Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-06-06
speech of rEr. summer.
Senator Sumner delivered the follow
ng sneech in the Senate, on Friday:


ing speech in the Senate, on Friday:
He opened his speech with the an.
nouncement that he was q member or
the republican party, and one OF the
straightest of the sect. lie had never
failed to sustain its candidates and adj
vance its principles. Not without re-
gret could he see it suffer, nor without
Dang could he see it changed from It's
original character, for such change is It's
death. Therefore he asked with no com
mon feeling that the spirit which men
aces it may pass away. He stood by its
cradle, and was not willing to follow It's
hearse. He then proceeded to detail the
rise and progress of the party, and his
connection with it, as party necessary
and permanent, and always on an as
cending plane But alas, how changed
Once principle was inscribed on It's VIC
tOriouS banners, and not a name only.
1t is not difficult to indicate when the
disastrous change, eXalting the will OF
one man above all else, became manifest.
Already it had begun to show itself IN
personal pTetensions, when suddenly the
President elected by the republican par
~ prccipitated upon the country an i'll
considered and ill-omened scheme for
iii" annexation of a portion OF San Do
ming0. in pursuance of a treaty negOti-
ated by one of his own household. 1t
was pressed for months by every means
and appliance OF power. Reluctant SEN
ators were subdued to its support, while
treading under foot the constitution In
one of its most distinctive republican
principles The President seized the
war powers of the nation, instituted for
eIgn Intervention. and capped the climax
of usurpatiOn by menace of violence to
/ the black republic of Hayti, thus adding
manifest outrage Of international law to
manifest outrage Of the constitution. lie
would gladly leave this matter to the
/ Judgment Of the people, as it is already
put in issue again by extraordinary Ell
/ forts TO place its author for second
/ term as President and as silence gives
/ consent, all these efforts are his efforts
+ 1t hrs become more noteworthy when 1t
/ is considered the name of the candidate
/ has become a sign of discOrd, dividing
/ instead of uniting the Republican party
/ Let the party split, says the President.
/ | will not rcnOunce my chance OF sec
! Ond term. On what meat does this our
/ Caesar feed, that he should assume so
/ much. No honor for victory in war can
Justify disObedience to the constitution
and the law, nor can it afford the least
/ apology for any personal immunity
privilege or license in the Presidential
office. 4 President must turn into a
. King before it can be said of him that
I he can do no wrong. He is responsible
/ always. As President he is the foremost
servant of the law, bound to obey its
! sl;rhtest mandate. As the elect of the
H. L. Of
willing Obedience but also of fidelity
ard intimacy in the discharge of his con-
SnicuouS office. with an abnegation of
all self. seeking nothing for self, but
all for the country. And now as we
regard the career of this candidate we
find. TO our amazement. how little it ac-
cords with the simple requirement.
Bring it to the t0uch-stOne and it falls
/ Not only are constitution and law dis
REGARDED but the presidential Office is
tryatcd as little more than a plaything
and "A porQui-ite When not the former
then the latter Here the details are
ample showing how from the beginning
. His exalted trust has dropped to be a
( personal indulgence, where palace cars,
. fast horses and seaside loiterings figure
more than duties. How personal aims
and objects shall have been more pro-
niinont than the public interests How
I the presidential office has been used to
| advance his own family on scale of
nepotism. dwarfing everything of the
kind in our history and hardly equalled
in the corrupt Governments where this
/ abuse has most prevailed. How in the
/ same enirit. office has been conferred
un0n those from whom he had received
/ riftC 0r- benefits fins maxine the conn