C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., L.

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The Crime against Kansas, the most powerful of all Mr. Sumner's speeches, will always be associated with the infamous attempt to murder him in the Senate Chamber, two days after its delivery. In giving an account of the assault, we shall follow the relation of it by Vice-President Wilson, as it will appear in the second volume of his ‘History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America,’ for an early copy of which we are indebted to the friendship of the author.

In addition to the well-known accuracy of Mr. Wilson as a public writer, he had the further advantage in this case, of being on the spot when this most cowardly act in the history of modern civilization, was perpetrated.

United States Publishing Company, 1874.

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