The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1860-02-23
More BullYing.

GF 1t seems to be favorite method
with Southern braggarts, if they find it
impossible TO meet logic with logic, ar
gument with argument, to resortto ply
steal violence, provided they know that
their opponents are physically weak, or
unprepared for defence, or are thorough
non -resistants. When RUST attacked Mr..
GREELEY, and beat the Tribune philoso-
phcr over the head with a cane, he well
knew that the latter, both by theory and
practice, was incapable of harming him
in return, and that it was perfectly safe
for him TO take this method of replying
to Mr.. GREELEy's positions. So, too,
when PRESTON S. Brooks, attacked Mr..
SUMNER in his seat, he knew he ran no
risk because he was well aware that Mr..
S. was non -combatant in principle, and
carried no weapons of defense and be-
cause he also took the precaution to have
ample armed assistance at hand. He
had fully guaranteed his own safety, be-
fore he attempted the exhibition Of boast
ed Southern chivalry. And now we
have another similar exhibition of South
ern courage. Mr.. HICKMAN, Of Penn
sylvania-the Anti Lecompton Democrat
who has stood by Mr.. FoRNEY in his po-
sition Of uncompromising hostility TO the
Lecompton swindle, and to the Admins
tration, because of its great corruption
and base abnegation of principle-deliv-
cred a speech in the House during the
contest for speaker, in reply TO the taunts
of the fre-eaters, in which be denounced
in the boldest terms the Democratic dis.
unionists, and told them why the North
would not permit the contamination OF
their schemes, and how she would pre-
vent it. In his speech he referred to
Virginia courage, as exemplified in the
IIarper's Ferry affair, stating the un
questionable fact that Virginia was
scared out of her propriety by JOHN
BRowN and his seventeen assistants.-
Mr. II. is man of weak frame and fee
BILE health, and had distinctly stated that
he did not, and would not, recognize the
murder code of the South, and il was
therefore to be expected, in consonance
with the previous exhibitions Of RUST
and BRooKs. that the Pennsylvania mem
Der would be the object Of personal at
tack Such has been the result. On
the 10th, while walking through the
Capitol grounds on his way home. he
was attacked by Mr. EDMUSDsoN, mem
Der of Congress from Virginia, who was
in company with the Vice President, ard
KEIrr, of South Carolina. EDMUNDsoN
Knocked Mr.. HICKMAN's hat off, but was
prevented by his companions from ma
king any further demonstrations, except
with his tongue, which he used to the
extent of calling Mr.. ii. coward and
slanderer, and other choice epithets.---
Mr.. HICKMAN has made himself most OBJ
noxious TO the Oligarchy by his deter
mined opposition to their schemes, and
as he could not be successfully met with
argument, the usual method of disposing
OF such contumacious opponents has been
taken. 1t is just such aggressive, bull
~ ing. violent acts as these. that are de-
stroying the kindly feelings between the
North and the South, and are fast weak
ening the sentiment of forbearance in the
North relative to the institution. That
sentiment is as much slavery's protection
as any thing else, and Southern men will
suffer from every attempt which has a
tendency totweaken the feeling.