Washington sentinel., 1854-06-03
CALUMNIEs AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF
WASHINGTON--ABOL TRICKS.

The subtle devices and cunning fabrications
of the abolitionists are only equalied by their
cool audacity. Verify they are as wise as
serpents y we wish it could be added, and
"as harrsless as doyes.n There was, as every
body knows mob in Boston, within the last
few days-an abolition mob. Murder was COM
mitted, foul and cold-blooded murder. The
rumor of it went abroad. 1t shocked and
sickened the good law-abiding men everywhere.
The scenes enacted by that mob, abolitionism,
with all its brazen audacity could not venture
altogether to justify. But with an ingenuity,
and an invention that never fails them, they
are now seeking to do indirectly what they can
not do directly Like a cunning lawyer whose
case is weak, they bring up an offset. This
offset consists in q perfectly arJoanded decla-
ration that Senator Sumner, of Massachusetts,
is in imminent peril of being mobbed by the
citizens Of Washington, and that his friends have
gone SO far as to advise him to seek safety in
fight. The Washington Correspondent Of the
New York Times, under date Of may 3Oth,
says:
"A strenuous and systematized effort is ma
king here and in Alexandria, to raise mob
against Senator Sumner, in retaliation for the
Boston difficulty. Senator Sumner himself has
been several ltimeswarned to-day personal dam
ger, and assured that persons bearing close re.
fation to the administration are melting the
people to violence against him. Northern men
are much excited in consequence, and if an
outrage is committed, there is probability
that there will be serious trouble. Such at
tempts to intimidate northern men will meet a
stern resistance now, and in future, and will
tend to unite northern members to vote against
appropriations for the District of Columbia,
and in favor of q speedy removal Of the seat OF
government"
The National Era, Of the 3lst May, has an
article on the same subject, from which we
make the following extracts. After referring
to the course Of some of the newspapers here,
which it represents as invoking mob violence
against Senator Sumner. 1t says:
To such an extent has this been carried,
that some kind, though not wise persons, have
advised Mr. Sumner to leave Washington. Of
course, he rejects all such counsel. The bare
fact that any person should have deemed such
advice necessary, must revolt the feelings OF
our citizens. What shall even the suspicion
go forth that q member Of the Congress of the
United States is in danger of personal indig
nifty and outrage, for words spoken in his place
as an independent representative, or as the
senator from a sovereign State
!" It is now some years since all projects for
removing the seat of government ceased to be
agitated. An impression has gone abroad
among the people Of the States generally, that
Washington is peaceful, an orderly city, in
which the largest freedom of opinion and utter
ance is recognised, where citizens may meet on
equal terms, from all quarters of the Union,
and where the deliberations of Congress can be
carried on without restriction or disturbance.
The result is, a rapid growth of the city.
feeling Of instability has given place to a sense
Of security and within the last three years real
estate has risen in price more than one hun
dred per cent.
"But, let the miserable inhammatory appeals
of the Union and other papers of the kind, be
listened to, letthem succeed in arousinga spirit
of mob violence, and the city will suffer dis
grace and serious injury. A cry for the reno
val of the seat of government would go up from
the entire north and west, and under the feel
ing Of uncertainty and insecurity, thus awak-
ened, property would 60 down almost as fast as
it has come up. Every property holder, every
man who loves the good name Of our city, or
is interested in its prosperity, should frown
upon these abominable invocations to mob
violence"
Here is evidently a systematic and concerted
effort (these agitators always act in concert) to
get up and spread abroad the impression that
Senator Sumner is in great peril of mob-vio-
lence.
Now we will undertake to say that not a hu-
man being in this city ever had such thing
in contemplation. We do not believe that it
has at any time entered into the mind OF one
single person here, except the abolitionists who
are attempting to make capital out oft. 1t is
feint, trick, a stratagem. Senator Sumner,
who granted absolution in advance to mobs and
fanatics, is to become a martyr and a saint. All
the appropriations for the District Of Columbia
are to be defeated and the capitol is to be re-
moved
Now we verify believe that all these aboli-
tionists mr. Sumner excepted) would be glad
if the good people here would mob him. They
would make capital Of it. If he escaped it
would be held as miraculous as the escape OF
Daniel from the lions den. Itwould be hailed
as a special interposition Of Providence in be-
half of the abolitionists. If on the other hand,
Mr.. Sumner should be slain, he would be at
once canonized and placed in the calendar OF
abolition martyrs.
Now we say to these people, that Mr.. Sum
ner is safe, perfectly safe. The people here are
law-abiding people. They do not thirst for
Mr.. Summers blood. He need not be stolen
off by means Of an underground railroad which
the abolitonists SO well understand. There is
no need Of his becoming fugitive, an exile,
and wanderer.
Mr.. SUMNER IS SAFE l--THE SEAT OF Gov
ERNMEYT is SAFEl
If there were no other reasons for wishing
him to be safe, no considerations Of humanity
no respect for the high Office he fills, and nc
regard for law and order, there is yet one
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