The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1857-02-05

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rose unbidden to our lips Be still, and
know that I am God - He who cannot
see the finger of Providence in this sad
event must be wilfully blind; he who
does not trace the workings Of that
-"divinity which shapes our ends.''
in so marked case as this. may attri-
butesif he will, everything to the opera
tions of chance.
"The event is perfectly natural: all
"men must die. Mr.. Brooks could not
"expect to be an exception" All this
is true, but God works through those very
actions of men which are so entirely at
war with His divine commands, and
makes their operations upon the inner
man, upon the mind and thence in retro,
action upon the body, the ministers of his
wrath upon great transgressors. Many
another man besides Herod has been
smitten unto ath, although thatinstance
was more marked and the intervention tf
the supernatural more patent than any in
these latter days. In the case in hand,
consider what would be naturally the eff
feet upon the perpetrator of such crime
as that which the unfortunate man who
has now gone to his account committed
upon the person of Mr.. Sumner. We
have the charity to believe, in the first
place, that Mr.. Brooks did not intend to
murder or to injure permanently the au-
gust victim of his ill-timed wrath. He
intended to chastise Mr.. Sumner as he
would have done one of his own chattels
who had displeased him. We will go
even further than this and declare that
we believe, under the influence Of radi-
cally vicious education, Brooks thought
he was doing brave deed in attacking
Mr. Sumner; that he would teach him
better manners by Gaming which was
intended TO wound the pride more than
the person of the Senator. Allowing
that Mr.. B. felt this, while it is really no
excuse whatever for his grievous wrong,
it will serve to show what torture he
must have suffered as the true nature Of
his dreadful crime broke gradually upon
him. He hoped against hope. He put
as good face upon the deed as he was
able. He pined daily for news that the
man he has so insulted and injured was
growing better. He followed In mind
the victim of his guilty deed to the sea-
shore, TO the mountains of Pennsylvania,
to his home in the bosom of those who
love that noble man. How he longed to
hear of his recovery
But vain Did he glance his eye
oyerthe columns of any leading paper of
the day? There he read the fact that
Mr.. Sumner has become the mere wreck
Of his former self that he cannot yet fix
his mind upon any subject steadily; th at
any exercise of a violent nature prostrates
him; that alone in darkness he spends
his evenings upon his couch tl.at the
nice mechanism of his finely organized
brain has been disarranged, and, in a
word, thatth man whom he only intend.
edto disgrace by an attack in defiance o
constitutional right. he has probably ru
iled forever by brutality in the very
teeth of the laws of God and the constitu.
tim Of nature. The empty seat in the
Senate Chamber came to his troubled
dreams like terrific ghost the bloody
form hes there upon the Senate floor; tn,
spots of blood are there, those spots tha
the waters of an ocean could not wasl
away to his eyes. Moreover, near ant
dear friends who had been esteemed b,
Mr.. Brooks, in his better days, graduall
broke away from him gentle women
whose smiles he had loved to greet, pass
ed him coldly by. Those who in publ
. and for effect had professed to stand b
him and defend his great wrong. he kae,
despised him in their hearts. The yer
skies had ceased to smile upon him. Th
air was no longer pleasant to him. Ma
more, even on his chosen ground, that {
the duelist, he had been worsted. Th
fortress of chivalry itself had been take
by storm. Even if in his unhappy stat
of mind he could have gained a transfer
ray of comfort from the defeat or disgrac
Of the kind and amiable man whom h
had SO foully wronged, that little soothol
was swept away. Mr.. Sumner, crowne
with the full we aths of victory unpr,
dented, is ready, if ever he shall recove
to gil the seat so long deserted to stan
up to speak cut to the listening wor
again his burning words of truth. Pc
pie, Senate, House, the learned, the wis
the good of all lands breathed in symp
thy with the injured Senator, while the
denounced in unmeasured terms the pc
petrator of the wrong. What was left
the unhappy man who has gone to star
before his Maker, what refuge was lie
but the grave?
Iti is thus that an avenging Providen,