New-York daily tribune., 1856-06-09
TIE NEU- YORK SUMNER NEE TING AT
THE SOUTH.
From IAs RieAmos.d Erdmtnsy.

R,ppoor yRon THE FIVE PoSTs-Hor CoRS
REsoLurroSs.-The New York papers OF SATURDAY
last are Il led with the proceedings of an Immense mtS
meetr which was held at the broadway isoefnScle
the evening before. to express the indignation OF that
modern Sodom over the Sumner osusge. Inc
paving, believing, throwing up OF esite, D~iss J"
chorus and g, neral kicking up OF dust, wa'co nIsn
ated herds Of cstle comet ines enact upon spo,e re-
Gently mostened by the blood Of slaughtered baocts
or yearlpg. are solemn, path. ana moderate exh
bitions of anger, compact with hs oo"feroas aa@
ertraragant proceedings q mese nagnss' M ssX,n o.s
Who these gisst msgnstes ale that have ient tne
nau. nee Of their nanes and the fsfvor OF Their eo-
qut nee TO the meeting shoad have to con.eh Inc
ana .. emed 70 be regarded by the meeting - the
great lights and aders Of public fentiment 10 tnss
city, which is enough to satisfy the judicously incu-
rious in metropolitan bograPhy--too close an iavssu
psrvebues 6,ng apt TO lead explorers Of delicate nos!rs
'mfo paths and ehasaeis rA'cA they ~oaM sisdIy Aare
svoide8.
over the meeting, seems 10 have been an old MAJ
hauled out from retirement expressly to dignity tho
occasion by his gray hairs
He was assisted by long retinae of Vice-Pfes-
deLts amosg whom men well known 10 the
Daniel Lord was the first speaker.
Retiring amid applause Lord was succeeded by
nounced ss Ruggles-Samuel A.. Ruggiss. Rasgiss
did not seem satisfied with speaking end resoviss;
Ruggles was for marching u instanter 10 tho direc-
tion of Washington City and South Csrohus To pre-
vent PIess Brooks from destroying the Government
The meeting remained, nevertheless, TO hear Q
speech frem another ora'or-snnOunced - Charles
Kipg-who turned out to be the President Of Coium-
bis College. Charles not only some pumpkise -
head of college, bat the meeting was informed that
they beheld in the individual before them the son OF
Rufus King:
"Hs belonged 10 q race that bad had something 70
do with the formation Of the Constitution. And vhen
be saw oil ito blessings stricken down BY dassrdly
coward be could not refrain from expressing As ssni
nsnts On the subject"
Charles, the son Of Rufus, having thus discharged
the load Of duty which had weighed upon his con
science and expressed himself freely and " biz entire
sstisfactiOp, wss followed BY Q mar announced -
Morgan, who hsd been an eyewitness OF tho ost
rage" upon Sumner, and who came Tor zero ~ re-
hesrse the /. ucbDg story TO the meeting n@gsa had
acted the Good Samaritan to the victim OF Brooks, ie
the senate Chamber, and concluded hs narrative Of
the affair in the melting style Of nsrt kntbcsy.
al this vii6csiion with THEN usual eomplscency end
that they will take no extraordinary pains 10 nd scs
the ope Of New York 10 recoosider their enfsvor-
able Judgment They are vetsrsns IN To eaaafe1,e ne
of utltines ike these. A. 10 New YORK city, INTO
hose leo they have poured the profits OF thssr in
merse trade without stint for half century WON
tbey have trusted their factor ana se~ssc sod o.
lowed to fleece them 70 safety wnos .nsy ssvs en-
ricl,d by their un.tsted patronage ana ns,e 70 grow
o,ea. from the produce II their lands and rom tho
.vrst of their brows II IL the old tory OF Jehsrun
growing fat and kicking, torsoA'sg ne osn<t9esw az
.ade AIM and lightly esteem'"g ne rseS % ." s@Isa-
tton. H.. A.. -.
"Jesburun! Jeshurun thou AT wsxen "a; tnou sn
grown thick; thou srs covered with fatn-s."
But these proce edpgs are somsthing more tAss the
~. sSnos and ratings VI an ngTste. They wore en-
sctsd In The bauDts Of vice and brutality which hsve
besp pictured in TIE TRiBssE's Hot Corn revelsloas
in cose vicinity TO the tbeaer Of the hcenfos,Ssyss
OF the FREE overs. They were enacted ~ eAe oss
S,teIog,neoss eoneiarss of merehants, ~esdieasts,
LankeS, Bsekoekets, ma'oaa'res, oele,s-
atlarg., sedsoers, sx'ndLers snobs, modd-avf:sss,
hreys.mes dfriass commOn-eoyrisys, &c., vfA cA'ck
frerS nset,ng in his mof,rn Babylon 70 PILED mp 10
tie Ir,m, and " not a sqaore 'aeh 10 .pare"
One Of her own highest au horifies has dclsIed,
without contradiction, that there wss more brutality
vice, knavery and prostitution, iLcossd bstveen
Bleeeksr street and North ami East Rivers than could
be found in all the Ststes Of the Ubioa South Of AA
con and DixCns line. What he historian has SAID Of
ancient Babylo may BE- applied with trwh % ths
modern We, thou zh decebcy requires tbsf should
be repeated in bic own language.