Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-07-04

| IN tbe Iips Hut leave these things, and a |
| close. dwell for one moment the agreeable a.
| pect Of this discussion. On former occasions
like thisihe right Of petition has been vehement
! " assailed practically denied only Two
| wear. ago memorials for the repeal Of the slave
act. presented By me. we're laid the table
without reference 10 any committee All i
changed nov, Senators have condemned the
memorial aud cried Treason but thus far in this
excited debate, person has 80 far Outraged the
spirit of our institutions. or forgotten himself, as
t0 object to the reception of the memorial anu
its proper reference. II istrue the remonstranis
have been treated with indgniiy but the great
right of petiion-the sword and buckier oi the
citizen-though Displaced by such indgnity, has
not been denied. Here, sir, is triumph ct
freedom.
After Mr.. Sumner had concluded, Mr.. Clay
said. the Senator had asked whether any sena
tor would render assistance in returniDga tugi.
tive slave 10 his ownei, and no one had reEpon-
dcd, and lest the Senator might herald 1t Ion til to
the world that NJ Senator had the moral con,
rnce to say be would, he tMr. Clay) had to say
he would do 50.
Mr.. sumner-The Senator might sny,immoral
courage
Mr.. Clay said the receiver was as bad as the
thief and while he would not steal a slave he
would not receive one stolen or seduced away
from his master
Mr. Butler said that if any person expected OF
him excited language in reply to the senator he
would be greatly mistaken. The senator had been
hunting up Old mnsty records and scraps OF his
tory for the purpose of assailing South Carolina.
He would mol be expected at this moment TO go
into that matter or be prepared to retort upon
Massachusetts.
I will not dive into the bowels of history to
sail Massachusetts, | will ne ger be the vampire.
He then defended South Carolina. The Senator
had fatty denied thai the independence OF the
country was achieved by the sayeholdng States.
All the States of the eonfederacy'at the time OF
the declaration of independence, were slayehol-
ding States. Massachusetts, was also slayeho
ding If her people did not buy slaves,they sold
them. They carried on the traffic in slavery
OTIS Hancock and the Adamses were the repres
entatiyes of slnyeholding Massachusetts. W as not
Massachusetts sloyeholding State.
Mr. Summer-Not in tny just sense.
Mr.. Butler said the Seantor always assumed
facts to suit the issue he presented, and which
he argued. 1t now assumed that Massachu-
sctts at that time was not a slave State in any
Just SENSE because it suited the argument of the
senator; but history proved the contrary. Con
nectcut was a slave State, New Jersey, Pelnsyl-
vnnia. Delaware were slave States. Was not New
York a slave Statei
Mr. SUMMERTIME Senator from New York can
answer.
Mr. Butler-The Senator from New York
would doubtless answer truly, and that would
not suit the Senator
Mr. Seward is due to candor TO state that
at the time of the Revolution every twelfth man
in New York was Shareholder.
Mr. Butler resumed. In saying that indepen-
dence was gained by Shareholders. he did not
mean the Carolinas In addition to those be had
named were Maryland and Virginia. These all
were slavcholding states; aud could the Senator
look him in the face and deny it!
Mr.. sumner said that in speaking of slavehol-
ding states they did not include those where slave
ry existed more by accident than part of the
settled system of civilization of the state. 1t was
understood only to mean states where slavery
was essentially an institution of the state.
MIR. Butler said this was another of those as
symptoms of fact to meet this issue presented by
the Senator himself, and ON which he sent out TO
the country | is rhetorical and eloquent decla-
nation. The fact, however, that the States at
the revolution were slayeholding communities
was so pal pable TINT it was useless to argue 1t
further. The statement of The Senator was his
torcaily false. He denied having at any time
assailed Boston or Massachusetts,. He always
abstaincd from making any comparisons between
different States or sections. Boston and Mass
achusetts have vindieated themselves and execu-
ted the Constitution III spite OF their misrepre-
senting advocate lie replied to Mr. Summers
remarks about Hoar's and referred to a pa
thetc appeal made by Boston captain because
two negro seaincn imprisoned i'll Charleston
This Captain abandoned his comrades, returned
to Boston. wrote most affecting essay upon
the sufferings of his companions aud yet upon
the payment of two dollars he could have had
them released, but he would not sympathize with
them far MS paying that amount
The question as to what Mr.. Sumner did say
on Monday, us To his recognition of the author-
ty of the constitution, was then commented up
on.
Messrs. Fessenden, Rusk, Clay and Giett,
all gave their recollection of what took place.
The reports in the Globe and New York papers
were read over and over again.
Mr. Sumner said no understood the question
was put to him whetherhe would personally AS
sist in the arrest or return of n slave, and
to that had answered that he recognized no such
obligation, as that imposed upon him by the con
sttution.
MIR. Butler resumed, and for ,me time warm
" and elo1uenty defended his State.
Mr.. Petit again addressed the Senate upon
the subject of what Mr.. Sumner actually said on
Monday.
Mr. roucey said hewould be unwilling at any
timeto hold any man responsible Tor a nasty
word, but he desired the Senator iron
Massachusetts would now state whether hi
recognised any obligation imposed by the Con
stltuton to return fugitive slave!
Mr. Sumner-Lo which question answer en-
phatically MOI
Mr.. Clay hope that there will be no doubt
now as to what the Senator says.
The motion to refer agreed to, and tht
Senate adjourned.
Is it painful to Die?
According to my observation, the mere act OF
! dying is seldom, in any sense of the word, very
painful process 1t is true that some persons die
in IA state of bodily torture in cases of tetanus