The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-07-31


a seuafor in Congress from the state
OF massachusetts, occ- stoned by his
Anti.SIavery D scOurse in NiDlO's
Tbeater-by Rev. h. J. Breckin.
ridge.
sal have read with great attention a
discourse of yours published in the New York
Tribune of the 18th OF May, which accord
inc to the statements of that paper, was
pronounced at Niblo's Theatre. in the City
of New York, few days before, to an inn
mense and delighted assembly OF the people,
| will add that it is my habit to read carefully
whatever find in the newspapers of the day
proceeding from you. For observe in what
falls from you, more serious conviction,
deeper tincture of scholarship larger intell-
gence, and more earnest manlness, than l
have been able to discover in the utterance
of those who seem to enjoy your confidence
and share your labors. 1t is no dspurage-
ment to you, personally, to add that repre-
senting the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
sitting in the seat of Daniel Webster, dis
coursing of the duty of the Northern States
on the most dangerous topic OF our day, and
pleading eloquently for the necessity, practic-
ability and dignity, of an enterprise whose
success involves the ruin of the country
your words have, for all considerate men, an
interest and an importance. which all your
high uualiles would fail to impart to them,
( if you spoke as private citizens. 1t may be
possible, also, that the words of private
person like myself, and a total stranger to
you, by connecting themselves with the
stirring and dangerous words spoken by you
from that great position you have won, may
obtain an audience, which but tor that, II
were idle to expect for them. And you Will
yourself, perhaps, admit that have some
what to say, worthy OF serious consideration,
and that my life long connection, In many
forms, with most of the topics you discuss,
entities me, without undue presumption, to
give utterance TO some OF the thoughts ex-
cited by your discourse.
Allow me, Sir, to utter in one sentence,
the substance oil my whole thought touching
the madness of the times, about this whole
question of Negro Slavery. Here we are
great people, with a glorious mission set
before US. More than twenty millions OF US
with whose destiny the destiny of three or
four millions Of blacks is fearfully combined.
One way or other, we must solve their des-
tinv, when we solve our own. This Is
wholly unavoidable. But, the madness -
that every seven whiteAmericans.n must needs
cut each others throats concerning the fate
of one black African! Is there no Solution
of the problem of their destiny and ours, but
that solution which destroys us, without oene'
filing them! And can statesman such as
do not see sufficient reason to doubt you are
and patriots such as have not the heart tc
DENY you to behind no better solution Of
this terrible problem-no nobler issue OF ouI
sublime hopes-than mstual destruc ton By
the men OF the North and the men Of the
South,-for the sake of the African slaves
III 0ItY ho
chile strength, f even thEeqgh, by our irwin
4 black race, carrying them forward Iu'-he
e out US. and yet mounting up ourselves, ia
beyond anything they may ever reach!-
Shame upon every American Statesman
and every American patriot, who
insensible to the glory of such result! In
i. fanny to every one VINO comspires to defea
g it!
And yet, Sir, you, an American Senator
speaking in the name OF that great Common
wealth in whose bosoms ands Bunker Hill -
and sitting in the seat of that Statesman an
Patriot who saw no hope for public liberty
6 higher than that which rests upon the Unio
of these States; you, an American Senator
who have studied the past and who fear God
allow Yourself to bring the whole force o
0 your character, your position, and your grea
Il
; alone it is possible TO wreck the country, q NJ
to destroy US all together! The very mad
y ness of the times assumes in you, its mos
y frantic aspect: and you openly avow5 tina
: Slavery in America, IS a wrong so greviou
& ard uneuestionable that it should not be al
) lowed to cont,nue,-ray, that it should ceas
to exist at Once,-nay, that a wrong so trans
c cendant, so loathsome, so direful, must b.
i encountered wherever it can be reached, an
the battle must be continued without truce o
compromise, until the field is entirely won
Such are your words, profoundly eloquent
unspeakaby frantic:
Now, Sir, this means; neither more no
less; than the edge of the sword. Lay asd
= the rhetoric, and the simple sense is, crap
and canister, cold steel aud stricken battle
Believe me, Mr.. Sumner, when | state tw
facts, one of hieh know better than yo
= do, and the other OF which you ought I
y know, better, perhaps, than do. The fact
n which know better than you do is, tina
whenever the very faintest indication of tn
: settled purpose of the men of the North 1
follow your advice becomes apparent to III
men of the fifteen Slave States of thi
: Unions million of armed men, will b
/. ready to receive you and your followers: an
a if you come not speedily thereafter to exc
cute your threats. your coming will not b
: waited for; but they will seek you on the so
e where you now vainly suppose no DANCE
is will ever come. The fact which you ough
4 to know better than | do is, that after two q
three hundred thousand mel are arrayed i
= battle, on each side, it makes no sort Z
u difference as to the probable result, whethe
}. one or the other party has the greater re
serve of physical force, left out of battle; be
; cause, alter two or three hundred thousan
= G.Lhrinrr man ii tho stnta Of Tho M