Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-06-05
Mr.. Summers Great Sneech

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From all sources we hear complimentar,
things OF Dir. Summers last Senatorial ef
fort. The effect On the dense crowd in tn.
galleries is said to have been electri wing -
The Impression it produced in the deliver,
will be lessened in the reading. deprived o
the Senator's finished and graceful style o
oratory, in which qualities he far excel
any member on the floor. The speech i,
long, and we have not yet determined wha
We shali-do with it in the way OF: pubica
ton. 1t will be published widely in pam
phlet form, but we fear it will not be mul.
tlPlied sufficiently for The public information
WITHOUT The aid of the newspaper press.
Phe delivery Of this speech Produced quite
sensation in the Senate itself. A CORE
spondent of the Tribune thus describes the
scene, on the, fist day:
",The leading event of the day is the ora.
ton OF Dir. Sumner. He spoke three hours
without finishing, and was sttentively listen.
ed to throughout by crowded audierce.-
Mr.. sumner has given long and labor ous at.
teniiCn to the composition of this production
and ii will raise his already elevated reputa.
ton. He made n mber Of happy hits in
Tue course of his remarks, and his defence
and exposition OF the Emigraht Aid Associa-
ton, aud associative enterprise in general,
was particularly strong and complete His
feeling tribute to Massachusetts was promo
unced amid breathless attention, and was
very fine in composition and rhetorical eff
feet. 1t was little curious to watch th-
manner in which DIR. Summers effort was
received. At the beginning when every
body else was Listening very atten.ively, Mr.
Mason OF Virginia, Mr.. Douglass, Mr.. Toucey
and Mr.. Toombs, took to writing letters with
wonderful industry, all seemed very intent
upon the subject matter sof their epistolary
correspondence. They, however, recovered
from their ii: of le;ter-wriling after while,
and became quite natural as the speech
went on. Then, again, quite number of
the Pro-Siavery men undertook at various
intervals to show Their Indifference to the
course oil Dir. Summers argument, or thei.
disaPprobation OF the beltness OF his re-
marks, by talking in the Chamber in such a
times 10 call them to order. Once, indeed.
Mr. Sumner himself stopped, and called on
the Sergeant alarms to preserve quiet. In
this small way the antagonists of MIR. Sum-
ner prefer to meet and treat him. The in
teTruptions, to be sure, amounted to nothing:
but they disclosed the spirit of venomous
hostility which Slavery everywhere exhibits
towards free speech. Ten miles from this
city in any direction Mr.. Sumner would not
be permitted to talk in the way he did to-
day without being victim to Lynch law.
1t is hard for the SLAYER men to be decent
In conduct iwhile listening to sentiments
which they would not permit the expression
OF at holne without counseling the doom of
death upon the speaker, and for the utterance
Of which his life would certainly be taken
" iihout stopping for judge or jury. Indeed
one Southern Senator to-day declared that
il he could have his way he would lang
Sumner or the spot. Such is the miserable |
condition Of things in this Republic, and
such the violent antagonism of our sy ystem."
vi Coufse' mF. Oufnnfrs speech Is full,
e mprehensire, well rounded, and embracing
very aspect of the great question he di--
;usSes. What he has not said to-day he
Will say TO morrow lie will soon be follow
d by Dir. Wade, whose radical views are
veil known, but who is yet in no particular
n advance Of the temper of the tines
)hlo has in him spirit worthy of the hour :
'hTch hangs over the nation"