New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-03-01

CARLILE's ATTACK UPON SUMMER.
We notice in debate of the other day 10
the Senate an assault upon Senator Sumner by
Mr.. Garlic of Western Virginia. of which We
cannot spenk without terms OF cen'ure which
it gives us pain to employ. in common with
the friends of freedom throughout the country,
We hailed with joy the effort OF small por-
ton of Virginia, in which Slavery had scarcely
any footbold, to emancipnte itself from the
control of the great slayehodng party in the
eastern aud southern portion of that State.
We watched with delight the progress oil our
arms which drove the Rebels from Wheeling.
Grafton, Philippi, and Laurel Hill, and res.
cued all the western slope of the Allcghanes
from their grasp. When the expulsion was
complete, we welcomed the efforts OF the poPu-
lation to reorganze their Institutions, under
the pressure Of the great e1igency IN which
they found themselves We saw Conyen-
ton at Wheeling ignore the constitutional ex-
istence Of the State of Virginia, proceed to
organize Government of their own. elect
Governor inaugurate state, aud choose
Senators to the Congress OF the United state.
When those Senators presented themselves
at Washington, We saw them admitted
without regret, for we believed that
they had experienced the oppression of
slav,holding faction TIL some honest love for
freedom had been evolved by the hard disci.
plne which they had undergone. 1t is with
~ leo.
in the conduct of one Of those Senators al
arrogance aud violence in defense Of Slavery
which show him at heart false to oil the ne"
rights and privileges conferred 50 freely on
HIM and Oh his constituents, and to all the re-
sponsibllites which they involve; temper
wh ch gives us TO understand that we arc to
expect from him only repetition of the course
of in.o,nce and outr age which has marked the
domineeriDg courre OF the previous Senators OF
yir.lnn. of whom the rebellion Tad freed us.
Mr. Garlic accuses Senator Sumner Of dis.
10, nifty, declares that such accusations are pre-
.ented in fourteen Northern papers, and that
he himself, 4" if sworn as juror, would be-
d" obliged to say that the disloJalty was
proved not only by his uttcrances and
sentiments, but by acts. 90 And one OF these
nets" ho tells us. is the proposition ko
" pruyely submitted to the Senate to-day to
blot out of existence eleven OF the States OF
this Union"
This accusation comes with IN IL. grace
from tho lips Of Mr.. Garlic. lie is himself a
Virglnian, and has sworn allegiance to that
State, now so deep in this foul rebellion. If
the State of Virginia has still Ill organic ex-
istence, by what right does he occupy that
place in the Senate which entities him to in-
suit one of the most patriotic of its members !
The State Of Virginia never sent Mr. Garlic
to the Senate. He represents no constitutions.
ally existing body on that floor. Supple and
serve as he may become, he could not do the
work which Virginia has long wished to have
with contempt all his offers to serve and all
his professions to represent her in the Con-
gress Of the United States. No Legislature
Known to tho Constitution has chosen HIM u
Senator, nor has any authorized constituency
sent him to Washington. He stands there the
representative OF q revolutionary proceeding
" hich has forcibly rupturcd constitutional
/ state, and out Of one Of tho jagged fragments
ba. shaped in hasty aud irregular way
another which has no Constitutional existence,
aud which, if the arms Of the Union did lot
protect It against tho established claims OF Nir-
gioia. would sink at once into an ablect and
hopeless dependence upon the Slave Power.
And almost the frat use which this Senator 10y
suffcrnnce makes of this conceded and gratu.
lous dignity s to assall with words of con-
tumely member Of tho Senate whose right
there i, unqucstloned. whose history there Is
the history OF our newly recovered freedom,
aud whose aims are ia ali unusual degree
above all suspicion and all reproach. Had Mr..
Garlic himself stood upon the floor of ihe
Senate 40 the representative of sovereign
Sta'e, with all the rights Of long prescription.
and ail the scrupuous observance of COnstitu-
tional forms in which conservatism finds re-
rpectabity, his assault might have been indec-
orous and unworthy. but it would not have
been, ms it now is, feeble aud ridiculous. But
Tor the irregular aud unauthorized representa-
tive OF III unconstitutional and perhaps sbor-
tive State--n State not yet euro OF exist ace
de jacto, and utterly destitute Of my ella III IL
jure--ior ono who represents nolbng undel
heaven but the right OF revolution ugaiDst a
rsbclous State 10 cust these charges of dsloy
atty upon Senator of Massachusetts, is a
simple impertinc1ce, 10 which we arc all .laC