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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)
he visit was printed in the New York Christian Union, July 24, 1890. Keitt, Brooks's confederate and eulogist, lies buried in an unmarked grave at Old Tabernacle, near St. Matthews, Orangeburgh County, S. C. Edmundson is still living (1892) in Virginia. There was talk current at the time of Brooks's death, which found its way to the newspapers, that as soon as the flush of excitement was over he felt oppressed by his situation. New York Independent, Feb. 5, 1857; New York Herald, Jan. 31, 1857. He did not enjoy his honors as the representative of bullies, and, according to a statement of his colleague Orr to Wilson, so confessed. Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, vol. II. p. 495. Northern members of Congress and their wives, who had been in pleasant social relations with him, avoided him, and his fellowships were only with his own party and section. His black hair turned to gray, President Felton, who at Washington in his connection with the Smithsonian Institution, so