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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)
ere in the habit of asserting for themselves, belittled Sumner's wounds, and pretended to believe that he was shamming. Orr did the some in the House. July 9, Congressional Globe, App. p. 806. This was the common talk of Brooks's partisans. New as inevitably published in the Congressional Globe by command of the body itself. While the more respectable opponents Orr. Cobb, and Boyce. Congressional Globe. App. pp. 805, 809, 812. of the resolutions sheltered themselves under a technicalbecame active in its civil or military service,— Jefferson Davis, Toombs, Iverson, Slidell, Mason, Hunter, Clingman, Cobb, Orr, and Keitt. A profound feeling of indignation pervaded the free States, already deeply moved by pro-slavery violence inan. 31, 1857. He did not enjoy his honors as the representative of bullies, and, according to a statement of his colleague Orr to Wilson, so confessed. Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, vol. II. p. 495. Northern members of Congress and their wiv