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Cresson (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
avagance some apology for an act which was beyond all apology. Whenever in any speech or article I have noticed regrets for the language I deemed it my duty to use, I invariably discarded what followed as being the forced offering of the hour and not of the heart. Please let Mr. Garrison know that I was much touched by his resolution and speech. Without any sensible improvement he left the seaside, August 3, for a change of air, and became the guest and patient of Dr. R. M. Jackson at Cresson, in the Allegheny Mountains. New York Evening Post, August 4 and 16. Works, vol. IV. pp. 329, 338, 339, 340, where the reports of Drs. Wister and Jackson are found. Wilson, after conferring with Seward and other Republican senators, advised him not to return to Washington during the session, which lasted till the middle of August. At the mountains the former symptoms clung to him, weakness generally, pallor of countenance, a tottering gait, wakeful nights, a sense of weight on the b
Austin (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
lson's testimony, Congressional Globe, pp. 1366, 1367. The failure of the assistant sergeant-at-arms to reach the spot in time was the subject of criticism. (W. S. Thayer in the Evening Post, May 23.) Mr. Thayer stated in the same journal, May 28, that Bright, president of the Senate, condemned the assault. though the failure of Gorman and Leader (a young journalist) to reach the spot sooner than Murray and Morgan is not easily understood. William Y. Leader, of Philadelphia, since of Austin, Texas, who made the complaint against Brooks in the District Court, was by his own account nearer than an—one, and even heard the words which Brooks uttered,—heard by no one else except Sumner. he regarded the assault as a cold-blooded, high-handed outrage (Sumner's Works, vol. IV. pp. 268–;270); but he abstained from interference, kept back by dread of violence to himself. He was young, of inferior stature, and untrained in physical contests. Want of courage or of presence of mind with som<
Patrick Henry (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
ois [Mr. Douglas] naturally joins the senator from South Carolina, and gives to this warfare the superior intensity of his nature. He thinks that the national government has not completely proved its power, as it has never hanged a traitor. But if occasion requires, he hopes there will be no hesitation; and this threat is directed at Kansas, and even at the friends of Kansas throughout the country. Again occurs a parallel with the struggles of our fathers; and I borrow the language of Patrick Henry, when, to the cry from the senator of Treason! Treason! I reply, If this be treason, make the most of it! Sir, it is easy to call names; but I beg to tell the senator that if the word traitor is in any way applicable to those who reject a tyrannical usurpation, whether in Kansas or elsewhere, then must some new word of deeper color be invented to designate those mad spirits who would endanger and degrade the republic, while they betray all the cherished sentiments of the fathers and t
San Francisco (California, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
of the house, to read your speeches, every word of which was heavenly manna to my hungry soul! There was a life, a strain of soul and power in them that always moved me in the very source of thought and tears; and I bless you now for having aroused in me a sense of human justice, and a zeal for human rights. The speech was at once printed in the leading New York journals, and in those of other Northern cities. 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 includin
Dublin (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
ly and brutal ruffian. Cobden, testifying to the same opinions felt by all on that side of the Atlantic, expressed his dismay at the approval which the dastardly and brutal attack received from the Southern press, of which he said there was nothing so bad in Austria or Italy. Henry Richard, while confessing similar emotions, saw in the sequel of the speech the most expressive tribute to the power of high intellect consecrated by Christian principle. The Earl of Carlisle addressed him from Dublin as My dear hero, martyr friend, adding to the expression of his full and fervent sympathy as follows:— I think my predominant feeling is pride in you. Did I not always announce that you were to be an historic man? I really cannot tell you how strongly tempted I should have been, if it had not been for the circumstance of my being nailed to my vice-sceptre, to have hurried across that broad sea, in the hope of being allowed to join in waiting on you. Your bedside appears to me just now
Drewry's Bluff (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
t; and before the Senate adjourned on that day he communicated his apprehensions to Wilson, whom he advised to take precautions against it. Wilson's and Bingham's testimony. (Congressional Globe, pp. 1357, 1358.) Some others had suspicions. Darling, an employee, testified that he was rather expecting something of the sort, p. 1360. Wilson thereupon asked Burlingame and Colfax of the House to join him in walking with Sumner from the Capitol, and then told Sumner that himself and others wereey had happened to strike the temple, a fatal result might have immediately followed. As it was there was the danger of the concussion of the brain, or of erysipelas. Dr. Boyle's testimony, Congressional Globe, p. 1360; Dr. Perry's, p. 1364; Darling's, p. 1360; Dr. Perry's statement, Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, vol. IV. pp. 417-421, Dec. 29. 1856; Works, vol. IV. pp. 338, 339. The dressing of the wounds being finished, Wilson, who hearing of the assault had returned to the Ca
Aurora, N. Y. (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
. 1367.) But according to the evidence he desisted when pinioned by Murray. Morgan coming, on the other hand, through the open space in front of the president's desk, and then by the main aisle, reached the spot at the same time with Murray, and caught Sumner as he was sinking, and saved him from falling heavily. Morgan's testimony, Congressional Globe, p. 1357. Morgan gave an account of the scene after Sumner's death, copied into the Boston Commonwealth, May 23, 1874. Morgan died at Aurora, N. Y., Oct. 13, 1881, and Murray at Goshen, N. Y., late in 1885. Crittenden, sitting in conversation with Pearce, another senator, whose seat was No. 23, heard the noise, and was on the spot immediately after Sumner had fallen, and was active in efforts to stop the assault, openly and emphatically condemning it. Crittenden's testimony, Congressional Globe, p. 1359; Toombs's, pp. 1355, 1356; Murray's, p. 1356. Holland, a doorkeeper, came up at the same time with Crittenden, and as an officer
Barnwell Court House (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
ns chiefly occurring in the border slave States, approved the assault. See opinions collected in Sumner's Works, vol. IV. pp. 271-280. Von Holst, vol. v, pp. 328-3:33. Wilson's Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, vol. II. p. 48). The feeling was so strong that clergymen of Northern education who kept silent were required to take their stand; and if they disapproved the assault, they were compelled to leave. This was the case with Rev. George Dana Boardman, then having a parish at Barnwell Court House in South Carolina, since an eminent clergyman in Philadelphia. There were a few exceptions to the prevailing approval,—the Louisville Journal, May 24 (edited by a man of Northern birth), reprinted in the New York Times, May 28; the Minden (,La.) Herald quoted in the New York Evening Post, July 9; and the Baltimore American. In border cities like Louisville and St. Louis there was more or less open condemnation of the assault. Southern feeling ran towards violence at this time. Hor
Wisconsin (Wisconsin, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
of being appointed by the president, and the resolution then passed without dissent. the amendment was probably moved, as the president would under the responsibility of his position have felt compelled at least to make a show of fairness, and allow both parties in the Senate to be represented. The ballot resulted in the election of a committee consisting (contrary to parliamentary usage) wholly of Sumner's political opponents; to wit, Pearce of Maryland, Allen of Rhode Island, Dodge of Wisconsin, Geyer of Missouri, and Cass of Michigan,—their votes ranging from thirty-three to eighteen. The composition of the committee was said to have been inspired by Weller, Douglas, and Mason. J. S. Pike in the New York Tribune, May 26; First Blows of the Civil War, p. 340. Seward, the mover, received only thirteen, and no other Republican received more than four. Cass accepted, though refusing to be chairman, and intimating at first his wish not to serve at all. The silence of the Repu
De Witt (Iowa, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
ral. although his presence had not been arranged for in the official programme. (J. S. Pike in the New York Tribune, February 2.) Brooks had been his partisan in the election of 1856, and Buchanan had been an apologist for the assault. （Wilson's History, vol. II. p. 490: Sumner's Works, vol. IV. p. 276.) Wilson was indignant that Savage's insult was not instantly repelled in the house; and he intended to brand it as cowardly in the Senate if he could get an opportunity. The weakness of De Witt of Massachusetts. who accepted service on the committee of arrangements for the funeral; of Campbell, in taking part in the eulogies, and referring to Brooks's regard for the honor of his State; and of hale, in Moving an adjournment of the Senate out of respect to Brooks's memory.—were all offensive to Wilson. Letter to Sumner, Jan. 29, 1857. A sense of indignation pervaded the Republican members; many of them at once withdrew, not remaining to attend the funeral which followed immediatel
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