True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1856-09-03
A Southern Editor Down on Brooks.


The following manly strain from The
Mnden Herald of LOUISIANA, has ring
Of true Indignation about it that should
make THE miserable doughtace Northern
apologists for the conduct of Brooks hang
with very shame The editor may soon
find his press in middle of some
horse pond.
"Our opinion is that Brooks disgracrd
himself and brought the whole slavery
cause into more disreJule than ever, and
should be summariy expelled from the
House 1t was stretch OF chivalry on
his part for which no valid excuse can be
offered. Summers offence against Butler
did not deserve any physical casliga,ion,
but on the contrary, was in "uI estimation
taking all circumstances into the account
perfectly proper because justly meriled.
We have no sympathy with the slavery
agltators on either side--we have a su-
preme contempt fur tire-eaters and fanat
les: but we do think that if ever
man might be excused for becoming des-
perate in the halls of legislation, that man
is Sumner.
We have read The debates in Congress for
many years minuely aud impartialy,
and have never known man so foully
and increasingly abused and villifed as
this same Sumner
Every dog of Southern agitation from
Bose Douglas to down TO the smallest and
most insignificant puppy that whines and
snars in the unprincipled suck-dog train,
has been barking dt his heels but the
fact has not been successfully hit, that
their spi e arises more from knowledge
Of his own cool superiority of talent than
any real difference of opinion or princi-
pie. Douglas, than whom i'll our humble
opinion more unprinci pied or reckless
agitalor never disgraced the Senate Cham
ber-has from time to Time hurled at
Sumner all his native and we'll cultivated
slang. and then "Ogg, the king of Bas.
han Gen. Cass the cd broken down
President seeker, and inconsistent Free
soier-has never failed to chime in with
his more solid invective; and the chorus
has been filed o every beat and bar
with yelpng of the little woolly.headed
poodles from the South--men who have
no more principle, and but little more
brain than, the African slaves in behalf of
whose chains they SO uwudciousIy rave
and rant.
And finally, under the influence Of all
his, Sumner becomes somewhat despe-
rate, and hurls al his conglumerated as
sailants some thunderbolts which send
them bowling in hurried confusion, and
then, as a last resort of revenge, one of
the manly number slips up 10 him 10 the
Senate chamber finds him seated al his
desk writing unarmed, and with great
gusto canes him. Wonderful feat And
is this the way Southern Rights are to be
vindicated Are these the kind Of cham
pions the South must look to for her de-
fence in the national halls Of legislation !
Is i; by such acts of slavery degradation
as this that the slavery Of the Southern
States of this free and enlightened Union
is to be perpetuated! Gentlemen may
think so and may rave and ear at any
man who has the Independence to con
demn such conduct-parlicularly il he 10
a Southerner; but we tell them that the
citizens Of this Reptile are not to be con-
vinced as 10 what is right and what is
wrong by blows, and are not to be brought
IN 6nal decision by brute force.
This is our opinion Of the Brooks and
Sumner afIair--only the half is yet
told.
EE Neither men nor women become
what they were intended to be by carpet.