Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1872-08-03

II would require more OF our space than
we can spare for topic which only three
days has almost rendered stale, to notice any
further the Misrepresentation, falsehoods,
and cowsrdIy indueudocs Of Summers last
letter. but therepfe somb so glazing that We
cannot refrain from touching upon them.
Tho souorous senator Gays NJ am for peace
In reality as well as In name" Asa proof Of
his sincerity he has filled his letter with the
essence Of venom and malice, aud, by his own
course, Invites discOrd aud dissenslon among
tho very class Of American citizens who con-
guerci peace, and who compose the only
party which can maintain Il. lie says again;
IL am against the policy Of hate. I am
against tanning ancient lanes into continued
life. am against raklug In the ashes Of the
past for Goals Of fire yet burning" Was this
the Senator'S feeling WHOM he so furiously
Insisted upon the impeachment Of Andrew
johnson for bis efforts In trying TO establish
principles Of peace and fraternal good wilt,
and who acted under the aid aud support Of
Mr. Summers recent and latest comrades
descendants Of the same Democrats who hrst
sent him to the Senator
Was not his hatred Of johnson because be
cared more for his special hobby colorod
raoe-th than for the whlle race ID? Where was
Gen. Grant at that timer Was he In favor
Of johnson, whose supporters arc now the
fast friends Of Senator sumuor1 On the
contrary We believe that he and Edwin NJ.
Stanton were quite efficient In defeating the
sinister desigus Of tho aforesaid Andrew
johnson. The era OF peace and good win
Is Just as likely TO come out Of the adminis-
ton OF Horace Greeley with his Ku-KluN
supporters as Il was out Of JohnsoD's admin
istration with the same adhereuts. Again,
the Democrats and all the leading spirits of
the Cincinnati and especially the Baltimore
convention, have f6r sthe last six years,
frantleally asserted that the discord and hos
tillty In the South was due to thc passage Of
the Ru-Klux bills, tho civil rights bills aud
all that class of legislatlOn OF which Mr.
sumner was persistent aud determined
supporter. How Is he, with that record, TO
look his Democratic colleagues in the face
and hold them TO all the covenants solemuly
given in the adoption Of a Republican plat
form, with Horace Greeley as candidate ?"
What a tissue Of Rbsurdlties Is this silly para
graph Republican platform /" That was
made at Philadelphia. 81 hold II TO all the
covenants" Oh, yes! The great ], Charles
Sumner, is going to control some millions
Of men, (moro In number than Gen. Grant
ever had In all his armies, both thoso that he
led and those that he conquered who have
hated and desplsod him all his life. Could
the insanity Of diseased and selfish vanity
further go towards sheer nsanity2
Then again, II Grant has incurred the ha-
tired Of the South, Is Ii not because Of bis
executing the very laws passed by Congress
and advocated by the formidable persistency
and elOquence of Senator Summer, (although
4 he did lose one measure by lying In bed while
other Senators were busy at work p Presl,
dent Grant had nothing TO do with tho
passage Of thOselaws, eroepi TO dpproUe them
The Senator says President Grant has never
uttered awOrd Of encouragement for the col
ored people, or those who were laboring foI
their rights. While this Is a base falsehood
isit not enough that the President has cor.
daily approved the various acts Of Cougrcs,
looking towards the AmeliOration Of the con.
dition Of the colored people, and has never
vetoed one Of them7 II he had followed the
arguments Of Mr.. Summers present adorers
he might have found constitutional objections
In plenty, as Andrew johnson did, aud in the
present Congress there was no tpo-thiTds ma.
joriiyJto carry DE bills oUer his Ueto. Il
President Grant has such bitter hatred Of
the colsred people as Mr.. sumner says he
has, why did he not take advantage Of this
opportunity and veto Mr. Summers own pct
measures, shielding himself under the pro.
found constitutional arguments Of Mr.. Sum
ner's present admirers and bed -fellows?
II is idle 10 follow up and contradict all III,
abSurdities of this remarkable and timely
publication. Its eonundrumS can Only be
solved by one common answer 'lnsligated
by vanity, envy and hate" The learned
Senators falling mind shows Itself In his
false rhetoric, as well as elsewhere. He says
The hArdihood of political falsehood reaches
Its extreme point when 1t Is asserted thai
under Horace Greeley the freedmen will be
re-enslaved &c. This Is not "falsehoOd.
Il Is a prediction. which may or may not turn
out 10 DO false. For genuine Out-and-out
political fAlsehoods see Charles Summers late
speeches and letters.