Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1860-06-22
SENATOR sUmNER,s SPEECH.

CFrom the Baltimore Catholic Mirror.l
Senator Sumner, ia violent and ia
natical philippe against slavery, has
thought proper, in the midst of grave
senators and a brilliant. auditory OF the
Capitol Of the country, to illustrate his
malignant onslaught on the domestic in
stitutons Of the South, by drawing ma
terials for it from the filthy purlieus of
anti Catholic bigotry and misrepresenta-
ton Sinking the statesman, he seems
10 reye IN disgusting details that could /
find place nowhere but in an Imagination |
so prurient of filth as to DC incapable of
healthy tone, or pure conception. I'm
der bis touch all the active malice of the
demaeogue and fanatic, Transmitted into |
language is held up, dam upon dam, in
order to gather supplies from every
source of malignant error and passion,
until its volume, Kissing and seething by
the combined action of heat and COM
preston, is suddenly poured out at flow,
and left to scatter its molten defamation
over the land.
With the abstract question of slavery
we have now nothing to 30 neither do
we propose 10 discuss it in any OF its po-
ltical aspects. The annals OF the Church
are replete with her recorded sympathy
for the slave. The voice Of her councils
and the exhortations Of her prelates and
diYihes indicate the measure Of her ef-
forts 10 amelioratc bis condition. Never,
however, has she forgotten to render to
" Caesar the things which are Caesars,
and to God the things which are God s"
Her assumed obligation to conserve the
interests Of the social order, by incucat-
ing obedience to laws, is natural cor
relative Of her divine mission to teach all
nations How faithfully she has dis
charged this sacred obligation, is recorded
in the past movements Of society; and
can be traced in the civilizing institu-
tons which, at every need, have sprung
out Of her inspired charities Her rela-
ton to society, thousand years ago, is
precisely her relation to society now.
She tramplcs on 10 law, and hence
inyades no right Here she invokes
obedience to the Constitution and the
laws, and deprecates the violence of
opinions and principles whose triumph
would renl asunder the bonds Of frater-
nal relationship which unite 50 many in
dependent States in one glorious Rcpub-
lie This Union She would maintqin,
because il il are bound up so much of
the destiny of our common humanity.
The North aud the South, the East and |
the West, are linked together in the
bond Of her universal charity.
1t was therefore Sratuitous, though
possibly a meditated insult, to the Cath |
ole body Of this country, to calumuiate
its inst!tations and reiterate Ia the Senate
chamber Of the United States the Oft
refpted and disgusting charges with which
these institutions have beef, a.s...iel
The part Of historical scavenger Is the
easiest Of all literary undertakings The
merit Of performance is generally in the
ratio 81 the individual love aud peculiar
fitness for tho task The eagle will not
bend from bis lofty fight to pa,taRe Of
the filthy repast over which the yulture
would feast to gluttonous repletion. The
instincts of pure intellect will harmonjza
it with the virtues ana charities Of hu-
mainly and tits only the dcbauched
MUD that will revel perpetually among
its weaknesses, in order to gather from
them the arguments which are necessary
to maintain an unsouud aud egoti,tca
philosophy. a bluntness Of moral sense;
a gloatiug avarice of disgusting details,
whether Of truth or flsehood patience
of industrious malice in delging amid the
excuses of human nature, in order TO
gather there the dark colors wherewith
the INSCRIPTIONS painter may obscure its
virtues aud its charities--these constitute
the qualifications of the historical Ii
heller and fanatic rhetorcian.
How nearly our portraiture will define
the moral and intellectual lineaments Of
Mr. Sumner, we leave to those who will
seek his true lineaments, sketehed by his
own hand, 10 his recent speech in the
Senate Chsnber, One extract will give
the well-de6ned outline points of I'M
mistakable recognition:
g The visitation of tho abbeys in En-
gland disclosed vice aud disorder in start
ling forms, cloaked by the irresponsible
privacy Of monastie life \ similar visi-
tation Of plantations would disclose more
fearful results, cloaked by the irrespon-
sible privacy Of slavery. Every slave
master on bis plantation is Bashaw
with all the perogativeS of Turk. Ac-
cording to Hobbs he is petty king
This is true aud every plant ,tion is of
itself a petty kingdom with more thaul
the imuupities of an abbey. Six thou
sand skulls of infants are said to have
been taken from single fish pond near
aanaery to the di,may of Pope GRECO
~. Under the law of slavery, infants,
the offspring Of masters, who dream Of
freedom in a slaves embrace are not
thrown into ish pond, but something
worse is done. They are sold. But this
is only single glimpse.'
The KNow-NorulNd REPRESENTATIVES,
OF THIS SrArE.-The old ulage says.