The Carolina Spartan, 1856-07-10

... ^....... ? ,, o 111<min nui uui mere ires ; blunder." 1 sincerely hope that what he has said ii i blunder. I do not know l?ut that lie mai nave thought lie would escapo scrutiny am >x|*osuto. I hopo that, when ho opener lis mouth, and said what he did iu reforinci 0 i lit so uiattois, it was a blunder. 12? aid of me, "the Senator touches nothing vliich be does not disfigure." 1 can say o iiin. he has touched nothing which he ha tot misrepresented, except it be in bis gen ;rnl declamation, and there is no dctectin. 1 man in that; it is a matter of taste, ippreciato highly tlio cornpiimcnl I recoiv d this morning iu tlie Hoston C< uiier a o the merit of my speech. The Senate ays ot me. that "the Senator touches uolli ng which ho does not distigure--with or or sometimes of principle, sometimes o act." I apply this to him, with this ex option: I say error neatly always of priuci ?lo, sometimes of fact. 1 leave the Sonab 0 decide between u-> in that respect. Agaii ic said of nie: "He show* an incapacity of accuracy vholher in staling tlio Constitution or ii taling the law?whether in tlio details o tatislics or the diversions of scholarship." I shall not compete with hint in scholar hip, for 1 slioul I be vulnerable there rut men who live in g!a-s houses shoul* lever throw stoucs. Of all the tiling vbi h that Senator ventured to do, 1 thin! io exposed his house most when be ni id< hat assertion, with tlio detection which iavo fixed upon him ?>f error, injustice run indignity. Ii i-- nailed upon him, and Ik annul get rid of it. I care not how fa; anaticism may undertake to iiiilu. nee tin udgment of public oj>iniun, it cannot a'lci he truth. Truth is sonic limes slow in ma .ing its impression on the public mind >ut, when made, it is evidence which pro 1 accs a belief lliat cannot bo resisted. Tlia elief will grow out of my statements, tn\ euiarks, and my references, and is ju^t aertaiu us tiio truth of tlie evidence, and h< annol escape from it. * * * * * * Mr. President, 1 have detained the Sen ite much longer than 1 wished. When ;ave notice that I sluuld speak to tho rcso utioiis of Massachusetts, it was with ]>or ect confidence that tho Senator would U .. i.: . 1. . i: ? -? - .?

matter was bronchi before tbo House; but i none of iiicso tilings wero considered of a < sutliciont magnitude to invoke the high ' function of a legislature sending its inissivo j to Congress to tell tlioin what to do. Mas- 1 sachusells is the lirst to set the example. 1 She has not only administered a reprimand 1 to Mr. LJrouks without any evidence; she i lias not only assumed to pronounce jtidg- i i ment beforo hearing the evidence, like a < judge passing sentence on a criminal beforo I healing his defence; but sho lias underla- t ken indiscriminately to say, that slio do- I mauds of tho Congress of the United States t to carry out her behest# in regard to what s she considers to bo an outrage upon tho I privileges of the Senate. j f Can anything bo more insulting to tbo ; I Congress of tho United Stales than tho 1 spectacle of a State sending down a message to its "faithful Commons"?a mcssago that c they are to pronounce this or that judg- r menti Are wo to submit to this? i did * not wish to make tho contest; but, in iny 1 > opinion, these resolutions, in the terms they j r import, ought not to have been received by ! t the Senate. Taking all llieso things iutocousiJeralion, J i indicted, a# Mr. lirooks has been, by an . I tjc jxirtc accusation, without evidence, with- i out even tho finding of a grand jury, what i is his position? If his case could go before 1 any impaitial tribunal, and I could employ t counsel such as 1 would select, probably I ' would choose my friend froiu Calafornia, <[Mr. Wollor,] who lives in a 1'ieo State, t who is an impartial man, an advocate, a i gentleman, a man of honor and courage. 1 If a civil action wore brought by Mr, 1 Sutnnor against Mr. l.rooks for assault and , I battery, 1 pledge myself thai, with all the , t resources he could biing to his command, i lie would bo able to reduce the verdict to a penny damages. What would be the state I of the pleadings? Mr. I'rooks struck Mr. i Sumuor, would l>o tho allegation. It would t bo admitted that he struck him, and in I dieted two llesh wounds. Mr. .Sumner I '.I ? ?- ? - r . i ? - I '

i , i mo 10 wan any reasonable timo, r. but I could not allow error to prevail long ?. er in relation to my State, my friend, 01 ?- myself. This is my position. Sir, if there is any olio individual wire t, moro than another regrets the occasion on 1 which I have spoken, it is myself. I have 1 no temper for ?ii ifc. I am passing through - the last chapter of my public life, and J u have no wish to identify my name with ' 'anything liko a personal controversy. I i have never nought it. When the qucblion a comes to bo examined and solved, who i- | was the aggressor, it will Ik; found that it s was not I on any occasion. I admit that I I have three peculiarities of manner?impa i tienee, excitability, ami perhaps absentI mindedhess. 'I hey aie peculiarities w hich i, have followed me from the cradle. Hut, sir, j I ho|?o I have never known the time when ! reason and repentance would not suppress ] i even a temporary injustice. If injustice is 1 done to me, or a wrong or insult offered, 1 , ' never stop to parley in words. I ask jus, lice, and if it is not given, 1 never would - ho in the wrong if I could he'p myself; but when i am in the right I do not think any i mnfi can blamo me for vindicating my c | principles. 1 N-j\y, sir, 1 appeal to the good sense <?! i this 'COUUtiy. I appeal to the I essoin i which its grave history- inculcates. 1 ap p peal to the po-iib>n which it occupies in r?-la f | lion to tho histoiy of ihe world, and to the i i high responsibilities which now rest on e ! this Confederacy, not to allow it to ho disr solved in blood. If we are to separate, let us have common sense enough to do it in - away becoming intelligent men, who have 1 learned their lessons from the highest soura ces of intelligence and wisdom. If'-ro are t to live together, let it not be on the tortus proscribed or intimated by tiic tone and i . temper of the licentious and nggressivo lani guage of speech delivered by the Senator - j from Massachusetts. It is impossible for I self-respect to allow me to sit hero and lisi ; ten quietly *to such a speech. If there I ? * *

? uvuiuou .1. iiugiii nggriivnio mo excitement already prevailing to an extent which night lead to mischievous consequence*. This, then, is the mode of redress to which Mr. Hrooks resorted. I do not say what 1 should have advised him to do, but [lerhnps it was fortunato that 1 was absent u one respect, for 1 certainly should not :iavc submitted to that insult, l'ossibly it night not havo been offered if 1 were present, though 1 do not know the fact, because [ cannot 6ay exactly what would bo the ourse of ono of those persons w ho havo a way of fabricating speeches. Perhaps, bong in liis speech, he would havo had to cad it; but 1 think it possible that on the ippeal which I would havo made cn my liscrction, his friends might havo induced lim to reform it in somo way so as to con brm at least to tho requirements of com non decency in public opinion. If ho had lot douo so, 1 do not know what would itivo becu my course. For this transaction, as I have detailed it, uid without the intelligence which 1 have letailcd before them, the Legislature of Massachusetts have 6ciit their resolutions jere. These resolutions are without a pre- | rodent in the history of this country. I iopo other Senators will speak to them, for | hey aio not only an insult to South Care- i inn and her representatives in Congress, >ut I think they assail tho Constitution of he country. Before commenting on them, [ may l>e permitted to allude to the first irecodeut of a congressional fight, which ' was between two members from New Lug and. This affair is said to be an evidence of j southern violence and Southern ruffianism. Some papers speak of the bowio knife and .lie revolver of Southern blackguards. Why, sir, the first tight which look place n Congress was between Matthew I.yon uid lioger Griswold, from Connecticut. Our ancestors in those days looked upon a fight with very little of the importance which is now attached to if. They said it was so unimportant, that they wcro vexed hat so much of the time of the House was occupied in considering it. It IIPOIII! llint M.'ltlllnw 1 Vf\n

England and tho United Slates, the English licet would only havo to go to tlio capes of tho Chesapeako, and the ctferainate masters would ho kepi al home. Fifty thousand slaves, inured to toil, could be mustered into service, and they would havo tho power to put their masteis to tho sword; and when tho declaration of ponco should come, tho result would be the freedom of the slaves and tho proscription of the masters! Suppose I should go into the community where this libel was uttered, and indict a man for such a sentiment as this, what would be tbo conse^uenco iu tho present etato of public opinion? It is idle, worso 'than idle, to talk about that as a remedy. Libetv of tho press! Sir, that man bad /franked twenty thousands of bis speeches; and some of them, ifl am not misinformed, svoro printed long before it was delivered. To bring him within tho privileges of* parliament is a mockery?a perfect mockery. Now, Mr. J'rosidcnt, I approach another most painful part of this caso, and I como to it in no bad temper; for, (Jod knows, if my heart could be read, thoro is no one who would sooner thnn myself havo avortod the state of things which now exists, if I could, consistently with my honor and the honor of tho gentleman to whom I shall allude. Tho resolutions of Massachusetts undertook, before any evidence was board, to pronounco sentence on Mr. 15rooks. Sir, I will tell yon who Mr. lirooks is, and why be felt so deeply in referonco to those abominable libels. I do not allude to him now as my hereditary kinsman; I think that is tho smallest view to take of tho matter; but I am his constituent. I livo in "Ninety-Six"?a district through which, if you pass, you will road upon the tombstones epitnphs which would reproach him for tamo and ignominous submission to wrong and to insult. He has as proud and intelligent a constituency as arc to bo found in any part of tbe globe. I am bis constituent, lhit moro than that, ho has worn tho epaulet and the sword; he has marched uh<l*>r flic Palmetto

I ... . .vv JMVUUI-III, nuiilU II 1>C proper IO KC r' lect ono from tho sumo quarter as ore of his cabinet council, or to represent the nation in a foreign country? Or, indeed, to I collect llic revenue, or administer tlio tans of t'io I'liiled States? If not, what new rule is tlio President to adopt in selecting ' mon for ofiieo that tlio people themselves | discard in selecting him? These arc soricin but piaclicnl quo-nion*, nnd in order to appreciate them fully it is only necessary to [ turn tlio tahle3 upon ourselves. Suppose I that the South, having a majority of the I electoral votes, should declare that they j would not only have slaveholder* for preMi dent and vice-president, and should elect i such by their exclusive suffrages to rule over tho North. I>o you think wo would submit to it? No, not for a moment. (Afplatise.) And do you believe that your Southern brethren are less sensitive on this . subject than you are, or less jealous of their rights? (Tremendous cheering.) If you do, let me Lcll you that you nru mistaken. And therefore you must see that if this sectional party succeeds, it lead* inevitably to i the destruction of this beautiful fabric rear! cd by our forefathers, cemented by their I blood, and bequeathed to us as a priceless | inheritance. I tell you, my friends, thai I speak warmly on this subject, for I feel that we are in danger. I am determined to make a clean breast of it. I will wash my hands of the consequences, whatever they may be; and I (ell you that we are treading upon the blink of a volcano, ihal is liable at any moment to burst forth and overwhelm the nation. I might, by soft words hold out dc-^ ' lusive hopes, and thereby win votes. Ilut I can never consent to be one tbing to tho V .rll. n.1.1 ?.- C~...K I -1 1 I

families are moro closely united than any ! two wlthom rls I liavo been acquainted, i But that is far apart from tho question.' Independent of bis filial feolinga for mo, j and bis regard for mo as bis constituent . and Senator, 1 buvo no doubt ibat a jkm- | scnal feeling of regard for myself Individ- ! uallv inlluenced him. lf? approached tb.it man with no otliei i purpsoo than to disgrace bim*as far as bo could; but the stick broke. After it broko ho was reduced to a kind of necessity?a contingency not apprehended at all in tho original inception of tho purposo of making the assault. Notwithstanding all that has been said of his brutality, lie is on-l of tho best tempered follows I over knew?impetuous, 110 doubt, and quick in resentment, but ho did not intend what has been assigned to him. After all that has been said and done, on a helium examination, what is it? A fight in tho Senate Chamber, resulting in two tlesh wounds, which ought not to have detained him from tho Sonato. Being ratlior a handsome man, perhaps ho would not like to expose hsmiclf by making his appearance for sonio time; hut if ho had been in tho army, thcro was no reason why lie should not go to the field tho next day; uul he would deserve to be cashiered if he lid not go. What does his physician say? Ho says thcro were but two tlesh wounds; hat ho nevor had a fever while under his ?aro and attendance, and that he was ready .0 come into the Senato tho next day, but or his advice; and his advieo was, that ho ihould not come into the Senate, because t would aggravate the excitement already .00 high. 110 did not recommend him uot :o go into the committee room to ho oxamned on tho ground that his wounds had jnfcobled him, but for other considerations 1 :? ? * ?

; during the sermon, a friend who was with | b'mi in his pew ono Sunday lately having joked with him on his having nodded now and then, Names insisted that ho had been , wide awako all the time. "Well, then," said his friend, "can you tell mo what the sermon was about!" "Yes,* I can," he answered, "It was about half an hour too long."?Diary of Thomas .\foorr. j The most remarkable dogma in the Jewish creed is undoubtedly the belief of the coming and redeeming Messiah. This belief, whether derived from the early prophe, cy of Moses, or from nnv other source, is most funily fixed in tho Jewish mind, and has l?cen most inflexibly adhered to through all the fortunes of the race. It still inakot ' the hope and consolation of the ileaeen, dants ??f Abraham, and it is remarkable that a similar belief was entertained by the 1 Vrsians. TTi e Jewish doctrine of the cren! ! tion, mid of the fall of man by the inst runt i:talil v of an evil spirit, corresponds to the i'ersiiin doctiino? the two principles of 1 good and evil, and of the final triumph of Amuid, tho principle of Good, over Ari' man, the Satan of the Jews, tiro principle and author of Evil, llow* to Makk a Kasiiiosaiilk Bo*nkt.?Take a handful of artificial rose*, each of a different eolo?; half a dozen yard* of ribbon, ditto; and half a dozen yards of laco. Secure the whole to your bump of amativcuess with two long pins, and the article is complete. So into w Haunks^kd. ?Selh Sober, I when "doing the pathetic," began a etanta s thus: "Sorrow came and loft its traces''? I whefoupou ft wag inquired if tire bard i could inform him how sorrow bad disposed of the rest of its harwst.