New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-06-29
xxxIIID CONGRESS. .."....FrRsr SESSION.

a. mech which ne said were never uttered Inc
snsl or was very personal in his remarks ana que aDu
Gve in the assault "h'o' '' ''''' "
8 bator. ,. ,s., :, dah,,o bo had m
"a Co MIR Summers open di.avowal OF his obligation
The Constitution and to his oath 70 support tn no very
,mplnentary In the official report OF that de-
te that Senator represented as having SAID AS fol-
So sajd recognize obligation TO the COnsti-
tuton TO bind me to help to reduce man to slavery.
ILese words sad Mr. Petit not made in the senste
n the bad said them they would nave been aise
and ! would have noticed them.
Mir SIMNER-I call the Senator to order. say they
were uttered by me here IN the senate. , =.
Mr. PE1TIT-I will prove right in his teeth that VIVA.
~ says is iae. Cries OF order order soy ne uu 10y
make of the remark here reported on me noor Dui
anr the adjournment he went to the reporter anu nv
item l. terpUia ed into the report OF my fsIia"' iio
ten argued that the Senator never had the moor % %
any tuch remark and II il was MADE II'".eiy on. ~.
Eesrd Inv sn.tors IL ought not 10 90 into the report III
was vi iaii in bly, Senator to Inioipon,c o io
porte which were not actually MAJ; roJ fo, b;
fsu.d This remark and 10 reply 10 IL apPearol RON n
a. mad M reply 10 il because the remark was never
mad lie discussed the rights Of Senators to revise their
marks He said that when prooi-sheets OF bus speech
isndad he saw this Interpolation and pronounced IT
false and directed IT to be lett out. Inc foreman
&c Tsr (;io5e office, however, had put it in
Sexct that this remark did not appear IN the snort hand
1sfes OF Mondays debate. but that when Mr.. Sumner
ed 10 revise bis remarks he had put the report In the
ape it appears. The Senator had SAID in answer to
a rnark TINT he would not execute the Constitution that
be- recognized such obligation The Senator SAD that
he would not return fugitive slave, and Asked Is my
Hservant dog that he should do this thing 2! The man
who had used that remark fitting person for the
Stnaior quote. He had proved himself lying migrate,
a dog He was happy prototype of the senator from
Massachusetts in all his conduct. The interpolation OF the
Senator false because he could not have said it, and
false because he did not say it.
NJ, SJjMNER-I repeat that the remarks made
by substantially as reported made them ia my seat,
and did not suppose they would have reached Inc report
ers ear lie then explained that the reporter voluntarily
show ed him the report and finding it did not correspond
exactly with what he had said corrected it, As to all else
which the had said he had not word TO reply
he
dropped :,
The House bill to did Minnesota in constructing rail-
road was rdken up and passed.
The motion 10 refer the Boston petition for repeal OF the
Fugitive Slave law a. then taken up.
Mr.. DIXON spoke for an hour in defense OF the Fug-
five Slave law denouncng opposition to it, He also de-
claIed the Wing party of the North had become abol
topzed body and renounced any political connection
with them while they remained lie referred 10 the
platform of the Wing State Convention of New Hamp
shire and said if the tests laid down in that body to
be adopted by northern Wings he desired to be forever
disconnected with them.
An effort was then made to postpone the subject until
Monday, but after considerable debate was voted down.
Mr.. MALLORY defended the Fugitive Slave law and
In the of his remarks referred to Mr. Summers dis
hvowal Of any obligation imposed by his oath to support
the Constitution.
Mr. SUMNER-I call the Senator to order. | never
bald so.
Mr. MALLORY said he would not put into dogs
mouth any statement which not true, but he would
bealad TO know what the Senator did say.
Mr. SUMNER said recognized no obligation upon
me TO help return or reduce to Slavery any man. ,
LA
Senator with insoence of manner and unblushng lace,
deny, er laviEg uDquaiaedly ssavowed hs eonst''u-
tiona obligations attempt to throw the responsibility on
the porter He then defended the reporter whose char
ncter lie said would compare fsvoaby with Mr. Summers
among persons who knew both, but among strangers
would rhaps be treated inferior 10 the person who
cdentav occupied seat in the SeDate. The Senator
did make the remark imputed TO him, and the Senators all
around him corroboraed the report The quain' ation
mt on the declaration by the Interpolation in the report
was an aerhough and done to shrk and AVOID the re-
sponstiy of appearing to the world as man having des
ecraied the Senate Chamber with his presence and
fbe Holy EvangeiSs with his lips. If the
Senator had not dissvowed any obligation to
the Constitution, would he have been charged
With having done by the two Senator'S sitting nearest
him lie desired to suggest TO Senators means of
dyc this conduct though there no means to reach
person guilty only of crime in thought otii there was
MODE of Tending that body from such persons. Though
man be- the most talented able, and schOarlike, elo-
quent aud profound if h should show an Intention to
crime should instgat Others to do that which he had
not the courage do himself should he be guilty of
moral p, rury any man who had ever been branded
with the letter p should in all respects be eHe-
ped by the character given to "Uriah Heep by Dick
ens there was a way to treat him. Manclpal action
would reach such a The Senate could treat him
with disdain-hey could send him Coventry-deny to
him all those cives and couresie common among gem
ftmen-make him feel he is treated eper ana avoid
ed reptilethus far Senators had in their
power to do. II they have not power to impose punish
ments of law, they can take from the serpent his angs
andplacc him in that social degradation he deserves.
Mr.. SUMNER said: since had the honor OF address
ing tie Senate yesterday various Senators have spoken
several nave alluded 10 me IN terms clearly DeyVnu tue
sanetgn of parliamentary debate. OF this l make no
complaint If to them proper, and par
Iapentary to unpack the heart with words and fall
curling Ike very drab scullon will not interfere
with the enjoyment which they find in such exposure of
themselves they have certainly shown their character
Two of them the Senator from South Carolina, who sits
Immediately before me- and the Senator from Virginia,
who sits Immediately behind me, not young thor
heads ere amply crowned by time, they did not speak
from any ebulton of youth but from the confirmed tenn
yer of age. II melancholy to believe that they showed
as they are 1t charitable to believe that
they are in reality better than they showed themselves.
think Sir that am the only person on this floor who
in listening TO them in this debate these two scconhdent
champions of the pc ,uiar fanacism OF the Souh-was
reminded of the striking words of Jefferson pclurhg the
influence Of Slavery: a. The whole commerce, said he
between master and slave is perpetual exercise Oh
" the most boserous passions, the most unrem'ting
despo,sm the part and degrading submissions on
the other Our children this and learn to initiate H.
for man is initiative animal. The parent storms the
"the child looks on, catches the lneaments of wrath
puts on the same airs in the circle Of smaller slaves,
gives loose rein to his passions and thus nased
educated and daily exercised in tyranny cannot but be
stamped by with odious peculares The must be
q" prodigy who retain his manners and manly feelings
"undeprayed BY such circumstances" No person who
tw witnessed the Senator from South Carolina and the
Senator from Virginia in this debate viii place them among
the prodiges described by Jefferson. As they spoke the
Senate Chamber have seemed in their sight planta
Sen stocked with slaves over which the lash Of the over
setr bad free scope There was little that fell from them
Which deserves replycertainy not the hard words they
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