Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-06-19
r.r. summers Speech,

more by desire TO attain possession of the
spoils OF the Federal Government. than by a
determination to assert and maintain great
principles, may affect to condemn The recent
furious onslaught of bIr. SUMNER on the
South. as untimely, and improper, under the
circumstances, its endorsement by the Lee
gislature of Massachusetts must 60 far to
of the leaders OF the Republican party.
But, the endorsement of the Massachusetts
Legislature is not the only thing which has
occurred exhibiting the real sentiment of
Republican leaders. 1t will be seen by the
following extract from the Washington cor
respondence of the Boston IFareler that it is
approved by Senators, and that it is con-
sidered an effective campaign document:
The Republican Senators gave excellent
attention to the speech. Some of them, who
are understood 10 hold very moderate and
conservative opinions, expressed strong
admiration of the speech. One Of them called
it q mighty efOrt;" another said sit was an
unanswerable refutatiOu of the doctrines
WHICH Senator'S from slave States had repeat
cdly advanced and debated in favor OF the
Justice and policy of slavery, and it was a
good work" These opinions were expressed
10 US at a matinee given by Francis p. Blair,
Sr.. at Silver Springs, last evening, and we
regret that we cannot with proprety give
the names of the Senators who expressed the
opinions.
Repeatedly. in Congress during the pres
ent session. the South has demanded the eX
tension Of slavery, on the ground that it is Il
lust and humane institution, of Divine au-
thoritv the tairest and best of domestic re-
lations, and established by the Constitution,
1t was needed that some man should come
forth. and armed at all points in moral and
political philosophy and constitutional law.
refute the audaciOus assumption. That duty
has been performed 10y Mr.. Sumner. and tri-
umphantly, too, in a speech arh,ch At rs safe TO
predict acU hare prodgiouS fleet on the popular
lnlad. We believe it will be an efecttve cim-
paign document in the doubtful or pivotal
States. as Mr.. Greeley calls them. Southern
Illinois and Indiana and Eastern Pennsyl-
yauia can be educated better by such news
panrrs as the National Era than by the New
York Times and by such statesmen as Sew
ard and Sumner, than by speakers who
preach TO them q half and half diluted Re
publicanism. public man, whose name
was among the best presented TO the Chi
cago Convention, assured me the other day
that those communities needed above all
things 10 he Stumped by Giddi1gs and Love
ioy. He was right. The dnti-SldUery so1ltinlsnt
IN all ats p0tcsr, needs to be defpenei and ilsed
among them. If man would convert others
he must himself first believe The apostolic
and patriotic writer's never tossed compli-
mcntarv phrases TO idolatry, but presented
Christianity in all its Tadicalism. The gol-
den mouthed ChrysOstrom, scholar and gen
tIcman as he was, never heSitated to expose
heathenism in all its bideous deformity.
Further The Chicago Democrat sustains
the speech of Mr.. SUMNER. The Democrat
says
aTbis speech is The embodiment OF Rcpub-
Iicanism. The spirit which it Dreathes is the
spirit which animates and gives vitality and
force to our organization. This spirit has
never before been so faithfully and powerful
" embodied as it now isin this speech. Here.
as in a mirror. can be seen the barbarism Of
slavery. painted in all its hideousness, and
the weapons with which the Republican party
assail this monster ofiniquity. BY the strength
of which it shall finally be slain.
The speech of Mr.. Sumner expresses, IN
fbou7hts that breathe and 1roTGs that G1un, the
sentiments of Lincoln and HamliIl. and of every
true Republican,, on the great principle of an
tagoaism to slavery, which binds orr party
together. When we remember thai Lincoln,
anticjpating even Mr.. Seward in his enuncia-
was waging between Freedom and Slavery,
declared that all the States of this confederacy
must become all one thing, or all the other
must become all Slave or all Free-he
struck the KEY note to the sublime denuncia-
ton of the gigantic wrong and barbarism of
slavery. which has just fallen from the lips
of Mr.. Sumner.
Not content with this, the Democrat returns
to the subject and remarks:
The name of Charles Sumner will live in
honor and renown long after the barbarism
which he has 50 nobly attacked, shall have
vanished from the face of the earth. and so
long as the cause Ofhuman liberty shall have
an advocate.
What are mere words 1t is the spirit that
animates them which gives life and force to
the expressions of every man. The senti-
ments so eloquently and beautifully expressed
in this great speech OF Senator Sumner, are
those of Abraham Lincoln, of Hannibal
Hamlin, and of the Republican party of the
Union They have never before been clothed
in language so forcibe and so convincing.
but they have ever lived in the hearts, and
have been exemplifed in the lives, of the
Republicans of the United States.
Mr. Lincoln is a man of gentle and kind
heart and of mild and persuasive words.
He deals not in invectiye, or in bitter sar-
casm. Mr.. Sumner, on the contrary, without
concealment, without compromise, without
subterfuge, without apology, without modli-
cation-boldly, openly, deiiantly, fearlessiy,
scathingly, aud crushingly, pours the hot
shot Of Truth into the fortress of the Pro-
slavery Barbarians, and levels it to the
ground. But MIR. Lincoln hates Slavery and
all its coneomitants, with ali the fervor and
intensity that burns in Summers breast, and
labors. as Sumner does, for the fastening of
that glorious day when the States OF this
confederaey ''shall become all free ea
Thank God: The day is coming when q
man shall be elected President Of the United
States who hates Slavery as Sumner hates it.
and who will call Sumner to his councils, if
indeed his life be spared from the blood
hounds who now thirst FOR it, TO aid him in
the work of its complete extinction.
John Brown fought against the barbarism
of slavery in Virginia, and was hung on u
gibbet Charles Summer fought against the
barbarism of slavery in the United States
Senate, and the hand of slavery, already
crimson with the blood of countless martyrs
il raised TO take his life. If he falls. we shall
saw. as we said to John Brown, 'The blood
of,the martyrs is the seen of the church"
We pray Heaven that the daggers and the
bludgeons of The barbarians OF slavery may
be turned aside from Summers life, and that
he may live TO see the complete and glorious
realization of the work TO which he has con-
seerated his life, and for which he has al
ready pouredout his blood onithe Senate floor
Bat if he falls, he falls gloriously, and ia his
fall he will, like the dying Sampson, draw
down with him the pillars of slavery. His
blood, like the dragons teeth, strewn upon
the ground. will spring up again, the shape OF
armed men, who win never lay down their
weapons until slavery is driven from its seat
in the government. aud wiped out from the
knowledge Of mankind.
What man who loves his country and who
loves mankind, bat would covet such death!
John Brown and Charles Sumner, apostles of
freedom, like John the Baptist, cry in the