The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-06-14

8Q10oW0
ES White temples Of the gods.
Then shall the sky, with its deep blue glory,
Telling Of Heavenly cline,
Mistily blend with the gentle story.
Drapsrisd In the rhyme.
So shall . ray Of sunshine brighten
Lifs's ever tircsomc sleeps,
And purer starlight come TO tighten
Ny dim way Ger the dseps.
The Assauls ON senator Summer.
The Frankfort (Ky.) Commonwealth, OF
June 4th, publishes Charles Summers letter
TO his constituents, With the following 70.
marks:
We hardly think il probable that tho i'll
ness Of Sumner ipltogether fictitious. Cases
have not unfrequently occurred in which
slight blows upon the head have produced
effects even more serious than those COM
planned Of by the scholar Of Massachusetts,.
The history Of surgery will show that bril-.
liant iubellects have been reduced TO tho most
abject idiocy by such causes, and that the
patients, although continuing to live, have
dragged along most miserable existence,
both bodily ard mentally. The case Of Sill
non, and it IL Unfair that Southern journal
BY blows inflicted upon the head, producing
nervous irritation and softenipg Of the
brain-we say that il ID unfair tina. these
Southern Journalists should doubt the re-
atty Of Summers illness, and should accuse
him Of feigning sickness for political effect.
We were not sorry ct the time that Sum
ner should have been chastised for his gross
personalities and violent abuse Of South
Carolina, just ~ We would not be sorry at
oil, IL when Southern hothesds and madcaps
indulge il abuse towards Northern men, they
should suher for their insolence. Sumner
dianot aeuoupce Senator Butler one whit
Dofe o6Soq2Iy than Butler had denounced
him, ~ only difference being that the per-
sonalitiss Of one were clothed in scholarly
Fiction, aad that of the other smacked Of
the presentations Of cotton plantation
ConssQpsntly, We say that Sumner deserved
punishmont no moro than Butler and other
Southern men have done Who transsended
the bounds OF Senatorial propriety With i'm
pun
We condeuned Brooks for violating the
mAjsst the United States by striking one
Of her DAAtors in the Senate Chamber, for
words spoken in debate, and for having 80
assailed him without giving him sufficient
warnings But We expressed no sympathy
for Sumner, however much We may have
condemned his brutal assailant. Nor would
~ sympathiss with tho rufian Green, il,
when bandying about his coarse epithets and
abusing far ADLER and better men than him.
self, be should meet with just and righteous
castigAtion; and We would not gricve very
much iGninpleton Shorter had been kicked
apdnR Ned soon after his low assault
tp06 - memory OF the Pilgrim Fathers.
But since the terrible effects Of tho blows
from Brooks cans have been Ascertained,
Ne cannot help but express our ssommissra-
ton and regret that 90 mich learning and
| genius should have beer denly pros
trated, even though thae9 and genius
we're used in bad CAUSE 10 perhaps
we'll for tho country that sy1t incendisrr
tRssehss Of sumner no longer. xesound ID
" Senate chamber. 1t il not " politician
& 1rrngogue whose absence from the
O. ~ conflict and debate We regret,
&nliaAsd rhetorcian, the flushed
Yshe man Of genius and
a1sRs, whose eleG1nt con-
1000 literature we regret
IL viz =. il
den times AseAs IRE I" fire fcoll
We A. afl &4hat there are
ILL., many o. that ID mItSf ct this present
day cme Of them were born foolish
| some Of them were made foolish BY the en-
ample Of their weak minded mothers; and
1 some Of them hare made themselves foo.
\ ish.
| See the dashng belle, nouncsd from her
heels to her arm pits, and bedisened with
jewelfy, pearls, gems and precious stones.
Her mother thinks her an angel, and she
t1>lnks herself an angel; but she il "fool-
irgin THAT is all she is. He who
! her endowed her With an immortal
TO her, Let not your adorning be
the adorAiDg Of plating The hair,
e. sila G MAN q e .b .pP s....;
/ sv1hs ornaueat o. ! meek and quiet spir.
4 ~ Aich 10, in the sight Of God, OF great
price," But all the adjoining that this fool
ish virgin has 10 outward. She has NO cold
education, no mental culture, and no noble
and generous heart. She 10 not qualified for
any ussfulnaes in this world; useless, e.
cept ~ frame On which 10 exhibit dry
| goods and the dressmaker's skill.
49, when she shall appear before her Ma
~, ye!pped Of her "oGtward adjoining, y
ID wnhout that precious srnamsnt Of the
heart" uhat misere " figure that foolish
virgin will cut! Il i04ful TO think Of the
future Of these moro butterflies Of fashion.
What 10 she good foff She knows mot how
TO earn an honest livelihood. She could not
make loaf Of bread, nor sroast turkey.
NOR baks pudding. She eoe1d not Knit 5
EAidy, though she often knits her brow. -
could NOT 1arn stocking, though shs sosld
darn everything oloe. The NEST simple aY.