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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)
es. Large pamphlet editions were issued in Washington, New York, Boston, and San Francisco. Boston Telegraph, June 25, 1856. Of the Washington edition nearly a quarter of a million of copies had been ordered in less than two months after the speech was made, and by that time a million of copies, it was estimated, had been issued in various forms. New York Evening Post, July 9. It became a Republican campaign document in the national election of 1856. It was translated into German and Welsh; and was reprinted in London in a volume edited by Nassau W. Senior, and including the latter's review of Uncle Tom's Cabin. The extraordinary interest in the speech was, however, largely due to the event which followed it. Sumner aroused the wrath of the pro-slavery party as no other man could have aroused it. He as well as other antislavery men in Congress, and more than most of them, had endured continuous insult, not only by vituperation in debate, but in gestures, scowls, supercilio