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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)
t the outset: I have no personal griefs to utter; only a vulgar egotism could intrude such into this chamber. I have no personal wrongs to avenge only a brutish nature could attempt to wield that vengeance which belongs to the Lord. the years that have intervened and the tombs that have opened since I spoke have their voices too, which I cannot fail to hear. Speech, June 4, 1860, vol. v. p. 8. His only other public reference to Brooks is of a similar tone. Letter to Speaker Blaine, Aug. 5, 1872. Works, vol. XV. p. 197. He is not known to have recurred to the subject in private, except in two instances, when it was introduced by others under peculiar circumstances. In 1872, when supporting Greeley for President, and making his protest against any revival of sectional animosity, his attention being called to a caricature of himself drawn by Nast for Harper's Weekly, which represented him at the grave of Brooks reading the inscription on the stone, he said: What have I to do wit