Butte record., 1856-07-26
Irn. ux,oerisy Of Black Republicanism.

The alledged outrages upon the free state
men in Kanzas, and the assault by Brooks
apon Sumner, have furnished occasion for a
vast amount of Republican Indignation and
biIlingsgate. They have been denounced as
gross infractions of right, as heinous viola
lions of law. 1t is we'll known in the At
lantic States, that Sumner is kept housed for
political effect only and that the half hourly
bulletins concerning the desperateness ofhis
condition that have been sent flying over the
pon-slaveholding States by telegraph, were
designed as SO many ''shrieks" for freedom
in Kanzas or to make Republican party
political capital.
DR.. Boyle, who was the only physician in
attendance upon Mr.. Sumner, testified be-
fore the House investigating committee that
Mr.. Sumner h I'd been in no danger from the
effects of his fogging-had no fever-and
might have taken carriage and driven to
Baltimore on the day after the attack with
out danger. His evidence, as it appears in
the Washington papers, shows the sheer
humbuggery Of the pretences of the Repub-
lican press that Mr.. Sumner was seriously
hurt by Mr. Brooks.
In relation to these ''outrages' Republican
meetings have passed "blood and thunder"
resolutions, Republican Editors have pub
lished vituperative articles, and Republican
Clergymen have preached fanatical sermons.
Does any intelligent man imagine that
sense of justice, a reverence for law, re-
gard for injured right, actuates these meet
ings, these editors, these clergymen' We
think not 1t is gross hypocrisy. If the
feeling we're a sound and healthy one, it
would have been aroused at other and more
serious violations of justice. The Freeman's
Journal recollects the following outrages
upon right which should have called it forth;
..Soae years ago there living upon one of the
hills which overlook Boston Fanueil Hall. commu
hrty Of ladies' devoted to educotion and religion. At
midnight their dwelling was sacked and reduced 10
ashes, the chapel desecrated aud the tombs torn
open. Teu thousand people of Massachusetts looked
on and not arm not voice, was lifted TO defend
that community of women and children. prolong-
ed afternvesgation ailed TO snbstanlate one solita
~ uense the part of the sufferers OF the outrage
Tr.ntvtwo years have since passed and not dollar
OF repnration has been paid. Within year COM
mitt-, of the legislature of the state enacted
disgusting invasion of private dwelling, likewise
occupied by women and children. Possibly OF Mr..
Summers indignant friend, may have assisted on that
OCCASION. We have had to record in these columns
the burning Of many churches which poor Catholics.
with toll and sacrifices had erected to worship God
in. Al Ellsworth, in Maine, venerable priest was
,irpped beaten tarred and eathered, and ridden tp
on a rail We see account of an Indignation NEE
ting denounce his assailans. Blu; then he was only
a peaceful man, faithful to his calling, engaged in
teaching his flock, consoling the sick. baptizng the
infant and buryng the dead. He not great anti
-invery agtaor standing up in the Senate ol the u
and denouncng the domestic concerns of nearly half
the of the confederacy, and hkening honorable
Senators 10 toads and reptiles
Why did they not hold Indignation meet
ings over the case of Owen Quigley, who
only shouted ''Hurrah for Magruder," (the
democratic candidate for Mayor,) as he
passed a Know Nothing and his companions
in one of the streets of Washington, and for
this he was beaten and kicked to death on
the spot 1t was short speech, but it cost
him his life. Yet no public meetings have
been held in consequence, nor is it proposed
to redress the wrong by general rush of
the north and west to Washington "to sindi-
cate the right of speech" And all this diff
ference because Quigley was a democrat and
not an Abolitionist. A shame upon their
hypocrisy and Misrepresentation!
They care nothing about law and right
Their Indignation over the kanzas 'out-
rage and the Sumner ''outrage" is got up
and kept up, merely for the promotion of
their political ends. By such means they
hope to stir up sectional feeling in the
north sufficiently powerful to bear them into
national power. Their hope will not be re-
allied. The majority of the people of the
north are too clear sighted to be deceived
by their hypocritical professions, and toe
patriotic to render aid to their reasonable
purposes.