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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 2 2 Browse Search
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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)
tted, observed uniformly, even in the treatment of the slavery question, parliamentary law as well as the requirements of courtesy and good breeding in his personal intercourse. National Intelligencer, Oct. 5, 1854. Banks said at Waltham, Sept. 6, 1856, that Sumner had never spoken a harsh or unfeeling word to his fellow-man in his life. Boston Telegraph, Sept. 6, 1856. It will be recalled how during his first session he bore without retort or notice the epithets applied to him at the timeSept. 6, 1856. It will be recalled how during his first session he bore without retort or notice the epithets applied to him at the time of his speech against the Fugitive Slave Act,—for which he had not given the slightest provocation. It was his fixed purpose when he came to that body to discuss laws, policies, and institutions fully and fearlessly indeed, yet without personal offence to any one; It was said of him that he had elevated the range and widened the scope of senatorial debate, and that no man now living, within the List five years, had rendered the American people greater service or won for himself a nobler f