No Title.Albany, New York, Evening Journal [Republican](5 June 1856)
[Pointing Finger]There never was greater mistake than
that some of the Democratic leaders are making,
in trying to screen Brooks, and to discountenance
"indignation meetings." In so doing
they take upon themselves the unnecessary odium
of being the opponents of Freedom of Debate.
No Party can stand long on that untenable
ground. Had they been wise they would
have suffered the storm to expend itself on the
perpetrator of the crime, and indeed have given
it that direction. But that wisdom they have
not. They prefer to share in the responsibility
of his guilt. By treating the matter precisely as
they would have treated a similar assault on a
Democratic Senator, they could have lost nothing.
But by their present folly they are doing
themselves infinite damage.
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