New-York daily tribune., 1856-07-16

The Br .oks case is at leng.h settled, 80 far as
the action Of the house can d sp"se Of it. de-
cided majority Of the House-thodgh i+ss thsn The
col stitutional requistiou Of two thirds-having
voted his expulsion, he has waived tue techniosl
acquttal and resigned bis seat, 10 Il speech rrpIete
with bad taste and i'll ,imed conc-lt, yet not 80
empbstically unworthy Of the place and toe occs-
son as was bis haIsnkue 10 court, in Response 20
Judge Crsw fo'd's fine Of $500. The worst feature
Of it 10 his quivso.l brxvadO that be msh' then
and there, by SIMPLY striking blow, produce a
revOlutIOh-that is, q Southern revolt against he
Unicn-a vxunt which, to the credit OF the Sou b,
we are confident is untrue, and which, for soe
credit OF the South, even if true this cOnvic ed
culprt shOu'd not have uttered. A man mas no
moral right thus to expose the wesknerses of bis
best friends. The South may BE- ever 80 ready to
dissolve the Union, but it cannot afford ~ have
every Southern bully Who may be discipline for
breaking laws or breaking heads boast of tn rsadl
ness as though it were bis own pr vate patimc ny,
ready to bs uncOrked at his will or faucied need.
The pret~nse for BroOks's savage attack
on Sumner il the severity Of the personal and I'c.l
allusioni in Ar. SumDer's great speech on Kaosas;
yet DO j"urnsl published out Of this country, SO far
as We have seen, has pronounced these slIu .lous
unwarransably harsh or pers nal. Oa tho con
trary, The London Stor says expressly that they
would not be deemed indecorOus IN the Briti-h Par
lament; while it is abundaDtly deuopsuahie that
they were provoked BY FAR severer attacks IN Mr.
Sumner ard his supporters BY Southern S"nat'rs
through several years past Ifthere had been ui-
due severity in Mr. Summers structures, his adver-
saries were ettopped from complaint Of 1t BY tho
contumely they had unprovokedly hesped Oh him
through series Of years.
But none can fail to remember that, before Mr..
Summers speech eoEd have been read at the Soush,
90 as afford opportunity for judging Of its xr.c-
ter the telesrsphic report of Brocks's savage as-
sault was gosted over from the Potomac to tho
Miss rslppi with the significant addeDdam-"R IS
"Sewsrd's txr~ merit" Yet Gov. Seward never
u,es ally but ,he eentest terms, never returns rail.
III for railing, but insists on being courteous and
coIcilistory to men who are brutal and rutially to
him. So the pretense that it was the hsrshue's Of
Mr., Summers structures that provoked Brooks's
assault Is utterly without foundation.
On the other hand, Senator Wsde, Senator vii.
son, Mr.. Bul,ngsue, Mr.. Woodruff aud Others,
have spoken of the Southrons including Brooks
himself, in the most uDmincing .erms-terms far
more severe thar any used by Mr.. Sumner; yet
neither Of tbese has bsen ssssiled 1t is perfectly
well understood at Washington that some Of the
Free. Soil Members will fight if challenged; and,
theugh others ere challenged these never are.
Aid of all who have given notice that they .hali
defepd themselves If attacked, and mesn not tO be
attacked unawares, none has been even threatened
a. yet.
We detest dueling, and could wish that no
repre- sentative Of Free Laborers would ever stOOp
~ tale part IN duel. 1t is remusnt of barbarism
IF the reign Of brute force and muir rterous de1-
ierity. Ii requires far more true courage to de-
cline challenge than to accept one. But tue fact
IL nevertheless pslpabe that slsveholdioe chvairy
expepds itself On the surprised non. combatant and
defei seless, while it walks wsrily BY shess who u
it bbOws to be r. ady aud willing 10 fight. Buiiy
Brooks, attacking an unsrned man in hts sess, ana
b. atr bin blind and bloody before he could ex-
uicate himself from bis ENHANCEMENT under his
desk, but ~ith pistol in his pocket ready TO shoos
his victim to the heart in case be should
nevertheless prove too strpg or ton active to be
cshed is fair sample Of the rufhsnly crew which
indorses and justi6es him.
Before di.mis,ipg the subject, there is one
part of Brookss speech which merits moments
careful reflection. 1t is that in which be declared
that when he welt to beat Mr.. Sumner be Wa