Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-07-10
Expulsion of senator sumner.

The Washington Union, in an article on
THE proposed Expulsion of Charles Sumner,
from the U, S. Senate says;
!, ''If the proposition to expel him had been
made Immediately after he astounded the Sem
ators by denying the obligations Of the oath
he had taken to support the constitution, We
do not know but that it would have been re-
garded as the proper punishmentiors oreyolt-
ing an offence. We think it altogether proba-
BILE that such proposition may at the tune
have been thought of, and possibly talked OF,
amongst senators who heard the shocking
avowal, and felt the natural indignation which
such an avowal would excite in all honorable
minds But, after the occasion passed by, and
especially after the miserable attempt OF Mr..
Sumner to qualify his declaration, we do not
suppose that any other punishment than that
suggested with so much forceiby Mr.. Clay, OF
Alabama, has been thought Of by any Sena-
tor. If Mr.. Sumner is ambitious to win the
notoriety of expulsion, we are very sure that
he will be disappointed"
The Union, and the creatures whose organ
tits, have shown some discretion in coming to
the conclusion indicated by the extract which
we publish. The Senate of the United States
does not belong to Clay, Petit, Mason, But
Ter. Weller, ct hoe genus, and these individuals
viii find, if they undertake to vest the right
of occupancy of it, in nobody but blackguards,
that its proprietors win not submit to any such
arrangement. There are, to our shame be it
spoken, too few honest, upright, geutlemanly,
well-spoken men in the Senate, at this time,to
admit of the expulsion of the few persons in
it, who redeem it from the scorn and contempt
of all good men. If Charles Sumner had
been expelled by the traducers of Massachu-
sets, and the falsifers Of his words,
Massachusetts would have sent him back
again, with the emphatic intimation thathe had
the right to occupy her side of the Senate
Chamber, and that those who attempted to
disturb him, in thi right, would do SO at their
peril.
The company of rowdies, inebriates, be-
trayers of public confidence, bullies, sots,
fools, and blackguards, is always hateful to a
man of manly sensibllities and gentemanly
feelings, unless he goes among them as a mis-
slonary teacher. To be compelled to sit be-
side such, as their ostensible equal, is mar
tyrdom to which only high sense of duty
could reconcile good man. Charles Sumner
would doubtless feel degraded by sitting in the
Senate with such persons as Clay, Petit, We'll
Ter, Douglas, and Toueey, did he not recollect
thathe is the representative of Massachusetts,,
and tPPaet ba ana d1a he not know also, that
there are such men as Rockwell, Fessenden,
Gillette, Wade, Seward, and Chase, in the
Senate-men who to the highest sense of
moral honor and honesty unite the dignity of
true manhood, with the courtesies and ameni-
ties of civilization and good manners a
The proposition to expel Mr.. Sumner from
the Senate, was highly complimentary to him.
1t showed that he had preserved himself from
the pitfalls that abound in that sink of political
inlqmty, Washington; and that his presence
and speech were constant rebuke to the be-
trayers of liberty, whose moral sense had been
blunted, whose tongues had become coarse,
and whose patriotism had been battered for
base brides at the National Capitol. We were
satisfied, however, that the BilIingsgate men,
bers of the Senate would not attempt Mr..
Sumner expulsion, and the end has justified
our conviction