Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-06-23
SENATOR SUMMERS GREAT SPEECH

The greatest speech of the season is certainly
Charles Summers magnificent philippe against
The Great Barbarsm.' The learning aud research,
the array of facts, the apt and eloquent quotations,
toe S;riking Illustrations, and the vivid imagery
OF the oration are its least merits. The style
and diction are as clear as crystal as pure as wa
ter and sonor3uslY musical. The entire tone of
the speech is digni6ed and lofty-it is an over
wholming expose and rebuke Of what he conceives
to be gigantic and horrible Wrong. Its facts, its
figures, and Its arguments strike the Proslavery:
ties dumb and they can only relieve themselves
by impotcnt abuse Of the crater himself.
1t is possible that this speech may have been ill.,
timed, for it is not aleays exp,diont to speak the
whole truth. 1t is possible that it does not make
sufficient allowance fer the DoJle qualities of the
Southern people in other regards than Slavery
But why bark at the heels of Charles Sumner II
any man in the world has perfect right to depict
and denounoe slavery that man is Charles Sumner.
If any man in the world has perfect right to lay
bare the hellish horrors of chattep slavery, ond
to expose its barbarous effects upon slave masters,
that man is Charles Sumner.
Indeed we admire his courage, bis unequaled
moral pluck. In this day of compromise and tim
idity, of bated breath and base concession, when
it is the loathsome fashion 70 say hat the slavery
question should be discussed ouy as matter Of
profit and loss i. is refreshing to hear Senator
speak in the spirit of Jefferson and the Fathers.
Besides, does not the South challenge us to discuss
the abstract question: Do not Benjamin, Toombs.
Stephens, Curry, Keitt, Lamar, Hunter, Sdell,
Brown, Hammond, Chesnut, Mason, Pryor,
| Clingman Fitzhugh and all the Southern poll.
ticaps discuss the question of slavery in the ab
istract Do they not deliver long trgornen,o tc
prove that slavery is right, just. benign civilizng
and necessary? That it is the proper condition
Of the negro and working man And is any tree
Northern man so poor patroon to say that
these men shall not be replied to What Shall
all the South be privileged to praise and applaud
human slavery, and not even Charles Sumner be
allowed to describe ii as il really is.
Aye as it really is For after all the main
question-the alpha and omega of the controversy
is this DJes he tell the truth about Slavery
This institution now claims be nntonal-to trav-
el with the national 1agvto be one Of the special
y cherished peOuliarides Of the nation. There
fore it concerns us all to know what it is We in
Pennsy yvania have right to discuss it, for it no
longer confines itself tc the slave states it claims
to be a national thing and we are all concerned
in what is national. In word, the pertinent in
4uiry is, does Charles Sumnor speak true or ialse3
To the speech then Does he not quote the law
Alright? Are not his figures and calculations oil
correct !? Is not his history true? Who can point
out single error in his facts or his argument 2
Why then single this speech out for oljurga ion
and attack before you answer it? Thus far no
one has answerei it, and no one We presume will
attempt to do so.
We are not Aboisionists We do not agree with
Charles Summers plan or method OF abolition, We
are sorry that the slavery question engenders so
much heat and violence. Butwe are thoroughly
sick and tired Of that wretched, doughface, bru-
tai slang which has its and apologies for
the slave MASTER and only abuse and faIsehoQd
for those who believe in the AntiSIavery doctrinrs
of Jefferson and Washington Philadelphia SIM
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