The Placer herald., 1856-08-02
The Hypocrisy of Black Republicanism

The Hypocrisy of Black Republicanism.
The alledged outrages upon the free State
men in Kansas, and the assault by Brooks
upon Sumner, have furnished occasion for a
vast amount of Republican indignation and
bilngsgate. They have been denounced as
gross intractions of right, as heinous viola
tons of law. 1t is we'll known in the At
lantic States, that Sumner is kept housed
for political effects only, and that the half
hourly bulletins concerning the desperateness
of his condition that have been sent flying
over the non-slaveho olding States by telegraph,
we're designed as so many "shrieks'' for free
dom in Kansas; or to make Republican party
political capital
DR.. Boyle, who was the only physician in
attendance upon Mr. Sumner, testified before
the House investigating committee that Mr..
Sumner had been in no danger from the
effect of his fogging--had no fever-and
might have taken carriage and driven to
Baltimore on the day after the attack with
out danger. His evidence as it appears in
the Washington papers, shows the sheer
humbuggery of the pretences of the Repub-
lican press that Mr.. Sumner was seriously
hurt by Mr.. Brooks.
In relation to these "outrages," Republican
meetings have passed "bood and thunder"
resolutions. Republican Editors have pub.
lshed vituperous articles, and Republican
Clergymen have preached fanatical sermons.
Does any intelligent man imagine that a
sense of justice, a reverence for law, regard
for injured right, actuates these meetings,
these editors, these clergymen? We think
not 1t is gross hypocrisy. If the feeling
were sound and healthy one, it would have
been aroused at other and more serious viola
tons of justice. The Freeman's Journal re-
collects the following outrages upon right
which should have called it forth
"Some years ago there was living upon
one of the hills which overlook Boston
Fanueil Hall, a community of ladies devoted
to education and religion. At midnight
their dwelling was sacked and reduced to
ashes, the chapel was destroyed and the
tombs torn open. Ten thousand people Of
Massachusetts, looked on, and not an arm,
not voice, was lifted to defend that com
munity of women and children. A prolong-
ed after-investigation failed to substantiate
one solitary offence on the part Of the suffer
ers of the outrage. Twenty-Five years have
since passed and not dollar of reparaton
has been paid. Within year a committee
of the Legislature of the same State enacted
a disgusting invasion Of a private dwelling,
likewise occupied by women and children.
Possibly some of Mr.. Summers indignant
friends may have assisted on that occasion.
We have had no record in these columns Of
the burning many churches which poor Catho-
lies, with toll and sacrifices had erected to
worship God in. At Ellsworth, in Maine,
a venerable priest was stripped beaten, tar
red and teathered, and ridden upon a rail-
We see no account of an indignant meeting
to dcnounce his assailants. But then he was
only a peaceful man, faithful to his calling
engaged in teaching his flock, consolng the
sick baptizing the infant and buryng the
dead. He was not great anti-slavery agita
tor, standing up in the Senate Of the United
States and denouncing the domestic concerns
OF nearly half the States of the Confederacy,
and likening honorable Senators to toads
and reptiles"
Why did they not hold indignation meet
ings over the case of Owen Quiglev, who
only shouted "hurrah for Magruier," Ohe
Democratic candidate for Mayor,) as he pas
sed knowNothing and his companions in
one of the streets of Washington, and for
this he was beaten and kicked to death on
the spot. 1t was a short speech, but it cost
him his life. Yet no public meetings have
been held in consequence, nor is it proposed
10 redress the wrong by general rush of the
north and west to Washington "to vin,licate
the right Of speech" And all this difference
because QuigIey was Democrat and not an
Abolitionist. shame upon their hypocrisy
and MISREPRESENTATION.
They care nothing about law and right.
Their Indignation over the Kansas 'outrage'
and the Sumner Outrage" is got up and
kept up, merely for the promotion of their
political ends. By such means they hope to
stir up sectional feeling in the north suhi-
ciently powerful to bear them into national
power. Their hope will not be realized
The majority of the people of the north are
too clear-sighted to be deceived by their
hypocritical professions, and too patriotic to
render aid to their reasonable purposes.
Daily Butte Record.