Public Approval of Mr. Brooks

Under the heading, the Columbia South Carolinian, of Tuesday last, has the following article:

We were not mistaken in asserting, on Saturday last, that the Hon. Preston S. Brooks had not only the approval, but the hearty congratulations of the people of South Carolina for his summary chastisement of the Abolitionist Sumner.

Immediately upon the reception of the news on Saturday last, a most enthusiastic meeting was convened in the town of Newberry, at which Gen. Williams, the Intendant, presided. Complimentary resolutions were introduced by Gen. A.C. Garlington, and ardent speeches made by him, Col. S. Fair, Major Henry Sumner, and others. The meeting voted him a handsome gold-headed cane, which we saw yesterday, on its way to Washington, entrusted by the care of Hon. R.F. Simpson. At Anderson, the same evening, a meeting was called, and complimentary resolutions adopted We heard one of Carolina’s truest and most honored matrons, from Mr. Brooks’s district, send a message to him by major Simpson, saying “that the ladies of the South would send him hickory sticks, with which to chastise Abolitionists and Red Republicans whenever he wanted them.”

Here in Columbia a handsome sum, headed by the Governor of the State, has been subscribed, for the purpose of presiding Mr. Brooks with a splendid silver pitcher, goblet and stick, which will be conveyed to him in a few days by the hands of gentlemen delegated for that purpose. In Charleston, similar testimonials have been ordered by the friends of Mr. Brooks.

And, to add the crowning glory to the good work, the slaves of Columbia have already a handsome subscription, and will present an appropriate token of their regard, to him who has made the first practical issue for their preservation and protection in their rights and enjoyments as the happiest laborers on the face of the globe.

Meetings of approval and sanction will be held not only in Mr. Brooks’s district, but throughout the State at large, and a general and hearty response of approval will reecho the words “Well done,” from Washington to the Rio Grande.

A meeting of the citizens of Columbia was to be held in the City Hall on Tuesday evening last, “to adopt measures complimentary to the Hon. Preston S. Brooks, for his recent patriotic conduct in relation to the notorious abolitionist Senator, Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts.”