The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1872-06-06
The SUMNER SPEECH.


The sensation of the hour Is Mr.
Dor Summers great speech. II 5root
an In Its length, and still create, N GO
e. sentIal falseness. One entirely To-
pm norant of the present Admin;stratiaS,
rit- would infer that IT'S head is a Boroia.
a a Bourbon or Guelph of the worst
type. He is compared to the yjlest
we representatives of those Infamous
We families, with no intimation that he
ne is any less d!spicable than they, Il
al seems hardly possible that the author
OF this atrociOus speech is the same
ge Charles Sumner that stood so man
he fully by the slave.
7u' Inc explanation is suggested. in
IT, the repeated complaint he makes
that he and those for whom ne smoke
,m nave not been taken into the couu-
ne ellis OF the President, and that no
he himself was deposed from the Chair,
sw manship of the Senate Committee on
tul Foreign Affairs. He several t;rnos
aliudes to the subject, each time with
ne increased bitterness. That deposi.
lie tlon explains III full the whole fri
ade.
he rbo.
me most notable feature Of the
=, speech Is the utter absence Of So
nuch as an attempt TO prove corrup-
% ton on the part OF the President
M or OF his appointees. The speaker
or asserted that dangerous presidents
81 had been set. To more clearly an
~ preclate the situation, apnIv the
= principle involved to every day bus.
~ mess affairs. Suppose stock holder
90 IN some large corporation, saw
v, rallroad company, wished to prevent
% the reelection of the President of
"a the concern; he would endeayor to
a. prove to his fellow stock. holders that
az the affairs OF the company were suf-
IN 1ering either through inefficiency or
4. dishonesty Charges of that kind
81 would command respect, and call
10 tor All investigation; but if. in this
p case, 1T were alleged that some ofthe
ID subordinate officials of the companv
~. were related, by blood or marriage.
10 the PRESIDENT, and some of the
a. suoordlnates had, previous to the
o. Tfesident's election, done him a ner.
"A sonai favor, would these alterations
nave weight? The answer would
be: What oft ? Now there arc soma
ID ntsy thousand appointees to Federal
'. onnceS' II Is estimated, and Mr.. Sum
~ her thlnks bakers dozen of the
a persons filling those places are rela-
"a teu 10 the president. He further
charges that three of his appointees
a. had made him presents. before his
"a eiecuon. What of it? When Mr..
ID seward. was Secretary of State. his
II sou was MS tlrst assistant. No body
20 ever found fault with this apnoinf-
ment. President Grant has one
y brother. He holds no office. and
If never has. Have any of the men
70 whose appointment Sumner com
,r plalns OF ever proved unworthy their
a trusts? The Senator does not
n charge 1t, neither is it true, EXCEPT
q IN one case. The holder of a minor
once IN Chicago, who was cousin
OF the President, fell under susnicinn
a. OF dishonesty. His case was renort.
/ eo at headquarters, and he was
n promptly dismissed the service.
that man was member of the Gin
cinnatl Convention. Any sensible
n person would say that the directors
OF a stock company had made fools
4 OF themselves who should turn off q
i ffesldent or Superintendent, arder
o Whom the affairs of the companv
were emlnently prosperous, on any
sucn charges as those preferred by
IS Charles. Sumner against General
i. Grant: According to the Senator's
e own showing, the personal and fam
n lily appolntees are not one in tbop-
o sand 1t is a monstrous libel To
v compare the Presidents family an,
:. polntees to the nepotism of the Ror.
gias. The Papai nenotiem trrnna
the treasures of Italy and of the Rom.
lsh hierarchy into the family officers,
n ana maze all Christondom tributary
g. 70 the klntolks Of the Pope. Be-
:. tween such abuse of power and the
patronage system of our President.
y there Is no more resemblance than
It between midnight and midday. If
any unfit man has been kept in office
a on family ground, the enemies of the
O. Administration would have charged
= 1t. The absence of any such charpe
n Is deeply significant, and warrants
J. the conclusion that no such case ex-
~ lists. ....
Sumner has a great deal to say
about San Domingo. Why rake
d that up? The Senate decided
against annexation, and that en-
o ded the matter. The President has
, made no attempt to secure the an
g nexation IN spite of the Senate.
b True to his promise to have no poll
d cy OF his own, he dropped the mat.
ter wholly and at once. He doubt
+ less still thinks it is an acquisition
It very desirable; but he recognizes
= the right of the Senate to differ
|, from him, and the finality of its de-
cisien.
6 1t lily becomes Charles Sumner
to complain of the President for ac-
cepting presents. Those gifts were
all made before his election. Cen
), eral Grant, not President Grant, &C.
q cepted them. But Mr.. Summers
e own skirts are not as clean. During
l. nearly decade he was chairman of
the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Every diplomatic appointment was
reported upon by him, and practic-
" ally his authority in that department
OF patronage was almost equal to
that of the President and the Secre.
L tary of State. Did he observe
the rule against accepting presents
which he lays down for the Presi.
dent, and insists upon so strenuously?
BY no means. His house is fairly
numbered with the gifts received
from our representatives abroad.
They overflow every room, from the
wine-vault to the actic. Some of
[ | these are of great yaIua y, i, oo,,
mercial point of view. The gift-ta-
king Senator should have remem-
bered the glass house adage. Let
! him pull the beam out of his own
eye before making such fuss about
the imaginary mote in the Presi-
dents eye.--Chicago Journal.