Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-05-26
senator sum ner,s speech.


m That the reader nay judge II - tone aud
STYLE. ns WILL a. II The particular of~,ee for
which Mr.. Brook. Inflicted merited punishment.
We extract such ra--ager a. W. have space Tor
Referring 10 the condition II afiir- in Kansas
and the variau- remedies proposed. he saia
Next come. the Remedy Of Folly. which in
deed il ais, remedy 1T Tyranny but IT. Folly
/ j. sn surpassing as ~ eclipse even fs yfahny'
II does not proceed from The President. Nlih
,hi- proposition he i mol in any way chafgeahie
/, como. from the Senator from South Carolina,
Who al the close Of long speech, offered II a hls
single contribution % the llustmeni OF this qnes-
fionand whn thus far stands alone in III support.
II nigh, therefore fily bear his namH: bol that
which nov give TO II ia more suggestive sy
nnnym This proposition. markedly expressed. ~
that the people Of Kansas shoud be deprived of
+ their arms.
/ And We, such is The madness of the hour that.
I in defiance of the solemn guaranty embodied in
/ the amendments 90 the Constitution, that "ihe
/ right ~ the people 10 keep aud bear arms shall
| not be infrng.d." the peaIl !. If Kansas have
/ been arragned for keeping aud bearing them,
and the senator from South Caruhna has bud the
face To say openly, this floor. that they should
lie di armed Of course that the fanatics Of sla
very. his allies aud constituents. may meet no
/ impeachment. Sir. the Senator is venerable with
wears he j. reputed also to have wnrn at home,
ia tho State which he represents. judicial honorr;
and he is placed here nj the head Of nm important
Committee occupied particularly with questions
Of nw but neither his old nge. nor hi position.
past or present, can give responsibility io the
demand he has made, save him from indignant
condemnation. when. In compass the wretehed
purposes of wre,ched cause be thus proposes
10 trample on of the pluine-t provisions of
eon.iituionnlb liberty.
| he So nat
/ from South Carolina tMr. Butler.) who. omui.
pre- sent IN thu debate. nYerfowed with rnge at
the simple suggestion that Kansas had applied for
/ ADM s.ion n n State: and with inephcrent phra.
/ So. discharged the lo"se eIpeeioration of his
/ speech, now upon her Representative an@ then
! upon her people. There no extravaganza Of
the ancient Parliamentary debate which be did
pot rspeni; nor was there any possible deviation
from truth which he did not make. with ~ much
q. passion. | am glad Ia add, la save him from
the suspicion II intentional alteration. Bot the
senator tnunhrs nothing which he ors hot dis
hRore-wth error, sometimes ii principle. some
times of fact lie shows nm noapacty of acou-
raey, whether IN stating The Constitution or in
stating the Inv, whether in the drrnll- If Stats
tic or the diversions If scholarship. H. cannot
ope hi. mouth hut ani there 1ies hlnnler.-
Surely he ought To- be familiar with the If of
Franklin aud yet he referred 10 this .,hold
character. while acting NJ agent of our father III
England, ns above suspicion: and this WIS done
TINT he might give pnini tn n false contrast with
thu agent Of Kansas-noi knowing that, hawev.
or. they may differ in genius aud fame, IN This
experience they alike, that Franklin, when
intrusted with the petition If Mas achn-rtts
Bay. was assaulted by foul monthcd speaker
where he could not he heard in defense. aud de
nounced as thief" even rs the agent of Kan
sas has been assaulted ON this floor and de
nnunced 'forger And let not the vanity
ot the Senator he in,pired 10y the parallel with
the British statesmen at that day for il is only
IN hostility to Freedom thni any parallel can he
recognized but /, - against the proplei Kan
rus that the sensibiIile- of The senator are pnr-
particularly aroused Coming. ns he announces,
from State"-ayr, Sir, from South Cnrolina-
he turns with lordly DISCUS, from this newly
formed community, whiel, he will not reoogniz
even as "a body polite" prny. Sir, by what
title does he indulge IN this eg biism HIS he
read the history Of ''thc State which he repre-
sents lie cannot surely have forgotten it,
shameful imbcc'iity from Shysry. confessed
throughout the Revolution, followed h, It's more
shameful assumptions for Slavery since. He
cannot have forgotten its wretch,d persistence
in the slave trade as the very nipple Of lis eye,
an the condition Of its participation in the Tn.
ion. He cannot have forgotten its Constitution
which is republican only in mime, confirming
power in the hands of the few. and founding the
qualifications Of voters on IA settled freehold es-
taie aud ten negroes Aud yet the Senator to
whom that "Siatc" has IN part committed the
gnai dinship of it, good name. instead If moving
with backward treadng steps, Ia cover its naked
ness, rushes forward in the very ecstacy Of mad
ness, 10 expose il by provoking u comparison with
Kansas. South Carolina is old; Kansas is
young. South Carolina counts by centuries
where Kansas counts bv years But a henef
cient example may be born in day; and venture
TO say iha, against the two centuries of the Older
STATE" may be already set the two years of
trial. evolving corresponding virtue, in the
Younger community. IN the one IL the long wall
OF Slavery; in the other the HYMNS Of freedom. -
And if we glance at s'ecal achievements. 1t will
be difficult To find anything in the history
OF South Carolina which presents much
of heroic spirit in heroic cause n appears in
TINT rcpulse of the Missouri invaders by the be
leoeured town Of Lawrence, where even the wo-
men gave their etfrctual efforts Ia Free dom. The
ma'rons Of Rome. who pou' ed their jewels into
the treasury Tor the public dcfense-the wives If
Prussn, who with delicate finge rs. clothed their
defenders against French in, usion--the mothers
OF our own Revolution who sent forth their sons
covered over with prayers and blessings. to com
bat for Human Rights, did nothing of self sacri-
flee truer than did these women on this occasion.
Were the whole history of South Carolina blottpd
out ct existence. from It's beginning down to the
dry OF the last election of the Senator to his pre-
sent 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
valient struggle against oppression, and in the
devel"pement of new science of emigration
Already in Lawrence alone there are newspapers
and schools including a High School aud
throughout the Territory there is more academic
education than in all Missouri outside Of st.
Louis; and more far, in proportion to its inhabi-
tants, than in oil South Carolina. An, Sir,
tell the Senator that Kansas welcomed asa Free
State. will be administering angel to the Repub
lie. when South Carolina. in the cloak If dark nes.