The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-07-01
Nom Me Bo,lon 1knn,rrint.
Tho Peace and Dignity OF tho Common
WeAI1h.-NO. XVI

| script OI MAY ~.
In reference to Mr.. Summers speech, your
correspondent says:
| "Let Sigma examine that speech from begin.
ming to end, and though he may find in il the
strongest repugnance TO the Fugitive Slave act
| both as unconstitutional and inhuman, yet am
confident he will feel that he has done injustice to
Mr.. Sumner do not doubt that this was unin-
| territorial"
| When X. shall have read No. XIV of this
series, written before his article appeared, he
will perceive that | have not missed a single
course of Mr.. Summers entertainment, Gd orc
usqUe al nlGLa | believe | have done him no
injustice. should prize the final words of
your correspondent more highly if they We're
not wholly inconsistent with his charge that
have miSrepresented and eUen garbled, and mis-
quoted Mr.. Summers speech, and that certain
words are my 0tcn inUentiOIt--a this your cor
respondent has no doubt was ttniatentional
And now let us see how much of an Xpert
your correspondent may be. He says
| "Sigma quotes as follows:
"The unconquerable rage of the people, in those
other days, compelled the stamp distributors and
inspectors to renounce their Offices and held up to
detestation all who dared To speak in favor of the
stamps And shall we be more tolerant of those who
volunteer in favor of this bilR No. no!''
And then he says
'Now, have looked into the report of this
| speech in Mr.. Summers printed volume, and
also as II appeared in the Commonwealth news
paper, and find the exact words Of the passage
which Sigma undertakes to quote as follows
"'The unconquerable rage of the people, in those
other days, compelled the stamp distributors and
inspectors to renounce their Offices, and hold up to
detestation all who dared speak in favor of the
samps And shall we be more tolerant OF those
who VOLUNTEER in favor OF this bill-nore tolerant
Of the slave hunter toho under its safeguard pur
sues has prey upon our soil" .
"Ihe No! MOI are Signals own inven-
ton"
Your correspondent, who is evidently very
inaccurate gentleman, suspects me of being as
careless as himself. Now, upon what princi-
pie am bound to take nv report from Wright's
newspaper or Mr.. Summers ''printed volume %
is 1t not known that stump orators do sometimes
ratSrePreSent, and even gdrbLe-these words are
your respondent's-their own harangues-
alter, modify, suppress, before they print? Is
the newspaper to which he refers the only foun-
tain of truth and accuracy i'll would convict
MIR. Sumner of talking treason in Faneuil Hall,
is 1t from his own. version of his talk, in his
own F'prirlted v0l,tme," that must search for
the evidence containing just so much of his in
cendary TRADE as he deemed it prudent to
print? Is not the political atmosphere filled
with birds of passage-birds of evil omen.
from the cock-sparrow to the sinistra alb alice
cornir, In cassoc and bands-that are tapping
over the land, and flying from stump to stump,
dropping their OUG in the towns and villages
and, when the cockatrices are Matched, repu-
dating their productions, and swearing the little
monsters upon the poor printers devils The
eggs were Matched without their knowledge,
iorsooth, and the offspring have never met the
eyes Of their parents
will now ask your correspondent to open
his eyes, and see how very foolishly he has
Aposed himself, by charging me with the of
fence--no light one in my opinion-of mis-
quoting, nliSrepreSenting, and eUen garbhng Mr..
Summers speech.
part of the injustice which your CORE.
spondent says have done to Mr.. Sumner, con
slsts In adding two words to the report of his
speech This addition he says is my "o.Cn
iIlrentior;" and yet he has no doubt the injus
tice was ''untntentionat." This is too deep for
me. The compost of this gentleman's under
standing must be very free soil indeed
Now, your correspondent is all in the wrong.
! have done Mr. Sumner no injustice what
ever-l have miSepreSented nothing, have
misguided nothing, | have garbled nothing,
have added nothing, have SubtrGcted nothing.
If your correspondent will turn to the Boston
DAILY Advertiser Of February 10, 1851, he will
there find an article under this caption-THE
Mon OF SATURDAY LAST. II is over the
signature of r., person unknown to me. The
article is an exceedingly well and gravely CON
sidered article. In the body Of that article he
will find, ascrbed to Mr.. Sumner, and never
challenged or contradcted, to my knowledge,
as part of his incendiary speech, erery cord,
SYLLABLE, letter, and point uerJatinl, herdtina, ct
puncfudtin, precisely as they are stated in the
passage quoted by me. If your correspondent
prefers the report in Wright's newspaper,
have no objection never quarrel with those
who luxuriate in garlic, but | cannot suffer
them to force it upon me.
The words ".Noi Mop whether Mr.. Sum
ner's or those Of his endorsers or applauders,
are in the report. Your correspondent errs,
doubt not ''nlost 1mintentionaLiy," when he
says they are Dly irtrention.
Your correspondent says that have omitted
portion:
"But this is not all; he omits tho very words by
which Mr.. Sumner especially desgnates those
whom he would hold up to detestation namely:
''the slave hunter, who, under its safeguard pur
sues his prey upon our soil"
Now, if your correspondent will turn to No
XXI. of this series, he will find the entire pas
sage, which is of greater length, 'Slauc-ilul-
ter" and all, precisely as | found it in the
Daily .AdUertiser. did not even transcribe it,
pu' Sut ~ iloh th0 Ian ~ aNOlu HllSldhe, anu
attached it to my article for the Transcript
Heaven knows | desire not to deprive a gen
tleman, who needs such thorough political alb
luton, of such petty resources, if he or his
friends think he can wash in ALBANIA or Pharpar
and be clean.
But call upon Mr.. Sumner and this most
unfortunate defender, from whom the Lord has
not seen fit to defend him, and of whom he
himself has inwardly said, non tall auriHo!
call upon them both to look upon the jury of
the people, and say, was it the SLaUe-hunter
alone against whom this amiable Senator would
turn the unconquerable rage of the people and
the terrors of l7652 Were there no volunteers
but the SlaUe-htn,terS2 Were all those mer-
chants, and lawyers, and other men who were
represented by Mr.. Tukey as among our first
citizens, and who volunteered to sustain this
law, Were they slave hunters2
When Mr.. Sumner pronounced the word