The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-06-17
CON REss AL.
rH1RrY-FoURrH ooNGREss-F1Rsr SESSION.
Frldo4's Procee0inQs.

WASHINGTON, June Is.
SENATT-Mr. Butler resumed his remarks
from yesterday, in further apology for the at
tack of Mr.. Brooks on Mr.. Sumner. He said
that when the Legislature of Massachusetts
say that that gentleman's act was cowardly,
let them try him in any way they choose
IApplause. F.l ~ FL
Mr.. Stuart said that the prophecies and
amenities Of the Senate were too often thus
disturbed by applause, and if the galleries can
not be occupied by gentlemen they should be
closed.
The Chair inquired whether the gentleman
from Michigan moved that the galleries should
be closed
Mr.. Stuart replied that he did not
Mr.. Fessenden, in justice to the galleries,
said that the applause came from the floor of
the Senate.
Mr.. Butler said he would 60 on in such a
way as nobody would applaud again. Laugh
ter. MIR. Brooks approached Mr.. Sumner
with no other purpose than to disgrace him.
Mr.. Brooks was one of the best tempered fell
lows he ever knew, though impetuous no
doubt and quick at resentment. Mr.. Sumner
received two flesh wounds and being rather
handsome did not expose himself. If he had
been in the army and had not gone with the
army the next day after the fracas he would
have deserved to be cashiered. Laughter
Mr.. Butler concluded his remarks by claim
ing that he had convicted Sumner of error
misrepresentation, and calumny.
] Mr.. Wilson replied, reading statement
from Mr.. Summers present physician showing
that from the 10Th of May, Sumner had been
confined to his bed, in consequence of the as
sault, and saying that Sumner cannot attend
to public business for some time to come But
Ter had taken full revenge for the speech de-
livered by Sumner. This is the way it should
have been met, and not by blows Mr.. Will
son endorsed Summers remarks relative to
South Carolina, and referred to the former
speeches of Butler to show that ever since
Sumer has been in the Senate, Butler had ap-
piled to him offensive epithets calculated to
injure the feelings Of any man, and insisted
that Butler himself was the first aggressor.-
Wilson said that he would speak his opinions
freely. No one held over him a plantation
whip, and he would speak the more freely be-
cause his colleague had been rudely stricken
down for words uttered in debate.
Mr.. Butler said he did not blame Wilson for
taking his colleagues part, but when he had
gone back to those old reports previous to
1854, it made him think what he should be
sorry to suppose, namely, that mortified vani-
| ty, arising from former conflicts, had been the
cause of this last assault of Sumner upon him
and his State. Mr.. Sumner did not say that
| in his affidavit, but that what he uttered was
in reply to his (Butler's) speeches of this ses-
sion. He could not go back and recapitu-
late those old speeches, for they were very long
since forgotten
! Ia commenting on the revolutionary services
of South Carolina, he asked Wilson how many
battles Massachusetts, had fought in the revo-
luton? Wilson replied there were but few,
because the enemy considered it safer to 20 to
South Carolina. Laughter. They had met
! them at Concord, Lexington, Bunker Hill and
on the heights of Dorchester, and would have
met them elsewhere but the enemy took good
care to keep out Of the State. The charge of
Mr.. Clay that Northern Senators fawned upon
Southern Senators when permitted to make
their acquaintance, was language he had no
right to use.
Mr.. Clay said the charge he had heretofore
made was just that men from the North would
come here and court the acquaintance of
Southern Senators. He did not charge Viii
son with such conduct, but there were those
who did SO. He regarded that as duplicity
and hypocrisy unworthy OF a gentleman. No
minded, honest, straight forward man
would be guilty Of such conduct.
Mr.. Evans obtained the floor, when the SEN
ate adjourned till Monday.
HoUsE-No quorum being present the House
adjourned.