Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-06-11

sENArOa, sUMNER,s SPEECH.
We append that part Of Senator summers
speech which excited the ire of Carolina, and
induced the coward assault upon him by the
nephew Of his uncle"
While ii il severe, who can say it is not true
to the letter.
In view of the assaults constantly made In de-
bate upon Senator s. we cannot conceive how
he could have said less, or how be could have
said it better:
Assiask will be divided under three different
hesds--Ffrst:: The CElME AGAINST Kansas. in its
origin and extent; Seeosld: THE ApoLoGIks
FOE THE CRIME, aud Thirdly: THE TRuE REa-
EpY. .s 1-zssss
But, before entering upon the argument,
must say something, OF general character, par
ticnariy in response to what has fallen from
Senators who have raised themselves to emf
nenee on this floor in championship of human
wrongs; i mean the Senator from South Carroll
ma, Mr.. Bntler,J and the Senator from Illinois,
Mr.. Douglas, who, though unlike as Don Quix-
ote and Shancho Panza, yet, like this couple sal.
ly forth together in the same cause The SEN.
ator from South Carolina has read many books
OF chiyalry, and believes himself chiyalrous
knight, with sentiments of honor and courage.
VI course he has chosen mistress to whom he
has made his VOWS, and who, though ugly TO
Others, is always lovely to him; though polluted
in the sight Of the world, is chsstc in his sight
| mean the harlot Slavery. For her his tongue
is always profuse in words Let her be i'm
peacted in character, or any proposition made
to shut her out from the extension of her want
onness, and no extravaganza Of manner or har-
iihood Of assertion is then too great for this
Senator. l#!
The frenzy of Don Quixote, in behalf of his
wench Dulcinea Del Toboso, is all snrpassed-
The asserted rights of Slavery, which shook
equality of all kinds, are cloaked bv fantastic
claim Of equality. If the Slave States cannot
enjoy what, in mockery of the great fathers of
The Republic, he fnisnames equality under the
CONSTITUTIONAL other words the full power in
the national territories to compel fellow men to
unpaid toll, to separate husband aud wife, and
20 sell little children on the auction block-then,
Sir, the chivalric Senator will conduct the State
OF South Carolina out of the Union! Heroic
Knight! Exalted Senatori A second Moses
come from second Exodus! s7g -,
But not content with this poor menace, which
We have been twice told was measured" the
Senator in the unrestrained chivalry of his ma
ture, has undertaken to apply opprobrious words
10 those who differ from him on this floor. He
calls them sectional and fanatical," and oppos
ton to the usurpation in Kansas he denounces
as 'an matchmaking taiiatcism To be sure
these charges lack all grace and originality, and
a! sentiment of truth; but the adventurous Sem
ators does not hesitate. He is the uncompro-
missing, unblushins representative on this floor
OF fragrant sectionalssm, which now dOminecrs
over the Republic, and yet with ludicrous ig-
norance of his own position-unable to see
n canh .th H,or
which even his white head ought not to protect
from rebuke, he applies to those here who resist
his sectlo,aAs'n, the very epithet which desig-
mates himself. &F
: The men who strive to bring back the Govern
ment to its original policy, when Freedom and
nos Slavery was national, while Slavery and not
Freedom was sectional, he arragns as sectional
This will not do. 1t involves too great a per-
version of terms. lteil that Senator that it is 10
himself and to the Organization" of which he is
the committed advocate, that this epithet be-
longs. 1 now fasten it upon them. For myself
| care little for names, but since the question
has been raised here, I'affirm that the Republic
can party of the Union is in no just sense section
AZ, but, more than any other party, national! :;
and that it now goes, forth to disgorge from the
nigh places Of the Government the tyranical sec.
tionalism of which the Senator from South Caro-
lima is one of the maddest zealots
10 the charge of fanaticism l also reply. Sir,
tanaticism is found i'll an enthusiasm Of exagger-
alton of opinions, particularly on religious sub
Jects; but there may be a fanaticism for evil rs
well as for good. Now, will not deny that
there are persons among us loving liberty too
well for their personal good in selfish genera
ion. Such there may be, and, for the sake of
their example, would that there were more! In
calling them fanatics you cast contumely upon
the noble army of martyrs, from the earliest
day down to this hour; upon the great tribunes
OF human rights, by whom life, liberty and hap
piness on earth have been secured; upon the
long line OF devoted patriots who, throughout
history, have truly loved their country; and, up-
on all, who, in noble aspiration tor the general
Sood, and in torgetfulness of self have stood out
before their age and gathered into their gencr-
Gus boSoms the shafts Of tyranny and wrong in
order to make pathway for truth a'~
You dlScredit Luther, when alone he nailed
his articles to the door of the church at Wilten-
berg, and then, to the Imperial demand that he
should retract, firmly replied, Here stand;
Garnet do otherwise, so help me God" You
tiscredt Hampden when alone he refused TO paw
The few shiugs of ship-money, and Shook the
throne of Charles l.; You dircredit Milton, when,
amidst the productions Of heartless Court. he
lived on, the lofty friend of liberty, above ques-
tlon or suspicion; you discredit Russell and Sid
ney, when for the sake of their country, they
calmly turned from family and friends to tread
the narrow steps of the scaffold you dscredit the
early founders of American institutions who
preferred the hardsh.ps of wilderness, sur
rounded by u savage foe, to injustice on beds of
ease; you discredit our late fathers who, few in
numbers and weak in resources vet strong in
their cause, did not hesitate to brave the mighty
power OF England, already encrcling the globe
with her morning drum-beats. Yes, sir, OF such
are the fanatics of history, according to the
Senator .-aa,s "a -. =st .,a
But tell that Senator that there are chsrac-
ters boldly eminent of whose fanaticism there
can be no question Such were the ancient
Egyptians, who worshipped divinites in british
forms; the Druids who darkened the forests of
oak, in which they lived, by sacrifices of blood:
the MeSicans, who surrendered countless vic.
TINS to the preparation OF their obscene idols;
the Spariiards, who under Alva, sought to force
the. lnqus,t;on upon Holland, by a tyranny.
Kindred to that now employed to force Slavery
npon Kansas; and such were the Agerines, when
IN solemn conclave, after listening to speech,
not unlike that of the Senator from South Car. |
ohna, they resolved to continue the slavery of |
white CHRISTIANS, and to extend it to the conn |
trynlen of Washington! Aye, sir, extend it.
and in this same dreary catalogue faithful histo
~ must record all who now, in an enlightened |
age and in a land Of boosted Freedom, start I'M
N perversion of the Constitution and in denial
d immortal truth, to- fasten new shackle upon
heir fellow -nan. If the Senator wished To see
anatics, let him look around among his own as
'oclates; let him look at himself A.
But have not done with the Senator. Their, I
S another matter regarded by him OF such con-
sequence that he intcrpolerated it into the SD ech
If the Senator from New Hampshire, fAlr. Hale,
md also announced thar he had prepared him
elf with it, TO take it in his pocket all the wav.
Q boston, when he expected toaddress the peo.
ne OF that community. On this account. and
or the sake of truth, | stop for one moment and
read it into the earth. The North, according 10
lie Senator, was engaged in the slave trade. and
eiped TO introduce slaves into the Southern
tates; and this undeniable fact he proposed to h
stabsl by statistics in stating which his errors
nrpassed his sentences in number. But let these
ass Tor the present, that may deal with his ar.
uments &5
Fray, sir, is the acknowledged turpitude
eparted generations 10 become an examine ia
= And yet, the suggestion of the Senator. Is
nntied any consideration in this discuss on
'u>t have this extent, jon my frieu5 ., .o"'
ew Hampshire in thanking the Ser ,tor so,,,
ou'h Carolina for adducing this in, ,.noo. co., ,,o