fro
" the State Department, and never la
III before the committee; and he repli
ar- that it was not, thus adding direct a.
noI downright falsehood to his other
aiy fences. For the proof of this fact
aln official and beyond dispute. We ha
ave published the full list of treat
my he had thus suppressed. The old
- of them, that providing for the Me
& III can Claims Commission, had been
-, his hands no less than eighteen mont
tho and never been laid before the CO
n'y' mittee! What reason for this No
'Ise' ing can be clearer. Mr.. Sumner
been opposed to Grant throughout
NJ whole Administration He refused
visit the White House or the st
Department, and consequently rema
C. ed in entire ignorance Of the diplon
,ked ic business of the government. u
.mp. eral Grant laid aside his dignity {
ord. visited. Sumner, and still no headN
fair, could be made. The man was sim
and conspirator, bent on Matching
and to defeat the denomination OF Gr
in a and on fabricating the appearance
{ the an Administration failure. Hence
rtain blocked the entire business Of
APP State Department, and by agitatio
re. the Senate and incessant speech n
oast- ing and getting up false charges
COW. committees of investigation, sough
rop's break down the Administration.
, en- stead of this he has effectually brc
lf.de- down Charles Sumner, who is now
IN, it the list of missing among the vic
and Of the great battle -neid' =" heI
] ,-nfrn a GTEEln1nL II