The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-06-04


soldiers construction Of the law. ThI
Senator is exceedingly hard on the sol
diers, and on all who served this country
in the late war, but ! apprehend no dan
ger from that source. My fear TOR thI
perpetuity Of our institutions does no
rest on the blunders Of the honest
blunt soldiers. It Is not by these
that the liberties Of nations are over
thrown, but by the efforts Of artful ant
intriguing rascals who have gained The
public ear; artful, designing Jesuits, who
have swept away the foundations OF ireC
institutions while pretending to defend
and maintain them. The liberties O
Rome were not struck down by the mill
tAry usurpation of Cesar, but were finally
overcome by the fittul intrigues of Angus
tus Cesar. If our liberties ever 60 down
they will go under by the manipulations
Of set Of designing and artlul men, who
stand out as models OF republicanism
purer than their fellows.
MIR. CARPENTER then made q long legal
argument, In reply TO Mr.. SCHuRz's arSu.
ment on Friday and in support Of the re-
port.
Mr.. LOGAN followed. He again de,
nounced Summers attack as slanderous
and malignant and without justification
The argument OF Sumner that Grant
having been educated military man
could not be successful as civilian, was
an argument that no one was fit to be a
legislator or executive officer of the gov.
ernment unless he had been educated ex.
pressly for that purpose, like Sumner
himself That doctrine might do for
Massachusetts,, but Grants old soldiers
and the whole people OF the country
would not appreciate It. Senator Sumner
had been before the country as states.
man, and what had he accomplished
compared with what Grant had done!
MIR. LOGAN thought 1t was correct to say
that the statute book bore fewer meas.
ures originated by Sumner than by
any other man claiming to be q
statesman. The fact was that his
statesmanship and greatness consisted in
high sounded phrases, long drawn out,
and sentiments aud quotations from old
books. His history and achievements
were mere generalties, while the tanner
OF Galena had written his history in blood
and 1t would be read as long as men read
anything. MIR. SUMNER had charged the
President with helping his relatives, as II
It were crime, but the fact was that he
(LoaAN) was responsible for some OF the
appointments charged to President Grant,
and the President himself had made iow
appointments ofhis relatives. His father
was appointed postmaster by President
johnson, and when Grant became Presi.
dent, and his aged father was tottering
on the verge OF the grave, asked
to be allowed to retain the office
that gave him support IN his
old age, What man with particle Of
heart in his bosom, could resist such an
appeal, except perhaps the Senator from
Massachusetts. Then there was broth.
er.in.law Of Grants in an important office
in New Orleans, but he was requested to
resign; that the President had paid for
gifts with appointments to Office, was
basely false. It was true the President
had accepted a few gifts, but was it wrong
for man who had done such great
things for his country, to accept gifts from
his grateful countrymen. The charge
Of muddling our foreign relations, was
untounded, there was no muddle with
Spain or Russia, or Cuba, and If there was
any with England, the Senator from Mas.
sachusetts was the party responsible for it.
The statement OF Mr.. SUMNER that Secre-
tary Stanton had told him that Grant
could not govern this country was false,
and he NoGAN) could prove 1t so. Mr..
SUMMER had stated further, that when he
asked Mr.. Stanton why, If he dismissed
Grant, he had spoken in favor of his cleo.
ton, the latter replied that he had spoken
for the Republican party, but had not
mentioned Grants name. Mr.. LOGAN
here read extracts from Mr.. Stanton's
speeches in the campaign Of 1868, made at
Cleveland, at Philadelphia, and in New
York, in which he repeatedly mentioned
Grant by name, saying that the safety of
the country was due to Grant, that it was
an honor 10 vote for Grant. and that the
mistakes and mismanagement charged
upon the Republican party were no re.
proach to Grant, because he was in the
field when they were made, II made at
all; and that the large attendance at q
meeting he was addressing signified that
the people had given judgment in favor
Of Grant.
Mr. CoNKLING read long extract from
a speech made by Stanton at Steuben-
vile, on the 25th Of September, 1868, and
in which he mentioned Grants name re-
peatedly, and said Of him that his capaci-
ty and integrity for civil administration
were equally manifest in our vast terri
tory, and which he appreciated.
The Senate took recess until 7:30.