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Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 12: (search)
, in particular, ought to have nine and thirty early every morning. The Charleston standard said of Mr. Brooks, He will be recognized as one of the first who struck for the vindication of the South. On one of the banners in a procession at Washington, these brutal words were inscribed, Sumner and Kansas: let them bleed! On the day subsequent to the assault, Mr. Wilson called the attention of the Senate to the circumstance; and, a committee having been appointed, he, on the morning of the 27th, while the floor and galleries were crowded with anxious listeners, rose, and characterized the attack on Mr. Sumner as brutal, murderous, and cowardly. Mr. Butler interrupted him; and cries of Order! Order! rang through the assembly. Two days later Mr Wilson received a challenge from Mr. Brooks, and in reply made use of these memorable words: I have always regarded duelling as the lingering relic of a barbarous civilization, which the law of the country has branded as a crime. A resolut
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 16: (search)
e; so also was Phaedrus the Roman fabulist, whose lessons are commended by purity and elegance; and so, too, was Aleman the lyric, who shed upon Sparta the grace of poesy. To these add Epictetus, sublime in morals; and Terence, incomparable in comedy, who gave to the world that immortal verse, which excited the applause of the Roman theatre, I am a man; and nothing which concerns mankind is foreign to me. Nor should it be forgotten that the life of Plato was checkered by slavery. On the 27th he spoke in favor of a national currency; and on the 30th he opened the way to a great reform still needed, by the introduction of a bill to provide for the greater efficiency of the civil service. In June following he took an active part in the debates on the Freedmen's Bureau Bill. In the course of his remarks he said: The freedmen are not idlers. They desire work. But in their helpless condition they are not able to obtain it without assistance. They are alone, friendless, and uninfor