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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)
eful embrace of slavery, . . . traceable to a depraved desire for a new slave State, hideous offspring of such a crime, in the hope of adding to the power of slavery in the national government, . . . force being openly employed in compelling Kansas to this pollution. Douglas pretended to think these comparisons indecent, and Cass thought the metaphor unpatriotic. The latter, not appreciating Sumner's forbearance on account of old associations to reply to him, recurred to the subject, Dec. 11, 1856, when Sumner was absent, and said that the speech was a most inflammatory appeal, and that such an unpatriotic metaphor betokened a prurient imagination. What the two senators thought of the second book of Paradise Lost is not known. One passage in the opening gave warning of the civil war which followed five years later:— The strife is no longer local, but national. Even now, while I speak, portents lower in the horizon, threatening to darken the land, which already palpitates