New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-11

The fact that q Senator Of the United States was
stealtbiy assaulted and stricken down in the Senate
Chamber, aud there beaten to blind and bloody
insensi by, while Senator'S officers and spectators
stood within few feet of him, is not go extraOr.
binary as to excite abatement and horror. 1t is
not many years since the Speaker Of an Arkansas
Legislature came down from his official chair and
for an affront, butchered feow.member on the
floor of the House. Brutal and barbarous men
have, in all ages and cimes perpetrated bloody and
iendsh deeds, fitted to excite the adherence Of
mankind, shocking the public sensibilities, and
revealing depths of depravity which the humane
and coDsiderate might well contemplate with shud-
deriDg horror.
What separates the Outrages at Washington, and
especially that of which Mr. Sumner was the victim
from the mass of these, is not so much the official
character Of the perpetratOr as the representative
capacity in which he committed the crime in ques
ton. The fact that Preston S. Brooks mauled and
maDgled Charles Sumner is of personal consequence
only: the facts that he was mpelled to the deed by
a conclave of his brother shareholders, justified
therein by the general voice of his party and
doubly reelected thereafter by all but unanimous
vote of his cCnstituents-thee are indeed of fearful
import. For Brooks was not more truly acting
as representative Of South Carolina when he voted
for the Nebraska bill. aud again when he resisted
any inquiry by the House into the Kansas Legisa
tive Election, than when he bludgconed Charles
Sumner Not his act alore, but the acts Of his con-
stuents, his section, bis party combine to rende
bis assault an era in our politics. And when
Buchaneer sneerpg'y asks-"Why should Charles
Sun Der's wounds be more to Us than the broke
head of Teddy Mcclure, Hans Spiegler or any
other victim Of the last election row." We
answer" Admit that Summers head is no
more than yours or ours, or any ones head,
il is not BroOks's case we are specially considering,
but that of vast conspiracy against the Freedom
Of Debate including the accessories after as we'll as
those before the fact Of which he but the organ
and instrument. Not so much what Brooks, in
what may be termed the heat of passion, did, as
what you have coolly and deliberately approved aud
ratified, excites our deepest adherence. Has act
may have been in some degree prompted by affec
ton for relative or devotion to his Sate but
yours is the inspiration of calculating baseness and
Geld booded malignity."
The Daily Mars, the special organ in this city
of the 1" Hsrd.Shell" politicians who comprised
the nomination and mean TO rule the Administration
of Buchanan, has the following Characteristic Edi-
torial:
THAT BRoXES PArE.--The election having come
of there is Of course longer any party necessity for
Summers head to remain sore and that martyr comes
out OF bis retreat ready to talk in the open air by the
hour. What a marvel that there should be such
connection between the Fourth of November and the
tissues of the cudge led orator The Senatorial sopho
more has no doubt done by playing possum than
if he had sumPed the entire North with rehashes and
plagiarisms from Demosihenes. His silence was more
eloquent than q sermon by Beecher Now there is
DO more need for sbsmming Abraham as the Cape
Cod sailors phrase IT, and Master Sumner IS ready to
present his meek brows for the chaplet that Massa-
chusetts is ready TO bind about them.
1t docs seem rather dishonest to get well 50 sud
denly about election day, but we suppose the wire,
puIlers of the Abolition party compelled the chaslsed
Senator TO remain an invalid Thurlow Weed might
have told them that Sumner was a gccdenough Nor
gan until the election was over"