Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1856-08-07


eoueisteory wbjeh ever attends ultsais0 IN
coaduct q opiaion2 1Aks this late dlsscSe-
lsb6 aesauli 81 bstsssy q the CaPiiss N
washington. Says That NJ Bsooks 10 q.ose
oble mshe grounds Of his ssesck3tna
besides. there vas On inequality, rom the
pDssess;oo On. his part Of acane-'b,udgeos
- believe 10 nov the tesm-And say, that
~ 70 asks nsds b. ne assai)ant, (sdort~
ed bv NJ Summer u have been msde) the
&C psnying look and gesture, the hiung
q ths eaas, Skat ell ,hese did no' gave NJ.
3. the sscesssry iios 10 draw hiss less TO"
.ndes his desk nos 10 rise from his seei-
vet Is Il not cool u observe the snquestion-
sne way in which, st al the public meetings
,non 1he aesir, M Summers siateaent-
confesseily and necessarily q parte - II -
seems 10 be the only account Of the occur
eWce ever read o. regarded? We hsve NO
admiration for Mr. Bsooks, Bot WesSs strsrk
with the admirably impartial Method es pso-
eedure in the ease.
The display ha. be.s curiosity. Because
honorable senator's did not rush 10 the assis-
lance Of , man whom they at al times chose
10 avoid, denuncistions; grosns and execrs.
tisss hsve been poured upon them. "k'n
him J" says enc sympathiser At the meeting
in Brook!yn,-mea"ing Mr. Doug'as-'ms'
| is. ,sis amiable individual - 50 moved Tue
; outrage against Mr.. Sumner, that ne wishes
a kysiandrr TO be put to death. TO spPease
his indignation. The Times lays rea, stress
upon the fact that M s. is "a gentleman,"
a .sSepatorss and ga Scholar" We should
like 10 know wherein his rights tran: cend
those Of any other American citizen. New.
Mr. Beecher has rushed to innumerable meet
ines.-"in.door' . d out of-doOr"-tO PeIh
on the outcry. When asked whether lie
was S.psepared to speak, hesaDswers that he
4 Ehe the faucet Of the Croton, turn him
and the stream gushes. An elevating com
par,sos! the Reverend demsgogue Ta'hes
resembles the spigot Of small beer cask.
.erew him, aud not the lucid fluid, but froth
and foam, grugle from his peckeioth' Mr.
Charles King quits the shades OF Columbia
10 witness "w iih his blood" against Brooks
and 10 "seorn Slavery - While Horace
Gre~ly circulates activity at the country
gatherings. and annihiiates both Brooks and
Rust with resolutions.
All this is very we'll in its way, but does
any one imagine that . sense OF justice, a
reverence for law, . regard for inJu, ed right
actuates these gentlemen, and cOnvokes the
gatherings they operate upon? We may BE-
sbsurely sceptical, but we do not believe one
word Of it. On the contrary we fancy thai
we perceive H. these excitements the work
ings OF the spirit Of wild fanaticism, which
is sapping the basis OF this Union, and per.
iIling the welfare OF the people who live un'
der L. The organized irritation here, il
the counterpart extreme of that which struck
Sumner, ii Washington. II this feeii' 8
, were a sound aud heaithful one, 1t woult
r have been reused at other ana more serious
violations Of Justice. We can recOllcct q
, few outrages uron right, which should hav,
called il forth. Some years ago there VIA.
living upon one of the hills wilidh overlook
Boston, and Faneuil Hall, a community o
ladies devoted to religion and education
At midnight their dwelling was sacked ant
reduced to ashes, the chapel was desecrated
aud the tombs tor3 open. Ten THOUSAND
people Of Massachusetts looked on, end no
an arm, not voice, was lifted TO defer,
that community Of women and children. !!
prolonged after investigation failed 10 sub
I stantiate one solitary cffense on the part o
J. the sufferers If the outrage. Twenty -tw
c years have since passed, and not dollar o
i PREPARATION has been paid. Within year
= COMMITTEES of the legislature Of the sam
, state enacted sgusting invasion Of a rri
t vate Observation-Disclosures occupied by wo
men and children. Possibly some Of MI
; Summers indignant friends may have assist
ed on that occasion. We have had 10 re
J cord in these columns, the bu hing of man
| CuuICuVS WulCu YuOt Oo'uOu'Ss WIZ WI
S and sacrifices, had reared to worship Go
!. in. At Ellsworth, in Maine, a venerabl
% priest was stripped, beaten, tarred and feaii
: cred, and ridden upon rail. We see II
accoun, Of an in1ighatian meeting to d.
nounce his assaiIants. BIT then he va
only = peaceful man. faithful TO his calm,
n engaged in teaching his dock. consolug III
" sick, baptising the infant, and burying III
dead. He was not great anti-Slavcry a.
, isator standing up in the Senate of the Un
e ted States, and denouncing the domestic cor
Germs Of nearly half the States 6f the cor
% fedracy, and likening honorable Senators
n toads and reptiles.
% The champions Of unhealtlfnl exciteme'
:, may lean lesson Of self-knowledge fro
these diverse facts, they NAV See why it
y that they do not carry with them the reflect
/ ing portion of the community, and il the
il are determined TO misemploy their talen
Is heretofore, we think they many read II
forcibIe prediction of the failure Of the
,e endeayors.--N. Y. Freeman's Journal.