Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-06-06
Senator Hogan and and President.
THE FIRST EFFECT OF Mr.. SUMNER s
elbow FOR REVENGE MANLY PRO-
TEST FROM A BRAVE SOLDIER.

elbow FOR REVENGE "A MANLY PRO-
TEST FROM A BRAVE SOLDIER.
In the Senate, ON Saturday, Senator
Logan thus referred to Mr.. Summers
ESSAY on the PRESIDENT
am not surprised at the exhibition of
virtue made by Democratic Senators. or
at their anxiety to adjourn now, after
the Senate has listened to deliberate,
malignant and cruel attack put forth in
their interest, and the benefit of which
they expect to receive. Well may the
Senators on that side be satisfied with
what has been done. Wei may they
say they desire to cease the public bust
ness and return home, now that this at
tack has been prepared and put forth
for their benefit-better prepared, better
delivered, and put before the country in
better shape then either of them, in my
Judgment, is capable of doing it. Your
side of the case has been made, gentle
men, and made by Senators claiming to
be on this side of the Chamber. | came
here this morning determined to defend
in my feeble way. an old soldier with
whom | was in camp for years, but l
saw that the pressure of public business
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would be accused of interfering with it,
and making a called session necessary,
and therefore | refrained and now
say that if adjournment must take place
on Monday, and if a called session is to
result, it cannot be laid at the door of
the friends of the Administrations
Republicans in this Chamber 1t cannot
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DESTROYS of performing their duties here
without wasting time in political discus
sions But it can be laid at the door of
the two Senators who, night after night,
have been studiously preparing attacks
upon the Administration, and upon one
of the organized committees of this
body. 1t is no harm, however, if the
| result be that a called session shall be
brought about by their action. | pre-
sumo they are responsible, at this time,
to nobody, and hence no one is affected
by it. They can take the responsibility,
and am willing that they shall take it.
A BRUTAL, VILE AND MALIGNANT ATTACK
But, if the session should be extended
| viii at the proper time, in my feeble
way, attempt a defense against one of
the most malignant assaults ever made
against an honest man. The assault
made here yesterday against the Presi-
dent of the United States applause in
the galleries such an assault was fit
ted, not for the Senate Chamber nor for
the lower branch of Congress--it was
fitted for no deliberatiye body on earth.
1t was fit only for the hastings, and it
should have been uttered only from the
lips of some stump orator who knew not
the cOurtesies or decencies of the Senate
Chamber An attack so brutal, so vile,
so malignant should never have been
made except after cool, calm prepare
ton, and then only by man calculated
to make such an attack. | intend to
defend the President of the United States
against it. | may be forced to do it on
the stump, but | assure you, Sir, that |
will do it and / will defend him, not
because ] indorse everything that has
been done by this Administration, but
because believe that an attack Of this
kind is intended to destroy him with the
people of this country. whose liberties
have been saved by his own strong arm,
which, in the van of the loyalists of the
land, severed the chains of slavery and
preserved the Union-a thing that all
the silvery words uttered by the tongue
Of the Senator from Massachusetts, (Mr
Sumner) never effected and never could
effect.
SUMMERS ESSAY" ACCURATELY DE-
sCRIBED.
This attack has been made upon a
man to whom the country is more in
debted than any other. He has short
conings, perhaps, like other men, but
he is entitled to much. He is entitled
to the gratitude of the people; he is en-
titled to be defended at their hands, he
is entitled to be justified in all things
that are right; he is entitled to be secure
from aspersion, from utilization, from
Justification, and from SANDER. TSub-
dued applause in the galleries And
tell the Senator from Massachusetts.
now, that he will find a response to that
malignant speech in every cruteh that
aids wounded soldier to wend his way
through the world, in every wooden
arm, in the grieved heart of every wild
owed mother mourning for her patriot
son. In these, and in the hearts of all
the loyal people of this country, he will
find a response that will overwhelm him
and all his oratory. All these will speak
in thunder tones in defense of one of
the most gallant soldiers that ever lived
in any nation on the earth loud APP
plause in the galleries, which was with
difficulty suppressed. This is all shall
say on this subject, because | did not in
tend to occupy much of the time of the
Senate on this occasion but let me say
further to the Senator from Massachu-
sets, that when he prepares a speech
and delivers it here only twenty-four
hours before the expiration of the Sen
ate, if he is not afraid to have it an
swered, he ought to let it appear in the
Globe the next morning | looked in
the Globe this morning for the Senator's
speech in order that might to-day reply
to it, paragraph by paragraph, but It
was not there.
Mr. Sumner--The Senator knows that
am not responsible for that. My de-