The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-06-22
Whatd Senator KnOWSAbOut the President,
SUMNER ON GRANT.

Mr.. Sumner opeied his late terrible de
rotation of President Grant iu the United
States Senate with the announcement that
he was member of the Republican party
aud one of the strsighest of the sect. He had
never failed to sustain it's candidates and ad-
vance it's purposes. Not without regret could
he see it suffer, nor without pang could he
see it changed from its original character !;
for such a change is death. Therefore he
hoped with no common feeling. that the
peril which menaces may pass away. He
stood at cradle and was
NOT WILLING TO FOLLOW ITS HEARsE.
Mr. Sumner then proceeded to the details
of the progress of the party and his connec-
ton with it. As party it was necessary
and permanent aud always on the ascending
plane, but, alas how changed Once prin>
cipie was inscribed on its victorious banners,
aud not name only. 1t is rot difficult to
indicate when the disastrous change, exalting
the will of one man above all else, became
manifest Already it had begun to show it,
self in personal pretensions When the
President elected by the Republican
party. he precipitated upon the county an
i'll -consdered and i'll omeued scheme for the
anne tXation of portion of San DomiCgo, in
pursuance of treaty negotiated by one of
his own household. 1t was pressed for
mouths by every means and appliance of
! power. and reluctant Senators were seduced
/ TO its support. While
! TREADING UNDER FOOT THE CONSTITUTION
! in one Of its most distinctive Republican
! principles, the President seized the war pow
ers of the nation. instituted foreign interviews
! tion, and capped the climax of usurpation by
a menace of violence to the black republic of
! Hayti. thus adding the manifest outrage of
| international law to the manifest outrage Of
| the constitution.
Mr. Sumner would gladly leave this matter
to the judgment already recorded were it not
put in issue again by extraordinary efforts
radatory in every line of Office TO place its
| author for a second term in the Presidency.
Since silence gives consent. all these efforts
are his Efforts. They become more notewor>
! thy when it is considered that the name Of
the candidate thus pressed has become a sign
of discord and not concord, dividing instead
Of uniting the Republican party. so that
these extraordinary efforts tend directly to
the disruption Of the party, all of which he
witnesses and again by his silence ratiies. -
Let the party split" says the President,
Il will not renounce my chance of second
| term" The extent Of this personal pressure
and suhordination of parry to the will OF the
! individual compels US to consider his preten>
sions. These, too, are in issue.
| ION WHAT MEAT DOTH THIS OUR CESAR FEED,
that he should assume so much - No honor
for victory in war can justify disobodeuce to
the Constitution and to law, nor can it affo-d
the least apology for any personal immunity,
privilege or license in the Presidential office
A President must turn into a King before it
can be said Of him that he can do no wrong.
He is responsible always as President AS
foremost servant Of law he is bound to obey
Dl5 Iata Az he nlo Al
people, he owes not only the example of will.
| ling obedience. but also of fidelity aud indus
try in the discharge Of his conspicuous office,
with an abre egation of all sefseekiug No
! thing for self, but all for country. And now
as we regard the career of this candidate, we
| find to our amazement how little it accords
with this simple requirement. Not only are
Constitution and law disregarded. but the
Presidential rffice Itself is treated as
LITTLE MoaE THAN A PLAYTHING
! and a perQujsite when not the former, then
he after Here he..details are ample, sh W.
ing how from the beginning this exalted
trust had dropped to be a PEI sonal induIg>
auce, where palace cars. fast horses and seas
side loiteriugs figure more than duties how
personal aims and objects have been more
prominent than public interests; how the
Presidential Office has been used to advance
his own family on a scale of nepotism dwarf
ing everything Of the kind in our history
and scarcely equalled in those corrupt gov
| ernmeuts where this abuse has most prevailed
how in the same spirit Office has been con-
ferred upon those from whom he received
gifts or benefits, thus making the country
repay his personal obIigations-how person.
al devotion to himself, rather than to public
or party service. has been made the standard
| Of fayor-how the vast appointing power,
conferred by the constitution for the general
welfare, has been employed at his will to
promote his schemes. to reward his friends,
| to punish opponents, and to advance his elec-
| ton TO a second term-how all these assump-
tions have matured in personal government,
| sem-miltary in character aud breathing the
military in spirit. being spirit of CeSarism
| or personalism, abhorrent to republican in>
! stitutious W here su5servience to the President
| is the supreme law-how in maintaining this
| subservieuce he has operated by system OF
| combinations having their orbits about him,
! so that,
LIKE THE PLANET SATURN. DE is SURROUND
ED BY RINGS;
nor does the smilitude end here. for his
rings, like the planets. are held in position
! by satelites-how this utterly unrepublican
| Cesarism has mastered the Republican party
and dictated the Presidential will, stalking
into the Senate chamber Itself. while wins
dictive spirit visits good Republicans. who
cannot submit-how the President himself,
unconscious that the President has no right
| to quarrel with anybody, insists upon quar-
| relling until he has become
THE GREAT PREsIDEN TIAL oUARRELLER.
with more quarrels than all other Presidents
together. and all begun and continued by
bimsef-how his personal followers back
him iu quarrels. insult those he insults, and
then not departing from bis spirit cry out
with Shakespeare, er
! We will have rings and things and fine array"
Aud, finally. how the chosen head of the
Republic is known chiefly for Presidential
pretensions, utterly indefepsible in character.
derogatory to the country and full OF evil i'm
| huence, making
PERSONAL OBJECTS A PRIMARY PURSUIT.
! so that nsLead 10;