Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-06-23
from the New York Times.
SUMMERS SPEECH.

The venomous abolition speech Of Charles Sum-
ner in the Senate to-day, drew to the galleries of
that body large and fashionable audience, and
the extraordinary character of his harangue was
well calculated 10 retain his hearers to the end
With the full, Iesounding voice Of operate
jaSSo profoundo with the accomplishing nts Of a
scholar, the air and gracos of the learned travel
Ter, and the style and action Of the professional
orator. Mr. Sumner combines the advantages Of Il
splendid physical man, six feet three, poets i'm
agination, and the zeal Of a fanatic
1t was four years ago on the 2Oth of May last
if we are not mistaken that Mr.. Sumner SO
violently assaied and beaten nt his post in the
Senate chamber, that his injuries have required
most of the intervening four years to restore him
to something like his wonted health and strength
But through all this interval, it shown in
his speech to-day, that i'm pacabe, fauatcal hatred
of the peculiar institutions of the South, which
dictated his speech in 1856 on the crime against
Kansas has been diifusing itself throughout bis
entire mental organization, like the poison OF
malignant disease until like William Lloyd Gar
rison, Owen Loveioy, and John Brown, he can
see nothing but the horrors Of slavery, and recog
nises nothing but the duty Of its determination.
1t was painful, in the face of this conviction to
contemplate the warpng and dwarfug Of this nat
uray genial, comprehensive and cultivated mind
of Sumner to this 'one idea of the 'irrepressible
conflict, against the fixed domestic institutions Of
one half this great confederacy, utterly regardless
Of the binding obligations Of tho Constitution in
the relations of the cit2ens of each State with
their brethren of all the other States.
But the peculiar venom of Mr.. Sumner against
slavery and "the bar6arisms Of slavery" is due
to the same general cause which changed Garri-
son. Lovejoy, Brown and Helper from reasoning
philanthropy to blind and revengoful fanaticism.
Garrison became the indicative fanatic from the
day that he suffered from the hands of Boston
mob Loveoy began to live only for his great re-
venge against .he 'slave power" from the day
that his brother. the publisher of abolition pa
per in Illinois, was sacrificed in effort to re-
pulse by arms the attack oI Missouri mob upon
his establi ,hment; John Browns fatal fray upon
IIarpers Ferry is charged TO the wrongs which he
suffered from the border rufians OF Kansas; Hell
per was incensed to the publication Of his inia-
nous book by some injuries, real or iancied, from
the people Of North Carolina; and Summers in
spiration is mahiiestly the bludgeon of Brooks.
Yet all this class of men are detected in the
vanguard of the Republican party and we have
no doubt that the leaders of the Republican camp
IN and out of Congress, will be as prompt and lib
eral in their endorsements Of and subscriptions
for this revolutionary harrangue of Sumner as
they we're to assist iu the circulation of the treas
enable and bloody instructions of Helper. We
shall see If anything can operate to cure the
madness which has seized upon our Democratic
=, to oc Al .;r
duty it will be the warning voice of this terrible
revolutionary speech of Sumner. 1t fully expos.
es and urges the manifest destiny Of the 'irrepres
sible conflict dsuniOn, revolution and civil strife.
1t rejects all counse!s OF fraternity, peace and
harmony, and it could not be more violent against
our brethren of the Southern States were they al
ready arrayod against the North as a hostile peo'
pie in the attitude Of war.
During the delivery of this exqsperatng bill OF
charges specifications and denuncatons Of that
"sum Of all vilainies, ,'-slavery-a profound and
most ominous silence prevailed on the floor of the
Senate, and in the galleries, We have no recol-
ectioD, in our experience here, running through
a period of twenty years, of anything like this
ominous silence, during the delivery of a speech
for buncombe on slavery, by Northern fanatic or
Southern Gre eater. We say omnOus silence, be-
cause we can only recognise it as something fear
fully ominous- ominous of mischief, ominous of
the revival in the Capitol, and throughout the
country of the slavery agitation, with tenfold
bitterness compared with any previous stirring Up
of the fountains of bitter waters,
The only thing approaching an audible expires
sion from Senator or citizen during this fearful
speech was an 'irrepressible little outbreak Of
laughter on the democratic side, in the alusiou Of
the orator to the reward offered by some wicked
wag in Virginia, during the John Brown excite.
ment, Of fifty thousand dollars for the living en-
bodiment of one W, II, Seward, In fact there