Washington sentinel., 1856-05-31
From the Richmond Examiner.
The Logic OF shsrp's Rides Kicking Back

wards. N1
The beating of Charles Sumner in the
Senate chamber last Thursday, is the natural
consequence Of The power and ball gasconade
and rant with which the fanatics Of the North
have been making the land ring for several
years past
Not long ago an aged citizen of Maryland
pursuing "A fugitive slave across the line OF
Mason and Dixon, under the authority of the
laws and Constitution Of the Union, was way
laid on his journey by bandits in league with
Sumner, and shot down by unseen and coward
ly' assassins. The venerable Gorsuch was not
the first or last citizen Of the South, by very
many, who has been thus murdered in cold
blood by the Sumner coniraternity whilst law.
fully exercising privilege guaranteed by the
Constitution.
Not long after that brutal murder, citizen
Of Virginia went to Boston, Summers imme,
diate vicinage, in pursuit OF negro man,
Anthony Burns, whom some emissary of the
Sumner fraternity had stealthiy spirited away
from Richmond. The valiant fanatics Of the
town of Boston, Enthusiastically courageous
on their own muck heap, rose up to the number
of many thousands, for the purpose Of prevent
ing a single unarmed citizen of the South from
reclaiming his negro man. A few patriotic
soldiers were called out to protect the single
citizen against the multitude Of angry assail
ants, and succeeded in awing the ferocious
mob into discreet avoidance of an open as
sault upon the Virginian. Nevertheless, an
Irish lad, who had volunteered to enforce re-
spect to the laws, whilst accidentally isolated
in crowd Of these Boston Thugs, was marked
as victim and murdered by an assassin who
was never discovered, and who proved himself
as expert in the art Of secret murder, as any
pick pocket ever did in the legerdemain of Sc.
cret theft. tii .Ht
Emboldened by impunity in many like secret
murders and acts of unprecedented outrage,
this Thug fraternity proceeded to make arrange
ments for carrying on such transactions by the
wholesale and accordingly obtained acts Of
incorporation for the purpose, under the name
Of Emigrant Aid Societies. What acts of ra
pine, murder, and brutality have we not heard
their speakers defend and extol during
the progress of this aid movement, and du-
ring the heyday of Sharp's rifle fanaiicism at
the North! Ward Beecher sermonises from
the pulpit in the name of God and the Prince
Of Peace in defence of numbering Southern
people in Kansas by means of Sharp's rifles
An octagenaran professor in New Haven
boasts that he burns with desire to shoot
''border rufian" with a rifle Of Sharp's manu-
facture, and has publicly exhorted pupils yet
in their teens, to unite with the Killems who
figured noisily in the congregation in contribut-
ing the deadly instruments to the aid of aboli-
ton emigrants in Kansas. 5ha s-ts
The telegraph is bringing us accounts of the
inevitable results in Kansas of all this Killem
logic and gasconade of the Sumner fraternity.
Southern men and Government officers have
taken the Beechers,. Sillimans and Summers of
the North at their word, and meet their min
ions as insurrectionists with Sharp's rifles in
their hands deserve to be net. Let us await
the result quietly, for there is no probability
of but one issue. Who felt any surprise at
hearing Of the attempted murder of Sheriff
Jones, while lying in his tent at night by a
secret assassin shielded by the cover of dark
ness? This was but a link in the chain of
secret and cowardly murders of which that Of
| Gorsuch was one, and that of the Irish lad in
| Boston was another. e #.l