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BEVERLEY TUCKER,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 27, 1H56.
FOR PRESIDENT,
JAMES BUCHANAN,
OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Subject to the decision of the National Con
vention.
The CINCINNATI CONVENTION
meets on Monday next, Jink 2d.
POPULAR SO VIC IlK ION TY BEGUN
AKD MAINTAINED BY FRANKLIN
PIERCE.
It is amusing to behold the cunning and in
cessant efforts which the advocates of Mr.
Pierce's re-election are continually making to
persuade the Den|pcratic part)* to look with
favor on no candidate for the Presidency who
cannot claim to have gotten up the drama
enacted in Kansas, as if the whole concerns
of this country?foreign and domestic?were
bounded by that single and contracted circle of
politics. Age%thou art shamed?service, thou
art despised?wisdom, thou art a fool?patriot
ism, thou art a blustering coward; ye never in
augurated the popular sovereignty wUkh Mr.
Pierce dandle^ into the Kunsna controversy.
Why, even if the paternity of tbi.s great and
sacred principle could be unquestionably traced
to Mr. Franklin Pierce, (who came into this
breathing world a century after the principle
was born, suckled, and nourished into action,)
it would be extremely unwise to make the
Presidential nomination turn upon nothing
else. Such a doctrine would supercede all
qualifications for office, and secure a continu
ance of Presidential power, without the slightest
assistance from personal virtue, experience, or
aoiiuie*.
But this sacred principle of popular sover
eignty, which Mr. Pierce pretends that he
rocked in the cradle of his wisdom, every man
who ever read the history of this country
knows whs started in the colonies, discussed in
the Federal convention which framed the Con
stitution, and pervaded the deliberations of the
various State conventions which 6lowly and
cautiously ratified our social compact. Yet
this sacred and time-honored principle of equal
rights is claimed as the legitimate offspring
and exclusive glory of the worthies who only
carried that principle into the heavy storm
which Kansas has lately engendered.
It would illy become the filial renown and
gratitude of the American people to allow
their great ancestors to be cheated out of the
wisdom which asserted and the courage which
vindicated a principle which lies at the basis
of the Union, and which honest Democrats
maintain and canting fanatics resist. Shall
the laurel which has grown for a century upon
the honored graves of the mighty dead be now
upooted by a selfish band and made to con
secrate the destroyer's brow? Let not the
fictions of the past be turned into melancholy
truth.
" To have been, is to hang quite out of favor.
Like rusty mail in monumental mockery."
Shall the living, too, be slighted, forgotten
and cloven down by the Democratic party, no
matter what sigual honors tbey have won in the
cause of the people and the blessings of free
government, merely because their duties to the
nation placed them where no voice could b?
raised, nor effort made, to organize Kansas?
Let us present, for example, the case of Mr.
Bcchaxax. Here is a statesman of reproach*
less character and of commanding talents, which
have been dedicated to the cause of the peo
ple and to the blessings of free government;
a hero who has fought in all the great po
litical battles which the Constitution invoked,
and which Jackson led; a statesman, urged
by his country to go abroad, on account of
international troubles which no other man was
so able as he to settle; a jurist and diplo
mat, whose consummate wisdom while abroad
has been the fruitful soorce and standing theme
of praise; yet, having no power of ubiquity?
no capacity to appear at the same time in Eng
land and America?at SL James'* there, and
at the White House here?be is to be doomed
and discarded, because not personally present
to assist in the passage of the Kansas act Can
folly, injustice and presumption further go?
It is often the little, mean and ignoble pur
pose of power to select a chosen point; to
perch upon it; to entrench within it; and to
defend it, if possible, against the paramount
title of superior rivals. But such a pithy
contrivance always dishonors when it fails, and
does no credit when it succeeds. It is neither
to the honor nor advantage of the Democrats
to permit it. Their horizon should embrace a
wider verge, and include all the great and use
ful qualifications for the Presidential office.
Mr, BrcHAXAW is as fully and honorably
pledged to support the old and noble principle
which the Democrats have justly applied to
Kansas, as any man is; and is able and pre
pared to bring up the whole power of the Key
stone State to support it. Can any other man
alive do the same? No. It is idle to assert
that Pennsylvania is certain for any nominee
whom the Cincinnati Convention shall select.
1 he tamest beast of burden will become rest
less and unmanageable if too much weight be
packed upon him. It is human nature to feel
and to resist the wrongs and insults of despised
merit. V\ o to the people and their institutions
when wisdom, dignity, virtue, and services, have
ceased to establish a title to eminence and
support. For then, blockheads, parasites, and
knaves, will no longer despair of the.highest
preferment, and the sycophants who can rrawl
into favor, and the millionaire who can buy rt,
will become the only animals who will ever ac
quire it
Til K I.ATK ASHAtt.T OKI NR.dtNNRR.
The Hon. Presto^ S. Brooks, on Saturday
last, gave bail in the sum of one thousand
dollars, for bis appearance at the June term of
the Criminal Conrt to answer to the charge of
committing an "assiult and battery" on the
Hon. Charles Bomner, on the 22d instant.
MH. BROOKS'S CHASTISKHKNT OF
NR. 8UMNKH.
We have omitted any allusiou to this occur
rence further than to copy into our columns the
account of it given in another journal..
Thia delay haa not been occasioned by the
leaat difficulty in making up our miuds upon
the aubject. On tha contrary, "We were at once
equally clear as to the necessity of the proceed
in^' and the manner in which it was discharged.
Nor have we been shaken iu thia conviction,
but rather strengthened, by the low ribaldry
and abuse with which the columns of the Abo
lition sheets teem against a spirited and hon
orable geulleuiau.
Charles Sumner, a Senator from Massachu
setts to the United States Senate, has been for
years rioting not only in the most treasonable
and damnable heresies that ever issued from
the lips of one, calling himself an American,
but skulking behind the chivalrous code of
non-combatancy, which he and his foul-mouthed
fraternity have established for their insolent
licentiousness, he has thought proper latterly
to commence a system of assaults upon hon
orable Senators from other States, in which the
ruleji, courtesy and decorum of the Senate have
been flagrantly violated. Not only, however,
has he forgotten in this, the dignity that should
attach to a United States Senator, but he has,
in his late speech, violently outraged even the
ordinary decencies of common life, by the em
ployment of language which would have been
offensive to the lowest society of either man or
woman I
With the United States Senate gallery filled
with American ladies, this senatorial profligate
stands forth, and audaciously utters language
calculated to bring the blush to the cheek of
elery honest woman within his hearing ! He
seems to parade with infinite gusto his familiar
acquaintance with a style of life, which he so
graphically depicts, and disregarding the pre
sence he is in, becomes the public iusulter of
female delicacy, sensibility, and refinement.
What ladv can feel herself secure in visiting the
Senate chamber in future, while such a votary
of vulgarity is allowed to hold a place on that
floor?
But the insult of Charles Sumner to the
courteous and manly Senator from South Caro
lina was most gratuitous and uncalled for.
Nor did the absence of this Senator, not only
from his seat, but in a distant State, soften the
malevolence of his tirade.
What, then, under this state of things, was
to be done ? Is there a young man in whose
bosom there beats a manly throb, who does
not justify the relative of Judge Butler in re
senting this gross assault, in his absence, upon
his integrity, intelligence, and virtue? It seems
there are no rules of the Senate which are
operative to arrest such a proceeding and to
punish the offender. If the Senate has not
the power, or having it, does not choose
to exercise it, impeach or expel one of its
own body for such disreputable conduct,
where does the redress reside? If Massachu
setts will not recall such a man?if the Senate
will not eject him or control him?if the man
tenator will not hold himself responsible for
such insults to his fellow senators, ichat is tab*
done f nothing in this wide world but to cow
hide bad manners out of him, or good manners
into him. The institutions of God?the insti
tutions of man?the common law of society?
point to no other mode of redress for the
grievance. In our judgment, if the system
had been commenced long, long ago, it would
have been better for all parties. We do not
?peak of the right of those who differ with us
upon the slavery question, or their right to ex
press that difference?by no means. They
have that right; but hurtful as the expression
of it may be to our feeling*, we would not have
it impaired, but, on the other hand, we will not
allow it to be aggravated by personal insults
and obloquy upon us.
But objection is made to the place where the
chastisement was bestowed, and great capital
is sought to be made out of it by a hue and
cry of desecration of the Senate chamber!
Well, this comes with a charming grace from
the friends of a senator who has chosen this
same consecrated spot for a vocabulary which
we blush to give place in our columns. The
Senate was not in session, and after a vain
search for C. Sumner elsewhere, Mr. Brooks
was constrained to give him his deserts upon
the very spot from whence he issued his vulgar
libels npon his distinguished relative.
Much as the necessity for such an extreme
course may be regretted, we are happy to be
lieve that this occurrence will do much to put
a stop to the too common and unsenatorial
mod* of warfare in that body. We trust that
it may be so, and that the most august legisla
tive body in the world may retarn, in its pro
ceedings and bearing, to the days when its
dignity and tone commanded the admiration of
our own and the other countries of the world.
MR. UKDDOU'd RPEECH.
Mr. Seddon's long speech has for it* gist,
this importaut point. That although hi* own
preference wan most decidedly in favor of Sen
ator Hunter, yet circumstances over ruling ren
dered it proper and indispensable that a can
didate should he selected from those presented
by the Democracy of the North, and that the
Sooth should at once, and cordially, and at the
first, unije upon one thus presented.
Mr. Seddon endorses to the fullest extent the
soundness of the Northern Democracy on the
Kan*&? Nebraaka Bill. Mr. Seddon makes a
connection snd a concurrence with tbe Nebras
ka Kar>??n Uill, the paramount claim to a nom
ination?and upon this gives a preference to
General Pierce, and places Mr. Buchanan as
his last resort, because of his supposed short
coming on this bill.
The position of Mr. Bvchaka* on this ques
tion is clearly set forth in the subjoined resolu
tions constituting the Pennsylvania platform:
llejtfdced, That we are now as ever unaltera
bly opposed to the doctrines and designs of all
organizations which contemplate the overthrow
of the civil and religious rights of the citixen,
like the equality of the States, is a sacred and
inalienable right, never to be interfered with
l>y factious parties and reckless legislation,
wilboat a subversion of the primary objects of
our political system, and a repudiation of the
guarantees of the past, and tbe hopes of tbe
fotnre.
Retolttd, That in the repeal of the act
known as the Missouri Compromise set, and
the passage of the organizing the Territo
ries of Kansas and Nebraska, free from uncon
stitutional restrictions, the last Congress per
formed a work of patriotic sacrifice, in meeting
the demands of sectional excitemeut by un
shaken adherence to the fundamental law.
Resolved, That this legislation cannot be
deemed unnecessary, but that it was expedient
to meet the question of which it disposed, and
which could never admit of a more easy settle
ment than at present. ThaL we recognize in
it the application to the Territories of the
L nited States of the rule of "equal and exact
justice to all men," of all sections of the Con
federacy, wbicii way designed by the* framcrs
of our Government, and which was defined as
one of its essential principles by the immortal
Jefferson.
Resolved, That the Democracy of Pennsyl
vania, following the counsel of some of the
wisest statesmen of the North and South, were
I ready on more than one occasion in the past to
extend the Missouri Compromise line to the
1 acific, so as to make it the basis of a final set
tlement of the question of slavery in the Terri
tories; but when this proposition was rejected,
in 1848 on the ground that it involved an un
due concession to the South, by the very men
who now clamor for a restoration of the Mis
soun line, there seemed to be but one wise
alternative left, and that was to refer the whole
question of slavery in the Territories to the
people thereof, to be regulated as they may
deem proper; and we therefore, cheerfully ex
teud our hearty support to the policy of the
Government ar. recognized in the compromise
measures of 1850, and embodied in the laws
organizing the Territories of Kansas and Ne
braska.
Mr. Buchanan responds to them in the fol
lowing words:
I he duties of the President, whomsoever he
may be, have been clearly and ably indicated
by the admirable resolutions of the Convention
which you have just presented to me, and all
of which, without reference to those merely
personal to myself, I heartily adopt. Indeed,
they met my cordial approbation from the mo
ment wheu I first per used them on the other
J side of the Atlantic. They constitute a plat- I
j form broad, national, and conservative, and one
eminently worthy of the Democracy of our
great and 'good old States."
We ask, in all candor, cau anything short of
the extremest hypercriticism find ground for
exception in the position of Mr. Buchanan on
the Kansas bill, as demonstrated by the fore
going.
There is a strong antagonism between the
strong commendation of Mr. Buchanan's ca
reer, which-Mr. Seddon so fully allows to him,
and the microscopic examination of his course
on the Nebraska bill, to see that which canoot I
be seen. The generous praise awarded to Mr. |
Buchanan is inconsistent with the hair-spun
criticism on his Nebraska sentiments.
But this Democratic North which Mr. Seddon
endorses as sound on the Kansas question,
this Northern Democracy endorses Mr. Buch
anan to an extent that will render certain, and
enduring the spirit of the Kausas bill, by pre
senting Mr. Buchanan with victory in hie
grasp.
Is it not ungracious to seek to find imper
ceptible spots on his fair escutcheon, and to
depreciate him who stands so well endorsed by
the Northern Democracy.
We attribute much to the warm personal
partiality for another, this misapprehension of
Mr. Seddon, and we would fain believe that even
before he will reach Cincinnati, all his doubts
about Mr. Buchanan will have vanished.
The following admirable resolution of
fered by one of the truest Democrats within the
limits of Maryland, John B. Wright, esq., of
Baltimore city, wua passed at the district con
vention, some weeks since, and which, owing
to some unaccountable oversight, has not yet
appeared in our columns.
It will be remembered that in the other dis
trict convention, which it only required some
few days notice to convene, that the office
holders of our exacting President, were too
I strongly packed for the unadvised Democracy
outside of the custom-house. The result was
the appointment of two Pierce delegates!
Here, however, the spirit of the genuine
Democracy was not trammelled, and its true
sentiment triumphantly prevailed. Nor is there,
we believe, a doubt, in the mind of any candid
Democrat in Maryland, that the following re
solution offered by Mr. Wright is the senti
ment of the whole Democracy of the State
Certain it is, we believe, that Mr. Buchanan
is the only man who can rescue the 8tate from
the dominion of Know-nothingism. We have
mentioned before that this district nominated
the Hon. James M. Buchanan and William
Byrne, esq., as delegates to the Cincinnati
Convention.
John 8. Wright, esq., of Baltimore city, from
the minority of the committee, submitted the
following amendment:
Retoltxd, That whilst we conceive it to be
due to each of the distinguished gentlemen
whose merits and claims are being canvassed
throughout the country for the honor of a nomi
nation at Cincinnati for the Presidency, to de
clare our implicit faith in their integrity, capa
city, and sound republican conservativeness,
and, in advance of the action of said conven
tion, to signify our willingness to cheerfully
support its nominee, if he hold?of which
we cannot entertain a doubt?the opinions wo
have proclaimed as our own; we nevertheless,
following the example of our sister States, and
responsive to the will of the people of Mary
land as we understand it, deem it eminently
Cper to announce that the history of the
g, useful and patriotic life of Jamea Bach
anan, of Pennsylvania, furnishes the most re
liable guaranty that in the present emergency
of our country he is, in all the qualities of a
statesmen, fitted for the highest executive
office, and we avail ourselves of this occasion
to make this opinion known to the people of
the Union. As citizen, legislator, National and
State?as highest cabinet officer and represen
tative of the honor and interests of our country
abroad, his career has been marked, at every
step, by sound sens*, caution and statesman
like wiadom. In it the people of Maryland die
cover the hope and security of the future.
Under the guide of o?e so discreet and so ex
perienoed, it cannot be doubtful, with any, that
whiist domestic peace and prosperity would be
secured at home, every interest of our nation,
and its honor, would be sedulously cared for
abroad. Disclaiming all dictation, we most
cordially commend his great services and rare
qualifications to the convention.
John T. B. Doraey, esq., of Howard county,
offered the following as a substitute for the
whole:
Itmolwd, That it is not the duty of this con
vention to declare a preference for the nomi
nation of any particular individual; nor do we
deem such a course expedient, and we there
fore only pledge ourselves to the firm support
of the nominee of the Cincinnati Convention.
The chair announced the question to be first
upon the substitute offered by Mr. Dorsey. A
debate here ensued upon the several reports
submitted, which was parHoipated in by Messrs.
Hamilton and R. C. Holljdav in advocacy of
the majority report, and by Messrs. John ft.
Wright, E. Loftis Lowe and Colonel Thomas
McKaig in advocacy of the amendment of Mr.
Wright, and by Cof. George Hughes and Mr.
Dorsey in favor of the substitute of the latter
named gentleman.
Pending the discussion a motion to adjourn
was determined iu the negative?yeas 23, nays
73.
A vote was then taken upon the substitute of
Mr. Dorsey, and it was rejected by the follow
ing vote: yeas 16, nays 80.
The vote upon the amendment of Mr. Wright
wa? then taken, when it was adopted?yeas 51,
nays 44.
MR. BUCHANAN?VIRGINIA.
The results of the recent local elections in
Virginia, show a large increase of Democratic
strength. A letter from the Valley of Virginia
states]:?"You perceive by the returns how
overwhelming have been our triumphs in this
portion of the State. Frederick, heretofore
paralyzed in her Democratic strength, now
gives her old fashioned majority of 300. Jeffb??
son heretofore Whig, now gives a Democratic
majority of 51. In Clarke, for the first time,
all the county officers elected are Democrats.
In Berkeley, the Democracy has cruslfed out?
ay, literally 1 crushed out,1 everything in the
shape of oppositiou to its power, &c., &c.
Among the leading causes of this sound and
triumphant condition of our party, is the great
and well deserved popularity of Mr. Buchanax
and the fixed impression of all here, that he
will be selected as the standard bearer of our
party, in the approaching Presidential contest.
All have the fullest confidence in him and with
us, his name is. a tower of strength and the
certain harbinger of victory."
Presidential Sign*.
The late desperate efforts made in Washing
ton to depreciate Buchanan stock have not
produced the desired effect. On the contrary,
it seems as if the effect has been to demonstrate
more clearly the strength of the stock and to
make it more "buoyant." Letters froqi Wash
ington state that a marked change has come
over politicians in that city since they have
ascertained how strong the current of popular
opinion sets towards Buchanan. The Wash
ington correspondent of the Journal of Com
merce thus writes:
The Cincinnati Convention will, it is believed
here, ignore the policy of putting every man out
of the ring who had earned high distinction.
It is not an encouraging system for the many
aspiring men now in the Democratic ranks, and
who propose to enter th^ Democratic ranks.
They will be very likely to take one of their
oldest and most distinguished men in doing so,
they will incur less risk of a failure before the
people than iu taking up some new mediocre
merely on the score of a supposed availability.
The chances at present are wholly in favor of
Mr. Buchanan.
The Evening Commercial, Mr. Fillmore's
most faithful supporter, publishes a letter from
Washington, in which the writer sayB:
. The Buchanan movement prospers. His
chances for nomination at Cincinnati are im
proving. Many of those who disapprove of the
Nebraska bill, but are willing to accept it as a
settled question, are coming to his support.
The South is becoming reconciled to his nomi
nation in the place of Mr. Pierce, whom they
generally prefer as more fully committed to the
policy of the Nebraska bill.
It is well understood among the "knowing
ones," that if Mr. Buchanan is nominated at
Cincinnati, both "Hard" and "Softs" in this
State will uuite heartily in his support.?N. Y.
Sun, 12th instant.
SIMMER'S BLOODY SHIRT SKRT TO
BOSTON.
This maltreated garment, we learn, has been
couveyed by careful bands, to Boston. In ad
ranee of the august ceremonies which doubt
less will mark its advent, his patriotic constitu"
ency, will have bad their minds and hearty (if
they have either,) well stored for M mutiny and
rage," by the fervid eloquence of their Beecher
Saint.
This meek and holy priest, ia, we suppose, to
officiate upon the occasion of the shirt demon
stration* which will be made. As it is a new
theme, and may draw too heavily upon his im
agination, we suggest to him to read Mark
Anthony's speech over the body of the beloved
Cesar. As thus: "If you have tears, prepare
to shed them now. You all do know, this
' garment.' I remember the first time Sum
ner put it on?'twas on a summer's morningi
in his room. That day he hoped to overcome
the triumvirate. Oh! now you weep; ancLl
perceive you feel the dint of pity; these are gra.
cious drops! Kind souls, what weep you, when
you but behold our Sumner's vesture stained ?
Look you to yonder Southern city, where is
himself, marred by the bauds of traitors I
" 1st Cit. 0, piteous spectacle!
"2d Cit. 0, noble Sumner!
"3d Cit. 0, woeful day!
"4th Cit 0, traitor villain!
" 1st Cit 0, most bloody sight!
" 2d Cit. We will be revenged! revenge'
about?seek?burn?fire?kill?slay?let not
a traitor live!"
Stop right here holy Beecher, the stones of
Boston begin to rise and mutiny!
It is a most excellent oration and has well
done its work?grateful, too, to the sufferer, it
will be, for the mindful consideration, of his
ciattic ta?U.
? RHATOR pron.
The speech delivered by this gentleman
yesterday, in the Senate, was one of the most
powerful which has been made in the Senate'
on the Kansas question, indicating as well per
severance in research as high logical powers.
We look upon this speech as one which will
add to the high reputation of the Senator, and
as a valuable contribution to the constitutional
history of the slavery question.
TIIK CAMPAIOII DEMOCRAT.
We have seen ihe first number of the Dem
ocrat, a campaign paper, to be published
weekly after the Cincinnati Convention, in the
city of Washington, byDurant, Da Pont# k Co.
The Democrat presents a fine mechanical
appearance, and its editorials evince a decided
ability.
We are personally acquainted with Mr. Da
Ponte and his writings, and cheerfolly recom
mend the Democrat to the snpport of our Dem
ocratic friends, as worthy the patronage of the
party in tbe coming campaign.
teff" Header, do yon know that every column
of a newspaper contains from ten to twenty
thousand distinct pieces of metal, the misplac
ing of any one of which wonld cause a blunder
or typographical error? With this curious
fact before you, don't you wonder at the general
accuracy of newspapers ?
MK. BUCHANAN IN NKW ENGLAND.
The extract below is from a letter to the
editor. The writer is one of the old line Dern^
ocracy, who has never diverged in his support
of the Democratic party and its principles.
This letter is but one of the many indications
we receive of the strength of Mr. Buchanan
throughout the country:
Springfield, Mass., May 17, 1856.
* * * * * * *
Do not regard this hastily written letter as
intended for publication in the Sentinel. 1 say
again, that recognized as General Pierce is
as a Democrat, his omissions and commissions
could be more amiably stated, than you have,
uj)on some occasions thought proper to do. I
know, however, that one's discretion is fre
quently neutralized by the character of the as
sociations that surround him. It can well be
understood that when you, who have, since the
establishment of the Sentinel, maintained with
consistency and ia advance, every man and
measure, who has advocated, or that has led to
the present unmistakeable platform upon which
the uext election will be contested?I mean
the equality of the States and the right of the
people of Territories to make their own form
of government without Congressional interfer
ence. I say 1 cannot wonder, that you, who
have been true and faithful should feel sore
that others who have pursued the opposite, or
at least a cowardly temporising course, should
attempt, under the wing of an assumed Demo
cratic Administration, to doubt your orthodoxy,
and scandalize, by mean inuendos, the distin
guished statesman, whose name, I am glad to
see at the head of your columns.
Let me tell you that, during the past winter,
my business has led me throughout the New
England States, with the exception of Vermont,
and I can assure you the entire Democratic
people, who are not in office, the National
Whigs who hold the Union of more value than
a few colored persons, the solid thinking man
ufacturers and merchants, who do not make
politics a trade, but regard the Constitution as
a sacred bond, and the people of the South and
West as brethren?all these are awaiting with
the deepest concern the nomination of James
Buchanan, of Pennsylvania, by the Cincinnati
Convention; It is a providential circumstance
that such a man is at the call and disposition
of the great conservative party of the North;
and I' have no misgiving in regard to the action
of that Convention, if it reflects truly the wants
of the people it represents, and feels intelli
gently the necessity that calls for Old Pennsyl
vania's favorite son.
me' wh?,have Mr.
. c P C Course for tbe past twenty
? !r L? Jear8't0 read the attempts made
by the W ashington Star and Union, and a Mis
sissippi paper, the name of which I have for
I gotten, to throw doubts upon his orthodoxy.
If I were allowed to guess, I would say that the
particular article alluded to, copied in the Star
fri^TS! lo^ ont""j'-p SjoS
friend Caleb, and mayhap telegraphed to Mis
| sissipp,, as upon a former occasion, to ? cruih
out Buchanamsm there. This mode of tactics
will not answer. The reputation of Mr. Bpch
to be Ke8,ab,i8hed 'n the Publl'cmind
to be affected by such mendacious assaults
Hia nationality ia recorded in every act of his
pohtica'l,fe. li18 love of the Union amounts
to an enthusiasm, and is seen in every speech
and letter and act of hi. lol,t. and J,Z\t
reer. Doubt James Buchanan! Ask Old
I ennsylvania, the great National Keystone if
her most distinguibhed son, after bis long and
feoutetinn ? vemOCra,'C 8ervice> h&8 a doubtful
eputation? You cannot imagine the general
disgust that this attempt, on the part of certain
presses, to injure Mr. Buchanan at the South,
tl,? ^CCaf10n TL? j? exPrPssed in this part of
the country. The disgust is increased, when
' C"0wn that tbe8e attacks upon Mr. Bcch
tl bave ?r,K?oated with those who officiate
T ?U.h MartlP Rnd John Van Buren, and
Ind B FreR H J BckP?T7,ed^d Alijah Mann
and B. F. Butler and Preston King, of New
i ork, as orthodox Democrats I
oth^T^l ?f M!l' ?B8?!n*- In Greenfield the
?etter" tLt T /?e ?f Lbe "crushing
letter that was telegraphed to the South to
operate upon the Mississippi election. It was
related bv an old fashioned Massachusetts De
mocrat who never "fused," never "coalesced "
and never merely "acquiesed" in the doctrines
and measures of the Democratic party. He
Mi WM Written hJ Mr Pushing to
Mr. * rothingham, one of the editors of tbe
Boston 7W. It was regarded by the recipient
DubliTh7 T T ,mP?r,aDt> bnt as a letter to be
published only on his soundest discretion It
seemed that, before the appointments were
/W^ad h" SrUlte'1lhat ??,onel Greene, of the
i? 1 b,stfr,?nd#> *nd 'hat Mr. Banks now
the Speaker, had his friends to fill the various
offices under the General Government Mr
ushing took the position that Mr. N. P Banks
was the Representative of the Democracv of
; 'asaachusetts. The friends of Mr. Banks there
ore, were, wub but few exceptions, appointed to
the various places to be filled. It was soon dis
rnennii \l aU tbC Patrooage of tbe Govern
thir.^^r60 g'Vtn t? F?oi' D""ocrats
that anomalous creation?and that it was work
mg a disgust and contempt for Mr Cushinir
among the sterling Democracy of New eL/
ration in the South. Hence this "crushing"
WM show?1"' Si * t0 Mr Rothingham. It
* ZuSUP t- re,
reached the car, 0f m.nJ
ln u uZ"LrD ha<1 ***" lbeir WOOL aave
no shhek for freedom.'* Such a letter ?
tothe Boston iW gave evident of it. strong
position with, at lent, Mr. Cusbing. But sad
ftWi tbe "'"could print
, t/ r ? Admin'tfation, it came
back to Boston from the far Sooth, having been
published intermediates in all th* <i .k
r?.o prove ,he OMhX/oft.CoVbr
It answered its purpose there 1I?r? k r
KS .^7; lh(.?di/
missal of a postmasier at a place thev call
A ' W0Fth aboot dollars a ve7r
m" B.XD'i?::;office of "?
you that Mr r k n? In,,,ake when I tell
, you that Mr Cusbing, with all his versatility of
?alent, could not be elected constable in Inv
own New England. His Ia?hyof j^nefpfc
1. a proverb-" as false as Coshing." ? P
with.liM ?^mPort*?t fact, that not
th?! 1 > Circumstance that quite all
he Democrats press of the North has bet"
Dlace iu Ry appointment of editor, to
nP^ itd inn;r,,h ,He -t.Jy
Bociun^ of pJn 1 COnT,.Ctmn ,hat J**U
holding Iji^h and locraiiw po,,,ion., who h?.e
?.^??h.ep"""" ?f,obuined
~t?dV??7orrt,,i0"Th"*
BSL**,.-""'ot opwon,ih!T!?
rj, r ?.ccn""? ? >?iion.l Dtmoc
nwy?are furniliar Wlth hi, who,o lit)ca,
l' c ^rv,~^!?, a"d coos'stent pob
, admire the stern morality ol his
character ; tha*e not identified with oar nsrtv
organization, but who look at matters iJTthl
SanaXr '^tor from Lou
k R<nJam,n' do^?. equally confidincr in
J?. b.gh reputation as a Statesmai, and his in
egrity as a man, and waiting in deep anxiety
?TrT ??nnJ "" (>.n..n,'7
*.Mr- and ?o far N??
f'Ogland is concerned, you may rely .,nnn
5
"vSk Z""""e "????y ?f
Even in this tempted Stain tKrm i
ment which if properly developed can b^ereoT
cfsm \lmmTn ^ U> '^-*2Jk?2t
Un"n Its Z ***""* tbe PerPtnity of the
utrages upon the ^'ommonwealth
and upon the constitutional compact are per
mitted with entire impunity. Talk to our citi
zens. individually, they reflect no treason in their
opimops. They seem in love with the Uuion
and unwilling to do anything to jeopard its ex
istence. Yet the Personal Liberty bill is passed
an act of nullification?the rights of conscience
are violated in legislature enactments?
sumptuary laws that no people of the most des
potic government would submit to, are placed
upon their Statute Books?and citizens, enti
| tied to all the rights of nature under the consti
tution aud philosophy of our government, are
i marked and persecuted! until, iudeed, Massa
i chusetts, whose reputation had beeu classic for its
revolutionary patriotism has become a scorn and
a by-word to our brethren in other States. I
blush for the State of my nativity. But are not
the Democratic party measurably to blame? The
party organization in this State, such as it is,
seems to be merely a combination of a very
few men, whose names will be found ia the
Blue Book, to attend meetings just before the
election to make their names prominent. They
are all delegates to Conventions at least, and a
few of them sometimes consent to run as can
didates for State and other elective offices, but
with no idea of success. They appear to act
upon the principle that the fewer Democrats
there are here, the fewer competitors there will
be for the patronage of the General Government.
What a question, like the Wilmot Proviso,
or the Nebraska and Kansas bill, or the repeal
of the Missouri Compromise, or any other im
portant policy, whether of National or State con
cern is in question, instead of taking instantly
the Democratic position,they seek "fusions" and
"coalitions" to obtain a temporary and hollow
local triumph. This policy has disgusted the De
mocrats of principle and almost demoralizes the
entire party. In the Legislature, now in session,
Abolitionism and Know Nothingism have their
way?no Democrat so bold as dare resist them.
In our churches white cravatted parsons preach
treason to the Constitution instead of good will
to man?Democrats with their families sit and
hear it and dare not remonstrate. So inert is
the Democratic sentiment here that it has no}
sufficient energy to resist, even faintly, the out
rages of this despotic fanaticism. Yon see tlys
names of our prominent politicians attending na
tional conventions and receivinglucrative offices
under the Government, but do you see them
in the advance defending, at the first attack,
the citidel of the Constitution? If our leading
men here had been as true to the principles of
the Democratic party as they have been to its
patronage, it would at least have had, at this
time, a minority that would coAmand respect,
***** Ac., Ac., 0. L.
Correspondence of the New York Herald
An Anlhrnlie Account of the Fracas?Col
Brooks held to Bail to answer?Indigna
tion of the Nigger Worshippers?Move
ment to expel Brooks from the House,
Ktc<
Washington, May 22,1856.
The following will be fonnd to be a strictly
correct and impartial account of the attack on
Mr. Sumner, in the Senate chamber to day. Col
onel Preston S. Brooks, of South Carolina, took
exception to the following language, used by
Senator Sumner in hie speech tin Tuesday last:?
'? With regret I come again upon the Senator
from South Carolina, (Mr. Butler,) who, omni
present in this debate, overflowed with rage at
the Bimple suggestion that Kansas had applied
for admission as a State, and with no incohe
rent phrases discharged the loose expectoration
of his'speech, now upon her representative and
then upon her people. There was no extrava
gance of the ancient Parliamentary debate which
he did not repeat, nor was there any possible de
viation from truth which he did not make. But
the Senator touches nothing which he does not
disfigure with error,8ometimesof principle some
times of fact. He shows an incapacity of accu
racy, whether in stating the Constitution or in
stating the law, whether in details of statistics,
or the diversions of scholarship.
' " He cannot ope his mouth but out there flies a
blunder.'"
" But it is against the people of Kansas that
the sensibilities of the Senator are particularly
aroused. Coming, as be announces, ' from
State;'?ay, sir! from South Carolina?he turns
with lordly disgust from this newly formed com
munity, which he will not recognise even as
body politic.' Pray, sir, by what title does he
indulge in this egotism? Has he read the his
tory of 'the State' which he represents? He
cannot, surely, have forgotten its shameful im
becility from slavery, confessed throughout the
Revolution, followed by its more shameful as
sumptions for slavery since."
Mr. Butler, the aged Senator alluded to, was,
and still is absent in South Carolina, on a visit
to his family.
Mr. Brooks waited at the Porter's Lodge
about an hour yesterday, and as long this morn
ing, hoping to meet Mr. Sumner, with a view to
attack him. Failing in this, he entered the
Senate chamber today, just as that body ad
journed, and seeing several ladies present,seat
ed himself on the opposite side to Mr. Sumner.
Soon all disappeared but one. He then request
ed a friend to get her out, when he immediate
ly approached Mr. Sumner, and said, in a quiet
tone of voice:?
" Mr. Sumner, I have read your speech with
great care, and with as much impartiality as I
am capable of, and I feel it my duty to say to
you that you have published a libel on my State,
and uttered a slander upon a relative, who is
aged and absent, and I am come to punish you."
At the concluding words Mr* Sumner at
tempted to spring U> his feet, showing fight,
but whilst in the act was struck by Coloq*l
Brooks a backhanded blow across the head
rith a gutta percha cane near an inch thick,
but hollow, and he continued striking him
right and left until the stick was broken in frag
ments, and Mr. Sumner was prostraite and
bleeding on the floor. No one took hold of
Qol. B. during the time, to quick was the ope
ration ; but immediately afterwards Mr. Crit
tenden caught him around the body and arms,
it hen Col. B. said, "Idid not wish to hurt
him much, but only whip him."
No one knew of the anticipated attack but
the Hon. H. A. Edmundson, of Virginia, who
happened not to be present when the attack
commenced. Ttwas reported on the streets
for several days previous that Mr. Sumner
would be armed when he delivered his speech,
and that if occasion required it he would use
his weapons. He was not armed when attack
ed by Colonel Brooks to-dly. It is said, also,
that Mr. Sumner Rave out before he made his
speech that he woold be responsible for any
thing he might say.
After his arrest Colonel Brooks went to the
office of Justice Hollingshead, and tendered
his bond with security to appear and answer
any charge preferred by the (irand Jury. But
the Justice, deeming the bond premature, dis
charged him upon his parole of honor to appear
before him apain whenever required.
Subsequently Mr. Brooks was complained of
by Mr. William Y. Leader, on whose oath Jus
tice Hollingshead reqnired Brooks to give bail
in the sum of five hundred dollars as security
for his appearance to-morrow afternoon.
The most intense excitement prevails this
evening among the nigger-worshippers, and
they intend to-morrow morning to introduce
resolutions expelling Colonel Brooks from his
seat in the House. They ere working assidu
ously to accomplish this object, bnt they will
certainly fail.
Dii*i,oiiatic Moramtt.?The late difficulty
between Persia and England is said to have
been caused by the misconduct of the English
Ambassador, Mr. Murray, who persisted in
keeping in his house a beautiful Persian lady,
the sister of the Hhah; after having provided
for her husband by giving him an appointment
in the British consulate. The 8han, it seems,
not being willing to leave his relative any longer
in such a petition.?N. T. Exprttt.
PfOM ihe IVnuaylvauian o? the 544ih iu?iu,u
Streu*tU of Mr. Uu.h.u.u,
We promised, yesterday, to publish a number
of extract* from private lettera, received from
various portions of our Union, to show the
opiuion entertained by intelligent gentlemen
as to Mr. Buchanau's great strength as a can
didate in all quarters of the country. It will
be seeu that the moat unbounded faith is felt
in his election, if nominated, while a doubt
rests upon the chances of all other candidates.
No one, in the least conversant with the feel
ings which animate the masses of our country
men, can doubt the superior strength of Mr.
Buchanan over any one of his competitor,
lhis fact apeaka with prophetic voice. It can
not nor will not be hidden from the ken of man.
There are times when the mind of a whole na
tion becomes sober and refiective, and sees
that which will be of general benefit with un.
delusive vision. Such now appears to be the
case. The excitement springing from high
mental irritation, which gave vigor to Know
nothingism is passing away, as was seen at our
municipal election, and it requires but an ordi
nary degree of caution in our Presidential
nomination to consign that abomination, and
its cognate ally, Abolitionism, forever to the
tomb. With Mr. Buchanan as our candidate,
we shall be successful, not only over the nominee
of the combined factions, but also over the
atrocious principles which they profess and
promulgate. The question of slavery, which
now agitates both the North and the South
will then be set at rest, and although we do
not look for a political millennium, we at least
feel satisfied thai the all-absorbing questions of
the day will sink to rise no more. The great
experience, and sound practical wisdom of Mr.
Buchanan, are what the whole country now
wants to prudently carry us through the pre
sent difficulties; and re-establish harmony in
every aectiou of our Union. The extracts
given below, show the opinion entertained of
Mr. Buchanan's exalted character as a states
man, and his safety as an Executive officer.
These sentimeuts are universal, and point to
him with unerring certaiuty as a man wjio
should receive the Cincinnati nomination.
OHIO, MAY 5.
Let me assure you that the great body of
Democrats?the masses?are warmly attached
to Mr. Buchanan. His nomination will secure
the entire strength of the Democratic and old
hue Whig votes in this State. If politician!
desire his defeat, the people demand hia nomi
nation, and the former must bow to the voice
I of the latter.
omo, april 22. ?
Since meeting you last, I have recei ved letters
from various quarters of our State, and all
show that Buchanan is clearly the first choice
of nine-tenths of the Democracy. I may add,
? of a very large and respectable portion of thJ
old Whig party.
CLEVELAND, OHIO, APRIL 21.
The nomination of Mr. Buchanan will secure
a perfect triumph for Democracy and principle
in this State. The very name of " Buck," of
the State of " mines," is synonomous with
strength and victory.
OHIO, APRIL 4.
The mass of the people of this State are for
Buebanan, and the universal opinion here is,
that, he wi ll make the election a dead sure thing!
The Abolitionists are fearful of his nomination,
because they know tfllt he will concentrate the
strength of the national men of the Union, and
that with him we can carry the State of Ohio
over any Black Republican by a lar^e ma
jority.
OHIO, APRIL 30.
Public sentiment is so strong in Ohio for
Buchanan, that our delegates will not cast the
vote of the State against him, unless they de
termine to take issue with the people.
OHIO, APRIL 9.
Things throughout our State look* well. I
know that Mr. Buchanan can carry Ohio over
any other opponent that may be run against
him. The sentiment of the State is overwhelm
ing in his favor.
Nrw YORK.
Old Buck has really been nominated by the
people. The question is whether that nomina
tion shall be confirmed, or another shall be
made by politicians. The present position of
our country requires that we should have an
able, consistent, and withal a respectable and
honest man at the helm, and I believe that it
will be sunphed by Mr. Buchanan, who will be
nominated and elected.
CONNECTICUT, MAY 8.
Buchanan is the man of all others for the
times, and God grant for the sake of the coun
try that be may be nominated. He is the
cboipe of the people not only of this State, but
of the Union.
CONNICTTCUT, APH1L 14.
My sympathies are with Old Buck, and so
are those of a majority of the Democrats in this
Slate. In my opinion Buchanan is the only
invincible candidate. He is the choice of the
Democracy of our Stale. We have made a
grand fight here, our troops nre in excellent
order, and if he is nominated at Cincinnati,
Connecticut will undoubtedly cast her electoral
vote for him.
CONNECTICUT, Alia 17
The sentiment is universal among the De
mocracy of this State that Buchanan is the
man and the only man?with him we can carry
the State Sure. The political tide is turning
in our State, and netting in with irreBistable
force and strength in favor of our party, and
nothing aids it more than the expectation that
Buchanan is to be our nominee. Prominent
Whigs publicly avow their purpose to votefor
him?assuming that he is to be nominated.
He must be, the people demand it. The Con
necticut delegation will advocate his claim with
great zeal. ?
MAYNB, ATOII. 7.
I most sincerely hope that your efforts and
the efforts of other friends of that great states
man, James Buchanan, will be carried with
success. The claims of the Democracy of
Pennsylvania, upon their brethren throughout
the Union, can scarcely be over-estimated.
They And a parallel only in the distinguished
services and matchless statesmanship of their
candidate, impressed with these considerations,
and with the conviction that Mr. Buchanan's
name, more than that of any other Democrat,
wftnld unite the Union men of the country, and
ensure a certain and enduring victory, the De
mocracy ask his nomination by the Cincinnati
Convention.
NASRVU.LK, TKNN., APRIL 4.
Mr. Buchanan is the man upon whom the
choice of the Democratic party should full its
Ihf*ir candidate for the Presidency- cnemie* as
well ns friend* admit his qualifications for the
office, and no Democrat will doubt his fidelity
to every great principle of the Democratic
party.
KIMomtT.
I was present at the late Democratic Con
vention which Assembled nt .Jefferson <'iiv, in
this State, and I smuta you, whatever may bo
laid to the contrary, that the feeling in favor of
Mr. Buchanan was nearly unanimous. Mr.
Elarns, who heads the delegation, was the avow
?d and active friend of Mr. Buchanan, and was
sleeted As such, and I think you will find