The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-05-30
THE DAILY DISPATCH
Friday sr.r.ins, May 80, 1886.

THE DAILY DISPATCH.
Friday NTerning, May 80, 1880.
ssThe Effect or IT,"
Under this head the New York Comnerc'ai ao
vsrtsssr. which the Baltimore American says nA,
been always zone Of the most consefssaso .as !.
thoroushlv national Journals In the United etases'
comments n l%rre upon what Il styles 'tne COW
.r,,v ana bru..i assault made by MI Brooks Of
aauth ry.ro,,n. upou Senator Sumner OF Massa
cAusesssv We invoke the special attention q
our RAIDERS to the following sxtracts from the
Commercial, and having given Il . hearing we beg
tovh,sper word Of reply to this Conservative
and pasronizing journal;
rhs CANNON remark IL that II Southern men
have no better arguments than hsts, canes, knives
snd reyolyers and are determined 10 stifie free.
dom Of speech by personal violence and ASSAULT
shey are roine to show themselves 90 tryannical,
imperious and overbe airing, that any man. not ex'
cepting the Legislators Of the Republic, who finds
fault with Southern state or Southern politi.
clan Il to be punished" or ''chastised" At the
opinion Of any Southern man who chooses to en-
act the part Of sekelected avenger,-then II Is
impossible Of republicans and freemen TO sympa-
thixs with them, or defend them from epitnets
which they thus prove themselves to merit.
Some of our Southern fellow citizens are far frop
being wise In their generation Anything more im'
plicit than the specimens OF brutality afforded in
the Senate Chamber on Thursday, can scarce
ly be conceived Il Ia . virtual saying to the ma.
iorty Of the people that Southern men will brook
no contradiction, freedom Of speech, no difference
of sentiment The conservative men and journals
Of the North canuot aud will not sanction such .
doctrine II their rebukes Of seciionalism, and
their determination to demand for the South the
exclusive control Of its own institutions, have been
construed into . wilderness to deny to the North
the fullest enjoymsnts OF Its sentiments and
at axxxfst Ia has A. o tGca
ton of which must be no longer delayed. The
conservative men of the North have no more inten-
ton, and never can have, of approving or conniv-
ing at aggrassons on the part Of the slave States
than of aggressions on the part of free States
We hold aud ever will hold that thought and speech
are free. Of right and must be allowed to freemen
everywhere.
And we tell our Southern friends with all can
dor, and with all friendship, that unless tney ae'
sire to convert the entire population OF the Tree
States into determined antagonists they must unite
with their conservative fellow citizens IN those
States In frowning upon and denouncins an sueh
attempts to bully and frighten those VINO aiiier IN
sentiments from them, as that perpetrated oy Mr..
p. 8. Brooks upon Mr. Sumner. Aud more than
this. They must abandon pe system OF intimida-
tion-the practice of personal violence towards
those who differ from them, SO common in the
South-the tar and feathering of men who oppose
slavery, the cruel imprisonment of defenceless
women because they dislike slavery, the opening
Of private correspondence and on evidence thus
obtained prosecuting in every conceivable man.
ner the writers of such correspondence,-the re-
sort to these and kindred uDjustifable means Of
destroying freedom Of thought and speech, must
be abandoned if they desire to dsarm abOltionists
of their most powerful arguments, and maintain
their own position in the Union.
We publish the above that the Southern public
may appreciate, at its just value, the boast of the
Commercial, that ''for more than half a century it
has advocated constitutional and conservative doc.
trines." If the New York Tribune or the Times
can surpass this conservative journal in the I'M
fairness of statement which marks every line of
the above extract, and the uncomfortable bubbling
up Of latent animosity, they are even more disin-
genuous and malignant than we lad ever sup.
posed. It often happens in society that man
10 able TO conceal his real character for many
years like the famous and highly conservative
DR.. Webster, of Boston, until some irresistible
temptation overcomes his caution, and displays
him in his true eolors. If the guta percha cane of
Mr. Brooks has rendered no other service it has at
least whipped off the conservative DISCUSSES of
some hollow-hearted friends of the South, and
revealed them in their true nature of secret but
real foes.
Mark the issue which this conservative journal
deliberately manufactures, as presented by the
thrashing of Sumner, to the people of the North
ut is rirtual saying. to the majority of the people,
that Southern pH brook no contradiction, no
freedom Of speec no difference Of sentiment" 1t is
saying no such thing, as the Commercial full well
knows. The act of Brooks was the act of one
man, not of the South not known, until it had oc-
cured, even to his own colleagues in Congressi-
And his act was not a resentment of difference
Of sentiment" but an assault upon person who
had slandered, and in the grossest manner abused
his gray haired and absent relative. If Southern
man in the South Carolina Senate or any other
Southern latitude, had been capable of assailing
In the same manner the reputation OF truthful
and honorable gentleman, he would have been pun
ished In al probability, with even greater severi
ty. This conservative journal of New York is
equal in its euphuistic phraseology to Sir Pierce
Shafton. Language, which, in its brutality and
falsshood, would have disgraced fishwoman, 1t
pronounces freedom of speech, and difference of
sentiment"
Does any one know better than the Commercial
Advertiser that every day the South in Congress
brooks contradiction" freedom of speech" and
difference of sentiment" upon the slavery and
every other subject If it did not the sessions Of
Congress would not continue two weeks, for there
Il scarcely any other subject discussed there but
slavery, either by Northern or Southern men,
The South does not expect either Northern mem
bsrs Of Congress or the Northern people to agree
with her upon the subject of slavery. All she asks
10, to be let alone. Why, then, does the Com
merciai wish to represent her manifestng, in
the retaliation of Mr.. Brooks for personal insult,
determination to chastise every Northern man
who differs from her in opinion upon the slavery
question: What's the of conservatism, if it is
not among is functions to maintain the truth in its
integrityG
= We admire the patronzing air, not less than the
Pscksnifian morality, which pervade this conserv.
alive journal of fifty years. We beg to assure 1t
Also that the South has never construed its con.
servative course, as 1t seems to apprehend, into
Willingness to favor Southern aggressions. The
South has never contemplated any such aggres-
sions; Its position Is purely of selfdefenee; it
never asked the aid Of the conservative journal in
question, and. we presume, would never have re.
seived It II It had not been Commercial, as well as
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