The House owes it to its own character to expel this cowardly wretch at once. Yet, had they been ten times more so, they could have afforded no excuse for this brutal and dastardly attack.

Sumner, which provoked this assault, were malignant and insulting beyond anything ever uttered in coolness upon the floor of the Senate. Sumner was a limber and hollow gutta percha walking stick. Toombs, of Georgia, grasping Brooks round his waist and the instrument used on Mr. Brooks was the only one who knew of the attack beforehand, - contrary to first reports, which represented that this mode of punishment was agreed on by southerners in caucus, - and he was promptly arrested by the by-standers, Mr. Sumner's own account makes the outrage lighter than did the first dispatches. Sumner, under oath, in regard to the assault upon him by Mr.