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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)
w York Evening Post, May 26. With his head bent down, and wrenching the desk,, he tore it from its fastening in the attempt to extricate himself, and pressing forward came upon his feet. Then other blows falling, consciousness ended; and partially erect, he staggered and swayed back and forth, throwing his arms about aimlessly as if in convulsions, Murray's testimony, Congressional Globe, p. 1357; Foster's, p. 1356; Sutton's, p. 1363; Nicholson's, p. 1366; Simonton's. p. 1361; Morgan's, p 1357. while his assailant, seizing him by the collar, continued the blows at the head, which numbered according to different calculations ten, twenty, or thirty, Foster's testimony, Congressional Globe, p. 1356; Winslow's, p. 1361; Murray's, p. 1357; Simonton's, p. 1361. The statement was made at the time that as Sumner instinctively raised his arm on the side he was struck, Brooks, following the method of sword practice, struck on the other, and with such alternating blows had no obstruction i