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Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, Sumner. (search)
day, when Wilson made the most eloquent speech of his life in an indignant rebuke to Butler and Brooks, Butler started from his seat to attack him, but was held back by his friends. They might as weogy imbecile, the apology absurd, and the apology infamous, was original and pertinent. Preston S. Brooks only lived about six months after his assault on Sumner, and some of the abolitionists thon a more magnanimous man than Charles Sumner. Once when L. Maria Child was anathematizing Preston S. Brooks in his presence, he said: You should not blame him. It was slavery and not Brooks that strBrooks that struck me. If Brooks had been born and brought up in New England, he would no more have done the thing he did than Caleb Cushing would have done it, --Cushing always being his type of a pro-slavery YankeBrooks had been born and brought up in New England, he would no more have done the thing he did than Caleb Cushing would have done it, --Cushing always being his type of a pro-slavery Yankee. In 1871 Charles W. Slack, the editor of the Boston Commonwealth, for whom Sumner had obtained a lucrative office, turned against his benefactor in order to save his position. When I spoke of t
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, Dr. W. T. G. Morton (search)
ke further action the following winter. A year later a bill was introduced in the Senate for Doctor Morton's relief, and was ably supported by Douglas, of Illinois, and Hale, of New Hampshire. It passed the Senate by a small majority, but was defeated by the mud-gods of the House-defeated by men who were pilfering the national treasury in sinecures for their relatives and supporters. In the history of our government I know of nothing more disgraceful than this,--except the exculpation of Brooks for his assault on Sumner. Doctor Morton was a ruined man. His slender means had long since been exhausted, and he had been running in debt for the past two or three years, as Hawthorne did at the old manse. Even his house at Wellesley was mortgaged. His business was gone, and his health was shattered. He felt as a man does in an earthquake. The government could not have treated him more cruelly unless it had put him to death. It was now, as a final resort, that he went to see Pres