The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1856-06-06

men got il up and somehow are haunted by the
the party in the United States of Ameri,a a.
" As matter of interest we .,ublish an extract
of the speech OF Mr. Sumner of Massachusetts, con-
tanning the remarks which induced the attack upon
MIN by Mr. Brooks of South Carolina. Mr.. Butler
was absent at the time when the speech was deliv.
cred.
With regret come again upon the Senator from
South Carolina Mr.. Buslcr), VINO, omnlpresent III
this debate, overlooked with rage at the simple sug
gesslon that Kansas had applied ior admission as
Ssate and, with lncOlercnt phrases, discharged the
loose expectoratieu OF speech upon her repre
sentative and then upon her people. There was
| eXtrayagance OF the ancient parliamentary deuate
which he did not repeat; nor Was there any possible
deviation FROM truth winch he did not make, with
| so much oil passion, am glad to add, rs to save
him from the suspicion OF Intentional aooeration.
But the Senator touches nothing which he does not
dishgure-with error, sometimes OF principle, some
times of fact. He shows an incapacity OF accuracy
whether an incapaclty Of accuracy whether In sta
ting TIC Constitution or in sung the law, whether
IN details OF statistics The diversions OF scholar
ship. He cannot open his mouth but out there fies
bluuder Surely he ought TO DC familiar with the
life oil Franklin; anI yet be referred 20 the household
character while acting agent OF our iatacls IN
England, as aUoVc suspicion: and tais was done tiAt
he might give point 70 false contrast with the cnt
! OF kansas-not Knowing that, however they may
differ in genius fame, III this exp erence they are
alike; that Franklin when In Massachusetts Bay.
1 was assaulted ny foul mouthed speaker, where ne
could not be heard in defense, and denounced as q
| "thef, even as the agent Of Kansas has been AS
sauted on shis floor, and denounced ID a "forger.
Ard let not the vanity of the Senator he inspired by
tbs pareel with the British statesmen of that day;
L pl,- hats
can BE- recognlzed.
But it Is against the people of Kansas that the
sensioitles OF the Senate particularly aroused
Coming as he announces, "fron Safe Aye, Sir
FROM South Carolna--he turns with ioriiy dlsgusl
from this newly fornc community, wncn he VIII
not recognize even rs "ooIy polite" Pray, Sir
by what utle does he indulge In this egotisn! Ha:
he read the history OF the ats wnch he rprescnts
Ho cannot surely have forgotten its imoecity iron
slavery, confessed in the Revolution followed Dy 1t,
more shameful assumptions for slavery since. ID,
cannot nave fergo5ten wretched persistence in the
slave trade as the very apple of his eye. ana the con
iition Of its participation In the Union. He canno
nave forgotten Its constitution, which s republican
only i'll name, confirming power in the hands of th
few and founding the qualifications OF voters on 81
settled freehold estate and ten negroes" And We
the Senator, to whom that "Sate" has in part com
mItted the guardianship of its good name, instead
of moving backward treadng steps to cover its IA
kedness, rushes forward in the very ecstacy OF mad
ness, to compose it by provoking comparison witt
Kansas South Carolina is old, Kansas il
: young.
South Carolina counts by centuries where Kansa
counts by years. Bnta benefcient example may b
born in Jay: and venture to say that against th
two centuries of the oil Ter "Ssate" may be alread,
a set the two years of trial involving corresponding
! virtue, IN the younger community. In the one
the long wall of slavery, and in the other hymns Q
freedom. And if we glance at special achievements
it will be difficult to ni anything in the earlv his
f tory of South Carolina which presents SO n uch
heroic spirits in heroic appears at tn It n
;, pulse of the Missouri invaders by the beleagure
town of Lawrence; where even the women gave thei
effective efforts to freedom. The matrons of Rom
who poured their Jewels into the treasury for publ
defense: the wives of Prussia, who with delicate fiji
gers clothed their defenders against French invasion
is the mothers of revolution, who sent forth the
sons covered with prayers and blessings to conhs
for human rights, did nothing of self sacrifice tru'
than dill these women on this occasion. We're tt
u whole history of South Caroina blottei out of G,
t. istence, from its very beginning down to the day
the last election of the Senator to his present seat
4 the floor, civilization might lose do not say no
little but surely less than it has already gained
the example of Kansas in its valiant struggle again
st oppression and in the development of this
" ence of emigration. Already in Lawrence alol
: there newspapers, including High School, ar
throughout the Territory there is academeal e
ucation than in all Missouri outside Of st. Louis al
VI more far in proportion to its inha itants than in
It. South Carolina. All, sir. l tell the Senator tn
D. Kansas welcomed as free State will be mlnlste
? ing angel to the republic, when S5uth Carolina,
n the cloak Of darkness which she hugs "es bowling
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pc "a Prentice, it is useless to say, is respon
ii bic for the following NAUGHTY slip Of tongue: