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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 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)
his opinion that Sumner had better not have said some things which he did say; but the Duchess of Argyll defended him fully. Meantime Sumner, who was constitutionally devoid of fear, had no thought that any one was meditating violence against him; nor was there any prevailing suspicion of danger among his friends. No careful analysis of the evidence relating to Brooks's assault on the senator was made at the time, and the effort is now made to supply one. The Congressional Globe (June 2, 1856, Thirty-fourth Congress, first session, pp. 1348-1367) is cited, being more accessible to the public than the volume containing the committee's report. Bingham of the House, however, who was present when Douglas and Mason were speaking on Tuesday, was led to believe from the language and manner of senators, particularly from Douglas's expression, Is it his object to provoke us to kick him? and his allusion to what would happen when Butler returned, that an attempt to assault Sumner was b