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The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
ever was man taken more aback than "Carl Schumner" His usual arrogance failed him entirely. He abused General Grant, but had to back out; he abused the President, but handled in. In a word, he made the most pitiable failure he has made since Preston Brooks caned him some years ago. On this subject the New York World discourses as follows: "What General Lee failed to do, Mr. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, has undertaken to accomplish. The American people, who believe that the Republic miniously thrashed with a cane by a South Carolina representative, long since dead and turned to dust. "The hero of a hundred fights recommends that the Southern people be entrusted with the control of their own affairs. The victim of Mr. Preston Brooks, writhing still with an impotent lust of personal vengeance upon the innocent fellow-citizens of a rash and hasty man, whom God has removed from all human retribution, shrieks out foulmouthed abuse of the President, and clamors for the prac