Year: 1871




The Oakland News has the following
excellent article on the origin of Summers
and TrumbulPs hostility to the Admins
tration: S ~ 4se I'D rrH .as-asl


Had j. Lathrop Motley never gone to
England as Minister ofthe United States
we should not have heard the stentorian
tones of Charler Sumner raised against the
policy Of this Administration The war
club brandished in the air by the Free
Traders is like an empty threat devoid Of
execution. A. retrospective glance cover
ing space Of nearly two years, presents
several important preludes to the drama
now being euacted at Washington.


First, we find Charles Sumner urging
the President to dispatch j. Lathrop Mot
ley to the Court of St James as typical
representative of American views on the
Alabama controversy. We know that Ger
tain Instructions were given to him, EN-
bodyiug the wishes of the Administration.
How they were carried cut we also know:
Instead of representing the views of his
Government, we find him ftllowing the
counsels ofonly one man, and that man
the hartman of the Committee ON Foreign
Relations Whilst the Executive never
expressed any aversion to Munster Motley
marrying his daughter to the English no.
bility, and courting assid uously all the ar
istocratic snobs of the realm, he did re.
moustrate against his quoting and recog
nizing the opinions of Sumuer, as IN
antidote for the Alabama ills, antecedent
to the expressed wishes and instructions
of the Secretary of state


We next find Mr. Motley recalled and
Sumner warning against the foreign policy
OF the Administration, arguing again st the
annexation Of San Domingo in such a
strain as to convince the majority Of the
Senate that private amino ity rather than
the public good was uppermost in his
mind his fixed determination to make
an onslaught on the Administration in !,
lengthy aud exhaustive spec h was freely
advertised all over the country, but prua
ence and the dread of public continent
overcame his worst passions, and it was
delayed, much to the disappointment Of
the Motley tbrong who crowded the CALLER
les eager to witness the disgraceful scene


Now, it is only in accordance with a
time honored custom and policy necess-
airy to the success of every Administration
to remodel Committees whenever Chair
man, by virtue OF his position, opposes
the wishes of the people. Senator uni
ner had ceased to hold commun, atm
with either the President or Secretary of
State, and his action in this dirsctio dis
arranged aud impeded the machinery of
the Government. For these reasons, the
Senate decided it bes, for the interests of
the country to place man at the herd of
that Committee whose views and relations
were in harmony with the Administration


Senator lrumbull unlike sumner
voted against the impeachment of Andrew
Johnson, thereby retaining a bad m,n in
power; but, like Sumner, is fast drifting
into the ranks of the Democratic party
1t will be remembered that, short time
ago, few choice spirits met in the city of
New York Among them was Senator
TrumbulIand William Callen' BRYANT, the
great Free Trade advocate They had in
process OF incubation. plot to force this
doctrine of Free Trade on the Republican
party, under the name Of tariff reform
Now. this meant simply the Reputation of
the national debt; for the revenue aris
ing from the tarltf is by law devoted, first,
to the payment of the interest on the pub
lie debt If that was not meant to swamp
the party and force it to carry the weight
of Democratic doctrines, pray tell us what
is? The papers manipulate by Trumbull
and Bryant, raised the hue and cry of
Tariff Reform Civil Service Reform
etc, but the people never endorsed the car
rying out of such glittering scheme


President Grant has proved by his eco
nomical Administration that he is in favor
of all measures tending to purify the Civil
Service, but. opposed the repudiating
scheme of Trumbull, Bryant & Co. heir
effort to force recruits into building up a
'.third party" is dead, and no efforts of
these remarkable Committeemen can ever
galvanize il into life. Nkts