The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-06-07

BosToN, May 26.

permit me to drop you from this City OF
Puritans. Two weeks, partly of travel and
partly of business engagements in other
cities East and West, have brought me here,
from whence, after few days, l shall again
turn my face homeward. know not that
my thoughts have ever turned so yearningly
before, as they do now to the Northwest.
Minnesota! but few brief years since of
no interest to me, and now so thought of
and beloved as
| ssThe land Of my hon e and my dead.''
Independently of the influence, of circum-
stances upon the feelings, facts, and con-
trasts continually occur during travel, almost
all Of which bring out in bold relief the at
fractions and advantages of our Territory.
Health, and the elements of wealth so truly
belong to it, that with social condition re-
cognizing the highest moral principles, the
destiny of Minnesota can be no enigma
Whether in her social development she will
fully recognize these principles, is yet to be
seen. / believe she will. With her pres
ent population if she should fail in this, we
should, it would seem, leok in vain elewhere
for that true conservatism, and that recog-
milton of the right, and the true which are
the substrata of a permanent prosperity.
You have not, as this is written, received
intelligence Of the brutal assault upon Mr..
Sumner, in the. Senate Chamber; you will,
however, have had all the particulars before
receiving this. That old quotation is very
trite, but must use it nevertheless
"whom the Gods destroy they first make mad.''
Little need be said in reference to such
an outrage, in such place; and yet it is no
more than we might have been prepared to
expect after watching the treatment that
the minority has for some time received.
not only from outsiders, but from dgnifed
Senators themselves. We shall now see
whether that Senate's majority will not
practically endorse the outrage; not directly
of course, but yet as fatally to their own
dignity and honor, as with full and open
justification.
How worthy of admiration, the high
minded chiyalry of -hotspurs-shall
we call them? . o Hotspur had noble
though a beligerant nature, and these men
with all their nobility have proved that they
can condescend to as much meanness in
political chicapery as the meanest Northern
tool they use. A large portion of their
dirty work is done for them, however, in
Washington, by Northern men, as it is
wholly done on their plantations, by unpaid
toll. have said the more on this subject
because have met men, citizens of Boston
who are not only excusing but almost JUST
flying the outrage; these are of course igno-
bic exceptions, as an almost universal indig-
nation is felt, and is increasing.
/ was present on Saturday evening at a
mass meeting in Faneul Hall, at which
some five thousand people were present
The meeting was addressedhy men Of various
political opinions, and of all parties Except
administration, and it was indeed an excit-
ing scene.
l have spoken Of men who, citizens Of
Massachusetts,, yet justify the outrage
had no previous idea of the subserviency to
the South of many of the leading merchants
of the three large seaboard cities. Theyare
men who watch and wait for the commercial
aspect of every moral and political question,
and in the West have rarely found men
who have surrendered themselves to this ONT
idea with the same narrowness and inten-
sity.
Have you read Mr.. Summers speech 7-Oi
course you have. I do net wonder at its
power. In clearness of statement, in beauty
of diction, in classic richness, it is a model
of Senatorial eloquence and then the burn
ing caustlcity Ct it's satire, unlike the bully
ing denunciations of Douglas how oalcu-
lated to burn deeper and deeper, after the
sound of the spaker's voice had long sub
sided.
We have needed just such Northern men
in our national councils to show that men
can be brave without being DULLES and that
powerful argument, backed with defiant sar-
casm, are more than match for all the
windy declamations and transparent sophis-
tries on the other side of the question.
] Severe and matchless in sarcasm as Sum-
ner has proved himself, read any report OF
his speech, and the gentleman is fully mani
fest. He at no time sunk himself to the
level of that blackguardism which has so re-
peatedly characterised the attacks upon himr
self. The extreme courtesy and forbearance
of anti-Slavery members, in their senatorial
intercourse, has been so abused and misre-
presented that it has ceased to be a virtue ;
and now that Southern men and Northern
traitors occasionally get an intensified Ro-
land for their Oliver, it is amusing to wit
ness their surprise and Indignation. Mr..
Summer not only touched the rag," but
he anointed it with nitre and vinegar, and it
strikes Inc there are men in that Senate who
will henceforth fear as fully as they will hate
| him.
The city has had very successful BUSH
4 ness season, and her efforts to push her trade
in the West and Northwest seem to have
been well rewarded. Like all the cities
through which have passed, she is rapidly
impr owing in the number and beauty of her
buildings. 1 yesterday went to the "Old
fSouth," and seemed at once to realise the
historic associations that cluster around it