The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-06-13
sENArOR sUMNER.

SENATOR SUMNEk. fN2
Incorporate expressions and personally offensive re-
marks do not Justify reonders conceived in the OBJ
isctionabe spirit but Senator Sumner has cited the
soech OF Judge Butler the moving OF his own
violent and ytuperative remarks in the Senate few days
go we are perfectly willing that he should enter his
until the whole proceedings shall have been calmly
viewed by the American people In the mean time We in
vile the attention Of the reader to the subjoned editorial
paragraph which find in late number Of the Boston
Courier an opposition paper with many sympathies COM
mon 10 those felt by the political friends of Mr.. Sumner
awe repabsh to-day, from the pamphlet edition, the
.eoch OF Butler of South Carolns, delivered in the
Senate of the United States March 1856 We have pre-
irred give it entire, instead Of portions, which have
b repeatedly requested to publish In order that read
=. may have ample Of forming their Judgments
n regard to it, We have read this speech with little
pse after hearing much Of that southern denuncation
which has been said provoked Mr.. Summers retor As
10 the political opinions Of Mr. Butler developed in the
oeh it is unnecessary for say anything. Apart from
these no honest mind could help sdring the genuine ab
m displayed the patriotic sentiment evinced and the truly
0enemany and tenor of tho entire performance We
have been at discover in II anything calculated to
give offence TO unless be In the use OF the
terms fanatic, fanaticsm, &C., which have been
monty applied that wing of the eesoers represented by
Me,srs Sumner Wilson, 6c hardly to warrant any par
cuar oucry at this moment. In word the speech Of
Senator Butler statesmanke and practical production,
not mere piece rhetoric though rising sometimes will
be SEEM the higher regions Of oraory, and is in fact
real bona tide argument of that description which is ad
dressed the minds Of to be likely to have its due
effect upon Them.
In connexion with the above may not be out Of place
% sude to the unfortunate resulting from Mr..
Summers own violence. A personal difficulty involving
chastsenent under circumstances Of great provocation
has been magniGed by the abolition press into
sross political ouragean attack upon the liberty Of
speech itsef-sanconcd and encouraged by the demo-
cratic party and for which that party be held
sponsibe To divert the attention Of the public from
the true facts of this difficulty, the most ingenious and
extensive devices have been resorted to- for the pur
pose of creating large stock Of popular sympathy.
From the time of the encounter to the present mo-
ment the life of the distinguished Notwithstanding
TO the abolition press-has been in imminent danger.
"nsensbe' "hgh fever "delirious" emo allowed to
see him." dying "dead'--such the startling an
nunciaous in the Sumner telegraphic dispatches which
have flooded the country for the last fortnight. Will
it be credited out of Washington that these
Citations had not the slightest foundation in TRUTH and
that they systematically manufactured, not out Of
any consideration for the supposed snerngs of Mr. Sum-
ne under the desperate expectation that the shrieks
for freedom might become deeper louder and more profit
able than they had been during the recent State
in Maine New Hampshire and Connecticut? At no time
has Mr. Summers condition bordered the serious If
bis physicians statement is to be credited this persistent
housing of Mr. s. with the accompanying Geographic bull
len in the end the patient and his sympath
GERS with supreme ridcue DR.. Cornelius Boyle, in his
examination before the House committee investigation
states under oath:
al have medical with him but myself. There
has been there. There great many friends
emit and they make Mr. Sumner great deal than
he They say he has fever. have discovered
any have been his constant attendant, and have
known his pulse at any moment higher than eghtytwo
yesterday corrected article in the ntegencer stating
that he had fever and the correction appears In to-day
paper He has fever my knowledge. have visited
him day His brother said he ought out
and cited great many that had under his OBJ
Paris where death had taken place in six weeks
from blows the head. His brother is not medical
Senator Sumner Of course took the advice Of his
brother his friends and l. of course allowed them do
they thought proper. Perhaps ought to state my
for Directing to bis coming out Friday. There
good deal OF excitement at that time and thought that
Mr. Sumner did not into the Senate for day two the
excitement might off,"
Again:
al think this that Mr. Sumner might have taken a
carriage and driven far Baltimore the next day with
out any injury"
We have disposition TO interfere with the electoneer
ing plans of political opponents It may may not
be that votes be gained for the abotionis by this
clinical practice But II Mr. Sumner expects to defeat the
nominees Of the Democratic National Convention by
hnng himself his bedroom during she present high
range Of the mercury and permitting his friends to crcu
late the most silly stories in regard to his physical cond
ton he Ia greatly overcstimstng the gulbity Of the
people Of his State. We advise him. in all sin
CERTIFY to his in the Senate forthwith lie has
bad his physicians permission to that effect days and days
ago.