Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1860-08-08
Speech Of Senator Sumner.

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Speech Of Senator Sumner.
Whenever there is lull in the storm OF
dlscussionwhich RACES between North and
South, we begin to hope for some good IN
this matter. The freedom of Lombards
or Sicilians may be worked out by the
sword, and there is no finer spectacle
than that of the bold man that makes wal
against the tyranny which crushes his
J countrymen. But the African will never
} De saved by such means. He is to low to
rise up as his own deliverer, nor would
humanity gain by the substitution of ne.
gro anarchy for the present social insti.
tutlons of the Southern States. The
white m IN must raise him bv the aid OF
white men, and, above all, by the aid of
his master. The politician who endeav,
ers to set hatred between different class
es OF Americans on this subject. who en-
courages the negro to look TO violent
means Tor his deliverance, and fills the
towner with Increased dread of bloody re,
prlsals by his bondmen, is an enem- t.,
the cause IN which he pours forth his ac.
crlmonious eloquence. John Brown hInl
sell mas not done more harm 10 the cause
OF abolition in Virginia than a man like
Mr.. sumner when he drives the South.
ern senators to fury by such violent and
uncalled for philippe as our American
correspondent notices to-day.
1t was some years since Mr.. Sumner
hal raised his voice in the assembly to
which he belongs. The results which
followed his onslaught on slavery are still
IN the remembrance of every one. In lS-
90 when the Uuicn was agitated by the
contest between Buchanan and Fremont.
ana party spirit was Mt its slightest, Mr.
sumner delivered an anti-slavery speech
almost rs strong as that of the other oay
a Mr.. Brooks, member of the Lower
House, eXasperated by Mr.. Summers Ian.
guage and perhaps urged on by rowdy
lflehdsi feroclously assaulted him while
ne was sitting quietly in his chair. and in
iiicted such injuries as endangered Mr..
summers life, and forced him to retire
fora time from public affairs. Brooks
has since gone to his account, and we
need say no more of him: bnt the Sena
tor from Massachusetts has not learned
temperance Of language from the incid ent
which nearly ended his days. The speech
which produced the assault was offensive.
ly acrimonious, but the last one seems en-
tlrely to eveltop it. Tho Southern gen.
try pride themselves on the possession of
high, and what are called chiyalrous'
qualities. Mr.. Sumner knowing this,
makes an oration on the barbarism of sla.
very, 1t may certainly be said that a
man has right to stigmatizo as barba.
rous those who defended and even prais-
ed his woud.be murderer; but Mr., Sum.
ncr ought to know that it is immoral. as
well as unsta.esmanlike, 10 provoke men
OF violent temper, and that by SO doing
he only presses down the yoke still closer
to the neck Of the slave But he puts
himse t forward as fpurposely to aqgra-
Vate his opponents. Every sneer, every
cutting epithet, every provoking insinua.
tion which he can call up, he uses for the
purpose of calling his antagonists. 'Sla.
very must breed barbarians, he Observes
1T develops everywhere alike, in the indi.
vidual and in the society of which he
forms part, the essential elements of
barbarism.' "Violence brutality. inius.
tice, barbarism, must be reproduced in
the lives Of ali who live within their fatal
sphere The master shares The barba-
rism Of the society which he keeps and
So on. .". .. .." - H
f. " ( HuSt III lie name OF EngllSh abOll-
tlonlsn at least, protest against these fool
lsh and vindictive harangues, Scarcely
has the frenzy caused by John Browns
outrage begun 70 die away, than out comes
Mr. Sumner witha speech that will set
the whole South in flame. We can well
believe that the prospects ofthe Republi.
can party have been already damaged bv
II. Mr. Sumner is one of that class of
politicians who should be muzzled by
their friends. The mau who can in per-
sonal irrltabiIity so forget the interests of
a great cause, is its worst enemy. SLAYER
Y existed on the American continent long
before the assembly Of which Mr.. Sumner
is q member On it depends or is suppo.
sed to depend, the prosperity of half The
Union the looms of Lancashire and Nor.
mandy, as well as those of Mr.. Summers
ownjS'ate, are supplied by slave,grown
cotton, ,anG hundreds ofmillons of Norths
ern do lars are vested in save.worked
plantations. Slavery, with its roots thus
deep in the soil, is not TO be rooted up by
any peevish effort of rhetoric; and we
may predict that the man who first gains
avictory for the caese of abolition will be
Of fvery different temper to the Senator
from Massachusetts London Tines.
fsAsA wog thus plays upon the names
Of some Of the United States Senator's -