Brooks and Sumner.Mobile, Alabama, Register [Democratic](6 June 1856)
indignation meetings are being held throughout
Massachusetts particularly, denouncing the proceedings
of Mr. Brooks as dastardly &c. greeley
and his crowd are sharply ridiculous in their
remarks, and their attempt to make political capital
out of it, is so palpable, as to destroy, in a great
measure, the effect of the venom they spit forth.
the Day Book takes a view of the case which
seems perfectly rational to men who are in the
habit of resenting insults, as men jealous of their
own feelings and right should resent them. it
says:
more than six years ago we told the abolitionists
that if they intended to carry out their principles
they must fight. when the Emigrant Aid Societies
began to send their tools to Kansas, we told
them that if their object was to establish a colony
of negro thieves, under the name of "free state
men," on the borders of Missouri for the purpose
of keeping out Southerners and destroying slavery,
they must fight; and we tell them now if they
intend to carry their abolitionism into Congress, and
pour forth their disgusting obscenity and abuse of
the South in the Senate Chamber, and force their
doctrines down Southerners' throats, they must
fight.. greeley must fight if he stays in Washington
and continues to publish his blackguardism
about southern men; Sumner must fight, or use a
civil tongue. wilson must fight, and Seward must
fight, and we all must fight, or let other people's
business and family regulations alone.
in South Carolina meetings are being everywhere
held expressing the feelings of the people
and testifying, by handsome and appropriate
testimonials, their sense of the spirit exhibited by Mr.
Brooks. even the slaves of Columbia have made
a subscription to "present an appropriate token of
their regard to him who has made the first practical
for their preservation and protection in
their rights and enjoyments as the happiest laborers
on the face of the earth."
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