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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)
of a pro-slavery sheriff calling for a posse to assist in executing a process,—really, however, for the purpose of destroying the town and wreaking vengeance on its people; but finding the place protected by forts and the inhabitants earned with Sharpe's rifles which had been sent from the free States, they found it discreet to retire a few days later, yielding, after a parley, to pressure from Governor Shannon. As they came and went, and while encamped on the Wakarusa, they indulged freely inngs for the formation of a State constitution, particularly in the quite analogous case of Michigan, with the sanction of high Democratic authority,—Jackson, Buchanan, and even Pierce himself. Of Butler's absurd proposition to serve a warrant on Sharpe's rifles,—seizing, against the plain letter of tie Constitution, the weapon which has ever been the companion of the pioneer, and under God his tutelary protector against the red man and the beast of the forest,—he said:— And yet such is