Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-06-20
From the Washington Union.

Incorporate expressions and personally offensive
remarks do not justify reioinders conceived in the
same Objectionable spirit but Senator Sumner
has cited the speech of Judge Butler as the moving
cause OF his own violent and vituperave remarks in
the Senate few days ago, We are perfectly willing
that he should enter his CaUeat until the whole pro-
cedlngs shall have been calmly reviewed by The
American people In the mean time we invite the
attention of The subjoined editorial paragraph which
we find in a lale number of the Boston Courier, an
opposition paper, with many sympathes common to
those telt by the political friends OF Mir. Sumner
" We republish to day, from the pamphlet edition,
toe speech of Mr.. Butler of South Carolina. de-
LIyered IN the Senate of the United States March 5,
1896. We have preferred to give it entire, instead
OF portions, which We have been repeatedly reqnest-
cd 10 publish, in order that our readers may have am
pie means OF forming their own judgments in regard
10 H. we have read this speech with no little
PRISE after hearing so much of that southern denun
citation, which it has been said provoked MIR Sum-
nefs retoEt. As TO tie political opinions of Mr
Butler, developed in The sneech i, is unnecessary
Ior US 10 say anything. Apart from these, no honest
mind could help admlring the genuine ability display.
ed' the patriohc sentiment evinced. and the truly
gentemanly tone and tenor Of the entire performance
we have been al a loss 10 discover in it ANYTHING
calculated 10 give personal offence to any one unless
1t be in the of the terms s':anacismn &C., which
haze been so commonly applied to that wing of the
fee-soiIers represented by Messrs SUMMER Wilson,
&C. as hardly to warrant any particular outcry al
thls moment. In word, the speech of Senator But
er Is statesmanlike and practical production, not
mere piece OF rhetoric though rising sometimes as
will be seen into the higher regions of oraorv and
Is IN lac real, BONA fde argument of that descrp
ton which is so adressei to the minds of men as 10
be likely to have its due effect upon them
IN connexIon with the boVe, II may not be out of
place 10 allude 10 the unfortunate occurrence re
suIlng Ircm MI Summers own violence. A personal
dlfhculty, involving chastisement under circumstan
ceS oa b, ~
abolition press into monstEous political outra ge-
an attack upon the liberty OF speech itset-eanc.
Sc hsd Fs 10 h1 vet he attention o
public from the true facts of this difficulty the
and expensive devices have been resorted
to, for the purpose of creating large stock of pop
ular sympathy.
From the time of the encounter to the present mo-
ment the life of the distinguished Notwithstanding
10 the abolition press-has heen in ininent danger
'' Insens!ble, " hgh fever" deIirious, al
lowed 10 see him. dying" dead "-such are The
startling annUnc4tions in the Sumner telegraphic
dispatches which have flooded the country for the
last ortnight Will it be credited, out of Washing
ton, that these annuncialions had not the slightest
foundation 10 truth, arl that they systematica
y manufactured not o"t Of any consideration for the
supposed sufferings Of MIR. Sumner but under the
desperate expectation that ne shrieks of freedom
might become deeper, louder, and profitable
than they had been during the recent State canvass
IN Ma ne, New Hampshire, and Connecticut? At no
time has Mr. Sumner's condition bordered on the
rious. If his physicians statement is to be credited,
this persistent housing of Mr. s., with The accompa-
nying ieegraphc bulletins, in The end cover The
patient and his sympathizers with supreme rd;cue.
DR.. Cornelius Boyle, in his examination before the
House committee of investigation, states under oath
81 have medical man with bin but myself
There has been none there There are a great many
friends present, and they make Mr. Sumner out a
great deal worse than he is. They say he has
sover | have neyer discovered any. j have been
his constant attend mt, and have never known his
pn'se al any moment higher than eighty-two | yes
teday corrected article in the IAtelgencer stating
that he had fever and the correction appears in to.
days paper. He has no lever to my knowledge
have visited him twice day. His brother said he
ought not 10 come out, and cited great many cases
that had come under his observation IN Paris, where
death had taken place in SIX weeks from blows on
The head. His brother is not a medical man. Sena-
tor Sumner, Of course took the advice Of his brother
and his friends, and |, of conrse, allowed them to do
as they thought proper. Perhaps ought 10 sta lie
my REASON tor objecting to his coming out Friday
There good deal of excitement at that time,
and thought that, if Mr.. Sumner did rot go into the
Senate for day or two, the excitement might wear
off,
81 think this that Mr.. Sumner might have taken
carriage and driven as far rs Bamerr on The next
day without any injury.
We have disposition to Interfere with the cleo
pioneering plans of our political opponents. It may
VI may ot ut td Eoes are 10 oe gained Tor Inc a6OI-
onlsts by this clinical practice But if Mr. Sum
ner expects 10 defeat the nominees of the Democratic
National Convention by confnng himself to his bed
room during the present high range of the mercury,
and permitting his friends circulate the most silly
stories in regard 10 his physical condition he is great
iy over estimating the gulbty Of the people, even
of his own Stale. We advise him. in al sincerity
10 resume his seat in the Senate forthwith. He has
had his physicians permission that effect days and
days ago
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