Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-05-21
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The bill making appropriations for consular
aud diplomatic expenses was passed.
Mr.. BENJAMIN, from the committee on Com
merce, reported joint resolution requiring the
commissions of Patents to take necessary steps
to obtain information in relation to the growth
and consumption of tobacco and cotton in the
several countries of the world. Passed
/ Mr.. Sumner resumed his speech Kansas
affairs and proceeded to consider various rene
dies proposed for crime against Kansas, which
he successfully considered under different as
poets: First. remedy of tyranny i'll the State,
of appropriations and troops to enforce the uSur-
patton. Secondly, the remedy of folly proposed
by the Senator from South Carolina, Mr.. Butler
| Thirdly, the remedy of injustice and civil war
proposed by the Senator from Illinois, Mr.. Doug
las; and lastly, the remedy of justice and peace
proposed by the Senator from New York, Mr.
Seward, which last, would admit Kansas Mt
once with her present population. All the OBJ
Elections to such admission were considered,
whether granted on want of population or irress5-
nlarity Of form, and the precedent of which
was particularly reviewed Here Mr.. Buchan-
ans opinions were introduced, who yindicatcd
Michigan on grounds precisely applicable to
Kansas In conclusion the comparison WIS
made between the tyranny of the President in
Kansas and the tyranny of King George the 3D.
From Congress lie appealed to the people in the
coming Presidential election, to vindicate Kan
SaS, and let the ballot-boX OF tile Union, with
multitudinOus mightprotcct the ballot-box there
Mr.. CaSs characterised Summers speech as
the most un-American to which he had ever
listened
Messrs Douglas and Mason were grossly Sc
we're on Summer, accusing him rs unit to asso-
ciate with gentlemen and destitute of truth
| Much scnsation.)
Mr.. Sumner said he had just been attacked
by three Senators; one, Mr.. Cass, of venerable
wears, and. with whom lie had been in relations
ed other Sem
ator within the sound of his voice. The Senator
from Michigan must know full well knothing
could fall from him, Sumner, which could pos
scss ANYTHING but kindness, and would now say
to him his statements regarding Michigan were
| founded on legal documents and on the prlncl-
pies of jackson, Grundy. Buchanan, Benton and
the Democratic party of that day, and therefore
the attack of Cas- did not touch him; but as to
Douglass, he should leave him the privilege of
the common scold, the lastwOrd. ThatSenator
had the audacity to venture charge OF calumny
against him. He had said that he (Sumnel) had
taken the oath to support the Constitution, yet
ave:s his determination not to support n
particular clause in that instrument. This
statement Sumner gave to his face the --latest
denial saying he replied to n similar charge in
1854 as reported in the Globe, from which he
now read in effect that he had sworn to support
the Constitution as he understood it, no more
nor less, and the clause alluded to did not i'm
iDOSS upon ullu any
ly or indirectly in restoring fugitive slaves, anu
vet in the face fall this the calumny had been
circulated extensively, discussed and criticised
bv the Senator from Illinois, who i'll the swirl
ness of his autlacity had presumed to araaign
him. lie wished to administer to Douglass a
word of advce-not TO cXpend himself in gusts
of vlllgarilv and cndeavor to obtain that truth
and character which is the handmaid of wisdom,
land let him remember hereafter that the bowie
knife and Dungeons are not the proper einblcms
EOf Senatorial debate, staggering ferocitv cannot
IaCld dignity to this body. The Senator from
Illinois had been sweltcring in venom, bringing
forth statements utterly without foundation,
hcaping upon him personalities and OOliquity.
No person with the upright form of a man
here Mr.. Sumner paused.
Mr.. Douglas. Say it, say it.
Mr. Sumner replying shall say it. NOpcr-
son with the upright form of man can be al
lowed to discharge from his tongue indecent per
sonalities, the noise, some namely animal, is no:
a proper model for an American Senator. VIII
the Senator take notice:
Mr. Douglas. l shall, and l certainly shall
not initiate you in that respect, CLaughtcT:)
Mr. Sumner. All, the Senator again switches
his tongue and fills the Senate with offensive
OdOr'
would simply say to the Senator from Nir.
ginia, hard words arc not arguments, nor dc
Scowis belong to Senatorial duty. Mr. Mason
was understood to say the Senator is certainly
non conpus mcntuS. C4aughtcr.)
The following arc tile remarks Of Cass, Dou-
glas and Mason, upon Summers speech.
Mr. Cass said he had listened to Summers
speech with equal regret and surprise 1t was
the most un-AmeTiCaH, unpatriOtic, speech hC
ever heard on this floor, and he hoped he might
never hear such speech again, here or else
where. He did not rise, however, to comment
on that speech, open as it was to ccnsure and
Misrepresentation, but to say that the Senator from
Massachusetts had totally misunderstood and
misapplicd the case of Michigan to the Topeka
Convention. He briefly showed no analogy be-
tween the proceedings in Kansas.
Mr. Douglas referred to the nlalignity which
characterized SIS speech, and the many person
alites in which it aboundcd, and compared it to
a patchwork bed quilt, made up from old calico
dresses in the house, and Astounding in classical
lalIusions, the most of which were from those
portions Of the classics which were suppressed
in respectable and decent colleges; that speech
was written and committed to memory and prac'
tiScd before glass, negro boy hO!!ing n can
die and watching the gestures; it WAS rchcarscd
to friends, and they repeated i'll the saloons o.
the city what lie was going to say. Those Ii
bells ard insults, so gross and vulgar, had been
COINED and written with cool, deliberate malig-
nifty, repeated night after night, 50 rs to find APP
propriate grace to spit them at his opponents
What right had he to arraiSn thrcc-fourths Of
the Senate for dereliction of duty. Did the
means by which he got here give him the supc-
riority. Douglas said he had been arraigned as
a conspirator and traitor, that man, Sumner,
himself was guilty of the crime, having taken
the oath to support the Constitution and then
violated it-alluding to Summers attack on Sen.
ator Butler-who is now absent. Douglas said
summer would, on his return, whisper a secret
apology. Douglas knew how that was DONE
(Laughtcr.) lie defended Atchison from the
charge of acting the part of Catalina.
Mr. Mason said political relations in obcdi-
cncc to the forms of our Government bring Sen,
! Of the Senate Chamber, is dishoncr, and touch
ing whose hand would bcpolluted. They were
compelled TO listen to language here to which
no gentleman would lend an ear elsewhere
They bear it in obedience 10 the Constitution,
tic trust of which they have undertaken to per.