Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-07-12
THE PATRON TO WHOM SUMMER
DEDICATED HIS SPEECH.

and tranquility of the Union.
THE PATRON TO WHOM SUMNER
DEDICATED HIS SPEECH.
1t will be recollected that Mr.. Summers
speech or " Philippe" as he termed it, was, in
letter from him, dedicated to Theodore Park
err. 1t was prepared expressly for consump.
ton by that class of mad men. Mr.. Sumner
looked to them for approval and support.
They and such as they were consulted as to the
propriety of its utterance in the Senate. Mr..
Sumner wisely withheld it from the criticism
of the Choats, the Everetts, the Winthrops and
other honorable men who acknowledged fealty
to the Constitution, and who revered the pro-
prieties of the Senate in discussion, he ignored
their existence, and sought the applause and
approval of the Parkers, the Wendell Phillips,
| the Garrisons, and such other moral lunatics as
are allowed to roam abroad.
We give below from the Boston p an
exhibition made Of himself by this patron
of Mr.. Sumner, to whom his "Phillipic" was
dedicated. All will acknowledge, after reading
what follows, that Mr.. Sumner made an ap.
propriate selection of patron to whom to de-
dictate his long-nursed bantling.
Rev. Theodore Parker.
All who we're present at the Music Hall on
| last Lords day will agree that the performance
| OF this reverend pastor on that occasion, was
| In many respects, the most unique and remar
| kable ever witnessed on those "boards." II
it did not stir jubilee among the imps below
it is because they have been surfeited and
| sickened with too frequent banquets of the
same style, served by the same distinguished
caterer.
There was not the usual method in his mad
ness. He was not in his usual good humor
He fretted and sputtered like the fishiest Of
fsh.women. There was more of the hyena
| than the jackall. He almost swore ; and doubt
less would have felt relieved by the utterance
of a few mild oaths. No class escaped his in
| sensate and frothy denunciations. He did no,
even spare his supposed friends. He denounc
ed the New England Kansas emigrants as
towards He denounced "the faithful" al
Worcester because they did not even "sweal
an oath" over the cowardice and pusillanimity
| of the Shapes rifle men who had surrendered
on the way to Kansas, and returned to the
| "heart of the commonwealth" minus their
guns and their backbones. He endeavored to
show that cowardice was New England pro-
clivity. He said these men should stay al
home, and let the women and girls go out, and
snake the rough places smooth" for them, by
| putting to flight the "border ruffians" and the
United States troops, and then, protected by
women in front, women behind, and women in
flank, all armed with dishcloths and brooms
the men in the centre with their rifles might
be taken through in safety. Said he, SIX
halfhorse, halfaligator men from Kentucky
or Missouri will put to fight all the loud
talking, spread-eagle Free.soilers and Adolf
tionists of New England" Sensation-some
applause in the galleries.
The reverend gentleman was undoubtedly
correct in his estimate of the pluck of the
canting, loud-mouthed crew he vituperated
The fact is, they dare do anything that requires
only noise; but it is rather amusing to hear a
man whose whole reputation for bravery con-
sists in frequent reference to his grandfather
musket, and in his having first securing his
own personal safety aided the excitement
which led mob 10 the murder of United
States Official set himself up as a common
tator on the quality of manly courage
At the time in this city, of the restoration
OF fugitive from service to his legal protec-
tor, there were at least ten thousand THIRTY,
it was boasted) who armed themselves and
pledged their lives, their fortunes and their
sacred honor" to his rescue. The dealers were
literally stripped of firearms by these. con.
spirators. Yet it will be remembered that
these high-sounding pledges were redeemed
only by throwing little vitriol and red-pepper
upon the troops Ia mere handful, in point of
numbers, compared to the pledged and armed
hordel from an upper story window.
In his harrangue, on Sunday, after having
drawn out from his somewhat copious vocabu.
larry every term which could aid him in the
expression of his hostility to the general, State
and city governments the United States and
State courts, from the highest to thelowest near
ly all the men OF prominence connected with
either of these branches of the public service
the Wing Central Committee, especially, and
everybody who had anything to do with cele.
brating the "Glorious Fourth" outside Of
birmingham Grove, where the Union-haters
and God-defers meet annually to burn the
Constitution of the United States, and indulge
In similar harmless antics, he proceeded to in.
innate, very bravely, as is his won't that after
one more Intellectual attempt at the ballot box
to crush this somewhat formidable combination
of "ruhans," there was but one alternative
left. He is evidently in full communion and
sympathy with the ridiculous old swagger of the
New York Enquirer. He thought the people
would rise at once in their might and by such
revolution as was never before heard OF.
speep The naymidons Of corrupt oligarchy
from po,cer, By the strong arm Of physical rio
lence.
This was a little ridiculous, after so elabo.
rate and studied an effort to prove that the
whole people, not excepting single class,
were wholly given over to an idolatry Of the
worst conceivable character. He must count
on very sudden and miraculous regeneration
of the whole American people,
On the whole, the "lesson for the day" as
read by Parker, affords the beet attainable evi.
dence that "tbe countrys is SAFE"
Unpaid Letters.
The plan put in operation at New York some