The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1860-06-21
Senator Summers Re-appear-
StEs Ce.

After silence IF several yea RS, com
PEELED by the atrocious assault which
the country aud the world will remem
Der, CHARLES SUMNER again takes the
floor of the Senate Chamber and pro.
nounces a tremendous philippe against
"The Barbarism of Slavery" The
speech is too long for us to attempt
anything but the most meagre abstract
Of his line Of argument; yet we trust
that good pamphlet edition, in read
able type, will be prepared, so that al
who are interested in the subject may
be able to persue in full, with some de-
gree of comfort, this mastery exposure
of the crying evil of our country.
The Senator commenced as fol
lows:-
Mr.. President Undertaking now
after a silence of more than four years
to address the Senate upon this impor
tant subject, | should suppress the EN-
otionsnatural to such an occasion, if die
not declare on the threshold to that Su
preme Being, through whose benign
care / am enabeled, after much suffer
ling and many changes, once again tc
resume my duties here, and to speak
for the cause which is so near my heart
TO the honored Commonwealth whose
representative | am, and also to my i'm
mediate associates in this body, will
whom | enjoy the fellowship which il
found IN Minhi,,g allie concearu5fa1
the Regubljc | owe thanks which
seize this momeut to express for the in
diligence shown me throughout the
protected seclusions Ienioyed by medi-
cal skill; and | trust that it will not be
thought unbecoming III me to put or
record here, as an apology for having
my seat so long vacant, without making
way, by resignation, for a successor,
that | acted under the illusion of an in
valid, whose hopes for restoration to
his natural health cons family triumphed
over his disappointments-
When last l entered into this debate
it become my duty to expose the crime
against Kansas, and to insist upon the
immediate admission Of that Territory
as State of this Uuion, with a con
stitution forbidding slavery. Resum.
ing the discussion precisely where
left it, | am happy to avow that rule of
m Liberation which, it is said, may ven.
ture even to fix the boundaries Of wis
dom ilSelE l have no personal griefs
to utter; only a barbarous egotism could
intrude these into this chamber. have
no personal wrongs to avenge; only a
a barbarous nature could attempt to
WELD that Vengeance which belongs to
the Lord. The years that have inter
venec and the tombs that have been
opened since | spoke have their voices
too, which / cannot fail to hear. Be.
sides, what am what is any man
among the living or the dead, compar,
ed with the question before us ? 1t
is this alone which shall discu, and
open the argument with that easy vic
tory which is found in charity.
The Crime against Kansas stands
forth in painful light. Search history,
and You can not find its parallel. The
slave trade is bad, but even this enor-
nifty is petty compared with that elab-
crate contrivance by which, in Christ
ian age and within the limits of Re
public, all forms of constitutional lib,
erty were prevented; by which all the
rights of human nature were violated,
and the whole country was held tremb-
ling on the edge OF civil war; while all
this large exuberance Of wickednesss
detestabe in itself, becomes ten fold
more detestable when its origin is trac
ed to the madness for slavery.
The fatal partition between Free
dom and Slavery, known as the Missou
II Compromise; the subsequent over
throw Of this partition, and the seizure
of all by slavery, the violation of the
|piIgh;ed faith; the conspiracy to force
slavery at all hazards into Kansas; the
successive invasions 10y which all Sc
curity there was destroyed, and the ell
ectorlal franchise itself WAS trodder
down; the sacriigous seizure of the very
Ipolls,sand, through pretended forms o
law, the imposition of a foreign leo
islature npon this Territory; the acts O
this Legislature fortiiyinp the usurpa
ton, and among other things, establish
ing test-oaths, calculated to disfran
chise actual settlers, friendly to free
dom, and securing the privileges of the
citizens to actua strangers friendly tc
slavery; the whole crowned by stat
ne, ''the be-all aud the end all'' of the
whole usurpation-through which sla
very was recognized on this beautifu