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A WHIPPING THAT I HASTENED A WAR THE ATTACK OP BROOKS UPON" SUMNER FANNED FLAMES. Bloodied Senators " ' South Carolinian Was Highly Praised Tliroughout the South. Sixty-three years ago this month, Col. Preston S. Brooks, then a mem~f inu-or hnusp nf oonsress. UC1 U1 uuv iw " ? severely chastised Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts for certain aspersions cast on Senator Butler, also from South Carolina and an uncle of Colonel Brooks. The following story from the New Orleans TimesPicayune will be read with interest today on this, the 63rd, anniversary ^ of an incident which fanned into consuming flame the heated passions between the North and the South. A paper was being circulated in this city authorizing a call for a mass meeting of citizens, irrespective of political affiliation, to be held in Lyceum (City) hall on the evening of _v - the 29th of May, 1856. The object of the meeting was to adopt'resolutions expressive of the sympathy of New Orleans for Col. Preston S. Brooks, of South Carolina, then a : member of the lower house of con gress, and making manifest its conviction of the jurisdiction of Colonel Brooks's assault upon the Hon. Charles Sumner of Massachuseets, on the 22nd in the senate chamber at the capitol. This affair was the sen' . sation of the day and, it was said, '.V did more to hasten the war betweeen the North and South than even the question of slavery itself. All over : ^ "v the South the conduct of Colonel Brooks in thus chastising Senator . Sumner for the ridicule and sarcasm which the latter heaped unsparingly upon Senator Butler was universally palliated, if not applauded, from the fact especially that Senator Butler was on nnolo r\f Hnlnnpl Rrnnlrs and Tf 'J*J UU UUVtv VI. ?? 7 " was absent from the senate at the .V time the language resented was used. It was recalled by the New Orleans papers that Colonel Brooks had served gallantly in the Mexican war, 'p>\ where he had a brother killed. He V was represented by persons who knew > ' and had seen him in congress as a splendid specimen of man?open, generous hearted, kind and chivalric, incapable of a dishonorable act or ? feeling. He was 30 years of age, remarkably fine looking, very popular in congress, and was said to have been on good terms with and liked ?%* many of the most violent abolitionists. Senator Butler, on the other ;,r hand, was an old man, with long white hair, and venerable in appear-! ance, wMJe Sumner was quite young H enough to be his son; and this fact] probably added greatly to the provocation,. which The Delta observed ''must be great indeed to have inr:" duced such a man as Colonel Brooks t; * to punish Sumner in the way and at the time and place he did." "The illustrious example given ; by Henry S. Foote and Thomas H. Wn- i Benton," said The Picayune, com ^ menting upon tne crooKS-sumner aifair, "in their famous senatorial recontre, appears likely to have many imitators, and official life in Washington is every year becoming less dignified and less agreeable. A short j- time since, Horace Greeley, a proL fessed non-combatant, was violently ; .assaulted by Mr. Rust of Arkansas, who had an easy victory over a very 7-', weak individual, who was inferior to him in physique. It appears that Mr. Greeley reviewed one of Mr. Rust's speeches rather severely, but his remarks were not such as to demand the very harsh penalty exacted for them." , Col. Preston S. Brooks took exception to the following language used by Senator Sumner in his speech of the 22nd: "With regret I come again upon the senator from South Carolina (Mr. Butler), who omnipresent in this debate, overflowed with rage at the simple suggestion that Kansas had applied for admission as a State and with incoherent phrases discharged the loose expec<1 toration of his speech, now upon her representative and then upon her people. There was no extravagance of the ancient parliamentary which he did not repeat nor was there any possible deviation from truth which he did not make. But the senator touches nothing which he does not disfigure with error sometimes of principle, sometimes of fact. He shows an incapacity of accuracy, whether in stating the constitution r\f in afo finer >?? law TrhptllOr* in til o Vi 1U l/"V >? y ?' **VV*AVA *u wuv details of statistics, or the diversions of scholarship. 'He cannot open 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 from a State, as he an nounces, aye, sir! from South Carolina, he turns with lordly disgust to this newly formed community, which he will not recognize even as a 'body politic.' Pray, sir, by what little does he indulge in this egotism? Has he read the history of the State which he represents? He cannot surely have forgotten the shameful imbecility from slavery confessed throughout the revolution, tonoweu uy us mure shameful assumptions of slavery since." Mr. Butler, the aged senator and uncle of Colonel Brooks, was absent in South Carolina 011 a visit to his family when this language was uttered.' "On the same day" said the Washington correspondent of The Delta, "Colonel Brooks waited at the Porter's Lodge about an hour and as long on the next morning with a view of meeting Mr. Sumner and attacking him. Failing in this, he entered the senate chamber just as that body adjourned, and seeing several ladies present, seated himself on the opposite side to Mr. Sumner. Soon all disappeared but one. He then * requested a friend to get her out, when he immediately 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 ab1 ' I stent, ana i am come to pumsn vuu. "At the conclusion of these words, Mr. Sumner attempted to spring to his feet, showing a disposition to escape, ' hut was struck by Colonel Brooks a backhand blow across the head with a gutta percha cane nearly an inch thick, but hollow, and he continued striking him right and left until the stick was broken into fragments, and Mr. Sumner was prostrate and bleeding on the floor. No one took hold of Colonel Brooks during the time, so quick was the operation; but immediately afterwards Mr. Crittenden caught him around the body and arms, when -Colonel Brooks said: 'I do not wish to hurt him much, but only whip him.' No one knew of the anticipated attack but the Hon. H. A. Edmondson of Virginia, who happened not to be present when the attack commenced. "It was reported on the streets for several days previous that Mr. Sum1 ner would be armed when he delivered his speech, and that, if occasion required it, he would use his wea-^ nr?n<* Hp was not armed when at tacked by Colonel Brooks today. It is said, also, that Mr. Sumner gave out, before he made his speech that he would be responsible for anything he might say. After his arrest Colonel Brooks sent to the office of Justice Hollingshead and tendered his bond and securities to appear and answer any charge preferred by the grand jury. But the justice deeming the bond premature, discharged him upon his parole of# honor to appear before him when required. Subsequently Colonel Brooks was complained of by Williapa Y. Leader, on whose oath Justice Hollingshead required Colonel Brooks to give bail in the sum of $500 as security for his appearance when called upon. The most intense excitement of course was produced amongst the - negro worshipers, and they were making very fierce threats and working assiduously to have Colonel Brooks expelled from the house." The Courier's correspondent added: "About a dozen senators and many strangers happened to be in the chamber at the moment of the fight. Sumner, I learn, was badly whipped. The city is considerably excited, and crowds everywhere are discussing the last .'item. Sumner cnea: j am most aeaa: i am most dead!' After Sumner fell between two desks, his own having been overturned, he lay bleeding and cried out, 'I'm almost dead.' " While Mr. Sumner's friends in the East were piling up resolutions of condolences for him, the friends of Col. Brooks in every State throughout the South, including Mississippi and Louisiana, did not stop at commendation, but proposed the bestowal upon him of visits and substantial tokens of the high appreciation in which they held his vigorous assault upon the Massachusetts senator. Canes were the articles that seemed to predominate, "not only," remarked The Delta, "because they supplied the place of the gutta percha one which was shivered upon Sumner's back, but on account of being strikingly symbolical of 'hit him again.' " ^ ! > ^ The Stalking Stork. Little Johnnie, age seven, was playing with his little girl neighbor, Judith, age eight. In view of her superior age, Johnnie asked her confidently, one day: "Say, Judith," he said, "does storks really brings babies?" "Yeth, Johnnie," lisped Mudith, "because after Thister Thusey came I heard papa thay thomething about an awfully big bill!"?D. F. Kirby. OUR JOURNALISTS IX PARIS. Will Irw in ISelieves that Few of Them Understood the French. "I will match the American newspaper man against any of his contemporaries across the water, and give odds. The more I see of the foreign press the more on the whole I admire the American. But just let me hint that some of them, though wonders on a big fire, marvels on a national election and world beaters on the tariff, wobbled a bit at first on French atmosphere and world politics. "In our splendid isolation oui newspapers and newspaper men have npvpr much regarded EuroDe as anv thing but a place where the rich traveled and broke the bank at Monte Carlo and got their jewels stolen, whereas the most mediocre little Fleet street reporter discoursed on the Balkan problem and the German plot against Paris and France's future in Morocco. In five or 10 years of world contact we shall change all that, but I am speaking of now. "The American reporter walked into Europe and read or had translated to him a hot leader of Pertinax fom the Echo de Pais and felt all his sense of nationality injured. The popular Matin and Petit Parisien? this Inst has 10 times the circulation of the Echo de Paris?might be most kind and complimentary on that day. Humanly, he did not notice them. He noticed the Echo de Paris. "Then,he misread the French he met in Paris, as almost every American does in the beginning. I know; for I've been through it myself. The true r lencnmaii nas a pessiuu&in. pose. He is, I think, always playing a little game with himself. If one thinks things are coming out well he'll be so horribly disappointed if they come out badly! If one thinks things are coming out badly how happily surprised he'll be if they come out well! Let us therefore work for the best and expect the worst. "From 1914 clear through to 1918 Americans over only a month or sc have come to me and whispered: These people can't last more than two or three months longer. The> say so themselves!' "Paris is very gossipy, and the gossip is always pessimistic. "Many a man who had read the: Echo de Paris listened to the French and got the straight of some events inside the conference or the subsidiary committees, rushed to the wire or the mail chute with a story true as to its facts but untrue?though he wrote sincerely?in the importance he gave to those facts. The stories gr^apevined back to France; and that stirred up more hard feeling."?Will Irwin in Saturday Evenine Post. <? m , Are Women Honest? A friend has sent us a pamphlet entitled "Are Women Honest?" The purpose of the document and what il is about we do not know and shal not know, as it was immediatel} thrown away. Any writing that seeks our attention with such a questior is not pursued. Of course women are honest?anc under the most trying temptations Even if they were not more inherent ly honest than men their religioi would cause them to be honest ii most cases. Women take their re ligion seriously, as they should. The: believe in future rewards and punish rnents to a greater extent than d< men. They are more sentimental and sentimentality is at the botton of honesty, if you please. If women were not honest, hal the husbands in the land would b< robbed every night of the money ii their pockets. Probably about tha per cent, of the husband of the coun try do not take the pains to inquir< if their wives need money, and i large number of those who do in quire give grudgingly and only whei they feel compelled to do so. Men * _ i ? i i ii. as a ruie, are more noerai wun ev erybody else in the world than witl their wives. The large employers of this coun try will tell you that women are mor< honest than men. They are mor< conscientious, as a rule in regard t< their work?and that is certainly i matter of honesty. Even the I. W W. doesn't try to induce women t< practice sabotage knowing that th< women would not respond to thei: inducements. So with all of thi: knowledge in our possession, we hav< no desire to read a pamphlet tha asks the ques^on right in the be ginning, "Are Women Honest?"? Columbus Dispatch. ^ i>> ? Her Mother. "My dream is to marry an Ameri can!" "Oh, yes! They came to our ah and then they are so frank, loyal courageous."' "Yes, and .then one's mother-in law would be on the other side of th< j Atlantic!"?Pele Mele, Paris. I 666 has more imitations than any j other Chill and Fever Tonic on the j market, but no one wants imitations, j They are dangerous tilings in the medicine line.?Adv. ? _ i RILEY & COPELAND Successors to W. P. Riley. Fire, Life Accident Txrr.TTp iwni! Office in J. 1"). Copeland's Store BAMBERG. S. C. 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