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 or in stating the law, whether in details of statistics or the diversions of scholarship.

He cannot open his mouth but out there flies a blunder.
[Illustration: CHARLES SUMNER.] Butler was not present in the Senate on either day; what he might have said or done, had he been there, can only be conjectured.

The immediate replies from Douglas and others were very bitter.

Among pro-slavery members of both Houses there was an under-current of revengeful murmurs.