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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 40: outrages in Kansas.—speech on Kansas.—the Brooks assault.—1855-1856. (search)
ainst it. Wilson's and Bingham's testimony. (Congressional Globe, pp. 1357, 1358.) Some others had suspicions. Darling, an employee, testified that he was rather expecting something of the sort, p. 1360. Wilson thereupon asked Burlingame and Colfax of the House to join him in walking with Sumner from the Capitol, and then told Sumner that himself and others were going home with him. Wilson's testimony. Congressional Globe, p. 1357. Sumner, who caught his meaning, but, unsuspicious of dality, longing to enter on the political campaign of 1856, one of the most exciting in all our history. Friends interposed with grave warnings to prevent premature activity which might prove fatal. Letters from Wendell Phillips, Josiah Quincy, Colfax, and Seward. He was obliged to content himself with open letters, urging support of the Republican candidates, which were read at public meetings or printed in the newspapers. Works, vol. IV. pp. 348-367. To Dr. Howe he wrote, September