Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1860-07-25

NESDAY. JULY 25, 1851
SLAVERY IN The UNITED STATES
PROTEST AGAINST SUMMERS
"DARDARIsM.' a#fa %#t
From the London Times Of June IS.
Whenever there is a lull in the
storm Of discussion which ranges be.
tween the North and South, we he.
gin to hope for some good in this
matter. The freedom of I.ombards or
Sicilians may be worked out by the
sword, and there is no finer spectacle
than that Of a bold man who makes
war against the tyranny which crush
IS his countrymen. But the African
will never be saved by such means.
He is too low to raise up as his own
deliverer, nor would humanity gain by
the substitution Of negro anarchy for
the present social institutions Of the
Southern States. The white man
must raise hlm by the aid of white
men, and above all, by the aid Of his
The politicians who endeav-
"rs to set hatred between different
classes Of Americans on this subject,
who encourages the negro to- look to
violent means for his deliverance, and
fills the owner with increased, dread, of
bloody reprisals by his bondmen, is an
enemy to the cause in which he pours
forth his acrimonious elequence.--
John brown has not done more harm
to the cause Of abolition in Virginia
than a man like Mr.. Sumner when he
drives the Southern Senators stoa fury
by such Ia violent and :: ,rncalled, for
philippe as our American ;corresondent
notices to-day. as4aeio sssf,,ssz,si ,z,,.,,.,n
81, 1t was some years since Mr., Sum.
ner had raised his voice, in the assem-.
bly, 10, which he belongs. :, The result
which followed his onslaught On slav,
cry are still in tie remembrance Of
every one. In 1865, when the Union
was agitated by the contest between
Buchanan and Fremont, and party
spirit was at its highest, Mr., Sumner
delivered an anti-slavery speech al.
most as strong as that OF. the other
day. A Mr.. Brooks, member. Of the
house, exasperated by Summers Ian
guage, and peal'aps urged on BY row
dy friends, ferociously assaulted him
to retire for time from pnblic affairs.
Brooks has since gone to his account.
and We need say no more of him.
But the Senator from Massachusetts
has not yet learned temperance from
the incident which nearly, ended his
days. The speech which produced
the assault was Extensively acri,noni-
Gus, but the last one seems to overtop
it. The Southern gentry pride them
selves on the possession of high, and
what are called 'chivalrous'' qualities.
Mr.. Sumner. knowing this makes an
oratlon on barharism of slavery. 1t
may certainly be said that mar has
= right to stigmatize as barbarou<
those who defended and even praised
his would-be murderer, but Mr.. Sum
ner ought to know that it is immoral
as we'll as understandable to- provoke:
men of violent temper, and that by so
doing he only presses down the yoke
still closer ON the neck of the slave.
But he puts himself forward as if pur-
posely to aggravate his opponents.
Every sneer, every cutting epithet,
every provoking insination which he
can call up, he uses for the purpose of
CALLING his antagonists. "Slavery
must breed barbar;ns,'' he observes ::
'tit developes everywhere alike, in the
individual and in the society of which
he forms part, the essential elements
Of barbarlsm." evidence, brutality,
Injustice, barbarism, must be repro:
1uced in the lives of all who live with
in their fatal sphere" The master
'shares the barbarism of the socitey
which he keeps = and so on.
We must, in the name Of English abo.
itionism at least, protest against these
foolish ard yindictiye harangues.-l
has the frenzy caused by
John Browns outrage begun 10 die
away than out comes Mr.. Sumner with
speech which set whole South in a
fame. 70 We can we'll believe tiiati the
prospects Of the Z 1Republican party
have already DANA ggd by it.7.aMrs
Summer Is one. Of that class Of po5litis
cans who should be mr,zzeled by, their
friends, The man who in proud, sper:
'onal erritability 20 forgetthe interest
Of o great,carne is1its worst enemy.
Slavery existed onzthe American. con.
linant long before the asse mbly sot
Of which Mr.. Sumner il d 9 member.
On It depends, Or IS supposed hto de:
pend, the prosperity of, hall tie y nnioon;
the looms. Of Lanca caehire and Norman n,l
dy, as well ~ these Of Mr. rSumn:r's
own state are, sspplied by slave.grown.
cotton, and hundreds, Of millions of
Northern dollars are invested insslave.
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