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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 2 0 Browse Search
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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)
ts had, in his view, in her resolutions condemning the assault, given additional proof that she neither comprehends the theory of our government nor is loyal to its authority. Thanking Northern Democrats and J. Scott Harrison It was feared that this pointed commendation might injure those members, and the expression was changed in the speech as printed to members from the non-slave-owning States. New York Evening Post, July 16; New York Tribune, July 15; New York Independent, July 24. Harrison wrote a speech in apology for Brooks, which he was allowed to print. Congressional Globe. App. p. 940. for their support, he paid his respects to the members who had written him down upon the history of the country as worthy of expulsion,—a point on which he evidently felt sore,—telling them that for all future time his self-respect required that he should pass them as strangers. He ended his mock-heroic performance by announcing his resignation; and walking out of the House, he was met