The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-31
De sor,uis iii iisl Ben"n.

We believe that when death shrouds even
our most lnveterate enemy it is 2 character
! istic of our nature to draw around him the
mantle of charity and forgiveness. Aside
from the instincts of nature tits the teach.
ings of early piety and home influences
But upon the broad sea of life, and when hen
we are taught to look upon thelgreat vesse'
that is navigating its unlimitod shores, and
find her a wreck upon hidden rocks, it be-
hooves us to point out to future mariners
the spot where this bark was stranded.
So in the life and death of Charles sum
ner, we are led to contemplate the career
of man, great IN some respects, but IN
others a pigmy and fraud. In his labors
for the liberty and freedom of the negro he
was par excellence, the champion but for The
elevation of his own race, for magnanimity
to the Southern people, whom be despised
for the glory of his own people and the in
tegrity, impartiality and purity Of his own
government he thought nothing in COM
parison with the crusade he was waging
against the Southern people. The castlga-
ton he received from Brooks could never
be effaced from either his heart or head, and
such a thing as charitable or kindly
thought towards the Southern people never
entered his mind.
The poet tells us that:
olives Of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And departing leave behind us
Foot uruta the sands OF { me-
But we submit that in the life OF MIR.
Sumner, although a great man in his way,
we find nothing worthy of imitation. A
fanatic, an inveterate and implacable foe OF
one section of his country; personally irres-
ponsible, literary plagiarist and political
weather cock, We are at loss to know
where he is entitled to any notice or consi-
deratiOn, save that he was once colleague
of those shining lights who once graced the
United States Senate, but whose seats have
been polluted and disgraced by such sue
cessors of Daniel Webster as that of Charles
Sumner.
These remarks have been prompted to an
article we clip from an exchange; and its
boldness, truthfulness and sincerity so
much accord with our views that we cannot
refrain from reproducing it:
One by one the men who have figured in
American politics with disastrous prominence
for the last ten or fifteen years, fall by the
wayside and now the inveterate abolition
list and implacable enemy of everything
white South of Mason and DixOn's line, lies
dead in Washington, and Charles Sumner
will no more be heard prOclaiming his Cos
pel of hate from a seat in the Senate cham
Der. This dead demagogue early discovered
that the way to the Massachusetts, heart was
by becoming an abolition propagandst, and
be soon out Heroded Herod, in his denuncia-
ton of everything Southern, and if there was
a man who was cordially despised and hated
from the Ohio River to the Gulf, it was this
canting Senator.
He had his triumph in witnessing DESC
lated fields and burning dwellings, and
nothing could have exceeded the exulta-
ton he manifested as calamities in quick
succession came upon the people who were
the objects of his hatred. Although the war
was over for many years, yet no did not let
one session Of Congress pass without intro
ducing some measures, which, ii adopted,
and many were adopted, were calculated to
humiliate and degrade the white people of
the South. But the greatest measure Of his
malice and the browning stone Of his arch
of triumph was his amended Civil Rights
bill, now pending, and we cannot but think
God in His providence has arrested by re-
moving this hoary hater from the face Of the
earth.
Not satisfied by destroying the negro race,
as their emancipation will eventually result
in, this representative of Massachusetts ma
Lightly desired to degrade the whites to
lower level than the negroes, and if God
had not cut him off from the land he afflicted
SO long, ne would have accomplished it. But he
has gone, and with him the greatest enemy
the South had to contend with. We cannot
but feel that in his death brighter day has
lawned for the Southern people, and that
the social and political condition will begin
10 improve from this date. To say that we
regret his death would be arrant hypocricy, |
and to disguise our satisfaction would be fly |
ing in the face Of Providence, who in His |
mercy has taken away this scourge, and thus
signifies that the end of the prosecutions of
the Southern people is approaching.
Violetta Colville, the triumphant young
Drima donna. is coming over in APRIL