Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-04-29
SUMMERS posTHUMOUs SPEECH.

The publication of this document cou-
veys some very important information
on subject which has hitherto been
extremely obscure. The removal OF SO
profound n scholar, so able a historian,
so worthy a man. as the celebrated Mot
ley from the position of Minister TO the
Court of st. James, excited OF the time
the very liveliest feelings OF astonish-
ment, which were succeeded by indigna-
ton when SO ordinary man rs scbenck
was announced rs bis successor. A. We
go along the inquiry strikes us, would
Motley have been mixed up with such
an affair as that Emma swindle in which
Schenck was entangledi But to pro.
coed: This undelivered speech of SUM-
ner's affords the key TO the mystery.
Motley was summers friend. Motley
shared Summers views ON many Dues
tons of foreign policy, and especially
the more important ones. Sumner was
the determined opponent OF the absurd
Santo Domingo scheme. Because OF
that opposition he was deposed from the
important post he had 50 long aud so
honorably filed, that OF Chairman of the
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations,
and then, to add deeper wound, Mot
ley, Summer friend, was recalled from
the mission, in which, while he was fear
lessly asserting the dignity and best ill.,
terests OF his country, he was winning
the respect Of ALL Yet he was super.
seeded for no other earthly reason than
that be was the friend of the Senator
who had the moral courage to oppose
the President and the Foreign Secretary
in favorite scheme. and by SO doing
prevented them making an egregious
error, that would have been q continual
source of annoyance and injury to the
country.
There has been II good deal of mawk-
ish vapid sentimentality voided by the
administration papers about letting by
cones be bygones,' and striking the
living from the grave" etc, etc. All
that kind of stuff is mere leather and
prunella. That speech is valuable
contribution to the political history of
the country, az it shows in a clear I'M
mistakable light the secret springs of a
very dizzy and discreditable transaction,
in which the President and Secretary
Fish were alike engaged in "a paltry at
tempt to degrade III the eyes of theii
countrymen, two men who were infinite
ly their superiors in every imaginable
condition. OF course they were unsuc-
cessful They could deprive Sumner
and Motley of certain official positions
But what did tha, matter. Such men a,
those lend lustr- to the positions they
may choose to occupy in the publ
service. Official rank can never COME
any additional dignity on them. S
therefore, in that case as it does in a
Others, their petty malice rebounde
itS hutbOih, oldi
which the publication of tins speed
renders indelible. Before we close W
may observe that We find Hamilton FISH
says he will not attempt TO defend him
self, but leave the matter to be judge
by the country aud posterity, or word
to that effect. To TO this it may be re
piled, that all attempted defense woul
be worse than useless; and Ms to posterit
Summers name will be remembers
blessed and ven.rated by millions ye
unborn Will poor Fish will be as en-
tirely forgotten AZ ii he had never lived
But better inter oblivion, than to be re
membered as the official lackey, who
because he wore the livery of his master
deliberately insulted such men as Sun
ner and Motley, whose shoes he was nc
worthy to unite.