Disunion Feed

"The daily and hourly reports from Washington concerning the condition of Sumner, are all very strange and funny, and lead us to believe that the Abolition wretch, with his Abolition physicians as accomplices in the trick, is playing possum. [...] Now, for our part, we never have believed that Sumner was sufficiently hurt to make it necessary for him to take to his bed at all."

The injury-denial genre: Sumner as malingering fraud, his doctors as accomplices. (Sumner did not return to the Senate for three years.) The Whig's famous 'A glorious deed!' line could not be located in any fetchable primary this pass and is not used. Fragments joined with [...].

Read it in the original — Furman Secession Era Editorials transcription ↗

"In the main, the press of the South applaud the conduct of Mr. Brooks, without condition or limitation. Our approbation at least is entire and unreserved. We consider the act good in conception, better in execution, and best of all in consequences. [...] The truth is, they have been suffered to run too long without collars. They must be lashed into submission."

The most notorious Southern editorial of the crisis, and it survives through hostile amplification: Garrison reprinted it in full in The Liberator's 'Refuge of Oppression' column as evidence. The Enquirer's June 3 editorial (Furman) is a different piece reading 'lashed into obscurity'; McPherson's June 2 citation is confirmed by the reprint's attribution line. OCR-reconciled from the LoC scan.

Read it in the original — The Liberator reprint, June 13, 1856 (LoC scan) ↗