Washington sentinel., 1856-05-31
From the Richmond Examiner l#a
On the Snobbish Cant we are Hearing
About the Sanctity of the Senate as a
Refuge for Abolitionist Cowards and
SInnderers. 4aE


On the snobbish Cant we are Hearing
About the Sanctity of the Senate as a
Refuge for Abolitionist Coyvards and
SInnderers.
The Sillimans, Beechers, and Parkers of the
North, who have been desecrating the Houses
of God for so many months past, with hendish
exhortations to murder and bloodshed, and pot
valiant twaddle about Sharps rifles; are now
rolling up the whites of their eyes to heaven In
.hypocritical horror over the late occurrence in
the Senate chamber at Washingto wherein
a confederate of stouter skull than backbone"
got sound drubbing for infamous conduct, on
the very spot he had selected for its perpetra-
ton on account of the impunity he supposed it
would afford him. Singular ideas Of sanctity
have these evangelsts of assassination-who
can see no desecraton in converting the House
of God into recruiting station for bandits
and hhhusters, and yet can detect most hor-
rible crime in Gaming coward in the Federal
Senate chamber on the very spot which he had
himself selected for indulging in the Infamous
conduct.
But these fiery apostles of the creed of
Sharp's rifles are aided and abetted by better
people, who knit their countenances in horror
over the simple act of Gaming man whom
they admit to have deserved it, in the Senate
chamber Of the Union, after the adjournment
of that august body. Do not these people see
that, however we may lament the necessity of
Gaming men who seek to turn the halls Of Con-
gress into Coventry for towards, from the
seats and windows Of which they may insult
States and statesmen at will; yet, that the pur-
pose 10 which these towards seek to devote
those halls, would subject them to grosser and
viler desecration than occasional acts Of per
sonal chastisement2 If you spare the rod you
spoil the cbild--mucb more, if you refrain
from inflicting just punishment upon the adopts
in insult and detracton, will you make it a
point Of pride with them TO excel each other in
the malignity and asperity Of these vitupera
tions.
The good and brave men OF an earlier day
regulated these affairs Of personal chastise-
meut by the code Of honor, which required
other theatres to be chosen for the adjustment
Of insults than the Congressional halls. But
in our day, disciples Of The "higher low" have
invaded these halls, and brought along with
them very refined compunctions of conscience
against the orderly and courteous articles OF
the olden code. 4 bese men claim the right to
indulge in the lar guage of insult and billings
gate in their official seats bat claim immu.
nifty from that personal responsibility which has
always been held TO attach 10 such language
among honorable gentlemen. s,
What then is the alternative left to those
upon whom they lavish their opprobrious
epithets2-Ether to consent that the Congress
sonal halls shall be converted into rivals of
the fish market in billingsgate conrseness and
hlthiness OF speech; or else 10 inhct summary
and prompt personal chastisement upon the
dealers in insult.
II will be an evil day for the Union when
the Capitol at Washington shall be decided to
afford immunity for insulting and slanderous
speech against States and Representatives
and when men, fresh from Sharps rifle exbor-
tatons, Boston lectures, and secret murders,
shall be allowed to plead immunity from per
sonal responsibility for insult, on the score OF
moral convictions against deadly conflict and
Of the privilege Of Congressional hallsl There
is but one mode Of preserving the sanctity of
these halls from the desecration OF backbone"
less Summers and fool.tongued panegyrists of !
peace according to the Sharp rife doctrines of 4
SilIiman aud Beecher, aud that is the mode so
promptly and successfully put in practice By |
Preston Brooks, Of South Carolina.
We forget which Of the Caesars IL was who |
atoned for multitude Of Gins by abolishing
the privileges Of the sacred temples Of Greece,
as dsyla Of worthless vilians-temples which
Tacitus describes as having become filed with
outcasts Of both sexes, with perpetra.
tors Of capital crimes with fugitive debtors and
with every sort of oHendeis against law. Let
us not permit the halls Of Congress to be used