Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-08-12

hr. Sumner i getting TO strike wildly IN his
passion and hate against the President Ills
Inis9uOting OF Stanton against Grant was ex-
posed III q way so fatal 10 his accuracy OF recoI-
lection that one would have thought the lesson
would have caused him 10 BE- more guarded, but
his fTail.y Of temper has caused another Lapse
lie lately undertook TO create prejudice against
Gen. Grant by charging upon him neglect Of
Frederick Douglass at the time of his dinner
given to some OF the San Domingo Commits
sicners. President Andrew u. White, OF Cor
nell University, who was one of the commits
tiners, theTeCpOn wrote n letter declaring that
Air. Sumner had misrepresented the facts. Mr..
Sumner Is now out in another letter Tin his
organ, tie PGt-i0t,) and essays TO bolster up his
assertions By the testimony of, who think you?-
Why, OF the notorious y. N. Green. Think of
that! Charles Sumney, OF Massachusetts,
proud name, brOsght to the humiliation of back
irg NJ his own word by the word OF Resolution
Greea!' But what has Mr.. Douglass, himself,
&c say: He is the party concerned. He ought
to know whether or not he was sighted by Pres
icent Grant. Here is what he says about Mr.
Summers statement in an address $40 the
ColoTed people OF the United States:
Il have often been called upon TO reconcile nv
exalted opinion OF President Grant with the fact
that failed TO be invited with the commissioners
OF inquiry TO Santo Domingo to dine with the
Il
answers 10 those who inquire of me on this point.
First. The failure of the President to invite me
Could not have been because nv personal
presence on account OF color would hare been
tiSagreeable TO him, for he never withheld any
social courtesy to General Tate, the minister
PlenlpoteHtiary from the republic OF Hayti, a
man OF my own complexion; and in this connec-
ton may state that during the war he showed
himself as free from Indian prejudice as negro
IIejudiee, BY retaining upon his stan General
Eli Parker. IL II, besides, impossible that color
hp nrnizz to sv,,-,
because the gentlemen whom he did invite had
cined with me daily during ten weeks on An
American ship, under an American flag, apd in
presence OF representatives of the leading presses
OF the nited States, and this doubtless by the
Presidents special direction. Itisfurther obyi-
Gus that color had nothing to DO with the omis-
SION, because other gentlemen accompanying
the expedition to Santo Domingo edualIy
with myself, though white. failed to receive
an invitation 10 dine at the White House.
The only commissioners provided for BIZ the act
OF congress were Nessrs. b. +. Wade, Andrew
ID. White, and >. q. Howe, with one secretary
Mr.. Allan A. Burton. These gentlemen called
Ia body upon the President and were invited
IN an informal way TO dine with him. was not
Ia company with the commissioners when this
cal was made, and did not see the President
until afterward. Had been in company with
the commissioners at the time of their visit, L
have 10 question but that an invitation would
have been extended 10 me as freely a. 70 any of
the gentlemen Of the commission who were
invited My second answer is that my devotion
10 General Grant rests upon high and broad
pubhc grounds, and not upon personal favor.
L see in him the yigilsnt, firm, impartial and
wise protector OF my race from all the mallgu,
reacuonary, social and political elements that
would WLelm them in destruction. He is the
rock-ocund coast against the angry and gnaw-
ing waves OF s;oTm-tOssed ocean, saving thus