New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-14

vho he'd him away; Kei,t and Boutgny OF Nsw.r
leans taking care of Edmnndsn. IL - repohea ,us'
Keit called out to Brecsennoge' a,uG1g usSol
Hickman: "Take tie kound away" IL W'll oe recoi'
leeted that both Keitt and Edmundson were me is.
gst,rs of the ATTACK upon Sumner, ard sooa seh;uo,
while Brooks did his bloody work, NO One .Ilnn'
Mr. Kei,t had anything TO DO WIN sae thai Mr.
except to separate tue parties snoersttu 'a"u an-n
Hickman HE'D at the ungs freely the night ana
inc after the brutal attack upon him. ~ was a Tor
Yesterday that MIR. Breckenridge was IN ,ne 18th
hold an honr and all the time he sat langnng VII
T9 90 ho overcoat on and cigar 10 his mouth
sat mon one of the sofas in the extremity OF INC W.
and finally the Vice President went gu. wl uomso bs
gna friend If he meant 70 ses'Iy c " IL must
annrobation of the attack on Mr.. hcNman.
aforementioned that the brutal attack was
and 1.-The excuse be offered for Edmundson tnas ne was
psy Il will be replied that when sober nc ohereu ~
apology. III. p,aode,,hia fnoairer
Aoon has the country been dsgraced in the eyes oil
the Seope and for the contemplation OF European ma
Ontot;ys of the people Mr.. Edmundson of Virginia
1onnd emitting stick and striking representative
Of the people Of this State, Mr. Hickman, across tne
face This was done, probably as an nv ss;Ss i; IN
other words 10 90 into the field to shoot at his al
vorsarv In these DAYS, il must be rotten state o.
society that can counsel and uphold such things any
where; but upon national ground, there can oe M ex-
cuse for such conduct on the part Of Mr. Edmunds0n,
or any other man placed in the position OF repre-.
sentative of moral and Christian people, We trust
that Congress will at once pass laws to meet such
cases 1t is due to the character of the country that
men should be restrained from disgIaeng the people
| il they have no hesitation in disgracng themselves
We do not live In a barbarous age, and barbara men
must be restrained by law.
From The Buffalo Commereial Iidverti'er.
II there is any one thing against which, as North
erner we are bound 10 protest. IT is the recent lnVd
sions made by the South into the Northern style o.
fighting. In other days fsticufs were unknown U
Southern gentlemen. A quiet blue pill from pistol
or still more silent ripping-up with bowie-knife
were Southern privileges. They had the merit O
! | prompness and efficiency. Well applied, the sn6ec
| of them was precluded from further insults. we o.
the North however have placed more reliance on .ne
weapops with which God and nature have PROVIDED
ne Ia wit. 0our two fstisses" Their use is quite
sufficient to reply to hard word and blow well p1
| in iufictinp bloody nose black eye on an adj
versary, has the convenient merit OF putang MN IN an
| uncomfortable undignifed, and ludlcroas posl1on
only to be remedied by raw beetsteaK ana Perou VI
| seclukion. "
The prerogatives of custom, the night OF possession
from long usage in fact all the principles of common
law seem TO limit the employ ment OF TINS style OF gh
ing 10 the Of the Free States And when we set
n MI Edmundson abandoning the revolver ana the
knife 10 hit out right and left from the shoulder we
feel more and more the imperative necessity a,d upoi
us TO resist the constant nvasons OF the south upoi
the reserved rights of the North. 1t commenced witt
# Bully Brookss employment Of gutta percha CAM
l. upon Sumner and everybody knows how long IL tooi
@ TO heal those wounds And now, as soon as Senate
h | SINNERS head has recovered, Mr.. Hckmans hat i
made the victim of Southern nsolence and aggresscn
5 | Let us hope that Edmundson was drunk-that th'
wrath within him, kept so long, might have remshe'
= to exhaust itself in the usual windy method OF Con
gressional ire, had not he maddenng draught OF IN
toxcaton broke loose the bonds of reason and led hin
to the commission of act which his calmer rehec
tons would have told him should have been manaee
IN method more distinctivey Vrginian and chivalrc