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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)
on his guard. Around him were Butler, Mason, and other Southern friends. The judge, Crawford by name, sentenced him to pay a fine of three hundred dollars. Crawford was said to be a Pennsylvania Democrat of the Buchanan type. Boston Atlas, July 11. This paltry fine, without imprisonment, shows the pro-slavery temper of the federal courts in Washington at that day. The National Intelligencer, July 9. condemned the sentence as inadequate. Two clergymen of the city, Dr. Pine and Dr. Sunderland, condemned the assault. Aiken, a colleague of Brooks, was one of Dr. Pine's hearers. Sumner did not attend the trial, and disclaimed all interest in the proceeding's. Works, vol. IV p. 268. Sumner, in answer to a summons, testified before the grand jury. but had left for Philadelphia before the trial. The debate in the House on the report of the committee began July 9, The absence of members at the national conventions had delayed the consideration of the report. and continu