Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1856-05-31

Bsay- The following is the portion OF Senator
SrASER's speech, which excited the ire of the
redoubtable BRooKs; and produced the exhibit
Edon of Southern Chivalry-We publish it
that our readers may see how little provocation
there was for that gross outrage:
With regretI como again upon the Sena-
tor from South Carolina (Mr Butler, who,
omnipresent in this debate,. overfowed with
rage at the simple suggestion that Kansas
had applied for admission as a state; and,
with hcoherent phrases discharged the loose
expectoration Of his speech, ,snow upon her
Representative and then upon her people
There was no extraYaeance of the ancient
Parliamentary debate viii, h he didiiot repeat :;
nor was there any possible deviation from the
truth which he did not make, with so much
of passion, am glad TO add, as to save him
from the suspicion of intentional alteration
But the Senator touches nothing which he
does not dis6gure-with error, sometimes of
principle, sometimes of fact He shows an in
capacity of accuracy whether in stating the
Constitution or in stating the law whether
III the details of statistics or the diversions of
scholarship. He cannot open his mouth but
out there flies blunder. Surely he ought to
be familiar with the life of Franklin and vet
he referred to this household character, while
acting agent of our fathers in England, as
above suspicion and this was done that he
might give point to false contrast with the
agent of Kansas-not knowing that, however,
they may differ in genius and fame, in this res
pect they are alike that Franklin, when in
trusted with the petition of Massachusetts
H1U VyoC 1c 1cSanltnI NV a fnu1 tbnl cr,nnrlyar
where he could not be heard in defence, and
denounced as thief" even as the agent of
Kansas has been assaulted Gil this floor, and
denounced as forger" And let not the
vanity of the Senator be inspired by the par
allcI with the British statesmen of that day
for it is only in hostility to Freedom that any
parallel can be recognized But it is against
the people of Kansas that the sensibilities of
the Senator are particularly aroused Com
ing, as he announces, " from a State" aye, sir,
from South Carolina-he turns with lordly
disgust from this newly-found community which
he will not recognize even as "a body poll
tic" Pray, sir, by what title does he indulge
in this egotism? Has he read the history of
the State which he represents? He cannot
surely have forgotten its shameful imbecilty
from slavery, confessed throughout the Rcvo-
luton, followed by It's more shameful aSSnmp-
tions for slavery since lie cannot have for
gotten its wretched persistence in the slave
trade as the very apple of its eye, and the con-
dition Of its participation in the Union. He
cannot have forgotten its Constitution, which
is republican only in name, confirming power
in the hands of the few, and founding the quail
ilcatiOnS of voters on q a settled freehold eS-
tate and ten negroes And yet the Senator
to whom that State" has in part committed
the guardianship of its good name, instead Of
moving with backward trcading steps to CO.
yer its nakedness, rushes forward in the very
ecstacy of madness, to expose it by provoking
comparison with Kansas South Carolina
is old; Kansas is young. South Carolina
counties by centuries where Kansas counts by
years"