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I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.
Preston Brooks
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Preston Brooks
Age: 37 †
Born: 1819
Born: August 6
Died: 1857
Died: January 27
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