New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-06-01

rtoral sovereignty In aforegn rsdiction einpioI es
of the national 20 sustain usurper De ng AZ hcts
OF substance, maintained by an agent calng n,ns sen
of Ulysses Grant PreSde ,at s 2, rhs
play the lobbyist to help the contrvance through S1n
ess then urged by private appsa vroncay employed
by the Presidential lobbyist and finally urged anew IN an
Hes With eSsuTdy IN declaring prospective profits and
with geographical Ignorance. Such in brief, is this
sncb SrraTatoe as to merit the most solemn Judgment
Why the Grand Inquest Of the nation which 81 brought
slept on this congomerate misdemeanor every part OF
which was offensive beyond any technical ofiense
sTousd of nepotism gfttaking officially compensated
and various Presidential preensions beyond al pre-
cedent-all this will be OF the riddles OF American
history to explained only by the extent to which tho
one man power had succeeded in subugating the Gov
''"'" INDIGNrTY TO THE AFRICAN RACE.
Let me confess, Sir that, while at each stage have
felt this tyranny most keenly and never doubted that 1t
ought TO be arrested by impeachment my feelings have
been most stirred by the outrage to Hayt which, be-
sides being wrong to the Black Republic, was an insult
to the colored race not only abroad but here at home
How Chief Magistrate, with four millions OF coored
preRension Did he suppose it would not be known
Did he imagine IL could be hushed In official
Character Of his own conducti The facts are
indsputabe. For more than two generations Hay had
been independent entitled under International law to
equality among nations. and, since emancipation in our
country commended to us as an example OF selfgoyern
ment beng the first in the history OF the African race
and the promise OF the future. And yet our President
in his effort to secure that Naooths vineyard on which
usurper Baeg in power, occupying the harDOrS OF
Dominica with war-shps sent other war-shlps, being
none other than our most powerful MONITOR the Dictator
with the frgate Severn as consor and with yet
other monitors IN their train TO strike at the ndepend
war. Do err IN any way, am not entirely right
African racef AS one who Tor years mas STOOD py inc
side OF this much oppressed people sypathzing always
in their and struggling for them, felt me dow
which the President dealt anu IL became the ino. IN
tolerable from the heartess attempts TO defend IT, Alas
strength OF the great Republic in trampng upon the
representative government OF the African race Alas
that he did the infinite debt of friendship, kind
ness and protection due TO that people so that instead
of monitors and war-shps breathing violence, he had
This outrage followed by incident In which tie
same sentiments were revealed Frederick Douglass;
always agreeable in personal relations, whose only
oense is skin not entirely Caucasian was selected py
the President of the Commissioners TO visit Santo
Domingo and yet his return and almost within sght
of the Executive Mansion he was repealed from the
common table of the mail steamer on the P0o-
mac where the other Commissioners were already
seated and thus through him was the African in
shifted and their equal rights denied but the President
whose commission he had borne, neither dld nor sau
ANYTHING to right this wrong and few days later when
sOn actually forgot the cOored orator whose services
rest After nsulting the Black Republic it is easy to
how natural IL was TO treat with msensiOlhy inc
representative of the African race.
ALL THESE THINGS IN ISSUE now
Here l stay this painful presentment in its various
heads, beginning with nepoism and giit-takhg ouciay
compensated, and ending in the continuance against
santo Domingo with ndgnity TO the African race, not
because it is complete but because it Is enough With
sorrow unspeakabe have made this exposure of pre-
tensions which for the sake of Republican institutions
every good citizen should wish eXpunged from history;
but had alternative The President himself INSISTS
forgotten As candidate for rejection ne invites JUG
ment while partsans acting IN his Dehai MAKE II sosG
faithful Republicans unwilling TO see tneir party IKE
the Presidential Office personal peIqnisite II ms par par
actin gin
In harmony with his own nature 100 tr1y represented
in them There Is no, Tng Tneer OK o9
himself Therefore what they do ana What tney s say
they serve And here is q new manifestation OF that
sovereign egOtsm which no taciturniiy can cover up
and new motive for inquiry into It's perncious lnuu
THE GREAT PRESIDENTIAL QUARRELER.
ANY presentment OF the President would be imperfect
which did show how this ungovernabe personality
breaks forth in quarrel making him the great Pre,iden
tial quaIreer OF history. AS in nepotism, gift
taking officially compensated, and Presidential preten
tons generally here again he is foremost having quar-
relied not only than any other President but more
than all Others together from George Washington 10
himself His own Cabinet the Senate the House
of Representatives, the diplomatic service and the civil
service generally, az Paye Their victims, nearly
party, had helped to make hlu President. Nor have
army officers, his companions III the Held, or even ms
generous paIrOhs, peeI exempt iP 10 NM Ius To
only constant necessary Dut peIPusite oi ONE, 10
quarrel like tending horse Is in his list OF Pres
Shakespeare be fuals, 'Ihis day all quarres die"
~ MIN may be applied those words Of Shakespeare, las
Evidently our President has read the Eleventh
Commandment "a President of the United states shall
of it, listening TO stories from hOrsecars sObblng the
gossip of his military ring dseoursing on imaginary
Cref, and nursing his unjust anger The elect Of forty
millions OF people has no right to quarrel with nyDody
His position is too exalted BE eaapot rs dp
ism, without shock to the deceneies OF life,
without jar to the harmony OF the universe
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might find it in that King of France who, on ascending
remember injuries received as DauI.in Perhaps a
better model still would be Tancred, the acknowledged
type of the perfect Christian knight who disdaned to
speak i'll of whoever might be- even when III had Deen
spoken of himself" our solder President could not err
in following this knghtly example II TINS were TOO
much then at least might we hope th9t he would
TONS that the public service might not be disturbed
OF this be assured In every quarIeai, he Is the
reasonable presumpon especially is he responsible for
its continuance. The President can always choose his
With the arrogance of arms he resents any impeachment
in his path as when, in the Spring of 1870, without
Domingo contrivance The verse OF Juvtna as trans.
lated by Dryden tSatres Ill, AGA, 1863 describes his
Poor me he sights If that be sighting where I
lie o.ly eGdgei aud only bear
Answer or answer not; It's all The same
Another scholarly translator gives to this description
Of the Presidential quarrel another form, which is also
"Ifths, be deemed Quarrel where, Heaven knows,
Across path he snrdes and bids iandi-
bow obsequOus 70 the dread command"
III the latter verse is not entirely in case, some
thing must be pardOned to that liberty III which was
born
Men take their places in history according to their
deeds The fattery OF life is then superseded by the
truthful record and rulers do not escape Judgment.
Louis X. OF France has the designation OF lie Hutin or
"The Quarreer" by which he Is known in the long line
Of French kings. And In the long line OF American
Chief Magistrates has President vndicated for HIM
self the same title. He must II. The French
monarch was younger than our President, but there
are other points I'm his life which not without