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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)
Globe, App. p. 913. Brooks's supporters labored hard to defend his taking Sumner at a disadvantage, surprising him and rendering him senseless, with no opportunity to defend himself,—a mode of warfare congenial to cowards, but not to brave and honorable men. Clingman. Congressional Globe, App. p. 736. Three Southern men, though apologizing for Brooks, and disapproving some parts of Sumner's speech, escaped the madness of their section, and maintained the jurisdiction of the House,— Etheridge of Tennessee, Congressional Globe, App. p. 822. who, however, voted against Brooks's expulsion, and also Cullen Congressional Globe, App. p. 1053. of Delaware and Hoffman of Maryland; the former voting to censure Keitt, and the latter to expel Brooks. Even Henry Winter Davis voted against the expulsion of Brooks, and withheld his vote as to the censure of Keitt. The report and resolutions were defended by the Republican members,—by Bingham and Giddings of Ohio, Pennington of New Je<