Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-05-26

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doun and Hampshire Rail Road Company CON
vcned in Alexandra on Wednesday and accepted
the act Of the Virginia Assembly authorising a
transfer Of $4,000 Of the State subscription
from the east % the west of the Shenandoah.
SAW Mn D1srRorED By FIaR-Ihe steam
saw min belonging to Mr.. Joseph yanderyenter,
near Hnngnry water station, on the Richmond
and Fredericksburg Ea.,) Railroad, was de-
stroyed by fire on the night of the goth instant,
together with all che machinery, the engine and
about 10000 feet of lumber. There was no in
surancc.
SENATORS SUMNER AND BUT.
IER.
Tho following Is that portion Of Senator Sum.
ncr's speech relating to Senator Butler which
provoked the attack upon him by Mr.. BROOKS,
who is a relative of the South Carolina Senator:
''But, before entering upon the argument l
must say something of a general character, par
tic1larly in response to what has fallen from
Senator's who have raised themselves to eminencc
on this tiOor in championship of human wrongs;
! mean the Senator from South Carolina, (lr.
ButleTl and the Senator from Illinois, CAir. DOu-
glass,1 who though unlike us Don QuiNotc and
Sa1eho Panza, yet, like couple, sally forth to-
gether in the same causc. Tue Senator from
South Carolina has read many books of chirary
and believes himself chivalrous knight, with
sentiments of honor and courage. OfcourSe ne
has chosen mistress to whom he has made his
VOWS, and who, though ugly to others, is always
lovely 10 him; though polluted in tue sightOf
the world, il chaste in his sight mean the
hariot, Slavery. For her, his tongue is alweys
profuso in words. Let her be impeached in char
acter, any proposition made to shut her out from
aSanee of manner or lrardihood of assertion is
then too great for this Senator. The frenzy of
Don Quixote in behalfof his wenrh Duicineadel
Foboso IL all surpassed. ThcaSscrtcd rights of
slavery, which shock equality of all kinds, arc
clOaked by fantastic claim equality. If the
Slave States cannot enjoy what in mockery Of thee
great fathers of the Republic, lie misuaues equal
ity under the constitutional other words the
full poWcr IN tho National Territories to compel
fellow men to unpail toll, to separate husband
ami wife, and tn sell little children nj the auction
block then, sir the chivalric Senator will conduct
the Suite Of South Carolina out of the Union!
Heroic Knight Exalted Sunatori 4 second
Moses como for second Exodus. -tas
but not content with tiiis poor menace, which
we have been twice told WAS measured" The
Senator, in the unrcstrainei chivalry of his ma
tuTe, had undertaken toapply approhrious words
to tllpseiwho differ from him on this floor. He
calls them sectional and iaRatiCal land oppose
as ian uncalculating fanaticisni." To be sure,
these charges lack oil grace Of originality, and
all sentiment Of truth; but the adventures Scna-
tor does not hesitate. lie is the uneoinpTOmi-
sing, unblushing representative on this floor of
AagTant Secti0ndliSQl, which now doniinceTs O.
vcr the Republic and yet with ludicrous igno-
rance OF his own posi;ion--unablc to see himself
as others see hiin--or with an ciIrontcry which
eyenliisa white head ought not to protect from
rGbuEe, he applies to those here who resist his
Seetion1tiSH the very cpirhet which designatcS
himself The men who strive to bring hack the
Government to its Original policy when Freedom
and not Slavery was natiOi a lac arraigns as BE-
ti0sdI This will not do. Etinvolrs too great
pefHersion Of terms | tell that Senator. that
It is to himself aud to the Organization of
which he is the t'committe advocate" that this
epithet belongs. / now fisten itupOn them.-
For myself I care little for names, but sincc the
question has been raised here, affirm that the
Republican party Of the Caion is in no inst
sense ssettoltt, but, more than any other party,
rational; and that itnow goes forth TO dislodgc
from the high places of the Government the ty
Tannical sectionalisn Of which the Senator from
South Carolina is one Of the malllcSt zealots.
In the charge OF fanaticism also reply. Sir,
fanaticisnl Is found in an enthusiasm or. eXagge-
ration Of opinions, particularly on religious sub
iects; but there may be fsn6ticism for evil as
well Us for,good. Now all not deny that there
arcpersons among US loving Liberty too well
Tor I1elff gGnut q selfish EencidliOu
Such there may be- and, for the sake OF thCircX
ample, would that there were niorr!-I In calling
them fanatics you cast cOntumcly upon the
whole army of martyrs, from the earliest d5ys
down TO this hour, upon the great ttibunes Of
human rights, by whom life, liberty aud hnppi-.
ness on earth, have been secured; upon the long
line Of devoted patriots, who throughout iistn.
~. have truly loved their country; and, nponall
who, IN noble aspirations Cor the general good
and in forgetfulncSs of self have stood out before
theiE age, and gathered into their bosoms the
shafts of tyranny and wrong, in order to make
a pathway for Truth
You discredit Luther, when alone he naiicdhis
articles to the door Of the church at Wittenberg,
and then, to the imperial demand that he should
rctTact, firmly replied, "Here stand; cannot
do otherwise, so help me Godlp You discrcdit
Hanpden, when alone he refused to pay thefew
Ehillings Of shiP-mOneY, and shook tho throne
of Charles l.; YOU discrcdit Milton, when, amid
the corrupti0ns Of hearticss Court, helivcd on,
the LOFTY friend Of Liberty, above question or
suspicion yoI discrceit Russell and Sidney,
when, for the sake Of their country, they calinly
turned from family and friends, to tread the mar
row steps OF the scafIold; you discrclit the ear
iy founders Of American institutions, who pre-
ferrel the hart$hips Of a wilderness, surrounded
byh savage foe, to injustice on beds ofcasc; you
discfedit our later fathers, who, few in numbers
and Weakiu reSOurceS, vet strong intbcircatiSc,
did not hesitate TO brave the power of England,
already eleiFc.ing the globe with her morning
drum beat .s5..j -
Yes, sir, of such are the fanatics Of history,
according 10 this Senator, but I tel that Senator
that there are characters badly eminent, and Of
whose ianaticisin there can he no question:
Such were the ancient Egyptians, who worship.
ped diyinities in british TURNS; the Druits, who
tiaFkened the forests of oak N which they lived,
By eAcrificeS Of bloods the aexicans, who sur
rendered countless victims 20 the Precipitation Of
their obscene idols; the SpaLiards, who, under