The Yazoo Democrat. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1858-18??, 1860-07-28
ENGLISH VIEW OF THE .POLTROON SUM
NER'S SPEECH

NER'S SPEECH.
The London Times recently contained A
lengthy, and, in the main, truthful article up.
on the latest effort of the poltroon Sumner
We give the following extract from it:
1t was some years since Mr.. Sumner had
raised his voice in the Assembly to which he
belongs. The results which followed his on
slaught on slavery are still in the remembrance
OF every one. In 1866, when the Union was
agtated BY the contest between Buchanan and
Fremont, and party spirit was at it's highest
Mr.. Sumner delivered an anti-slavery Speech
almost as strong as that of the other day. a
Mr.. Brooks, member Of the Lower House
exasperated by Mr.. Shmner's language, and
perhaps urged on by rowdy friends, felonious
ly assaulted him while he was sitting quietly
IN his chair, inflicted such injuries as endan-
gered Mr.. Summers life, and forced him to
retire for time from public affairs. Brooks
has since gone to his account, and we need saw
no more of him but the Senator from Massa.
chusetts has not learnt temperance of language
from the incident which nearly ended his
life. The speech which prod iced the assault
was oHensi7eIy acrimonious but the last one
seems entirely to overtop it.
The Southern gentlemen pride themselves
on the possession OF high and what are called
"'chlvalrous" qualities. Mr.. Sumner, knowing
this makes an Grafton on the barbarsm Of
slavery. 1t may certainly be said that man
has right to stigmatEe as barbarous those
who defended aud even praised his would-be
murderer; but Mr.. Sumner ought to know that
1t Is immoral as well as Understandable to
provoke men of violent temper and that by SO
Going he only pressed down The yoke still closer
on the neck of the slave. But he puts him
self r0 nc ! ~ b. i
opponenents Every sneer, every cutting en-
tibet, every provoking insinuation. which hel
can call up he uses for the purpose of calling
his antagonists. slavery must breed barba-I
rians, he observes sit develops everywhere
alike, in the individual ana in the society of
which he forms part of the essential elements
OF slavery. Violence, brutality, Injustice, bar
oarism must be produced in the lives of all
who live within the same sphere" The mas
ter shares the barbarity of the society which
ne keeps" and so on.
We must, in the name ofEnglish abolition
ism at least, protest against these foolish and
vlndictive harangues. Scarcely has the fren
~ caused by John Browns outrage begun to
die away than ont comes Mr.. Sumner with al
speech which will set the whole South in a
hame. We can well believe that the prospects
OF the Republican party have been already
damaged by it. Mr.. Sumner is one of that class
OF politicians who should be muzzed by their
friends. The man who can in personal irrita-
bility so forgot the interests of great cause is
its worst enemy. Slavery existed on the
American continent long before the Assembly
OF which Mr.. Sumner is a member. On it de. |
ponds, or is supposed to depend the prosperity
OF half the Union ; the looms of Lincolnshire
and Normandy as well as those of Mr.. Summers
own State, are supplied by slave-grown cotton.
ana hundreds of millions of Northern dollars
are vested in slave-worked plantations. Sla-
very with its roots thus deep in the soil, is not
70 he rooted up by any peevish effort of rhct. /
ORC and we may predict that the man who
nrst gains victory for the cause of Abolition
VIII be OF very different temper to the Senator
from Massachusetts,