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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)
rn route for the Pacific Railroad. These speeches show him to have been a person of only respectable ability, and his friends hardly claimed more for him. During his service hitherto, hardly three years in length, he had been a modest and orderly member, indulging in no acrimonious speech and keeping aloof from scenes of disorder; and his pacific manner and temperament had been observed. Once he intervened to arrest a personal difficulty between members, and offered a resolution (June 21 and 22, 1854) against the bringing of concealed weapons into the House. In his speech on the Nebraska bill he disclaimed any reflection on those who rejected the duel as a mode of settling personal questions. On one or two occasions he appeared more tolerant and less exclusively sectional than some of his nullifying colleagues. Dec. 25, 1855. Ibid., p. 77. He had a grain of levity in his nature, which appeared in a resolution offered by him in jest, and in his vote for Mr. Giddings as chaplain.