New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-16
MIR. SUMNER AT THE SOUTH.

HdTfTIStI Va tD"t Wy "ANN"'' - 49, -
the doughlace organ of New-England;
"Sens.or Sumner travels in the Slave States with
rer;ect impuDity and great bodness. At Nashville,
TENT, on Friday week, he received the attention Oh
many prominent ciuzehs.
This brief extract affords striking example
Of the almost incredible abjectness Of spirit
hab,tusl TO our Northern doughfaceS. Mr..
Sumner, after having, as Senator from
Massachusetts,, freely expressed IN the
Senate Chamber of the United States his
opnon-and that in no fattering terms-of the
institution of Slavery, dares nevertheless to
venture to set his foot within the territory of q
Slave State. This The Post calls "great bold
"ness" aud evidently regards as an astonishing
piece of tcmerity on the part of Mr. Sumner.
The shareholders evidently are TO the frightened
soul of that ouinal-if indeed its fright has left
il any soul-a set of ferocious and horrible
giants and ogres, ready to swallow d. n whole
any Northern man who, after having lisPed
word against Slavery, should presume to set his
foot within their precincts. The Boston Post
does not seem to have ever conceived the idea
that as to this topic ofSiavery the constitutional
provision for Congressional freedom of debate
is able to afford the slightest protection. 1t is,
astonished that Senator Sumner, so soon as he
nut his foot within the limits of the Slave
State of Tennessee, was not forthwith lyuched
on the spot Had he been ridden on rail or
tarred and feathered that journa would evidently
have accepted such a proceeding as quite mat
ter of course-a perfectly natural, and indeed
excusable, way on the part of the Shareholders
Of defending the institution of Slavery, and a
conclusive answer to all the objections which
mightha been urged against it by Senator Sum-
ner, on whom alone the entire blame of this
breach of the peace would have rested. Had
"many prominent citizens" of Nashville, on Mr..
Summers arrival in that city, waited upon him as
many prominent citizens of Charleston did upon
Mr.. Hoar, and offered their services forth with
to chow him the way out of town, The Boston
Post would evidently have regarded it as just the
sort of entertainment which a Massachusetts,
Ant-Slayery United States Senator might nat
urally expect upon presumiBg to enter a slave
holding city. That Mr. Sumner should travel in
Kentucky and Tennessee boldly" under his
own rame-instead Of attempting TO pass muster
under some assumed one, borrowing for the oc-
casion, for instance, the name of his anxious
fIebd of The Post-and that he should thus
boldly" travel with "perfect impunity, strikes
The Post as something remarkable as to need
to be signalized in an editorial paragraph. When
to this the still more remarkable fact is added
that at Nashville "be received the attentions of
"many prominent citizens" The Post gapes with
establishment, and is wholly at loss what to
make of it or how to account for it.
Now to US, with all due submission to the
superior judgment of our contemporary, the ex-
PLANTATION seems to be very simple 1t il writ
ten in a certain boOk--some Of whose precepts
it is a pity The Post does not study with little
more attentOn-"TO him that hath shall be
"given; from him that hath not shall be taken
"away, even that which he hath" The man who
has and who shows decent degree of respect
for himself may very fairly count, in the slave
holding States or elsewhere, upon being treated
with like decent degree of respect by others.
Monsters and ferocious phenomena as The Post
seems to esteem them, the Shareholders after
all are men-they seldom venture to at
tack or to insult a person who they see
is both able and willing to defend himself,
and by whom they may expect to be called to
account for their insults and their wrongs. Nay,
let US DO the shareholders the justice to say that
there are many men among them very different
indeed from The Post, and of whom that journal
may have some difficulty in forming an idea
men who respect courage, sincerity, frankness
and TRUTH and who utterly abhor a doughface.
When fellow rolls himselfi in the dirt at your
feet and humbly begs the privilege of kissing
your great toe-as The Post is in the habit Of
doing with the slave. drivers-itis the most natu-
raj thing in the world instead of giving him your
toe to kiss, to give the miserable wretch kick
in the face. This is not peculiar to the slave
holders, but is a common thing all the world
over. There are no ours that get so many kicks
as your fawniDg puppies. The Post ought not,
from the sort of treatment which it consciously
feels is due to itself, TO form any idea as to
the kiId Of reception likely to be given by
the more intelligent and better informed part
Of the shareholders to such man as Mr.. Sum-
ner. A man-that is TO say, white man
who shows himself to be man, is likely to be
recognized and treated as such at the South
as well as elsewhere. 1t is perfectly natural
that in their treatment of Northern men, prop
erly SO called, and in their treatment OF North
ern doughfaces, the Southerners should make
all the difference which they do in their treat
nent of their negroes, and of those whom they
regard as their equals. The writers Of The Post
on visit to the South might reasonably expect