New-York daily tribune., 1856-07-30
FROM PHILADELPHIA.

Yyou Our Specth CofrespondsnI
PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, July %, 1856.
The Brooks and Burlngsme affair reminds No
Of the following points:
Douglas is the original cause Of tbs attack o.
Sumner. When he hmpooned Sumner on The
conclusion Of the latter's speech, he distiscty
thIestened Sumner with Buffers veuaeasce. II 10
probable that but for Douglas, Butler would have
looked upon the speech as strictly parliamentary.
oil the more so as Sumner had been, from tho time
oftakipg Senatorial place, the object Of virulent
attacks-from the condemnation Of the epithet
puppy" applied to him by the Senator from
Alabama, to the labored orstcrical assaults u W
riOUs other Senators.
1t lie Lot, them with these facts before u.s. AFFIRM
ing too much to say that Butler himself would
never bave considered Summers speech anything
more than an able retort-and Butler 10 not man
to be blind ito 1.-THE merits of, others. But
Douglas, in the most gratuitOus manner possibe--
and doubtless with physical grace al his own
stood budgeOn.s sponsor for Butler, stating that on.
bis return the latter would have q way of making
Sumner retract, &C. Upon this hint, Brooks, not
waiting for Butler to act on it, took the matter 70
his own hands So much for the hrst point; ana
the second is this:
During BrOOkss remarks on bis resgning his
place, be intimated very plainly that when max
ing the assault, he was secretly armed and ready
to kill Sumner il the latter had been abletO over
match bim and bis bludgeOn. This intimation was
we'll Understood by the House, and "a voice" 80.
seyerattdit il at the time. Now BROOKS himself
therefore, was determined to run no risk, upon
striking down an unarmed man, but to kiu HE vio-
tim sooner than suffer any bodily ILL., Is 1t NOT ex-
tra0rainary then that q gentleman who was deter'
mined to make fierce assault at no risk, ana 70
carry the assault up to murder II necessary
should decline to 60 to Canada to hight, lest no
IL ii khuo nlp wnpon n.
own fears of being attacked and murdered! Ihis
matter speaks for itself The essence Of chivary,
as exhibited in Tancred, Fioissart and tho reaex OF
the system Don QuixOte or any other authorityis,
never striking adversary at foul disadvantage OF
avoiding all personal danger, while exposing an ad-
versary helIlessly to it. Fortunately, In tne
Northern States there are free presses and read
ers i'll make up their minds as to the spurious AZ
ai,e as ., aons" ,' thundered Burke, "and that Of
sophstr. economists and calculators is come"
Sophists in this case who attempt TO say thss tnc
people of the North would murder . member o.
CONGRESS (because some other people might DO 90
unSer the circnmstsnes.) eoonosniets Of solf-ex-
| posure who 20 armed and backed to strike down
a single, unarned, defenseless man-asd cslcula-
tors, who count twenty -four hours journey too
| lOpg for certain purposes
To day is cloudy, but ne rain yet The thor
| mOmeter has fallen several degrees The appear
ance of the country is deplorable-the grass look
Ing ing in many place: a, if burned with hot rollers;
ID to this time, over 1000 persons have visited
Cape May and the city is almost too denuded for po
little dem onstrstiOns. It. Gov. Roberts, however,
held forth most fuently and eficaciously to good
auditory at the Republican Headquarters on Sat
urday night, giving his Kansas experiences. His
expose the of certain Pennsy lvania Admin
istraton members drew forth great indignation; and
on the conclusion Of the speech, new members from
among the working men were enrolled. These
He tadauarters are the best know Of The rooms
will accommodate some 900 or 200; and there
is reading room where journals are TAKEN and
all afforded without cost to the members, - tho
few leaders here spend most generously.