The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-17

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ner 70 outspoken opposition. Then he was
degraded from the position at the head Of
the committee on foreign relations, which he
nad held lfor twelve years and one
Dy one the party leaders fell of
Inc prodigious corruptions of the
LILLE, LINE aroused the great senator to al
most as vehement an effort as the slavery
crusade, and he joined Schurz and .Trumbuil
In the memorable onsets which made the
winter session of 1871 illustrious. He Joined
t1e Ureeley movement with some reluc-
lance, fearing that the democratic party
Souiq not be brought 70 abide Loyalty
Dy the covenant with the coIored people
but reassured by the work at Baltimore. he
gave up all the time his health would permit.
70 the canvass for the reformers A return
OF his old malady kept him out of active
Work, and for year or two he
mas ventured upon but little effort Last
winter he reintroduced in the Senate
ms battle-fag resolution of 1862. 1t met
with violent disapprobation, the Massachu-
Setts legislature going so far as to pass reso-
buttons or censure; resolutions which the
present body, in difference to the plainly ex-
pressed Will of the commonwealth and coun-
Try, hastened to expunge from its record. 1t
Is nttlng comment on the end of noble
IRE that the last thing he heard read in his
place In the Senate, Tuesday, was the formal
notification from his state Legislature to the
United States Senate of the expunging of the
iA-COusluereQ cenSure.
HIS REVOLT FROM PARTY.
In her sketches of representative Ameri-
cans, Mrs. Stowe says of Sumner at this time:
In the outset of Summers career IL was
sometimes said of him that he was a bril-
liant theoriZer, but that he would never be
practical policitian. His mind, indeed, be-
longs to that class whose enthusiasms are
more for ideas and principles than for men.
q he e,
right, distracted from its practical uses. There
was tendency in his mind to seek ideal
perfection and completeness. In study, his
was that of the most finished schol-
arship; in politics and the general conduct
of life it was that of the severest models of
the antique, elevated and refined by chris
tlanlty. de returned to his native city at a
time when the intention in good faith to be
an ideal patriot and christian, was, in the
general estimation of good society, mark
OF a want of the practical faculties. The
Wing party, in whose ranks, by birth and
tradition, he belonged, looked upon him as
the son of their right hand; though thew
shook their heads gently at what seemed to
them the very young and innocent zeal with
which he began applying the weights and
measures of celestial regions to affairs
where, it was generally conceded, it would
be fatal to use them. Just at this season.
the great Babylon. which now is cast down
v =
ton, and gave laws, and bewitched northern
politicians with her sorceries. Church and
state were entangled in her nets, and fol-
lowed, half willingly, half unwilling, at hes
chariot wheels. The FIRST, loudest, most inn
Fortunate demand of this sorceress was,
that the rule ''Do unto others as We would
that others should do unto you" should be
repealed. There was no objection to its
forming q part of the church service, and
being admired in general terms, as an ideal
of the apostolic age, but the at
tempt to apply it TO the regulation of ma
tional affairs was ridieuled as an absurdity,
and denounced as dangerous heresy. What
then was the dismay of Beacon street, the
of State street, when this.
young laurelled son of Cambridge, fresh
from his foreign tour, with all his career oS
honor before him, showed symptoms of de-
Ginning to ards the abolitiOnists. The abo-
litionists, of all men! Had not Garrison
been dragged by halter round his, neck
through the streets of Boston ? And did
not the most respectable citizens cry. Well
donef Was it not absolute social and politit
cal death TO any young man to fall into,
those ranks Had not the legislature OF
the sovereign stale of Georgia in an official
price ON Garrison's head as an fhcendiary,
and had not q governor of Massachusetts, in.
his message to MASSACHUSETTS, legislature,
so far synlpathized With his southern breth-
rem as to Introduce into his inaugural Sc
we're censure Of the abolitionists, and to init.
mate his belief that in their proceedings they
were guilty of an offence punishable by
lawe Had not Massachusetts.leol
isldtures taken into respectful consideration
resolutions from slaveholding legislatures.
to them in that high style for
which such documents are famous that tbev
should pass laws making it penal to utter
Iboli ZIONIST sentiments? All this had been
yoing on during the three years while Sum, |
Ter was in Europe, and B0w, when he. was
coming home to take his place as by right ia |
he political ranks, did it not become him to |
Dc very careful how he suffered indisoreet |
noral enthusiasm to be;rsy him into. ex-
>ressions which might Identify him with |
hese despised abolitlonists? Was not. that |
socially to Forfeit his birhright, to close. 40. |
IN him every parlor an1 boudoir of BEACON
treet, to make State street his enemy. 10 |
hut up fro2 him every Office of advance
nent or protit, and make him for every pur-
'ose OF the Wing party useless imp1aeti-
able Instrument?
So the rising young man was warned to
ct such things alone, not to strive for the
impossible ambrosia % the higher morals,
md to content himself like his neighbors,
With the tangible cabbage of compromise, as
tilted to our mortal state. He was warned
With fatherly JUNCTION, by comfortable old
Wigs, who to-day are shouting even louder
han he, "Down with Babylon, rae it, raze
It to the foundationsp' But in spite of
UGH warnings and cautions, Sumner became
N ardent and thorough-going aiati-slavery
nan, and did not hesitate to avow himself
N abolitionist and to give public utterance
o his moral feelings, contrary to- the strin-
;ent discipline OF the Wing party.
Again Mrs. Stowe says:
And now came the great battle Of the fugi-
i've slave law, The sorceress slavery medi-
ated grand coupd' etat that should found
southern slave empire, and shake off the
Troublesome north, and to that intent her /,
gents concocted statute so insulting to L,
lorthern honor, so needlessly offensive i'm n
Is provisions. so derisive Of what were un- Il.
lerstooA to be its religious convictions and
sentiments, that it was thought
'erily, "The north never will submit to this
md Wa shall make here the breaking points,"
rhen arose Daniel Webster, the lost archan-
eel of New England-he who hadswon her
onfidepce by his knowledge of and reyer-