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"Resolved, That the recent outrage committed upon the person of the Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, by Preston S. Brooks, of South Carolina, a member of the House of Representatives, while said Sumner was sitting at his desk, in the Senate Chamber of the United States, was both cowardly and assassin-like, dastardly, mean and contemptible, [...] that while Mr. Sumner, in his affliction, has our warmest and most heartfelt sympathy, we leave the man Brooks with his blood-stained hands and steel-like heart to an enlightened public sentiment, which we believe will consign him to a tomb of everlasting infamy."

A meeting of Buffalo's Black citizens at the East Presbyterian Church, "on Sunday evening" (the paper gives no date; the card carries the Liberator's publication date), with Rev. J. A. Prime in the chair and George Weir, Jr. and Peyton Harris as secretaries. The resolutions speak in the meeting's own first person: "we the colored citizens of the city of Buffalo." The Sumner resolution sits among others on Kansas, and the same meeting rebuked the Free State men's Topeka Constitution for an article "prohibiting the emigration of free colored men" into Kansas. The omitted words say the act was worthy "not of an inhabitant of the Fejee Islands, but only of the source from which it emanated." Fragments joined with [...].

Read it in the original — The Liberator, June 27, 1856 (LoC scan) ↗

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"Resolved, That we, the colored citizens of Boston, regard the recent brutal, cowardly and murderous assault in the Senate chamber of the nation, upon our distinguished Senator, Charles Sumner—eminent alike for his eloquence, scholarship and philanthropy, not less than for his Christian statesmanship—with feelings of abhorrence and indignation."

A meeting of Boston's Black citizens in Rev. Mr. Grimes' church on Southac street, held "for the purpose of making a public expression of their indignation at the assault on Chas. Sumner" (the paper gives no date; the card carries the Liberator's publication date). Deacon Coffin Pitts presided. Robert Morris, Esq., Rev. Mr. Grimes, Mr. Robert Johnson, Rev. Mr. Hall and Dr. J. S. Rock spoke. The Liberator says "a series of resolutions offered by Dr. Rock, were passed" and prints only this one, so the card is bylined to the meeting that passed it. The same Liberator page carries the Buffalo meeting's resolutions.

Read it in the original — The Liberator, June 27, 1856 (LoC scan) ↗