The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1856-08-16

The following manly strain from th
Minden Herald. Of Louisiana, has rim,
OF true Indignation about i, tina, shou
make the donghiaee Northern apologist
Tor the conduct of Brooks, hang thei
heads with shame;
Our opinion is, that Brooks disgrace,
himself and brought tho whole SLAYER,
cause into more dlsreputs than ever. ant
should be summarlly expelled frcm III,
House. Ii was a stretch Of chivalry or
his part for which no valid excuse can b.
offered Summers offence agains, Bu..
Ter did no! deserve any physical cas,iga
ton, but on the contrary, was, in our es.
hna,ion, taking all circumstances, pas
and present. into account, perfectly pro.
per, because justly meri,ed. We have
no sympathy with the slavery agl,a,ors
on either slde-we have a supreme con
tempt for Southern fre-eaters and ice.
venders fanatics: tut we do think tha, il
ever man nigh, be excused for becom.
ing desperate in the halls Of legislation,
that man is Sumner.
we have read the debates in Congress
Tor many years past, minu,ely and I'M
partially, and never have we known any
man so foully and INCREASINGLY abused
aud vlliitied, as this same Sumner.
Every dog Of Southern agitation, from
Bose Douglas down to the smallest
and most NANCY that whines and snars
in the unprinclpled, suck-egg train, has
been barking at his heels bu, the fact
has not been successfully hit, that their
spiri. arises more from a knowledge of
his cool superiority of talent, than any
real difference Of opinion On principle.
Dougla as-than whom. in our humble
opinion. a more unprincipled and reck-
less agitalor never disgraced the Senate
Chanber-has from time to time, hurled
at Sumner all his native and well cult.
waited slang; and then 'Og, the king OF
Bashton'-Gen. Cass, the old broken
down Preslden. seeker, and inconsis,er, r.,
Free Soiler-has never failed to chime
in with his more solid invectlve: and the
chorus has been filed to every beat and
bar with the yelpngs Of the little wool
ly y-headed poodles from the South--men
who have no more principle, and bu, lit
tie more brain, than the African slaves
in behalf of whose chains they so injudi-
ciously rave and rant. And finally, un-
d the influence of all this, Sumner be-
comes somewhat desperate, and hurls at
his conglomerated assailan,s some ,Eun-
der bolts which send them howiing in
karried confusion and then, as last
resort of revenge, one of the manly mum.
ber slips up to him in the Senate Cham.
Der, finds him seated at his desk, writing,
lnarmed, and with great gusto, canes
him Wonderful feat And is this
he way Southern Rights are to be vindi-
,ateds Are these the kind of cham
pions the South must look to for her de-
.ence in the national halls Of Legislation
Is it by such acts of slavish degradation
Is this, that the slavery Of the southern
States Of this free and enlightened Union
$ to be perpetuateds Gentlemen may
hnk so, and may rave at any mar who
,as the independence to condemn such
:onduct particularly if he be South
'rner; but we tell them that the citizens
# this Republic are not to be convinced
IS to what IS right and what is wrong by
fows, and are not to be Brought to a
lnal decision by brute force.
This is our opinion OF the Brooks and |
'umne- atialr--only the half is no, told