Oroville daily Butte record., 1856-07-23
The Hypocrisy Of Black Republicanism

The Hypocrisy Of Black Republicanism.
The alledged outrages upon the free State
men in Kanzas, and the assault by Brooks
upon Sumner, have furnished occasion for
vast amount Of Republican Indignation and
bllingsgate. They have been denounced a.
gross nfractiens Of right, as heinous viola
tiens OF law. 1t is well known in the At
lantc States, that Sumner is kept housed for
political effect only, and that the half hourly
bulletins concerning the desperateness ofh
condition that have been sent flying over the
non -slaveholding States by telegraph, were
designed as so many ''shrieks" for freedom
in Kanzas or to make Republican party
political capital.
DR.. Boyle, who was the only physician in
attendance upon Mr.. Sumner, testified be-
fore the House investigating committee that
Mr.. Sumner had been in no danger from the
effects of his fogging--had no fever--and
might have taken carriage and driven to
Baltimore on the day after the attack with
out danger. His evidence, as it appears in
the Washington papers, shows the sheer
humbuggery Of the pretences of the Repub-
lican press that Mr.. Sumner was seriously
hurt by Mr.. Brooks.
In relation to these ''outrages" Republican
meetings have passed "blood and thunder"
resolutions, Republican Editors have pub
lished vituperatiye articles, and Republican
Clergymen have preached fanatical sermons.
Does any intelligent man imagine that
sense Of justice, o reverence for law, re-
gard for injured right, actuates these meet
ings, these editors, these clergymen? We
think, not. 1t is gross hypocrisy. If the
feeling were sound and healthy ore, it
would have been aroused at other and more
serious violations of justice. The Freeman's
Journal recollects the following outrages
upon right which should have called it forth:
"Some years ago there living upon one of the
hills which overlook Boston fanueI Hall commu.
nity of ladies devoted to educolion and religion. At
midnight their dwelling was sacked and reduced to
ashes the chapel desecraled and the tombs torn
open. Teu thousand people of Massachusetts looked
on and not an arm, a voice. lifted TO defend
that community of women and children. prolong
ed ailer-nve sgation failed TO subsantiate one soa
nv oense on the part of the sufferers of the outrage
Twenty two years have since passed. and not dollar
of reparaton has been paid. Within a year a com
mttee OF the Legislature Of the same state enacted
disgusting invasion OF a private dwelling, likewise
occupied by women and children. Possibly Of Mr.
Summers indignant friends may have assisted on that
OCCASION. We have had to record in these columns
the burning of many churches which poor Catholics,
with toll and sacritices had erected to worship God
in. At Ellsworth, in Maine a venerable priest WAS
stripped BEATEN arred gnd feathered, and ridden up
on rail We no account of an indignation NEE
ting to denounce his assailants Bu; then he only
a peacefu man, faithful to his calling, engaged in
teaching his hock consoli0g the sick. baptizng the
infant and buryng the dead. He was not great anti
slavery agator, standing up in the Senate al the u
and denouncng the domestic concerns of nearly hah
the States of the conlederacy, and kenng honorable
Senators 70 toads and reptes."
Why did they not hold indignation meet
ings over the case of Owen Quigley, who
only shouted "Hurrah for Magruder," (the
democratic candidate for Mayor,) as he
passed Know Nothing and his companions
in one of the streets of Washington, and for
this he was beaten and kicked to death on
the spot! 1t was short speech, but it cost
him his life. Yet no public meetings have
been held in consequence, nor is it proposed
to redress the wrong by q general rush of
the north and west to Washington "to vindi-
cate the right of speech" And all this diff
ference because Quigley was democrat and
not an Aboitonist. A shame upon their
hypocrisy and Misrepresentation
They care nothing about law andright.--
Their Indignation over the Kanzas ''out-
rage" and thc'Sumner "outrage" is got up
and kept up, merely for the promotion of
their political ends. By such means they
hope to stir up sectional feeling in the
north sufficiently powerful to bear them into
national power. Their hope will not be re-
allied. The majority of the people of the
north are too clear sighted to be deceived
by their hypocritioal professions, and too
patriotic to render aid to their reasonable
purposes.
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