Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-05-30

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The Boston Daily Advertiser closes a long article
on the recent assault in the Senate Chamber. with
two reflections addressed one to the compatrots Of
Mr.. Brooks at the South, and the other to the pot
cal friends of Mr. Sumner in Massachusetts,:
!. To the first we would say, that If YOU expect
your constitutional rights to be regarded by any or-
non OF the people Of the North, you must promptly
dsown this act of violence It not too late for you
70 say that it was the act Of individual and that
tits repudated and reprehended by the State of South
Carolina, and by the Southern States generally
THIS Reputation and reprehension can be readily
House; and it wifi more clearly appear If his col.
leagues vote for his expulsion.
2. To the second we would say that il You hope to
gain the adherence Of the conservative portion Of the
North, in the next presidential campaign you must
not allow the universal sympathy which this attack
on MIR. Sumner has called out to deceive YOU into
the belief that you can carry your extreme measures
we that the personal bepv at anu u,s Is
pealed. Not single republican voted for its repeal
In the legislature last week We are confident in the
belief that no party succeed which supports that
law. Massachusetts will submit to no insults from
the South but she will grant to the South a their
constitutional rights. IF there is to be contest we
must be sure that right is on our side. At present
Massachasstts stands upon the record in the wrong
removed from the statute-book; let us allow 10 all
others their constitutional rights and we can stand
before the world fearless in selfrespect and
state of Feeling.
An intelligent Hunker friend, long prominently
connected with the Democratic party, and free
from all sectional bias, thus speaks of the occur
renee at Washington, in private letter to one Of
the editors Of the New York Express. We copy
it as showing the effect Of such an event en- the
conservative minds Of the North
| 1 tl 0wue a ALBANY. Nav ga 1885.
/ The extreme men both at the South and the North
have resolved to precipitate the country into an
issue of war. However well disposed and mode
rate men may look at the subject in the beginning,
they will ultimately be compelled to take sides In
the issue. The conservative men at the South will
yield in one direction while those at the North
may be borne down by the tide Of fanatical fury
do not view it a small matter by any means In
these excitable times that Senator is struck down
and pounded with bludgeons for words spoken In
debate, and especially when the body in which
they were spoken did not consider them disorderly
insolent, or impertinent. This s only repetition
of the tragedy Of the Cilley murder, in which H.
A. Wise was one Of the chief actors, although he
did not perpetrate the deed 1t looks to mo very
much as though the South had deliberately wished
to cart us off and to repudate al association, bro
thei hood and connexion with us, and this, too In
way most defiant, insulting, and cowardly. They
may place themselves in position where true
men, who have stood by them, cannot sustain
themselves, ifthey attempt to defend them
The Wilmington IN c. Herald, sn Amecican jour
nal thus alludes to the assault upon Mr.. summer:
what we have to say with regard 70 this affair
shall be brief We think summer deservsd what he
got but we do not approve the conduct of Brooks.
Sumner had not insulted him. and he was not called
upon TO resent an ndignity offered 10 Senator Butler
even though the latter WAS his relative and absent
Again: he attacked Sumner under very reprehensi-
bs circumstances. He caned him in the Senate Cham
Der. and took him, moreover, at an advantage, while
sitting in his chair The Senate Chamber Is not the
for exhibitions of this character Ii disgrsce-
ul that scenes Of violence like these should be par
mitted to occur within it. If Congress 10 10 be lew
elled 70 mere ring for bullying and fighting. we had
best amend the Constitution and abolish the Con-
gress. We should At least preserve moro respects-
bty at home and abroad. ~gti - a.
"Mr Brooks should have sought different time
and place for his meeting with Sumner But TO at
tack him in the Senate Chamber and chastse him,
while the latter was unprepared and in deenceess
position was unjust6able. Granting that the provo
cation was sufficient be has yet given good handle
for the Northern people 10 ssirs in denunciahon OF
his course and deprived the South Of the opportu-
nifty of justification. @F
An editor, In denouncipg bad liquor, speaking OF
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