Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-08-02

he was, infiicts upon that Senator repeated blows
staining the place with blood, and profaning it
with crime. Why was that weapon selected? Is
IL the rude weapon of barbarous age. With
what horrid sacrifice, on what dreadful altar, has
It not been consecratedP Whot sacrilegious VOW
mpelled its use in this great crime upon the peo-
ple's life? Was it selected because it was the
weapon first employed by man against his brother
the weapon by which that horrid crime was COM
mtted which first in tour world"covered one man.
y brow with the wan paleness and terrible beauty
OF death, and another with the damning botch of
iratrcideY Whet her by accident or design. the
weapon is in character with the act And the
place Was the Senate Chamber, selected in hum.
pie imitation of that audacty which induced
Nerres to to select the forum of the peonla for
his wanton and cruel assault upon Roman
citizen?
In this transaction, sir, what is wanting to make
this atrocity the parallel in all respects Of that at
rocity OF Nerres which subjected him to the burning
lnvectve OF that great Roman orator? WHAT'S the
offence of the Senator of Massachusetts, that he.
though an American citizen. whose person, 5y the
constitution is sacred, is objected to this Outrage
and indignity? 1t IS said of him. as was said bv
lerres of the scourged Roman citizen "IIe is sent
htther a spy by the leaders of runaway slaves "
mat senator, sir, comes from Massachusetts, where
are Lexington, and Concord, and Bunker Hill,
and the Rock of the Pilgrims-"w every sod s
n soldiers sepuIchrre are the footprints
Of the apostles and martyrs of Freedom-that
State which allowed a trembling fugitive, fleeing
only for his LIBERTY, to lay his weary limbs to
rest upon Warren's grave--that State whose
mighty heart throbbed with human sympathy for
the flying bondmen, who, guilty Of no crime under
the forms of law, but in violation of its free spirit
walked in chains beneath the shadow of Faneuii
Hall, where nger the sacred memories of the past
and the echoes of those burning words DEATH OR
DELIvERENcE. Fer this, that he represents this
sentiment of Massachusetts--say the endorsers
and approvers of this assault--let the Senator.
though an American citizen, be scourged; for this.
like Nerres they cry Let him be beaten with rods
In the forum of the peoplelet him suffer not only
IN sight, but in the very presence of his country,
OF liberty, and the laws, and let America see her
son die by the miserable and painful punishment
commonly inflicted on slaves.
While the Representative from South Carolina
lnflicts this punishment upon the Senator from
Massachutts in the temple of the Republic, an
orator of South Carolina in the Capitol of that
State, is reported to have sad "that he considered
the castigation apl lied at the right time, in the
right place, on the right individual, by TIE right
man. and ,cth the right iaStrumcat--that instru-
ment by which we chastse the objects Of Senator
Sumnerss falsehearted benevoience and hypocriti-
cal humanity, when they become nsolent"--
lSoem Carolina Times.) All parties in South
Carolina, it appears, ready to approve this
act--evon she slaves come with their tribute of
admiration. Speaking of this, the South Carroll
man, published in Columbia, South Carolina,
says: ..--.---.-.-.