The brutal and cowardly assault of Brooks upon Sumner was the counterpart of border ruffianism in Kansas, and perhaps did more to stir the blood of the people of the Northern States than any of the wholesale outrages thus far perpetrated in that distant border.
Julian draws a parallel between a violent incident in Congress and the violence occurring in Kansas, highlighting its impact on Northern sentiment.
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The case affords a strange commentary upon the principle of historic justice.
The tyranny of industrial domination, which borrows its life from the alliance of concentrated capital with labor-saving machinery, must be overthrown.
The legalized robbery now carried on in the name of Protection to American labor must be overthrown.
He carried his religion courageously into politics, and while arraigning slavery as the grand rebel, he also severely criticised the management of the war and the Border State policy of the President.
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