The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-01-25
McSsrS. Sumner and Stcfens.

les, this noble pair OF brothers, these
twin Arcadialis,s is taken from the
Bound IaJie, Of Saturday last. We re.
port 1T with hnoEfurlhcr comment than to
correct the mistake as to- the burning of
Stevens's Foundry. This destructiot,
was not ordered ION account of the
reputation he lad previously acquired"
but on account, and only on account, of
the fact that Stcphens's Foundry was
'nannfactoly of ordnance for the Fede
Government "a public Workshop.
Gen. Lees raid into Pennsylvania was
the most pious, forbearing, and charita.
Bile incursion ever effected The Round
1ablc says
Charles Sumner, the protagonist Of
the extreme wing OF the republican;
party III Senate, and Thaddels Stevens.
who marshals It's forces in the Honsey
resemble. each other in position, pir!inci.
pies, and the peculiar fcrocity of their
party spirit more than in tho general
lincaments of their mental and personal
characters. The partisan rancor which,
is common to both strikes its root into
different moral soils. Both are eaotists:
but Summers is the egolisnr of vanity,
Slcvcns's of contemptuous pride, which.
is stronger and more selE-subsistent
quality. Sumner is scholar, seeking
in literary research materials for person.
soma! display, having more of a snowy
clarlatanism than OF scholarlike, exact.
ness Stevens has none of the 3foibles of
pcdant, and is so little Of reader that
he last winter drew upon himself vol
lcys OF dcrlslon by a motion Which be.
trayed total ignorance of the present
state OF hnancal science, although he
was at the head ola conmttee having
that class of subjects specially in charge.
as parlanenty debators these men are
as great II contrast to each other as in
all other minor respects. Summers
speeches smell OF the lamp; Ii. cannot
speak with effect without elaborate pre-.
pa'ation. Stevens trusts to his natural
readiness; he deals his most effective
tlrusts at points which his adversary
leaves at that moment exposed. Sum.
ner's speaking is ornate andpretcntious;
Stevcns's pertinent and caustic. Sum
lSr has no capacity us tacticia his
mind has too little alertness, and ns
habi, Of looking at things through the
medium of books units him for seeiug,
what is close to his nose without his
spectaclcs. Stevens has quick eye for
all the circumstances which attend the
progress Of measure through the
House by an adroit motion, an apt re.
tort II skillfnl evasion; an adroit amend.
mcnt, or a division of the question, he,
will often aid or obstructa bill more in
three minutes than Summer could in
three hours speech which had cost
him three weeks preparation. If we
follow them TO their homes and. inquire
Into their ordinary habits, we find the
one n deliver in Libraries, without capaci.s
ty to acquire property or even toaSsup.l
port family the other I. shrewd aud
somewhat imperious man of business,
succeeding in the management flarge.
private undertakings. When we look
at the men, the first glance shows that
Sumner studies his toilet with the soli,
citude. Of a ptttt MATTE, while Stevens
dresses with the careless deoency
which BELTS a man occupied with more
important business than self.contempla.
ton. 8l8, q J
( How doesit happen that men SO DIFF!
ferent in their moral and intellectual
.physiognomy e}thet eXponents, in the