As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good...
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Charles Sumner's Explanation In Reply To An Assault is a speech that was prepared by Charles Sumner for the United States Senate in March of 1871. The speech was delivered in response to an assault that had been made on Sumner by a fellow senator, Preston Brooks, in 1856. In...