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anomaly. a Northern man with Southern
pncpsn speech Was delivered wao T han
closely pressed TO hear the debate, we're leu 10
cheer as evidence OF the pet n see ased an
The abrn of Nav 1854. Mr. Sumner offering me cee,
brated memorial q the la hansas lie said
ma, nom what they knew ihls was AT once the
worst the best bi winch nv eUeI e
comniomlse with slavery that could be made ana
LETT all future compromises nposs,oe, uo]e lee
Mason, OF Virginia, and they were deciined. In
June OF the same year nc. 0uIihes ss
rnnsetts, but the anti lavery movement kept
on me enect OF the passage OF the Kansas
was TO found the republican party, which made its
appearance in tne ThIrty-loarth Congress, 1855,
Win fifteen republicans in the Senate and los in
rhe House OF Representatives-enoueh OF a ma
Iority TO elect n. p. Banks, OF Massachusetts as
iory Tor Tree soil principles In this Congress Mr..
Fish, Mr.. seward aud Mr.. Wade first became con-
spIcuous as republicans.
RISE or THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
The republican party was brought into lie
speech delivered on the I'd OF November.
1855, al Faneuil Hall, just before the open
auently explained the principles UNDERLYING the
new organization. He showed how closely
OF a1a the That ad been Ought by
Mr. chase and himself on the moor OF the senate on
behalf OF freedom ana men uttered ais raa no
lie OF freeoom, BENJAMIN Franklin, uttered during
the Trials OF the Revolution that where liberty IS
there is my country In a similar strain would
say, where liberty Is there Is my party. Such an
organization Is now happily constituted mere in
Massachusetts and IN all The nee STATES under the
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY"
So that we may date of the party
which loI Learly twenty years mas con-
trolied The American Union from the I'd OF
November, 1855. yellow citizens" said Mr.. sum-
ner m closing his speech, I'VE found now a new
party Its corner stone Is freedom; its broad. all
sustaining arches are truth, justice and humanity
u
and a citadel, II shall be the Mt shrine Tor the
genius OF American institutions"
KANSAS AND NEBRASKA.
1t was angry Congress which assembled IN
1855. The views Indicated IN the speech OF Mr.
sumner caused considerable excitement The
trouble in Kansas LED almost 10 civil war ana ex-
hausted the attention OF Congress- and we hnd
speech ON this subject which mas become land.
marx IN the history OF emancipation. MI sum
Kansas Apologies tor the Crime aud the True
hemedy.n lie attacked the southerners Tor their
Of the debate made a bitter personal a'lusion TO
senator a. P. Butler, rom South Carolina, and
Panza and bon Quixote. '.Tne senator" said Mr..
sumner, .'coples the British officer, who, with
sword ne would cram the stamps down the Threats
oil the American people and he VIII meet similar
he arsn aaea to s 10 e
egotism OF south Carolina, ana SAID 1.-THE Ian
guage of the senator was ia lavor OF slavery In
Comparing south Carolina with Kansas, Mr.. sum
ner SAID that Kansas would be welcomed a
tree state and ''ministerlng angel, while
South Carolina, in the cloak Of darkness
which she hugs, hes bowling. This speech
was delivered on the 10Th and Goth Of May.
He was followed by Mr.. Cass oil Michigan who IN
sisted that the address was unpatriotc and I'M
American; by senator Douglas. who insisted that
the speech mad been committed TO memory and
practised on before a glass, while a negro boy held
II candle and watched the contentious. senator
Mason denounced Mr. sumner Tor his illusions 20
senator Douglas TO which Mr.. sumner replied, ad-
vislng hin avoid expressing himself 'in gusts or
yulgarlty,n and 10 remember that the bowie-kniie
md ia htI IL la
debate. Then came TINS singular scene:-
DEBATE BEFORE THE WAR.
Mr. SuMNER-Ferocity cannot add dignity to this
body. The from Illinois has poured forth
ments utterly without foundation heaping upon hum per;
NJ NJ sGssrh-l sSaI say it-hat no person with the
Sr 81 @ De h s
less name whose nature is to discharge venom Is not
Mr. DoueIAs-f Shall and certainly shall not initiate
Sir sTaNrsNThe Senator again switc his tongue and
again fills the senate with offensive odor.
THE ASSAULT on SUMNER.
At the close OF this debate the senate adjourned.
That was Wednesday. On Thursday afternoon,
May %, 1885, about hall-past O'Clock, after the
session OF the Senate which was simply to pass
sumner was sitting at his desk IN the room now
occupied by the United states supreme Court. He
gress from South Carolina, entered the chamber.
and, advancing TO Mr.. sumner said :-"Mr. sumner.
have read your speech on South Carolina-I read
IL carefully, deliberately and dispaSslonately-in
which you have nbelled my State and slandered
my whte-naired old relative, senator Butler, who
MIR. BROOKS then struck the senator some
dozen blows on the head with his cane. which
was OF gutta percna, about one inch IN
diameter, and was broken by the assault.
some senators were present. John j.. Crit
was supported by Mr.. Keith member OF Congress,
and Sir. Edmunoson. OF Virginia Mr. sumner,
bloody. dreaduiy BRUISED and ne renamed there l
until he was raised by his friends We all oil us
casloned by teis event. The Massachusetts Legs
lature unanimously passed resolutions meetings
were held ali over the country. In the Senate Mr..
Wilson, now Vice President offered a resolution
calling attention TO the 1act and committee was
appointed, composed OF democrats, to inquire into
The assault. In the House committee was also
appointed. Indignation meetings were held
throughout the country. south Carolina passed
resolutions endorsing the ruffan who assaulted the
Senator. while Massachusetts, passed resolutions
condemning his conduct. Debates of most
angry character were INDUCED H.. so mucn
so that senator Butler went SO far as to
call Senator Wilson liar. meeting
William NJ. Evarts Moses Taylor and William c.
Bryant. speeches were delivered by Charles King,
L. B. Morgan, Henry Ward Beecher, and finally
q report was presented expelng Mr.. Brooks from
the House, the consequence being that that gen.
teman resigned as Representative, and was I'M
nedidtely afterwards reelected from South Caro-
Una The report was signed by Lewis d. Campbell,
F. E. spinner and A. NJ. c. Pennington. AS the
practically TO retire from public life. He visited
turope Tor long time, anu 1t was thought he
beNcI WOulu recover. ny TIE euOIts VI cHllueub
surgeons IN Paris, and alter undergoing a
cruel and extraordinary treatment, he was so far
recovered III 1850, when the campaign for the
Presidency opened, that he made speech on the
Darbarsm OF slavery, and TOOK prominent part in
support OF Lincoln and Hamlin.
TIE WAR
With the advent of the new administration
70 Office, and the consequent performance
Of the republican parry, Mr.. sumner en-
tered on the eleventh year OF his Senate
rial career as Chairman OF the Committee on
Foreign Relations. Within ten years he mad risen
from the position OF an almost isolaed champion
OF anti-slavery ideas to De tue leader OF an anti
slavery majority. His relations with President
Lincoln were OF the Iriendliest character
although carrying out the doctrine which he laid
down in his letter accepting the Office OF Senator
he constantly maintained a spirit OF personal in
dependence ana differed with the President on
many OF tue issues OF the war, more especially on
what seemed to be the sluggishness military
movements, and the apathy OF dealing with
emancipation questions. Ex-Secretary Welies in
his recent book Lincoln and seward throws
En-ua int resting lIQhf The pOsltOn Mr. sumner