Newbern weekly progress., 1860-06-12
SUMMERS LAST.

Sumner delivered himself of his long boarded
malice against the South on Monday last. We
hope he feels better since the operation. It twould
be surprsing indeed, if he did not, for the veno-
nous nature of the stuff which has so long
been weighing upon mis- bosom must have made
him feel very uneasy.
If religious scruples had prevented Sumner
from resenting the castgaton which he received
at the hand of Brooks. should have had moth
ing to say. The Scriptures enioin forgiveness of
injuries But he has not forgiven anything; and
if he did not resent the affront put upon him, it
was evidently because he was afraid to do it. 1t
is a very poor satisfaction, we venture to suggest
in the meantime, to revie whole country. be-
cause one man of that country once upon a time
caned him for his insolencc.
What man situated Sumner is might say
upon such subject that he selected for his
display on Monday last. would be n matter of no
sort of consequence under other circumstances
1t is but natural that he should hate the South,
because the man that disgraced him before the
world lived in that quarter. Despising himself,
and despsed by all the world, even by those who
seize upon his disgrace for political purposes the
South has no room for any other feeling towards
him than pity and scorn. But his words become
important when regard him the mouth
piece of a powerful party. In the name of that
party he announces a policy of continuous ag,
gression upon the slaveholding States of the I'm
ion, and determination to force upon them, not
such institutions as they themselves may select
but such as the conqeruors may choose for them.
Ut course this is nothing more or less tnan q pro-
clamation of civil war; for, when the Supreme
Court shall have been arranged that Federal
Judge shall, upon every complaint Of slave,
have him brought before him writ of habeas
corpus. and, in deciding the question: ignore the
right of the master under the Constitution to hold
him in bondage, and when every Judge shall be
backed by army TO enforce such decisions,
(and to that time Sumner looks forward with in
finite glee,) there will no longer be any Union
No man knows better than Sumner that such a
decision would not be made in any slave State,
or if made, enforced, without bloodshed. 1t suits
him, however, to keep this view of the case alto
gether out of sight. He wishes those for whose
benefit his speech is designed, to believe that
Yankee Judges can come here backed by Yam
kee army, and set our negroes free under h0beas
corpus without any resistance on our part but he
does not believe it himself. His speech however,
furnishes the programme to the designed pro-
ceedings of the victorious abolitionists They
mean to remodel the. Court-to have abolition
Judges in all the districts-to ignore the recegni-
ton of slavery by the Constitutional establish
the rule that prima facie every negro is free-to
bring every slave applying before the Court I'M
der a habeas corpus-to throw upon the holder
the burthen of proving that he justly holds him
and to treat all the titles it is possible for him to
show with contempt. Sumner, indeed, denies
that the Constitution recognizes slavery. The
Judge is to have an army at his back, ana all
who murmur are to be shot on the spot.-Rich.
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