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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)

and wreaking vengeance on its people; but finding the place protected by forts and the inhabitants earned with Sharpe's rifles which had been sent from the free States, they found it discreet to retire a few days later, yielding, after a parley, to pressure from Governor Shannon. As they came and went, and while encamped on the Wakarusa, they indulged freely in waylaying and marauding. They were still in camp when a new Congress met at the beginning of December. The President sent, Jan. 24, 1856, a special message to Congress on affairs in Kansas. It made pretences of impartiality, but in its speciousness and cunning it was marked by the characteristics of its author. The put the blame of the troubles on antislavery men ,generally, and the emigrant aid societies and the Free State settlers particularly, as provoking the illegal and reprehensible counter-movements which ensued. In his view it was aggression to promote by legal means Free State colonization, and self-defence to

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