Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-08-02
FsEE vOIC. AT THE SOUTH.

The Southern Press has been so nearly unani-
nous in it's approval of the brutality of Brooks
i'll assaling MIR. Sumner, that probably some per-
sons may entertain the opinion that there are no
exceptions, but such is not the case. The Mn
in Claiborne parish, Louisiana, contains a very
pungent article on the other side, from which We
make the following extract: -.s s... i..l
'.Our opinion Is, thar Brooks tllsgraced himself
and brought the whole slavery cause into more
disrepute than ever, and should be expelled from
the House. 1t stretch of chivalrv on his
part for which no valid excuse can be offered.
Summers offence against Butler did not deserve
any physical castiyation but on the contrary was,
in our estimation, taking all the circumstances
past and present, into account, perfectly proper,
because Justly merited. We have no sympathy
with the slavery agitatOrs on either sde-we have
| u supreme contempt for Southern fire eaters and
ice vending Northern fanatics but we do think
that if ever II man might be excused for becoming
desperate in the htlls Of legislation, that man is
Sumner.
We have read the debates in Congress for many
years, infinitely and impartav, aud never have
we known any foully and increasingly
abused and viiied us this same Sumner. Every
dog of Southern agitation, from Bose Dou- las
down TO the smallest and most NANCY cul that
train, has been barking ut his heels but the fact
has not been successfully HIT, that their spite
arises more from II reluctant knowledge of his
cool superiority of talent, than any real difference
Of opinion principle. Douglas than whom
in oar humble opinion more unprinciplel and
reckless agiator never diSgraced the Senate
! Chambcr--has from time to time hurled ut Sum
ner all his native and well cultivated slang and
then '.Oy, the King of Bashan, ten Cass, the
old broken down President SCI Icr a,;l inconsis-
tent free-soiler has never failed to chime IN with
his more solid invectlve; and the chorus has i'een
/ filled to every heat and bar" with the yelpings
| of the little woody headed poodes from the South
men who have more p, nciple, and but little
more brains, than the African slaves IN behalf Of
whose ciaims they so lnludiciously rave and rant.
I And, finally. under the lntluence of all this,
Sumner becomes somewhat desperate, and hurls
! ut his conglomerated assalants )me thunuer-
bolts which send them bowling in hurried confu-
sion and then, It's Il last resort of revenge, one
! OF the manly number slips up to him in the SEN
ate chamber, finds him seated at his writing desk.
unarmea. and with great gusto, canes him !
| Wonderful feat And this is the way Southern
Rights are to BIZ vindlcated? Are these the kind
of champions the South must lock to for her de-
fence in the national halls of legislationY Is it
by sucf, acts Of slavish degradation as this, that
the slavery of the Southern States of this froo
and enlig ened Union is to be perpetuated?
| Gentlemen may think so, anu may rave ut any
man who has the Independence to conIemn such
conduct particularly If he be Southerner but
tell them that the citizens Of this republic are
not to be convinced as to what is right and what
is wrong by blops, and are not to be brought to !,
final decision by brute force. 80 f ~ '
This is our opinion of this Sumner and Brooks
affair only the half Is not told" t-so. e.