Caning of Charles Sumner - Wikipedia
The caning of Charles Sumner, or the Brooks–Sumner Affair, occurred on May 22, 1856, in the United States Senate chamber, when Representative Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery Democrat from South Carolina, used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner, an abolitionist Republican from Massachusetts.
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RMEY8RWD – Preston Smith Brooks, a fervent advocate of slavery, assaulting Senator Charles Sumner, an abolitionist, with a cane on the floor of the United States Senate, on May 22, 1856, in retaliation for an anti-slavery speech by Sumner in which the former verbally attacked Brooks' second cousin, Senator Andrew Butler. Preston Smith Brooks ...
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Illustration depicting Congressman Preston Brooks (1819-1857) from South Carolina attacking Senator Charles Sumner (1811-1874) with his walking cane, at Sumner's desk in the Senate because of a speech Sumner made that blamed Southerners for the proslavery violence in …
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2009年11月13日 · On May 19, Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner, an ardent abolitionist, began a two-day speech on the Senate floor in which he decried the “crime against Kansas” and blasted three of his...
Arguments of the chivalry - Library of Congress
The artist recreates the May 22 attack and severe beating of Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner by Representative Preston S. Brooks of South Carolina. Brooks's actions were provoked by Sumner's insulting public remarks against his cousin, Senator Andrew Pickens Butler, and against Illinois senator Stephen A. Douglas, delivered in the Senate ...
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Political cartoon showing South Carolina Representative Preston Brooks beating abolitionist and Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner in the Senate...
May 22, 1856: Preston Brooks Assaults Charles Sumner
2013年5月22日 · I'm sure many of you have seen this illustration, in which the featureless Preston Brooks, a congressman from South Carolina, batters Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner. The image, indeed, presents Brooks as whipping Sumner, much like …
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He gained particular fame in May 1856 when he was assaulted on the floor of the Senate by Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina, whose cousin, Senator Andrew P. Butler of South Carolina, Sumner had lambasted over southern efforts to …
Preston Brooks | Preston Smith Brooks (August 5, 1819 - Flickr
Preston Smith Brooks (August 5, 1819 – January 27, 1857) was a Democratic Representative from South Carolina, serving from 1853 until his death in 1857. Brooks was a fervent advocate of slavery. He is primarily remembered for severely beating Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, an abolitionist, with a cane on the floor of the United States Senate, on May 22, 1856. This was in ...