Burlingame at once started on the journey; but Brooks declined to go, on the excuse that his life would not be safe on such a trip through the North. Broadened into national significance by all these attendant circumstances, the Sumner assault became a leading event in the great slavery contest between the South and North.

ANSON BURLINGAME From a photograph by William Shaw.

That body was deaf to all entreaties; but the President through Anson Burlingame in 1868 secured some new articles to the old Chinese treaty of 1858.