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Title: The New England magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: Boston : (New England Magazine Co.)
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ratic Senator, though practi-cally challenged thereto, would movefor a committee of investigation, andwhen, on the motion of Mr. Sewardof New York, a committee of five wasappointed to inquire into the assaultand report, that committee consistedof five Democrats, three of them fromNorthern States. Their report wasthat the Senate had no jurisdiction.Mr. Wilson, Senator Sumners col-league, characterized the outrage infitting terms on the floor of the Senate,and was challenged by Brooks. Thischallenge he declined, as one who wasopposed to dueling, at the same timeannouncing that he believed in theprinciple of self-defense, and for sometime he went armed. In the House of Representatives,however, Massachusettts had a mem-ber who believed in the duello, AnsonBurlingame, born in New Berlin,N. Y., November 14, 1820, graduateof the University of Michigan in 1843,and familiar with the sports and huntswhich were a part of every youngwesterners training, came to theHarvard Law School from which he
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THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN MASSACHUSETTS 511 graduated in 1846. He was a youngman of pleasing address, winningmanners, and a taking public speaker;though at first his oratory bord:redupon the florid. He formed the ac-quaintance of and married a younglady of Cambridge, the daughter ofthe Hon. Isaac Livermore of that city,and so made the East his home andopened a law office in Boston in which,as Warrington (Wm. S. Robinson)says, the clients he met were mostlythe young and enthusiastic Free Soilersof those days. Burlingame hadallied himself with the Free Soil Partyin 1848, and was the popular oratoramong its young speakers. While effect-ive upon the platform before averagecountry town audiences, he was ratheraverse to the harder lines of politicalwork. One of his intimates said of him,comparing him with Henry Wilson, Burlingame never gets up, and Wilsonnever goes to bed. In 1852 he wasa member of the Massachusetts Senate,and in the fall of that year the FreeSoil candidate for Congress, in t

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