The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-06-07
sCHuRz ASD SUMNER.


MINER the next day, each made q 4
g effort In the United States-Sen- c,
C TO cast reproach upon the adj \
The text of Sehurz
Tas the majority report of the Arms
He reviewed in detail
he report and the evidences on the
ubject and argued that violation
Il the United States statutes and
law were fully estAb-
ished and that the report of the
of the committee was con-
.rary to the evidence in the case.
He repeated with indignation the
cast upon him and sum-
ner by the report, and asserted that
they had acted throughout from a
sense of duty as American Senator'S,
and predicted as one of the results
of their action that in this genera
ton no other administration would
dare to commit such violations of
law as were committed in these sales
OF arms. He said there were many
evidences of an attempt to set up
one strong will against the govern
ment of this country, but he rejoic-
ed to see q spirit sweeping over the
laAd which aimed to depose this
autocratic power, and he earnestly
hoped for the union OF all the forces
that ought to work together to give
that redeeming spirit the victory
which it must win If free institu-
lions were to last. This attempt of
Mr.. Schurz to "set up one strong
will as the government of this
country" in opposition to the ma
jority will not work, nor deceive
the people. The soyereigns of the
country have been informed that
the attempt made by the unfortu'
nate German Senator TO implicate
the administration in a fraudulent
sale of arms, proved failure, thai
not a shadow of evidence was clio
tied 10 implicate the President in al
abuse of his position, as Schura
sought to prove, but that the Presi
. dent was exonerated from all blame
and the government exculpated en-
tirely from the imputation of vic
lating any international law. ii
fully, too, was this done that boil
Schurz and Sumner have lowered
themselves in the esteem of tn
whole country by their insisting up
on the charges as true after full
and fair investigation by a commit
tee composed of friends and foes o
the President.
The speech of Sumner was aimed
, mainly, at President Grant, who
j. the Senator said, was gift-takel
nepotist, and a failure, whose gov
n eminent was personal one whic
: commanded no respect at home no
g abroad, that it had done nothing t
d commend it to the country, that ii
reduction of the public debt did nc
: deserve as much credit as that G
o A. johnson, that it was false to tn
: colored people and failure so ia
d as it had anything to do with recon
structioD, while it's foreign policy
of which it had attempted to boas
was the most disgraceful middle {
, the age. He likened Grant to tn
> most infamous rulers in history
:. such as George III, Louis y, an
Louis Napoleon, termed him a
ambitious Cesar, and what ha
Il been claimed as creditable to tn
10 administration, such as reduction
d the debt and suppression of the Ku
s Klux, he attributed to the America
It people and to Congress. The speec
Re closed with an address in the natur
of an appeal to the Philadelphia
q convention to unite the Republica
AZ party by nominating some otht
N candidate than Grant. He awaite'
Al he said, the action of the ConyeI
+ ton.
Is Such charges would be very ser
o Gus to contemplate if they wei
l. supported by facts, but in II
face of the we'll known trutl
% and the intelligence of the MIN
II teenth century, they only serve
show the malice and littleness of Il
: men (reputed greaD who promu
gate them. 1t is sad to look upo
= men who have stood high in publ
. esteem, who have been accounte
sagacious statesmen, shrewd dipl'
matists, and the wisest and mo
, brilliant of living public servant
forgetful of their fame and publ
confidence, losing their tempers al
kicking and struggling against 8
enlightened public sentiment to d
fend their own errors--errors whic
r. but for their own persistence in d
a Tending and the malice they betri
towards those whom they have fai
ed to fasten their charges of CORFU
ton upon, an admiring poop
d would readily forgive and possib
t. foget. Mr.. Sumner ought to
n able to see that no such sweepiI
declarations as those we have quo
ed above cen obtain credence amor
z the educated masses, and if thel
l. was not a decay of coDsciol
% strength within him he would NJ
II be led into such exhibitions of Sc
fishness, spleen and misrepresent
ton.