Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-02-18


WAsHTSGuoN. Feb. p
I An impression seems 10 obtain In
I regard 10 Mr.. Summers oratOry that
much OF thr effect Of his argument is
. lost upon the popular ear because OF It's
] prOfundity, and the vast amount OF learn
/ ing that is mustered into the service
/ when the distinguished Massachusetts
/ Radical Opes his pOnderous jaws Ihls
I Is q great mistake, and do not know or
I any better way Of re0tifving il than by
/ quoting. from a not very tenacious mem
0rv. a few OF the points of Mr.. sumner. S
/ last great speech in the Senate, in which
. he certainly makes himself understood
so plainly that the wayfsring man,
J though a goose, may not err therein;
/ Mr.. President viii now quote from
/ a writer with whom my learned friend
7 from Kansas Is familiar. Iallude, sir, 90
Z Kant
I NIr. lancet Kansas-Did understand
. the Senator from Massachusetts to say
that Congress can't pass this amendment.
Mr.. Sumner-Assuredly not l sait
. was about % quote from Kant, the great
Z German metaphysician, with whose
1 writing ! presume the honorable Senator
Is familiar.
Mr.. Lane-I beg pardon. I misunder-
stood the Senator.
Mr.. SUMNER quote from the Meta
phvsics of Ethics, where the writer says:
1.-The categories regarded as notions are
predicates of a poetical object ia geGere
and hence the question arises how can
intuit5us O. pOsfsri8ri be sUbsumed under
eateraries which are uuwise like them.
To effect a subSumplOn, there must al
wa1-s aurecede some given and assIgnable
resemblance betwiXU the represen tauves
compared and unified. Thus plate has
similarity to the u priOJz geometrlc
notion circle; the rOuudness cOgitated no
this last being envisaged in the eonngura-
ton and shape of the former
s'Sir, can there he any doubt from this
plain and uumiStakable language that
the great philosopher meant 10 assert the
equality Of all men before the law? Does
he not place himself unequlvOcaLy upon
the great platform Of human rights, and
does he not plead with all the elJquence
and force of his great mind for impartial
suffrage But Mr.. President, TO make
assurance dOubly sure, and to thoroughly
convince all my honorable friends that
Emmanuel Kant was a friend Of the Op-
pressed race, I viii read again from the
same great word; The schemes Of the
categories OF Nodality is the representing
of the relation, not Of phenomena 70 one
smother, but of the relation which phe-
nomeuau bears TO time itself Possibility
Is eiiigiated by misrepreseuUng an object
81 some fixed time. Necessity is ethgi-
ated by representing an object at all
times. The scheme gttG fixing of Time
q Drs0ri. Is the determining the internal
sense and It's form
Sir, if any further proof were needed
TO establish this branch Of my subject,
/ would appeal 10 another who Is quite
a. familisr 10 the members Of this hon
or8bie body As the one from whom have
quoted. I might read from the. works OF
Emanuel Swedgnoorg, volume seven
hundred and seyeuJy-four, page eleven
thousand eight hundred and sixty seven,
but / fear time viii not permit, and 1
hasten 10 another proposition, which is,
thar Congress has a constitutional right
10 bestoW the elective franchise upon the
colored race. If Senators entertain any
doubts on this point they can speedily
remove them by turning 70 the
pages Of DionysiUs of Halicarnassus,
where the subject il discussed in a mas
terry manner. Titus Livius is equally
clear upon this point as Is also Titus
laT8.u-, who, iu that great speech TO the
Eny9ys of the N0lsci, which We have all
read SO often, with SO much pleasure
Dt1s cttitates en- ana fIctds, s5JOs gtli-
gUe BUTts WggtstgdtLs, sUgg tcgcs esSU.'
Nal0rius NsXimUs is Likewise explicit on
this great question. And lir. President,
the Senators cannot have forgotten the
memorable words which Titus livius
places in the mouth of the Consul De-
ctus: ",I1W dc nObtialcs quideDt sa1
Uls0Eis D1Hrepe.n This. sir, was the
opinion Of that great man upon the
pending question which then shook the
Roman Empire as it now shakas the
American Republic.
Alr tres.1sGtl additional and convinc-
ne PROOF Of what have stated might be
sdduced from other learned sources,
quite as familiar 20 nay EaD0Fable friends
around me. but viii conclude this sub
division OF my remarks with an apt quo
Jati0n from tle immortal pen Of Shak-
speare. I slude, of course, % the mem-
orable speech OF Agamemnoni in IUoilus
and CIessida
aReuess. reaes-g The Herce Polydamus
VAN bear down Meu0ui uasuered Aafgarrioh
halA Doregs prisoner.
And stands Colossus wise, wfyllg his beam
Upon The pls,le1 goT-e- Oi the kings
EpistouHus and Cedlus. POiXenes is slain,
AmphImacus ard IhOas deadly huri,
FaLrOe.ls Ia .eu 9r slain and FalaIuedes
-Ore burt and bruised. the dreadful saBl'tar
ADpal, our numbers, Hasle r p Mrmed
To reinforce or ~ perish al
Sir, are not these words Of inspiration
f0retelliug the fate Of the American SEN
ate if we Withhold the sight Of suffrage
from the freedmen Of the South Can
We doubt sir what were the views Of the
great bard respecting equal rights after
this2 Can we hesitate TO place him
among the champions OF the colored
race
The above is al that can recoll5ct OF
this mastery effort vi Mr.. summer. l
reproduce il only to show the fallacy OF
the popular opinion that m discussing
political questions the distinguished Sen
ator is spt to permit his sgudiiion 70
crowd The African out of sight. Tt wiz
/ be seen that though O5scured tempora-
rily in q fog of classics, the woody head
I appears at proper intervals 80 be made
/ the subject o. hyung aud appropriate APP
/ plicau0ns.