, 1855-01-06
4 Healthier Public sentiment,

whiggery TO a clearer apprehension Of theI
startling schemes Of the abolitionis's Wei
at last notice that voice is now and then
heard In condemnation Of the moral PERU
ry and treason recently avowed and re-
buked in the United States Senate. Even
Boston wbig journals start from the revolt
Ing perfdy Of Sumner, and those who dol
not censure fear TO praise him. The spec
tacle Of man standing up in his place in
the American Senate and boldly defying
the laws he had sworn to support is rare
even in these days Of wonders How such
patriots as Henry Clay and Daniel Web
ster would have recoied from such a spec
tacle The denuncation Of Mr. Clay, APP
piled on another occasion, and to the
representative Of another State, may be
well and appropriately quoted against Mr..
Sumner:
If he pronounced the sentiment at
tributed TO him. Of raising the standard Of
disunion and resistance to The common gOrern-
ment, both of which Sumner has done,
whatever he has been, If he follow up that
declaration by corresponding overt acts,
land Mr. Sumner has recommended these,
HE WILL BE A TRAITOR, AND l
HOPE HE WILL MEET THE FATE
OF A TRAITOR"
These glorious words, part of that truly
immortal speech which did so much to car
~ the Compromise measures, were met with
the warmest demonstrations of Popular re-
joicing. From the moment when they were
enunciated in the Senate of the United
States, they were welcomed by sponta-
neous outburst Of applause, they were
greeted with the thanks of patriots every
where. And now when we lind the exam
pie thus memorably rebuked by Henry
Clay, feebly instituted in the person Of
Charles Sumner, we do not wonder that
the general mind recurs to the fate Of him
who dared to threaten violence upon the
government only few years ago.
The extreme recklessness of Summers
course-the air of defiance with which he
treats the oath he has sworn to the consti-
tuition of the United States-the perjury
he deliberately avows and hoasts in-and
the 6endish malignity with which he wars
upon the most sacred obligations Of the
States one to the other-have done, and
are doing, good service among the Ameri-
can people. The old Henry Clay and Dan
iel Webster wings see these things with in-
dignation and with alarm, and do not hesi-
tate publicly to disavow both Sumner and
his doctrines. They argue thus: "The
same violence, the same Virulence, the same
threats, the same treason, were elected and
avowed against the compromise measures,
and were buried, with those who gave ut
terance 10 them, in one common oblivion.
Surely the Nebraska bill cannot be worse
than the compromise measures, when simi-
lar means are resorted 10 defeat and to
dishonor it. The principles Of the one are
the principles Of the other and as certain
as that the one has been crowned with sue
cess, just so certainly will the other tri-
umph." .'-'
The evidence Of corrected public feel
ing in the North on this subject are begin
ming to increase. ..-
Even the New York Express cannot re.
strain the expression Of its feelings against
Summers last exhibition in the Senate
We copy:i
"The Express refe,s to the deliberate
acknowledgment of Charles Sumner, the
abolition senator from Massachusetts, that
he recognises no obligation 10 execute the
constitution of the United States, and calls
trPERJURY-rank, unblushing, bold.faced
perjury-and so it is. The same paper al
so says, and says truly, that it is just such
men as Charles Sumner that make northern
protests shallow and hypocritical preten-
ces. Why reproaeh the South with bad
faith when northern senators in Congress
openly acknowledge treason to the consti-
tuition Why charge upon the South vio-
lations Of 'plighted faith when VIC are
openly advertising ourselves as recognising
not even the fundamental law of The land p
We repeat, therefore, that freedom has no
enemies more dangeroA no foes more for
midible, than these highcr-law abolitionists,
who worm their way into the councils Of
the nation. They are the real props of the
slave power and the slave propaganda, Of
which they affect so much 10 rail against
and denounce. Now, we cannot make up
our minds that this perjured senator is
correct exponent Of Massachusetts, seni-
ment. He may represent Theodore Parker
or Wendell Phillips, but he does not repre-
sent Boston be does not represent Mas
sachnsetts he does not represent New
England. Were it otherwise-were this
Mr.. Sumner, indeed, faithful exponent of
the morality and the general views Of the
section of the country that has sent him to
Washington, we should beg, for very
shame's sake, to hear no more about the
wickedness Of the heathen-to be less our
own eulogists, as Christian people, and
10 be less blatant in our boastings Of civil
ization." tlf.t' tlt -iI.
Article vi Of the constitution Of the
United States says:
1.-The senator's Of the Uni
ted States shall be bound, by oath or atfrma-
tion, to support This constitution
Mr. Charles Sumner had to take this
oath, and did take this oath, before taking
his seat in the chamber which he has lust
disgraced by this declaration-I RECOGNISE