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Newspaper Title

Boston Atlas

Publication Date

5-23-1856

Publication Place

Boston, Massachusetts

Event Topic

Sumner Caning

Political Party

Republican

Region

free state

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the mouths of the representatives of the North are to be closed by the use of bowie-knives, bludgeons, and revolvers.

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Article (Journal or Newsletter)

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[Pointing Finger] Hon. Charles Sumner, one of the Senators of Massachusetts, was yesterday brutally assaulted by a ruffian named Brooks, who represents South Carolina in the lower House. Those who know Mr. Sumner will readily believe that nothing in his conduct or conversation could have provoked the outrage, and that it must be attributed to the bold and vigorous demonstration of the Kansas inequity, which he has just uttered in the Senate. The reign of terror, then, is to be transferred to Washington, and the mouths of the representatives of the North are to be closed by the use of bowie-knives, bludgeons, and revolvers. Very well; the sooner we understand this the better. If violence must come, we shall know how to defend ourselves. We hope, for the credit of the State, that every man in it will feel this outrage upon Mr. Sumner as a personal indignity, no less than an insult to the Commonwealth ofMassachusetts, and that there will be such a general and spontaneous expression of opinion, as will fully manifest our deep disinclination to submit to any repetition of the contumely.

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Entered and reverse-order proofed by Lloyd Benson.

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the mouths of the representatives of the North are to be closed by the use of bowie-knives, bludgeons, and revolvers.