Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-06-03
Senator Summers Great
Speech.

Speech.
Johnny Logan is reported, BY telegraph,
10 have uttered the following piece Of Bun
OOmbe and clap-trAp, in the Senate, on Sat
urdAy:
/ tell the Senator from Massachusetts that be
Will ina . response TO that malignant speech in
every crutch that aids . wounded soldier in his /
way through the world; In every wooden arm In /
every Erisvsd heart Of every widowed mother
mOurnin ing for her patriotic son; that wall over
Uhelm him aud all his orAtoFy, These will
speak in thunder tones In defense Of one Of the |
most gallant soldiers that ever lived In any
nation on earth.
According to Johnny, then, an inCompe
tent and corrupt SdmiRiStrA.ion ought TO be
perpstuAied because . man was good SOL
der No more transparent piece Of hum
bugery was ever uttered by any densgogue.
Mr. Sumner found no fault with Grant, as
a soldier. On the contrary, be declared him
10 have been a competent and successful
soldier. Here is what Mr.. Sumner said:
The President is a civilian. To compre-
bend the personal Government that has been
installed over US, we must know its author.
His picture is the necessary frontispiece; not
as . soldier, it is TO be borne in mind, but as
. civilian. To appreciate his peculiar char
Aoter as . civilian, it 10 important 10 know
his triumphs Is soldier, for one is the
natural complement Of The other. The sue.
cessfu soldier is rarely changed to the sue
ceSsful civilian. There seems iucompati-
bility between tse two, modified by the e1-
tent 70 which the one has been allowed TO
exclude the other. Always . soldier, one
cannot late IN life become AstAtssmAn. One
AlvAys = civilian, cannot late In lite become
q soldier. In modern Europe few soldiers
have been more conspicuous than Gustavus
Adolphus and Frederick, sometimes called
the Great but we learn that both failed
iguominiouSly in their domestic policy, and
showed themselves as shOrtsighted in the
arts OF peace rs they were sAgsoious in the
arts Of war. The Judgment OF Marlborough
Is pointed. While porlraying him as the
"Greatest conqueror u the age" Hero Of
q hundred fights, NicioE of Blenheim Aud
Romolus," the same philosophical writer
describes him Is q man not only of the most
idle and FRIVOLOUS pursuits, but 80 nissrsbly
ignorant that his deficiency made him the
ridicule OF his contemporaries, while his
politics we're compounded Of selhshnss aud
,rsAohery. Nor was Wellington an eXcep.
ton. Though shining in the field without a
rival, aud remarkable for integrity Of pur-
pose aud untiiuching honesty and high NOR
al feeling, the Couqusror OF Waterloo is
described as Nevertheless utterly unequal
70 the complicated sIigenoiss of political
life Such are the examples Of history.
Each with iT warning. II would be hard to
ind anything IN the native sndosments or
10 the training Of our ohieitain TO make him
m illus,rious exception; al least, nothing Of
this kind is recorded. Was nature more
generous with him than With Marlborough
or Wellington, or was his experience OF life
better preparation than theirs And vet
they failed, except in Wsr. Il 10 not known
that our ohisftAin had any experience as Ia
civilian until he became President; nor does
any partisan attribute TO him that double
culture which, 10 antiquity, made the same
man a soldier aud . statesman. II has been
often said that he took no note OF public
affairs, never voting buI once 10 his life and
then for James Buchanan. After leaving
West Point he became . captain in the
army, but soon abandoned the service TO re-.
appear At lGtsr day as = successful general.
There is no reason TO believe that he en-
plOyed the intermediate period in any way
calculated TO improve him as statesman.
lie was earning q few hundred dollars q
year BY tanning hides in GAlenA. BY ths
war he passed 10 be President; aud such
we're his preparations TO govern the Great
Republic, making IL an example to man.
kind.
Mr. sumner then proceeded, al length, to
ArrAign Grants administration, in detail, for
its sins OF omission and commission, review
ing the history aud principles of the Re
publican party from its organization. A
Washington writer says:
he got the floor in the Senate BY a parli
msntAry mAneuver which quite surprised the
administration Senators, and held it for four
hours ia an exhaustive and carefully pre-
pared speech, which soon attracted well-flled
galleries, and crowded the Senate floor with
eager privileged listeners. In the last hour
nearly all Of the members of the House
we're present II is declared by the older
Senators, that there never has been a speech
IN Congress, even whom tho warfare was
made on Andrew Johnson, that equAlled this
for an indictment Of the personal, rs well as
the political, record Of a president Not
one single private or public act Of Grants
OWL life appeared to escape the Senator'S
notice. for he held IL up TO view in broad
glare Of conviction and csnsure, and added
TO the matter Of speech an earnest and Wig
orous force Of delivery. he ArrAigned him
a. . gift-taker, q nsopotist, And..a failure de.
olATsd that he spent his time with fast horses,
IN palace cars, and in lettering at the sea
side. The public acts Of his administration
we're as tsArfully Assailed. He mentioned
that hm government was . personal one
mat 1t commanded no respect at home or
abroad that il had done nothing to com.
mend u 10 the county that its reduction
oil the public debt did not deserve a. much
credit AZ that Of Andrew johnson that IL
was iAlas TO the colored people, and a fail.
uTe As lar as II had anything 90 do with re-
construction, while It's foreign uol;o, az
which II had attempted to boast Wa ,ha
most diSgrAosful middle of the ace. TIL.
merely indicates the general tenor of bis
remarks.
The telegraph reports the following n,
among the closing paragraphs of this Rrsu,
speech.
Here stay this pTsseniment, under ita
various heads, beginning with nspoiism and
ait'-tAkins officially compensated, and end
ing in oouirivAnOs against San Domingo
with iudigniIy 70 the African race, MOI be,