New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-05-30

Mr.. Buffers personalities In this debate hsv'
been Is marked as ever before. He rudely
sssa'led Mr. Harlan of Iowa, who is cler
gyman, by putting questions to him about bis pro
fessioD, end taunting him with ignorance: address
ing "a N bis seat wholly out of order; telling hin
be (Butler) knew as much Latin as be Harlan
did of English, and such Ike unma 1nery discourse
Of which be bas always been full. This particular
point to which we here allude is the more offeu-
sive since Butler, though full of scholarly pre-
tensions, is no scholar, and only little while
since told friend be was sorry to have quar-
relied with Sumner, for be used to get all his
scholarship out Of him. which, indeed, was the
fact, since it is well known that Butler always
used to pass up his Latin quotations to Sumner
to be corrected before putting them into his
printed speeches. But this is only sample of his
ordinary conduct
Without denying to Mr.. Butler the possession
Of some good qualities and considerable talents,
he syet VIGOROUSLY aqgravating and oficious in
bis hostility to all Anti Slavery sentiment as he is
Incorporate ia his personal habits. Isishs wont to
vent mOnosy Liable wrath at those whose views
on Slavery and constitutional duty do not &C.
cord with his own, as though he were the stand
ard and measurer Of opinion for every other
Senator. 1t is the rude interruption, it is
the sUpercilious manner, it is the arrogant tone
and temper, the lordy lashing, plantation way
in which these things are done, that often
constitutes ground Of ofense greater than is
offered by the mere words. Yet Mr. Butler, on
many former set occasions, has spoken out and re-
corded most offensive language against Mr.. Sumner
He has twitted him Of "fagrantly incorporating
history" Of making 'fourth Of July OratiOns" in
tue Senate, of using 'vapid rhetoric" of making
flaming speeches to infurate mobs, of being q
"teIvile orator." and otherwise maligning him by
sl manner of implied censure and rebuke on points
where every thing of the sort could not be other
wise than imper.ineut Oher Senator's of But
lers party have habitually been equally insOlent
and backgusrd Indeed the enc great fact in all
the alteration on the subject of Slavery 10 the
Senate is this that the Pro- Slavery men hold
lOrdly bnd contemptuOus tone, and assume on all
occasions a superciliOus and Oyerbearing man
ner, designed to intimidate expression and over
come it by an assumed superiority as aggravat-
ing as il is insOlent. TLey have attempted to GOV
down Anti-Slavery men by an intuffr rabe hauteur,
as we'll as by fierce assaults that it has required
coed deal of boldness to even rise and express
a modest opinion amid the shower Of cOntem ptuous
missiles instantly hurled at the head Of the speaker
BY an overwhelming mass of Senatorial arrogance.
And now, after years of this treatment, when
Mr.. Sumner rises and makes speech in which he
oveIcomes this systematized scheme of subduing
freedom Of utterance when he defes the conspiri-
cy to tread personal independence and dsagreeable
truth under foot, and routs the whole host by
sound blows upon each division of it, what is done
to himi Beaten in argument, beaten in sarcasm,
beaten in invective beaten in prompt reply in q
wordy encounter of their own choosing, one thing
is yet left to his oppOnents-Sumner can be beaten
with a stick. And when it is done, when the
violence which shocks all is committed, Northern
journals are found that can psate the attack
by saying that Mr.. Sumner should have been more
meay mOu,hed, and tame, and subdued in his
Gtterances; that he should have been careful to say
nothing that would offend any bOdy-and this, too
while Mr.. Sumner was strictly combining himself
within the rules Of parliamentary discussion. If
those who take this view Of the case had any can
dor left, the slightest reflection upon the facts
could not but make them blush for an opinion 80
perverse, pusaDimOus and shameful.