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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)
waiting to withstand any force which might intervene to put the assailed on an equal footing with the assailant; he was secretly armed with some deadly weapon in reserve for killing on the spot the unarmed senator if he had strength enough to wrest the bludgeon from him. It was not an encounter according to any code of the duellist or even of the bully; it was simply assassination. Cassius M. Clay, of Kentucky, a brave man, familiar with personal encounters of all kinds, wrote Sumner, June 6, 1856: The whole affair is a piece of atrocious cowardice! It came from an unexpected quarter; it was conceived coolly and aforethought; plotted in conspiracy with others and superior odds, with superior weapons, when you were unaware, and substantially tied hand and foot, and even then Brooks arose not to the dignity of a ruffian by saving, Stand, and defend yourself! I, who have seen so much of violence, so much of foul combination, so much of unfair odds, so much of dastardly [conduct],— I,