New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-07-26
Preston S. Brooks ana Anson Burllnsame

Preston s.. Brooks and Anson BurIlngagne.
The Boston Courier of the 18th, under the above
caption makes the following severe structures on the
discrimination Of Mr.. Burlingame d Ssfs
The Washington Union of Wednesday prints in
detail the yaledctory speech of Preston s. Brooks of
South Carolina the occasion of resignng his seat
in the House Of Representatives after the passage Of
the vote censurng his assauton Senator Sumner. To
this speech he has added the following ,i8 II.
APPENDIX..
5 a. Of
the Hon Mr. Barnse and myself renders II that
the sqbioDed memoranda should be appended my speech
sponssx snsasss used j. IS spsss aHd
on any 5 Ct ap2 the Of Mr.
70 which Es was called lied
nsE F H hs au,y 5ssassd him
Book wiling spaker s%ks and
was BY M Bprnsame in our presence and was
1Ylv u ls,s " v Y y assoos RSyss !,
MI. Bnrlingames speech was poor as an intellectu-
al elort-but it indicated that he had one thing Just
now sadly needed by many Of the Northern members
pluck. He SAID that Brooks smote Mr.. Sumner .sas
Cain smote his brother" and he (Burlingame) was
responsible for his language. To be sure undereyery
dueling code in the world, it was his duty to chai
enge Keitt for saying sit is false" although had
Brooks used that language he could not have thrown
the burden of the challenge upon Mr.. Burlingame.
accept challenge so evident from it, and so often
avowed among his friends, that he had the credit Of
making speech which, weak as twas might cost
him his life He was the man in the Massachusetts
delegation who .would fght!p He is called to ac-
count by Brooks and he discriminates bet,peen the
man and the act. Now, we have to say that not only
the lond-mouthed Free-Soiers and Know Nothings
who elected him, but the sold linenf Wings of his
district and of this commonwealth make such dis
elimination. We mean nothing disrespecttul of his
advisers One of them, certainly, we know to be a
man of courage and honor in every sense of those
words. We feel sure that he would donothing ineon-
sistent with his position. But Mr.. Bnrlingame's will
Of course, was directory and decisive. The settle
ment, by means of this Piekwickian discrimination
is his own, "His honor was in his own keeping,
and it is with pain and shame that every man o
cournge at the North whatever may be his opinions
of dueing, will say as member OF the Irish Parlia
ment once said, office of keeping his honor
is n sinecure,'
| Physical courage is common enough north and
south of Niason's and Dixons line though the test
and manifestations may be different. We do not ad
vocate defend the practice of dueling. We judge
men by what they profess--the man claiming to bs
at once conscientiously opposed to dueling and |
man of courage believing in elfdefence by seeing
whether not he says what he and his constituent
think plainly and boldly, when such words may en-
danger his life; and the man protesting readiness tt
accept a challenge and practicng with his rifle ii
preparation for it, by seeing whether he will fgh
! when the time comes. Mr.aBurlingane took his DO
I sition. Not only did the men who elected him ant
the whole party to which he now belongs, declare and
believe that Brooks act and his courage and honor
were not separable, but they said that the frs
4 stamped the man and demonstrated the absence O
the two last Such was the almost unanimous senti
ment of Massachusetts, Until Mr. fBurlingame Was
challenged, we do not believe that such dserimna
tion ever entered the brain OF man Of his party o.
of an old line Wing. 1t was left for him to discover
We cannot to characterize sGonduct
Had his views of dueling been honestly entertaine.
and honestly adhered to- he would in the estimation
Of large body of men in Massachusetts,, been th
Il champion Of d section and living might have been,
hero or dying q martyr AS it Is, he has disgfacet
his district and his adopted State and i noreprese
Ii at the end Of his Congressional career he shall b
remembered at oil, 1t will be only for the pusillani
nous discrimination which he has suffered himself +
make between " the man and the act"