The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-05-24
THE DAILY DISPATCH.
satnrday Morning. May q, 1855.
The Attack ON Mr.. sumner..Furthcr par.

The Attnck on Mr.. .Sumrer..Further Par-
ticulars.
inc telegraph has announced the attack on Mr.
summer, Senator from Massachusetts,, by Mfr.
Brooks, member of the House from South Carroll.
ma The following Is fuller account:
Immediately after the adjournment of Congress.
"nie senator sumner of Massachusetts,, was
sun IN the Senate Chamber, Mr.. Brooks, a mem.
per OF the house from South Carolina, entered
and approaching Senator Sumner accu sed him of
noeiiing South Carolina and his grey headed rela.
uve, Senator Butler. Immediately after saving
this he struck Mr. Sumner with a cane. Mr.
ieHto the hoor and Mr. Brooks repeated the ca.
ning until MIR. Sumner became deprived of the
power of speech. Previously he called for helm
ouf no one interfered until his assailant had com
pieted his design
Senator Summer was sitting In an arm chair
when the assault was made upon him. He had no
opportunity to defend himself There are yarious
opinions on the subject and quite contradictory -
Many were appiauding the act. while others were
uenouncing 1t az a cowardly attempt to beat down
freedom of speech. Mr. Brooks was arrested
shortly alter the affair, a complaint having been
risde against him on the oath of VIM. Y. Leader
and was brought before Justice Hollingshead and
held TO bail in $500 to answer.
mt sumner has two severe, but not dangerous
wounds on the head Brooks cane was sf,attered
assault ~ o VI 'no
men the attack was made there were probably
nIteen or twenty persons present including Messrs
ynrs.a,' roster, Ioombs Fitzpatrick Murray,
morgan and other members of Congress Governor
Gorman, together with several officers of tho San.
ate and strangers The attack was so sudden ana
unexpected that Mr.. Sumner had no Opportunity
to place himself in a defensive attitude
The first blow stunned him. and the stick which
was OF gutta percha was broken into many p;eces
by the time the assault was terminated Messrs
Crittenden, Toombs, Murray and others interfere ed
further damage
Mr.. Sumner sank unconscious to the floor WHARF
he lay till raised by his friends. His head was
bathed in blood, and his physicians say he has the
severest fteshwound they ever ON a mans
head and deny his friends admission to him to
night.
The following is an extract from the speech of
Mr.. Sumner. containing the illusions to Senator
Butler. He also calls Senator b. a fanatic"
The Senator from South Carolina has read
many books of chivalry, and believes himself a
chivalrous knight with sentiments of honor and
courage. of course he has chosen a mistress
to whom he has made his vows, and who, though
ugly to others, is always lovely to him though
polluted in the sight of the world is chase in his
sight mean the harlot, Slavery. For her his
tongue Is always profuse in words. Let her be i'm.
peached IN character, or any proposition, made to
shut her ont from the extension of her wantonness
and no extravaganza of manner or hardihool of
assertion is then too great for this Senator
The frenzy of Don Quixotte in behalf of his
wench Duleinea del Toboso is all surpassed The
asserted rights of slavery, which shock equality
of all kinds, are cloaked by fantastic claim Of
equality. If the slave States cannot enjoy
what, in mockery of the great fathers of the Re
public, he misnames equality under the Consttu-
tion-in other words the full power in the Nation
al Territories to compel fellow to unpaid toll
TO separate husband and wife, and to sell little
children at the auction block-then sir the chival
ric Senator will conduct the State of South Caro-.
lima out of the Union Heroic Knight Exalted
Senator! A second Moses come for a second Ex.
odus