The Yazoo Democrat., 1860-06-16
SUMMERS REVENGE.


the grand demonstration on the subject of
slavery, which it has evidently been the
task Of his life to prepare in the most effect
ual form, since the cane of Preston Brooks
left its stripes upon his person for the malig
nifty of his former public invectves against
the men and the society of the Southern
States.
We have never spoken of that cbastise,
ment, well-merited as it undoubtedly was,
by the coarseness of the insult it undertook
to punish, except as extremely rash and
thoughtless, the impulse of an impetuous
indignation, which forgot in its heat the
proprieties of time and place, and give to
the enemies of the South an advantage in
the plea before the Northern people, that
the liberty of speech had been violently as
sailed by Southern shareholders on the floor
Of the Senate itself. The act was deeply re.
GREETED for the mischievous uses that could
be made out of it, more than from any belief
hat the sanderer got more than he deserved
He has been for years broodipg over his
disgrace, and preparing his revenge His
wounded vanity cxacted of him that he should
seek his reparation for wrong in the place
where be was scourged, and his pride is in
repeating the offence in the most aggravating
form which thorough search of the vocab,
ulary of abuse for some weary years of self
banishment could supply TO reckless tongue
Supported, as it seems, by sort of body
guard, under the direction of the fghtingI
Mr.. Burlingame, as a security against inter>
rupton by another cane, he went into the
Senate t. deliver the most furiously malig
nant TRADE against slavery and slaveholdiDg,
against the slave States of this Union, and
the shareholders of those States, which has
ever been uttered in this country by man
above the standard of Fred Douglas or Car
rison. For hours he continued to pour out
all the boarded resentment of his heart, in a
strain of insult to which the abusiveness
: which stung Mr.. Brooks into the imprudence
Of cbastising him into notoriety was dulcet
commonplace. lie ransacked ancient and
modern history to fnd offensive comparison,
with which to stigmatize the society of the
South as " "barbarous y beyond anything
known among nations which pretend to civ
ilzaton He assumed that the free States
of the Union are types of civilized society,
the slave States the most edious relics of the
worst barbarisnl. lie drew a comparison
between the Barbary States of the Mediter-
ranean and the Barbary States of America,
and awarded TO those nests of piratical Afri-
, cans a superiority in morals and progress
over the slavehulding States of the Union.
, lie took up and eulogized and endorsed the
: whole strain and substance of Helpers book;
, and held up slaveboldiDg communities to
! utter adherence, as essentially wicked by
j their nature, and Shareholders as villains by
r the law of their existence. He sums up a
S series of phiippics of this class, with the
avcrment that slavery being "barbarous in
! it's origin, barbarous in its law, and barbarous
S in all its pretensions, barbarous III the 10.
Q strumeuts it employs, barbarous in its con-
Q sequences, barbarous in spirit, and barbarous
g wherever it shows itself," it must "breed
!, barbariaus, while it develops everywhere
alike in the individual and in the society Of
e which be forms part the essential elements
: of barbarism."
: With this text he declares for the extirpa
|. tion of the monstrous evil, and repudiate:
with scorn the plea that it is only to be me
as political question, and declares that il
6 it is to be met on every ground as solemn
= :. battle between good and evil
y There are two whole sides of a large news
: paper covered with the speech, Of which tbC
y sentence we quote is the key thought, am
pliGed, illustrated and enforced in every
: possible form of irsult, derision and defiance
y This black TRADE went on without inter
q e ruption, and with no other reply than SOM
= brief words from Senator Chestnut of Soutl
:, : Carolina, in which he expressed, in word
y ! much more emphatic than complimentary
= bis opinion of the scandalous exhibition o
= y malignant and revengeful passions. Th
y Southern Senators otherwise sat in con
" temptuous silence while this railing Aboli
, ZIONIST unpacked his heart of its foul passion
: : and his brain of the unwholesome load Q
. revengeful thoughts.
IS Senator Chestnut would have done quit
n. as well in suffering the harangue to pas
,r without word of comment If we are t
"a take Mr.. Sumner as the type of class i
ye the North-the irrepressible conflict men
there are worthier antagonists with whoa
,e the contest for our existence can be waged
le toemen whom 1t requires an eHorI 10 gTapPi
10 with, and over whom success will be sub
q stantal victory. But this mOuthing Sum
N ner is a ranter whom no party will cousen
,r to receive as leader. He may Gxpoun
ID their sentiments, but they shrink from tb
GO audacity with which he declares them an
a the imprudence of making issue Of them to
" soon. They have discarded Seward mainl
~ because he is too directly committed to the
,r ories of the same kind with Sumner, to b
ed abalable as a candidate yet. a I
to The impatience of Sumner will not pei
It, nit these men to wait that consummatioI
II which Mr.. Seward has promised, when II
A publcanism can 60 as fast and as far as
al wishes, and has preferred to go with Lincoll
be now, as far as it can. Mr.. Sumner vii
nd therefore, in all probability, be disclaime
ht by the Republicans as an imprudent and i
ey convenient ally, and before long be will !
eu taken out of the Senate. Republicans
M has no need just now of such plain speakir
be men, and he will be disavowed, and at Il
q L = % of 4Io 70 ~,