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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)
men had spoken with a too bated tone, and that bullying and arrogance had not been rebuked as they deserved to be. Works, vol. IV. pp. 128-129. Douglas and the slaveholding party had all along singled out Sumner as the mark of their insolence and bitterness. Candid Southerners admitted that the persistent abuse to which he was exposed was due to a consciousness of his superiority in character and in debate. Minden (La.) Herald. quoted by Campbell of Pennsylvania. in the House, July 12, 1856. Louisville Journal, May 24 In his defence of the Emigrant Aid Company, he was supplied with facts and points by letters from Rev. Edward E. Hale and Dr. Le Baron Russell, who were active managers of the enterprise; Sumner had already been in communication with them as to the memorial of the company to Congress in reply to aspersions of Douglas, and had urged that it should reject altogether the tone of apology, and assert plainly its right to assist Northern emigrants. by R. H. D