Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1856-09-04
Henry W. Hoffman.

tie South rko volsd for he expulsion Of Ar.
BrOOks.--He has mis-epresented bis district by
this vote with fanatics and for fanaticism. He
has drawn around it the black lines Of fanaIi-
oism, and covered it all over, as far as he can
by his agency, with disgrace. He has by this
vote violated the constitutional rights Of men
bers. and has struck blow a. the representa-.
ton Of the people in the House Of Representa-
lives, ,-placing the right Of Representation on
the floor of the House absolutely in the will Of
majority Of the House.
We may consider this matter grave enough
for future consideration. -Hagsrstora Maa
"0ur opinion is, that Brooks disgraced hint
self and brought the whole slavery cause into
more disrepute than ever, and should be
summary expelled from the House. 1t was
stretch Of ehivaly on his part for which no
valid excuse can be offered, Summers offence
against Butler did not deserve any physical
castigation, but on the contrary, was in our es-
timsIion, taking all circumstances, past and
present, into account. perfectly proper because
Justly merited We have no sympathy with
the slavery agitators, on either side-we have
supreme contempt for southern FIRE eaters
and ice vending northern fanatics: but we do
think that il ever man might be excused from
becoming desperate in the halls Of legislation,
that man is Sumner.
"We have read the debates in Congress for
many years past, minutely andimpartially, and
never have we known any man so foully and
increasingly abused and villifed as this same
Sumner. Every dog Of Southern agitation
from 'Boss" Douglas down to the smallept and
most NANCY that whines and snarls in the un-
principled, suck egg train, has been barking at
bis heels; but the fact has not been successfully
hit, that their spite arises more from knowl-
of his cool superiority Of talent, than whom in our
humble opinion more unprincipled and r-ck-
less agitator never disgraced the Senate cham
ber-has from time to time hurled at Sumner
all his native end well cultivated slang; and
then ''Og, the King of Bashan"-Gen. Cass
the old broken down President seeker and IN
consistent Free soiler-has never failed to chime
in with his more solid inVectve; and the cho-
rus has been filed to every beat and bar with
the yelpings Of the little woOlly headed pOOd-
les from the South-men who have no more
principle, and but little more brain than The
African slaves in behalf of whose chains they
so unjudiciously rave and rant, And finally,
under the influence of all this. Sumner be.
comes somewhat desperate, and hurlG at his
conglomerated assailants some thunder bolts
which send them bowling in hurried confusion
| and then, as last resort Of revenge, one Of the
manly number slips up to him in ihe Senate
chamber, finds him seated at his desk writing,
unarmed, and with great gusto canes him!-
Wonderful featI And is this the way South
ern Rights ara to be vindicated? Are these
the kind Of champions the South must look to
for her defence in the national halls OF legisla-
tion? Is it by such acts of siavish degradation
as this that the slavery OF the Southern States
of this free and enlightened Union is to be per-
petuated? Gentlemen may think SO, and may
rave at any man who has the independence to
condemn such conduct-partcularly if he be
Southerner; but we tell them that the citi-
zens OF this Republic are not to be convinced
as to what is right and what's wrong by blows
and are not to be brought to final tecisi, by
brute force. ."-Minden (La.) Herald.
The extracts above are both from Southern
papers. The Herald, the extreme South; the
Mail, Just across the line.' The manly and
honest sentiments of the former are IN such ia
Eorable contrast with the mean spirited, time
serving, gutta percha slang of the, latter, that
we publish them together, in order to expose
the apologsts of murderOus scoundrelism by
one of his "kith." 1t will further elucldate
this ''violation of the Constitutional rights Of
members" when it is borne in mind that the
Mail is tho mouth piece Of certain Hon. ex-
Member Of Congress, whom, ifhistOry tells the
truth, has the same reason for hating and
slandering Nh. Hoffman, that Butter has for
dreading Sumner, because he couldn't answer
him. When such miserable things as Brooks
and Keitt and the still more desprcabIe span
iels barking their disgrace, and with their men,
ories, are rotting together in one common
grave Of infamy, the Southern sky, if by none
else besides, will be frightened by at least one
star of glory-the vote Of Henry W. Hoffman,
in favor of liberty of speech and of debate upon
the floor of the Senate Of the United States.
From tIe Tuscarawss Advocate.
straight-Outs for Fremont.