Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-09-09
Mr.. Garrison on Mr.. Summers
Last Appeal.

journal from Mr.. Garrison reviewing and
criticising Mr.. Summers last political pro.
duction. 1t is caustic. whitening and as
unanswerable as his first letter. He sug-
gests that since Mr.. Sumner has assumed
an independence of party and new polti-
cal relations, it would be to his credit to
tender his resignation as Senator and allow
the people Of Massachusetts chance to
express their opinion as to his represent
ing them longer in the Senate He shows
that Mr. Sumner is guilty of deception in
claiming still to be republican. The
party with which he acts is literal repub-
licar and not republican, a new name and
new party. He says:
Again Mr.. Sumner mistates the fact
when he characterizes the motley gathering
at Cincinnati as republican convention. He
knows that it was called and held as a liberal
republican convention. lie knows perfectly
well, too that in no sense and to no apprecia-
Bile extent did it represent the republican par
| ty. 1t was an irresponsible body; it had no
! delegates and no constituency; it was COM
posed of individuals brought together con
their own hook and having no more strength
| in and Of themselves than rope of sand. In
no part of the country did the friends of the
| Cincinnati movement dare to call IA republi-
can meeting, In due form, for the purpose of
choosing delegates to it; they knew if they
did so, they would be promptly voted down.
| On the other hand the republican party
| which Mr.. Sumner has ithsir" sustained,
and to which he owes his Senatorial position
for so long period, was represented in full
strength at the Philadelphia convention, every
State and Territory sending its quota of dele
gates duly appointed by the primary meetings
summoned in accordance with party usages.
Yet Mr.. Sumner chooses to condemn the lat.
ter as worthy of no consideration, and to
give endorsement to the Cincinnati ollapodrida
as the veritable republican convention, rep
resenting the republican party of the United
n States! This is indeed to call evil good and
j., good evil, to put darkness for light and light
tor darkness, TO put bitter for sw eet and sweet
= for bitter. Such perverson indicates a seri
Gus disturbance of mind, a loss of self con.
i troll, and blindness of vision greatly to be
deplored.
In relation to the charges made against
the President, which form the staple OF
the most of the liberal republican cam
paign speeches, Mr.. Garrison says:
t For the third or fourth time Mr.. Sumner
taking" "St. Domingo" insult to the colored
{ race, military usurpaton, &c. &c., in deroga
ton of President Grant, just as though they
were fresh indictment. Their repetition has
become tresome, and therefore requires no
attention. Originally timed to influence the
Philadelphia convention, they were promptly
and crushingly answered by that august body
in the unanimous nomination of Ulysses S.
r Grant for reelection to the Presidency, amid
laundering acclamations They have been
answered by the local sentiment of the South
IS far as it has found scope for utterance.
They have been answered by the inhexible
adhesion Of the colored people North and
South, to the republican cause and its candi-
date. They have been answered by similar
: adherence of the great body of the early and
long tried abolitonists. They have been an
swered by the result of the election in North
: Carolina, over which the mistaken New York
Tribune was at first wildly jubilant. They
, have been answered by the republican yeo-
q manry OF Vermont in manner worthy of the
State whose star never sets. They are soon
y to be answered as effectively by the patriotic
people of Maine; and still later, by the
American people, whose sutfrages will be
V overwhelmingly cast for the man most hated
and feared by all that is disloyal in heart and
factious in spirit in the land; and under
whose administration we have reached a
height of national security and prosperity, in
spite of the most formidable difficulties ney.
, er attained before.