The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-02-07
3 SAVANNAH, MISSOURI, FRIDAY FEBRUARY q 1873.

based on equal parts of jealousy Of rivals and
ambition OF place, and it requires less time for
the people to discover its animus than for the
politicians to organize its campaign. -,
Mr.. Charles Sumner Is one Of the most COM
sp,caeus OF the wrecks left IN the track Of =
disastrous calnpaagn; ortuns smiled uI,dn
him in the dawn of his career, in the person of
Preston Brooks, who, through the brutal in
stinct ifistiiled BY the institution Of slavery,
ni-rt yfized tiiaI Massachusetts, Senator VICE
bludgeon. But the outpouring Of the sympa-
thy OF brave people created degree Of mo-
toriety for its subject which in turn developed
egotiem and vanity, Until in later yearA these
Qualities have swept all others and mastered
the man entirely. II wits 5itly necessary TO de-
fer these wesknesse8 to mako him tho tool Of
the base men who wrought ont the coalition.
Mr.. Schurz was the "Mephistopheles' em-
ployed not only to entrap and ruin the great
egotist, bat to egg him on until he became the
careless, reckless libeiler and slanderer of the
Prosidsnt, the Administration, and the Repril,.
lican party. Mr.. Schurz intrigued with for
eiSn ministers. for scandal collected loose
statements Of the Associated Press, woye them
ctuminSly into resolutions, as facts and
through tha insidious pse Of personal adrila-
ton induced Mr.. Sumner to introduce and
farther them before the Senate. BY this course
the Senator from Missouri dragged the here
tofere great name of the Senator from Massa-
ehusetts in the dirty mire OF factional politics,
until he was disowned by the prominent jour
nails and citizens Of his own State, ropudiated
BY the men who had surrounded and sympa-
thised with him through al bis public life, and
disgraced before the nation. Then came his
assumption to control the eolored vote, and it's
utter failure tien hs retreat from the coun.
try, and his return and reappearance in the
Senate only to add insult to injury, by propos-
ing to strike from the national eusigns the
names of the battles NJ the rebellion as means
of reconciliation with traitors. But this was
so repugnant to the national sense of Justice
and patriotism, and public opinion expressed
itself in such indignant terms, that even his
Democratic allies in the late campaign were
swed into opposition, leaving him the solitary
representative and exponent Of an infamous
He was, however, only brought
to bay by the resolution Of censlire passed by
the Legislature of Massachusetts.
II is idle to suppose that the country has any
further Use for theservices of Mr.. Sumner and
the politicians of his Gloss. Their day is past
they have betrayed principles, bsrtered honor
Tor personal power and place, and will in future
serve no other p,irpose than ss warnings to
public men to avoid their errors. The qiiick
intelligence exhibited in discovering the de-
prayity of the cosition, and, the severe con-
demnation passed upon its leading supporters
by the people, lisa yindication "strong as Holy
Writ, not only Of the keen insight Of the
masses of tho country into the sinuosities Of po-
litcal intrigue, but Of their wisdom and capa-
bility of self-govemment.- Erchdn1e.