Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1856-07-17
A Free Voice at the South.


The Southern Press has been so nearly unani.
nous in its approval of the brutality of Brooks
in assaulting Mr.. Sumner, that probably some
persons entertain the opinion that there are no
exceptions, but such is not the case. The Min
den Herald of June 10, newspaper published
in Claiborne parish Louisiana, contains very
pungent article on the other side, from which we
make the following extract:
"Our opinion is, that Brooks disgraced himself
and brought the whole slavery cause into more
disrepute than ever, and should be summarly
expelled from the House. 1t was stretch Of
chivalry on his part for which no valid excuse
can be offered. Summers offence against Butler
did not deserve any physical castigation but on
the contrary was, in our estimation, taking all
the circumstances past and present,into account,
perfectly proper, because justly merited. We
have no sympathy with the slavery agitators on
either sde--we have q supreme contempt for
Southern fre-eaters and ice-vendng Northern
fanatics; but we do think that if ever man might
be excused for becoming desperate in the halls OF
legislation, that man is Sumner.
We have read the debates in Congress for many
years past, infinitely and impartially, and never
have we known any man so fouly and unceas-
ingly abused and vilifed as this same Sumner
Every dog of Southern agitation from Bose
Douglas down to the smallest and most NANCY
cur that snars and whines in the unprincpled
suck-egg train, has been barking at his heels
but the fact has not been successfully hit that
their spite arises more from a reluctant knowl-
edge of his cool superiority of talent, than any
real difference of opinion on principle Douglas
than whom in our humble opinion more I'M
principled and reckless agitatOr never disgraced
the Senate chamber-has from time to time
hurled at Sumner all his native and well cult
waited slang; and then" Og, the King of Bashan'
Ten Cass, the old broken down President
seeker and inccnsistent freesoiler-has never
failed to chime i'll with his more stoli& invective
and the chorus has been filled to every "beat
and BARI with the yelpings of the woody headed
poodles from the South-men who have no more
urinciple, ana but little more brains, than the
African slaves in behalf of whose chains they so
iniudicously rave and rant. And finally, under
the influence of all this. Sumner becomes some
what desperate, and hurs at his conglomerated
assailants some thunder-bolts which send them
bowling in hurried confusion and then as a
last sort of revenge, one of the manly number
slips up to him in the Senate chamber, finds him
seated at his desk writing, unarmed and with
great guSto, canes him! Wonderful feat! And
is this theway Southern Rights are to be vindica
tedi Are thesa the kind of champions the South
must look to- for her defence in the national halls
of legislation Is it by such acts of slaviSh de
graduation as this, that the slavery of the South
ern States of this free and enlightened Union is
to be perpetuatedi Gentlemen may think SO
and may rave 1t any man who has the indepen
dence to condemn such conduct--particulary il
he be Southemer; but we tell them that tbs
citizens of this republic are not to be convinced
as to what is right and what is wrong by blows
and are not to be brought to a final decision by
brute force.
This is opinion of the Sumner and Brooks
affair-only the half is not told"
If dough could blush, the above, we think
ought to bring a little color into the face of the
northern apologists for Brooks.