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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)
nguage 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 being meditated, or that it was intended to produce or encourage an assault; 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 were going home with him. Wilson's testimony. Congressional Globe, p. 1357. Sumner, who caught his meaning, but, unsuspicious of danger, treated what his colleague said as trifling, answered, None of that, Wilson!