New-York daily tribune., 1856-06-03

him Of countenanciDg murdes and having stirred
up the rescue Of Shadrsck, described BY him as
" disgracefu mob and outrage, which sullied the
I" fair character of the State and of her distin-
" guished capital city; and went at length into the
circumstances of bis eleetlen from all of which
he argued that Mr.. Susnser came to the Senate
pledged to 60 fox the repeal of the Fugitive Slave
law, and in the same breath berated him for not
having moved in the matter sooner and for moving
in it them accusing him of having, for the mere
purpose Of agitation delivered himself Of TRADE
" of abuse against the laws of his country law
for which many Senators voted, who, Mr.. Bad
ger insinuated, ought to regard and treat this
attack upon that law as personal insult to them
,elyes, hintiDg strongly that, under the circun-
stances, there Senators were bound to place Mr..
Sumner under ban of personal ostracism, not
only as guilty of moral treason, but as having per-
soDally insulted them
Such was the ground originally assumed by the
slavehOding Senators, from which it is evident that
the pretense of 9 special personal grievance to his
uncle, set up by the cowardly assassin Brooks is
q cham, since, according to this doctrine,
though there had been the least ausOn TO Butler
individually, Mr.. Sumner was equally guilty in his
late speech of personal insult to all the Senators
who bad voted for the Kansas-Ncbraska bill, each
ore of whom and all their nephews would have the
right to punish him therefor.
During the debate on the Kansas-Nebraska bill,
March 3, 1854, Douglas made violent persona
attack upon Mr.. Chase, Mr.. Sumner, and the other
sigDers of the Appeal of the Independent Demo-
" Gratis in Congress to the People of the United
Estates" in which he spoke of Mr.. Sumner as
the confederate in SANDER of Mr.. Chase, and
accused him of having come into the Senate IN
dishOnOrable way. In the course of that TRADE he
made the following statement, which, If true
(Which is very doubtful considering the source
whence it cOmes) would 60 TO prove that the con-
tpiracy against Mr.. Sumner preceded even his arr-
val in Washington:
"Imust be permitted to remind him of what he GER
tsiny forget, that when he arrived mere 10
take his seat for the frst me firmly were Senators
impre with the conviction that he had been eected
by ishoIorable and corrupt means, there were very
few who for long time, would deem 1t consistent with
personal honor to hold personal intercourse WIN hi
So general that impression that ior iohg time he
was avoided ard stunned as person unworthy OF the
association Of gentlemen. Gradually however these
injurious impressions were worn away Dy MS pianu
manners and amsble department; and regret that
the Senator should now by violation Of the rules Of
courtesy ard proprety compel me to refresh MS nind
upon those unwelcome "reminiscences
On the Goth of June both Mr.. Rockwell (then
Mr.. Summers collesgue) and Dir. Sumner himself
made speeches on memorial from 2,9Oo citizens
of Massachusetts, asking repeal of the Fugitive
Slave law. Butler, in reply, thus disParagingly
allue ed to Mr.. Summers speech:
"When gentlemen Use and fngrantly msrepresent
history ~ that gentleman has DONE by Fourth OF
July oraon by vapd rhetoric, bya species of rhetoric
which | am sorry to say ought not to come from a
scholar-a rhetoric with more fine color than real
streDgth-I become impatient under it. speak very
sachusetts tMr. ROCKWELL He spoke with soberness,
gravity and dignity, aud attended to him. He was
hns SeIareed the duty and hss spoken the sober
ness of one EXPIRE ssng conviction and in that spirit
not as Ihetorician playing part nIst ,te, re,
On this floor; but will tell him that the reagItNlon
90 ON, the consequence will be that an issue mi be
made 6eireea the South and the North. can,
one and plain word if the proceedings OF this Senate
are TO be made the vehicle of denunciaon and as.
sault. the thing cannot be tolerated. csn,
as do entertain strong feelings, but they shall not
find expression in violent threat. Such may well
appeal to the Senate has not been my habit. have
been betray ed into remarks not Intended.
After some further talk Butler asked Mr. Sumner
if he would help send back fugitive slave to
which Mr.. Sumner replied "Is thy servant dog
"tbat be should do this thing =" Butler first at
tempted to be funny over this answer, and then
assisted by Pratt, to read lecture to Mr.. Sumner
for his scandalous wickedness in representing it as
4 dog Office to execute the Constitution! Mason
next pitched in with great ferocity:
81 say, Sir, the 6guity of the American Senate has
been rudcy wantony, grossly assailed by Senator
from Massachusetts, and not only the dignity of the
Senate but of the whole people tinted with in the
presence of the American Senate, either ignoranty
corruptly-I don't know which, nor do
Sir he has denounced a gentleman from Virginia
who goes under the protection of the Constitution and
the sanction of the law into his State 80 reclaim hi-
n,opertv He has the bodness to speak here of such
nan az sslave hunter from Virginia The Senator
from Mas achusets in the use OF such vulgar language
here betrays the vugarty OF his associations home
and shall il be tolerated here in the American Senate
| ......Why, SIR, an speaking to fanatic to
one whose reason is detbronedl [Tlis seems to be
| Mascn's standing retort. He wound up the debate
| the Other day with speaking Of Mr. Sunuer as non
| coupo-l Can such one expect TO make impress
sious upon the American people from his vapd vulzar
defamation here accom- panied by bis declaration that
| he would violate his oath now recently taken"
After Mason had finished Petit began to foam
at the mouth; but, as Clemens observes, the bark
ipgs of q puppy are Of no consequence, and We
shall pass Petit BY.
Two days after, the subject came up again, on a
complaint of this Petit that Mr. Sumner had in.
duced the reporter of The Globe to inepolate into
the report Of Pettit's speech an explanation by Mr.
Sumner in these words: Il said recognized no
"obgation in tue Constitution of the United States
.to bind me to help reduce man to slavery
The object of the slave drivers and doughfa ,es wa,
10 fix upon Mr.. Sumner the charge of refusing to
,hav ,Ls Constitution Petit denied ,b.. N.