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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)
, he proceeded— On the 22d day of May, when the Senate and the House had clothed themselves in mourning for a brother fallen in the battle of life in the distant State of Missouri, the senator from Massachusetts sat in the silence of the Senate chamber engaged in the employments appertaining to his office, when a member of the House, who had taken an oath to sustain the Constitution, stole into the Senate, that place which had hitherto been held sacred against violence, and smote him as Cain smote his brother. The scene is described in the New York Independent, June 26. Keitt answered from his seat, That is false. Burlingame continued: I will not bandy epithets with the gentleman. I am responsible for my own language. Doubtless he is responsible for his. Keitt answered, I am. Burlingame said, I shall stand by mine, and then went on:— One blow was enough; but it did not satiate the wrath of that spirit which had pursued him through two days. Again and again, quic