No Title.Boston, Massachusetts, Atlas [Republican](23 May 1856)
[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 of Massachusetts, 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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