The murderer’s brand shall stamp their foreheads, wherever they may wander in the earth.

Let him hear that every man of worth in New England loves his virtues,--that every mother thinks of him as the protector of families,--that every friend of Freedom thinks him the friend of Freedom.

And if our arms at this distance cannot defend him from assassins, we confide the defence of a life so precious to all honorable men and true patriots, and to the Almighty Maker of men.

Sumner, for such was the purpose--was concerted among Southern men, and that Brooks was but the base instrument by which the purpose was to be carried into effect.

Brooks responsible alone, but all those who combined with him to do this foul deed,--all those--and you will find there will be hosts in another section of the country--who will applaud the act, and profess to honor the man who was put…

And, Sir, if we consider it merely as a combination of slaveholders against our Senator, and nothing more, we shall not reach the magnitude of the question open for our consideration.

Look into the chamber where our own fellow-citizen, struck down without warning by the hand of brutal violence, lies prostrate, and think what fearful issues hang on the skill or incompetence of those who have his precious life in charge.

One little error, and the ignis sacer, the fiery plague of the wounded, spreads his angry blush over the surface, and fever and delirium are but the preludes of deadlier symptoms.

One slight neglect, and the brain, oppressed with the products of disease, grows dreamy, and then drowsy, its fine energies are palsied, and too soon the heart that filled it with generous blood is still forever.

At such a moment as this, more than at any other, we feel the dignity, the awful responsibility, of the healing art.

Let but that life be sacrificed, and left unavenged, and the wounds of that defenceless head, like the foul witch’s blow on her enchanted image, are repeated on the radiant forehead of Liberty herself, and flaw the golden circlet we had…

Charles Sumner needs not our sympathy: if he dies, his name will be immortal,--his name will be enrolled with the names of Warren, Sidney, and Russell; if he lives, he is destined to be the light of the nation.

It is your rare good fortune to be able to wear the martyr’s crown into the battle of life, and I really do not see how any true man can have any words for you but those of congratulation and of stern exultation.

The scoundrelly simpleton who struck you fled from the recoil of his weapon; but there will be a fiercer recoil from that blow, and a flowing of blood not so easily to be stanched.

In this season of our national degradation, it will be something, that, when Englishmen talk to me of their dead Miltons and Marvells and Hampdens and Sidneys, I can answer them with a living name, which, like these names, shall never…

I almost at once exclaimed, That blow will effect a revolution in our political relationship; yet I pray God that the Union may continue intact under its momentous influences.

You have, by your parliamentary demonstrations, evinced the heroism of the patriots of the earlier days of our Republic; you have stamped your Senatorial career with the impress of the loftiest intrepidity and moral courage.

On all grounds of reason, and waiving all questions of “positive” statute, the Vermont Judge was nobly right, when, rejecting the claim of a Slave-Master, he said, “No, not until you show a Bill of Sale from the Almighty.” Nothing short of…

Nothing but the direct intervention of Federal influence can force through Congress the Lecompton Constitution; and if the Government, with the sanction of the people, can force upon Kansas a Constitution conceived in fraud and violence…

Violence and fraud, if successful in this instance, will be repeated whenever occasion demands it.

The Senate Chamber of the United States has been already invaded, and this State was for a time bereft of a part of its representative power by an act of fearful wrong, committed upon the most cherished and brilliant of her sons, while in…

There shall thy weapon be kept, with the motto, ‘I hurled it.’ How hast thou hardened the living heart and quick feelings To stand up and speak the great spirit-dividing sentence,-- To stand, a mark for the thief and assassin to aim at!

More than our envy, more than thy hope, was thy guerdon, Setting the seal of thy blood to the word of thy courage!

If but the pure of heart in a pure cause should suffer, SUMNER, the task thou hast chosen was thine for its fitness.

Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.