The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-09-10
THE SUMNER ASSAULT.

A writer in the New York Examiner, a re-
ligious journal, gives some very interesting
"reminiscences of the late Secretary of State. We
extract the following paragraph, which gives
Mr.. Marcy's views of the shameful assault upon
Senator Sumner, and incidentally states the
opinion of that shrewd statesman upon another
matter:
1.-TWO weeks before he died, Gov Marcy had
attended the Second Baptist church in Roches-
ter, aud had listened to the preaching of Rev.
George Dana Boardman. He was greatly in.
terested in the sermon, and was strikingly i'm
pressed by the preacher himself From the
sermon and the preacher our conversation
turned to the occasion of Mr.. Boardman's leav-
ing South Carolina, and to the assault Of Mr.
Brooks upon Mr.. Sumner. You can tell me
nothing said he, 'of the constituencies of
Southern gentlemen on that subject. But be
added, l do not hesitate to give them ny
views in full Abiding to an interview with
one of them, who justified the assault, be
paused -stopped-(we we're walking in the
street, and turning full towards me, he said,
with emphasis, told him tina: if another man
was o blackguard, it gave me no right to be q
bbully. You say that Mr.. Summers speech was
a studied, elaborate insult. | don't know
about that. But tell you that all the scenes
in Kansas will not so much disgrace US amony
the Governments and people OF Europe az this
assault in the Senate Chamber Of the United
States. rs.
TT will be accounted, ard Justly, an invasion
of the freedom of debate. And tell you, fur.
Their, that / would be glad to be let off with the
loss of two hundred thousand votes in the next
election, in consequence of this affair. And.
continued the Governor Il was right. The
State Department brought me the journals Of
all Europe. We were more digraced by this
transaction than by the troubles in Kansas ;
and, as for the election, nothing saved US but
the opposing candidate. Once / though the
election lost, as it was; and if Judge Mclean
had been the candidate, it would have been
lost irreparably."
The same writer gives Mr.. Msrcy's opinion
upon still another matter in the following
words ~.
"The Governor did not regard the Kansas
troubles as settled. Governor Walker had then
Just reached Kansas, and published his prom
ises of the sacredness of the doctrine of squat
ter sovereignty. He expressed himself in the
strongest terms as without confidence in Gov
Walkers pscifcation. The event has justified
his apprehensions, and the grounds on which
they rested"
The MAINE ELEorIoN.-The election in the
State of Maine, it is Judged, will be one of ex-
citing interest, and will be enthusiastically
contested both by Republicans and Democrats.
1t is near at hand, and in few days more we
shall have heard the result. The Temperance
question does not enter into the canvass as q
direct issue. The bred Scott decision will in
directly be pronounced upon, as the Supreme
Court of the State has delivered decision in
direct contrsriety with the late decision of the
United States Supreme Court. There need be
no doubt as to the result Of the election, if the
friends of Freedom will only get out all their
forces. Their opponents seem to be the most
active at present, bat we hope that the election
will prove that we are mistaken.