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1 Charles Sumner, He, Being Dead, Yet Speaketh: Charles Sumner's Explanation in Reply to an Assault [i] (1878)

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He, being Dead, yet Speaketh.


CHARLES SUMNER'S


EXPLANATION IN REPLY TO


AN


                  ASSAULT.







A SPEECH PREPARED FOR THE UNITED STATES SENATE,

                   MARCH, 1871.






          Poor ic he fights, if that be fighting, w here
          He only cudgels and I only bear.
          He stands and bids me stand : I niust abide
          For he's the stronger, and is drunk beside.
                 JUVENAL, Sat. III.  . 273-277, Dryden's Version.








                   BOSTON:
      LEE  AND   SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS.
                    NEW YORK :
              CHARLES T. DILLINGHAM.
                       1s78.


Reproduced with permission from the University of Illinois at Chicago

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