The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-07-30
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states Senate were recounted In q previou
notice OF the third volume OF the Memoir an
Letters Of Charles summer by EDWARD A. PrERo
Roberts Bros.). The latter part OF the thir
volume and tho whole OF the fourth. While
completes the work. are allotted to the Sena
torisl career OF the subject OF the biography
for the Incidents connected with the visit t
Europe rendered necessary through the bruta
assault committed by Brooks can scarcely b
considered as constituting an episode. Tn
Senatorial career Of Mr.. sumner Is natural
divided into three parts. which are respec
lively concerned with the services rendered
by him to the anti-slavery cause during tn
ten years preceding the civil war; with thu
role filed by him during the war and recon
struction epoch. and with the attitude as
sumed by him toward the Grant Administra
ton. These three branches Of the subieo
must here be only briefly outlined, although
in Mt. Pierce's exhaustive narrative. they oc.
>cupy some 800 pages.
Tho fret part OF Mr.. Summers career in the
Senate may be said to end with the Brooks
\ assault. and. as we would avail ourselves OF
1.-THE copious light thrown by Mr.. Pierce upon
nfhis disRraceful act. we must condense In a
lfeW sentences the Incidents that led up to 1t.
sThe pretext for tho attack was the allusion to
on Kansas delivered in May. 1856 Sumner
Etook a stand on that occasion which
mo man had ever taken before. or was
Thereafter called upon to take for the
,tcause Of free debate. for tho absolutely equal
Hxights OF Northern and Southern men In Con
3Gress. A habit had grown up Of treating
.SSouthern men differently from their Northern
colleagues, OF making allowance for their sup
opposed proneness to violence. ofhumoring them
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whom everything was to be borne for fear Of
An explosion Of anger or challenge to duel.
Seward. for instance. was accustomed to bear
1nsults in silence, and some thought 1t would
l. have been as we'll for Sumner to have let them.
Mn this case. pass without reply. Such views
Sliowever. overlook the stays at which the con-
I 1iict between slavery and freedom had arrived
! O stage n. which audacty on the one side could
! be Eoatcn back only by courage on the other.
!. and whom the Northern masses needed.
! as an inspiration. the spectacle OF a
manly and fearless spirit on the part OF
their leaders in Washington. UnquestIon-
! ably. the time had come for Northern men to
assert their full equality. and to maintain at
every hazard their right to the Same courtesy.
the same range OF speech. the same recogni-
tion as members and as gentlemen. and not to
I, grant whit more either from charity or from
!, fear All will now agree with Mr.. Pierce in
thinking any other mode OF treatment would
have only made Southern men the more licen-
tious in speech and insolent In manner. and
have taken from Northern men ali manly
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.doa nh an tbeira Ivaa M rd,v ial+ Th.;r All
blades were of no avail before his keen one
i and they knewit. He said neatly what bia n n,
i taRonists could only say coarsely. and tbev "a.
ttired from the encounter discom nted and anil.
|. Ion, Th.y might laugh at his classical dior.s.
sions and studied rhetoric. hut .bev tnew
Mat when he den ounced the save.ex.
1 tending conspiracy in the name OF his.
,.SStory and renson. his impencbment wouId live
has tho Judgment of posterity. Toward indi.
'viduals and all unwilingly interested in
slavery, no one was more considerato than
ho, but he believed that the time Ind oome to
grasp with NIL the lower OF human speoch tho
bold and wick ed conspiracy for its eytension
calling It fraud crime. md bnrlotry md to a.
socinte with 1t all that ia foul and revoltIna in
order to array agninst II thu moral instnnts ~
mankind. To this belief he give e.nression
IN aletter to a friend: "Tber, is "a timo for
everything: and when crime and criminals ara
thrust before us thew are to be met nv nj, tbo
energy God has given us, by argum emf. sar.
oasm, scorn, and denunciatim. Tho wboIe
arsenal OF God ia ours, and will NOT renounce
one Of the weapons-not onsl That Is INV
| determination. form I'D in experience and test.
cd by TRANQUIL meditation"
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