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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)
l this, he had the same intemperate zeal for slavery which distinguished his State; and he had recently been active in promoting a pro-slavery emigration to Kansas under Buford. W. S. Thayer in the New York Evening Post, May 23. He was now thirty-six years of age, and was described as a person exceeding six feet in height, of large frame, erect and military carriage, with black hair and sparkling eyes, juvenile in face and negligent in dress. W. S. Thayer in the New York Evening Post, May 23, Aug. 2, 1856; Jan. 30, 1857. Toombs's testimony, Congressional Globe, p. 1356. Toombs testified that he was an inch taller than Sumner. At his death he required a coffin six feet and four inches in length, and he was described by the undertaker as the largest framed and largest man who ever died in Washington. New York Evening Post, Jan. 29, 1857. A portrait of Brooks is given in Nicolay and Hay's Life of Lincoln, Century Magazine, June, 1887, p. 206. Of courage Brooks had given no proo