[ Autograph ] Charles Sumner 1811-1874 American senator and a strident abolitionist, his vitriolic attacks on slavery on the Senate floor resulted in a vicious beating by South Carolina Rep. Preston R. Brooks. A.L.S. 1p. 8vo., Boston, Apr. 3, 1861 in which Sumner asks that action be delayed in the case of a Boston pension agent, as: '..Many good Republicans are anxious that he should not be disturbed... 'Matted, fine.