Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-07-11
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IL was some years since Mr.. Sumner had
raised his voice in the Assembly To which ba
belongs. The results which followed his on
slaught on slavery are still in the remem.
orance OF every one. In 1855, when the Union
was agitated by the contest between buchanan
and Fremont, aud party spirit was at its HIGH.
EST, Mr.. Sumner deli, cred an anti.slayerv
speech almost as strong as that of the other
day. A Mr.. Brooks, a member of the Lower
House, exasperated by Mr. Summers language.
and perhaps urged on by rowdy friends, fePo,
ciously assaulted him while he was sitting
quietly In his chair, inflicted such severe iniu
ries as endangered Mr.. Summers life. and
forced him to retire for a time from public af
fairs Brooks has since gone to his account.
ana we need say no more of him; but the Sem
atOr from Massachusetts has not learnt tenn
perance of language from the incident which
nearly ended his days. The speech which
produced the assault was Extensively aerimo.
NOUS, but the last one seems entirel to over
top it.
The Southern gentry pride themselves on
the possession of high and what are called
chlvalrous qualities. Mr. Sumner, know.
ing this, makes an Grafton on the barbarism
OF slavery. 1t may certainly be said that a
man has right to stigmatize rs barbarous those
VINO defended and even prrised his would be
murderer; but Mr.. Sumner ought to know that
1T is immoral as well as understandable to
provoke men of violent temper, and that by so
doing be only presses down the yoke still
closer on the neck of the slave But he puts
himself forward as if purposely to aggravate
his opponent. Every sneer, every cutting epi.
thet, every provoking insinuation which he can
call up, he uses for the purpose of CALLING his
antagonists, slavery must breed barbarians, -
he observes; sit developes everywhere alike
IN the Individual and in the society of which
he forms part, the essential elements of barba-
rlsm. violence, brutality, injustice, barba-
rlsm, must be reproduced in the lives of all
who live within their fatal sphere" The mas.
ter ''shares the barbarism of the society which
ne keeps" and 80 on. We must in the name
OF English abOlitionism at least protest against
these foolish and vindictive harangues Scarce
iy has the frenzy caused by John Browns out
rage begun to die away than out comes Mr..
Sumner with speech which will set the whole
South in flame. We can we'll believe that
the prospects of the republican party have been
already damaged by it. Mr.. Sumner is one of
OF that class of.pOliticians who should be muz-
5led by their friends. The man who can in
personal irritability 80 forget the interests of
great cause, is its worst enemy. Slavery ex-
lsted on the American continent long before
the Assembly of which Mr.. Sumner is a men,
Der. On 1T depends, or is supposed to depend
the prosperity of half the Union; the looms of
Lancashire and Normandy, as well as those of
Mr.. Summers own State, are supplied by slave
grown cotton, and hundreds of millions of
northern dollars are vested in slave 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 n victory for the
cause OF abolition will be of very different
temper to the Senator from Massachusetts,