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Death of Mr. Sumner.Hon. Charles Sumner, U. S. Senator from MossacbusotU, died at Washington City, on the 11th in it. He was sixty-three years old. Mr. Sumner never entirely recovered from the brutal attack made upon him by Bully Brooks, of South Carolina, in May, 186G. Whatever may be said of some of Mr. Sumner's political phases, it will not, we think, bo denied that he was a man of great talent and honesty of purpose. He was an ardent opponent of the extension of slavery, and dared to speak his sentiments boldly in relation to the institution, and for this right and free exercise of speech, he was brutally stricken down, and that act on the part of Brooks, and the justification or the act by the friends of slavery, did more than anything that had previously been done towards the final overthrow of slavery. Men who had previously been silent on the subject, seeing the arrogance of the slave power, and the determination of its friends to prevent—by brutal force—the right of free speech, took their stand among the friends of free institnUons, and against the spread of an institution that was shameful and disgraceful to the flag of our country.
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Washington Fayette County Herald
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Thu, Mar 19, 1874
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