Washington sentinel., 1856-05-29
nor The following extract from the speech

we publish, that our readers may see how jus
ti6able the Hon. Mr.. BRooKs was in infictinl
chastisement on Mr.. Sumner for his wantor
attack on his relative and State:
MIR. summers Reply to Senator Butler.
| But, before entering upon the argument,
must say something of general character
particularly in response to what has fallen from
Senators who have raised themselves to emf.
nence on this floor in championship of human
wrongs i meag the Senator from South Caro-
lina Mr.. Butler,) and the Senator from lii
nois, (Mr. Douglass who, though unlike as
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, yet, like this
couple sally forth together in the same cause.
The Senator from South Carolina has read
many books of chivalry, and believes himself
chivalrous knight, with sentiments Of honor
and courage. OF course he has chosen mis-
tress to whom he has made his vows, and who,
though ugly to others, is always lovely to him |;
though polluted in the sight of the world, is
chaste in his sight mean the harlot, slavery.
For her, his tongue is always profuse in words
Let her be impeached in character, or any
proposition made to shut her out from the ex-
tension Of her wantonness, and no extrava-
gance of manner or hardihood of assertion is
then too great for this Senator. The frenzy
of Don Quixote, in behalf of his wench Dull
cinea del Toboso, is all surpassed. The as
serted rights of slavery, which shock equality
of all kinds, are cloaked by fantastic claim
Of equality. If the slave States cannot enjoy
what, in mockery of the great fathers of the
republic, he misnames equality under the Con-
stitution-in other words, the full power in the
national Territories to compel fellow-men to
unpaid toll, to separate husband and wife, and
to sell little children at the auction block
then, sir, the chilvalric Senator will conduct
the State of South Carolina out Of the Union
Heroic knight Exalted Senator! A second
Moses come for second exodus
With regret, ! come again upon the Senator
from South Carolina, Mr. Butler, who, omni
present in this debate, overfowed with rage at
the simple suggestion that Kansas had applied
for admission as State and, with incoherent
phrases, discharged the loose expectoration Of
his speech, now upon her representative, and
then upon her people. There was no extrava-
gance Of the ancient Parliamentary debate
which he did not repeat; nor was there any
possible deviation from truth which he did not
make, with so much of passion, am glad to
add, as to save him from the suspicion of in
territorial alteration. But the Senator touches
nothing which he does not disfgure-with
error, sometimes of principle, sometimes of
fact. He shows an incapacity of accuracy,
whether in stating the Constitution or in stat
ing the law whether in the details of statistics
or the diversions of scholarship. He cannot
ope his mouth, but out there flies blunder
Surely he ought to be familiar with the life of
Franklin; and yet be referred to this household
character, while acting as agent of our fathers
In England, as above suspicion; and this was
done that he might give point to a false con-
trast which the agent of Kansas-not knowing
that however they may differ in genius and
fame, in this experience they are alike; that
Franklin, when entrusted with the petition of
Massachusetts Bay, was assaulted by foul
mouthed speaker, where he could not be heard
in defence, and denounced as thief" even
as the agent of Kansas had been denounced as
"forger." And let not the Senator be in
spired by the parallel with the British states
men of that day; for it is only in hostility to
Freedom that any parallel can be recognized.
But it is against the people of Kansas that
the sensbilities of the Senator are particularly
aroused. Coming, as he announces, "from q
State"-ay Sir, from South Carolina-he turns
with lordy disgust from this newly 70. ned com.
munity, which he will not recognize en- as "a
body-politic." Pray, Sir, by what title does he
| indulge in this egotism? Has he read the his
tory of 'the State which he represents? He
cannot surely have forgotten its shameful i'm
becility from slavery, confessed throughout the
Revolution, followed by its more shameful as
sumptions for slavery since. He cannot have
| forgotten its wretched persistence in the slave
trade as the very apple of its eye, and the con.
dition of its participation in the Union. He
cannot have forgotten its Constitution, which
| is republican only in name, confirming power
in the hands Of the few and founding the quail.
6cations of its Legislators on "a settled freehold
estate and ten negroes" And yet the Senator,
to whom that Estate" has in part committed
the guardianship Of its good name, instead of
moving with backward treading steps, to cover
its nakedness, rushes forward, in the very
ecstacy of madness, to expose it by provoking
a comparison with Kansas. South Carolina is
old; Kansas is young. South Carolina counts
by centuries; where Kansas counts by years.
But a beneficent example may be born in a
day; and venture to say, that against the two
centuries Of the older Estate" may be already
set the two years Of trial, envolving correspond
ing virtue, in the younger community. In the
one, is the long wall of slavery; in the other,
the hymns Of freedom. And If we glance at
special achievements it will be difficult to end
anything in the history Of South Carolina
which presents so much OF heroic spirit in an
heroic cause as appears in that repulse of the
Missouri invaders by the beleaguered town OF
Lawrence, where even the women gave their
effective efforts to Freedom. The matrons OF
Rome, who poured their jewels into the trea-
sury for the public deience-the wives OF
Prussia, who, with delicate fingers, clothed
their defenders against French invasion-the
mothers of our own Revolution, who sent forth
their sons, covered over with prayers and bles-
sings, to combat for human rights, did nothing
of selfsacrihce truer than did these women on
this occasion. We're the whole history OF
South Carolina blotted out of existence, from
its very beginning down to the day Of the last
election Of the Senator TO bis present seat on
this floor, civilization might lose-I do not say
how little; but surely less than it has already
gained by the example of Kansas, in its valiant
struggle against oppression, and in the de-
velopement Of new science of emigration.
Already in Lawrence alone there are news
papers and schools, including high school,
and throughout this infant Territory there is
more mature scholarship far, in proportion to
its inhabitants, than in all South Carolina. All,
sir, / tell the Senator that Kansas, welcomed
as n free State, will be "ministering angel
| 10 the Republic when South Carolina in the