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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)
o the prevailing approval,—the Louisville Journal, May 24 (edited by a man of Northern birth), reprinted in the New York Times, May 28; the Minden (,La.) Herald quoted in the New York Evening Post, July 9; and the Baltimore American. In border cities like Louisville and St. Louis there was more or less open condemnation of the assault. Southern feeling ran towards violence at this time. Horace (Greeley was assaulted in Washington by a Texas member, and Granger, a member from New York, by McMullin of Virginia, both assaults growing out of slavery. It made no attempt at apology or extenuation, and did not seek to confine the responsibility for the act to Brooks, but audaciously sanctioned the act. It everywhere extolled him as a hero and the vindicator of the cause of the Southern people. The journals which were the recognized organs of Southern opinion applauded the assault, declaring it good in conception, better in execution, and best of all in consequences, Richmond Enquirer,