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C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 8 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 4 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 2 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 2 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 2 0 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)
died character,—a feature, however, which does not appear to have marred its effect in the delivery. In his opening the senator pointed to the position of Kansas in the centre of the continent,—unequalled as she was in richness of soil and salubrity of climate, and drawing to her bosom a population of free men larger than Athens crowded within her historic gates, when her sons, under Miltiades, won liberty for mankind on the field of Marathon; now the victim of a crime far exceeding that of Verres, whose name had been blasted for all time in a terrible impeachment. The crime, which involved outrage of every kind,—the overthrow of all the rights of American citizens,—was aggravated by the motive, which was the rape of a virgin territory, compelling it to the hateful embrace of slavery, . . . traceable to a depraved desire for a new slave State, hideous offspring of such a crime, in the hope of adding to the power of slavery in the national government, . . . force being openly employe