North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-05-07
SIMMER AND WADE.

will the grain of theory weigh against the ton of
practce2 Tom Sims has been exchanged for Charles
Sumner; one fugitive slave tor an United States Sen
ator, and no boot. In the midst of all the exulta-
ton and illumination over the 81 final success o.
the fugitive slave law, has come the news or the N
nal success of the most outrageous aootionis''
agrarian, and enemy of the Constitution, mat mas
] ever been spawned in the fouest ditch OF YANKEE
dom. Charles Sumner has been elected' oy the
Wing Legislature of Massachusetts, to De senator
for six years in the place of Daniel Weos!er ana
Daniel Webster has been refused the use oil ranuei
Hall in which he desired to address the citizens Of
/ Boston, That is correct summary OF the last IN
elligence from the seat of law and order' the citadel
of the Constitution and the Protectress OF Southern
Rights.
Four hundred policemen, armed with drawn
swords Struggled fugitive slave In the darkness OF
the npht on board vessel at the Boston wharf, and
sent him home to his master in Georgia. This was
confessedly something, and The compromises and
submissionists of the South said ii was everything
We have referred to the utterances OF the boston
| PRESS the Boston pulpit, and the circumstances OF
Sims arrest, show that this instance was an eX-
ception to- and not a sample Of, the sentiment and
practice of the place. But little attention has been
paid the facts thus adduced. The other side was
determined to rejoice and be g lad. We are now Gu
rious to them reconcile the new tact win ther
fine theory. That theory is this: The return OF Sims
the act of the people of Boston, done In accord
ance with the public sentiment OF Massachusetts
and is nvincble proof that they intend to support
the constitution and to abide by the fugitive slave
law. That is the rule they lay down. And here is
the example. The public sentiment OF Boston and
| solemn vote of Massachusetts have chosen Charles
Sumner to be Senator. Who is Charles Sumner
We will let Charles Sumner answer for himself.
Here an extract from his great speech in the Massa
chusetts Free Soil Convention delivered on the Sd
of October, 1850:
"As it to do deed which should make Heaven
weep all earth amazed this same Congress, In
disregard of all the cherished safeguards of ireedom
has passed most cruel, unchristan, devilish law.
the return into slavery of those unfortunate
bondmen who found sheltered by our fire.
sides.
Into the immortal catalogue of national crimes this
has passed, drawing with it by memorable
necessity, its authors aso and chiefly him who, as
President of the United States, set his name to the
bill, and breathed into it that final breath without
which it would have no life.
Other Presidents may be forgotten, but the name
signed to the fugitive-slave bill will never be forgot
ten. There are depths of inGmy there heights
of fame Better far for him had he never been born;
better far for his memory and the good of his
children had he never been President.
Sir, will not shonor this home of the Pill grims
and of the Revolution by admtting-nay, cannot
believe-that this bill will be executed here. Ind-
viduals among us, elsewhere, may forget humani-
ty in fancied loyalty to laws but the public
science will not allow who has trodden
streets freeman to be dragged away a slave.
The fugitive slaves of the United States among the
! heroes OF our age"
This is :. something But let US see the deduc-
lions, principles which he to at the conclu-
sion of his Grafton the positions he will maintain
the ends which he proposes for the striving of him
self and Of his political friends:
- We demand first and foremost, the Instant repeal
of the fugitive-slave bill.
We demand that Congress receive into the Union
no new Slave State.
After this portrait of Charles Sumner by himself
few touches only are necessary to completes the pic
ture lie is the arch priest of that hierarchy, the
bell-weher of all the black flock, the combined BeaI
and Moloch Of that Pandemonium. He has long
out Heroded iheir hottest Herod If the people of
Massachusetts had studied thousand years for some
plan by which they mi hit We the lie to the submis-
sionsts of the Souih-for mode of utterance by
which they might declare their adherence of the
Southern people, and their fixed determination TO
nuliy the fugitive slave law, and make void the
cheating promises of the compromise party they new
er could have hit upon thing more completely suited
to their purpose than the election of Sumner 20 the
Senate of this Union. The tale is told. The aues-
ton is settled.
1t may, however, be proper to add that Sumner is
Federalist of the same extreme chara eier-when
compared with other Federaliss-as he is an extreme
Abotonist and Agrarian among other Abolitionists
and Agrarians. He is Wing who refused to sup
port Gen. Taylor two years ago, because he was not
Wing enough. In the late election he had the en-
thusiast;c support of the Free Soil Wing party of
Massachusetts. Winthrop, rival Aboliiionist, as
the other candidate. The only serious opposition
which the Abolition party met with from twen-
y-seven Democrats who stood the last against
both candidates. The state of parties thus display
ed in Massachusetts, is the State of parties every
where else in the Morrill, Both Wings and Demo-
Gratis are unsound the slavery question there but
they not equally The Wing party is thorough
~, and completely, and without exception identified
with the fanatics. They have for years been
They have ANAL gamated to the last man. The Wings
are the Abolitonists. They bone of their bone,
and flesh of their f1esh-as undivided Saul and
Jonathan or the Siamese Twins. The Democratic
party is deeply tainted, but yet contains
which has not bowed the knee of Baal. When the
Democratic party hold the majority in any of The
great States they send the United States Senate
such men as Dickinson. But for the present the
Wing party has the up-hand in Ohio, New York, and
Massachusetts. The election of Senator is the last
event in all of those States and beg leave to call
the readers attention to the who have received
that high honor and important position for the COIN
ing six In Massachusetts, the majority have
selected this said Charles Sumner. In New York,
they have chosen Hamilton Fish. In Ohio, they
have elected W ade. Sumner has been already intro
duced. Hamilton Fish is the prOtege, pupil and pro-
consul of William Seward in the management of
New York politics ;-that will do for him. AS Mr.,
Wade, the new Senator from Ohio, we will let him,
like Mr.. Sumner, speak his own speech:
First, then, l am Wing, always Wing, and
terests of country connected with the success
of that party always too much devoted to the party
see it lend itself the furtherance of measures
which cannot approve without an endeavor to pre-
its doing. 1t shall be my endeavor to repre-
this great State, and rot any particular section
of it. shall, the best CT my ability, rebuke any
attempted entertainments of slavery into territory
free, any naughty or nsoent attempt to overcome
the free States by threats of dissolution of the u
nion' or any measures intended to insult Northern
feeling. You know that am hostile especially to
the fugitive law but shall endeavor 10 deal fair