Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-06-08
Daily gutelligeuter,
SUMMERS SPEECH.

SUMMERS SPEECH.
Senator Summers speech in the Senate
of the United States last Monday, is re-
g"rded MS the most fre-cutiug and ftnatic-
al of all the speeches that have yet emanated
from the Northern side of the chamber
To us-aftcr long although we must say
superficial reading-it seemsljke o strange
compound of good and bad, of the tenable
and untenoblc, the practical and i'm
practical. 1t has facts and fancies, figures
and theories, quotations of law and specu-
lntion of philosophy blended in the most
scholastic profusion. 1t is a wonderful
speech throughout and in some of its parts
it is terrible one. 1t reads like the un-
wearied collation. "of him who treasures
upa wrong" and we doubt lift could ever
have emAnnted from any one but person
whose spinal column had felt the intense
agony that's Summers did under, first, the bru
tai bludgeon of Preston Brooks, and next the
secthing hot irons of the Paris physicians.
1t s"rp"sses Lovcioy's recent violent phil
Iipic, in that Lovejoy avenged the wrongs
of another, while Sumner avenged his
own. Yet it is undeniabIy true that the
speech is n vast collection of generally re-
ceivcd convictions concerning Slavery the
world over, and sIvc in the collection
itself, contains nothing new. He repeats
what the census tables sny-he repeats
what Blackstone, what MArshal and Madi-
l. 4 t.,
advertisements from the Southern papers,
like this one from the Georgia Messenger:
RUx AwAY-My man Fountain; has holes
in his cars scar on the right side OF his
forehead: has been shot in the hind parts
OF his legs; is marked on his back with
the whip. Apply to Robert Beasley, Ma
con, Ga.
And having quoted it, remarks to the
Southern Senators sitting around him thus:
Holes in the ears, scars on the forehead,
shot in the legs, and marks of the lash on
the bark. Such are the tokens by which
slave master proposes to identity his slave
And he quotes other advertisements like
this one from the Tennessee Democrat:
BLooD-HorvDs.-I have two of the finest
dogs for catching negroes in the South
hours after the negro has passed, and
catch him with ease. l live four miles
southwest of Bolivar, on the road leading
from Bolivar to WhiteSyille. am ready
at all times to catch runway negroes.
DAVID TURNER.
And having quoted it, he then again re-
marks o"thc Southern Senators, that
The bloodhound was known in early
Scottish history. 1t was once vindlcuvely
nut upon the trail Of Robert Brucei and in
barbnrous days. by n cruel Incense OF war,
it was directed against the marnudcfs OF
the Scottish border; but more than 81 cen
turv has passed since the last survivor OF
the race, kept as curiosity was ieu OH
meal in EtIrick Forest. The bloodhound
was ernrloved by Spain against the natives
of this continent, and the eloquencc oil
! Chatham never touched truer chord than
when, gathering force from the condemn"-
tion of this brutality, he poured his thun-
der upon the kindred brutality of the
I Sculpinw knife, adopted as an instrument
of war by nation protesting civilization
With these and many other such extracts
he is endcavoriug to show the "barbarism"
of slavery as nm institution. He limits
himself to a few of each kind of quota
tions-but produces great variety-and
from his many citations we mako few
extracts at random. They will serve to
show the untiring if not the venge!ui mi
nutia of research with which he has ad-
dressed himself to his task:
INDEX ExrrRGAToRloCs.
We condemn the Index Expurgatorious
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