Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1860-08-08
Speech of Senator Summer.

Speech of Senator Sumner
Whenever there is lul in the storm of
discussion which RACES between North and
South, we begin to hope for some good IN
this matter. The freedom of Lombards
or Sicilians may be worked out by the
sword, and there is no finer spectacle
than that OF the bold man that makes war
against the tyranny which crushes his
coun,rymen. But the African will never
be saved 10y such means He is to low to
rise up as his own delverer, nor would
humanity gain by the substitution of ne.
gro anarchy for the present social instis
tutions Of the Southern States. The
white nan must raise him bv the aid of
white men, and, above all, by the aid of
his master. The politician who endeay,
ers to set hatred between different class
es OF Americans on this subject, who en-
courages the negro to look to violent
means for his deliverance and fills the
owner with increased dread of bloody re.
prlsaIs by his bondmen, is an enem; 10
! the cause in which he pours forth his ac.
crimonious eloquence. John Brown hIm-
selfh not done more harm to the cause
OF abolition in Virginia than man like
Mr.. sumner, when he drives the South.
ern Senators TO fury by such violent and
uncalied for philippe as our American
spondent notices to-day.
1t was some years since Mr. Sumner
Ia raised his voice in the assembly to
which he belongs. The results which
followed his onslaught on slavery are still
IN the remembrance Of every one. In lS-
Do when the Uuicn was agitated by the
contest between Buchanan and Fremont,
and party spirit was at its highest, Mr..
Sumner delivered an anti-slaverv spcech
almost MS strong as that of the other gay.
A Mr.. Brooks, a member Of the Lower
House, cXasperated by Mr.. Summers Ian.
guage, and perhaps urged on bv rowdy
trends, terociously assaulted him while
ne was sitting quietly in his chair and in
nicted such injuries as endangered Mr..
summers life, and forced him to retire
fora time from public affairs. Brooks
mas since gone to his account, and we
need say no more of him bat the Sena
tor from Massachusetts, has not learned
temperance of language from the incid ent
which nearly ended his days. The speech !
winch produced the assault was offensive |
~ acrimonious, but the last one seems en-
trely 10 evertop it. The Southern gen.
try pride themselves on the possession of
high, and what are called chivalrous |
qualities. Mr.. Sumner knowing this. |
makes an Grafton on the barbarism of sla-
very, 1t may certainly be said that a
man has right to stgmatize as barba. |
rous those who defended and even prais,
cd MS wOuld-be murderer; but Mr.. Sum
ner ought to know that it is immoral as
well rs unstatesmanlike, TO provoke men |
OF violent temper, and that by so doing |
he only presses down the yoke still closer |
TO the neck of the slave. But he puts |
himself forward as if purposely to agpra-
vate his opponents. Every sneer, every
cutting epithet, every provoking insnua !
tion which he can call up, he uses for the
purpose of CALLING his antagonists. 'Sla. |
very must bree,l barbarians.' he observes;
1T develops everywhere alike, in the indi.
yidual and in the society of which he
forms part, the essential elements of !
barbarism.' "Violence, brutality, inius-
tice, barbarisn, must be reproduced in
the lives of ali who live within their fatal
sphere The master shares the barba-
rism Of the society which he keeps, and
SO on.
we must in the name of English aboli-
tonIsm at least, protest against these fool
lsh and vindictivc harangues. Scarcely
has the frenzy caused by John Browns
outrage begun TO die away, than out comes
Mr. Sumner with a speech that will set
the whole South in fame. We can well
believe that the prospects ofthe Rcpubli.
can party have been already damaged bv \
it. Mr Sumner is one of that clas7 of
politicians who should be mnzzled by
their friends. The man who can in per.
sonal irritobility so forget the interests of
a great cause, is its worst enemy SLAYER
Y existed on the American continent long
before the assembly of which Mr.. Sumner
is member. On it depends or is suppo.
sed to depend, the prosperity of half the
Union the looms of Lancashire and Nor
mandy, as well as those Of Mr.. Summers
own s. ate, are supplied by slave,grown
cotton,anC hundreds Of millions ofNorthS
ern do lars are vested in slave-worked
plantations. Slavery, with its roots thus
deep in the SOIL is not to be rooted no by
any peevsh effort of rhetoric: and we
may predict that the man who first gains
a victory for the caese of abolition will be
Df very different temper to the Senator
from Massachusetts, .-Londcn Times.
aeasA wag thus plays upon the names
e Sonia of the limited Statas Carotors