Senator Charles Summer was opposed to slavery. He was extremely vocal about it and outraged over the "Bleeding Kansas" situation. He insulted a Southern, Senator Butler. And in an act of revenge, Congressman Preston Brooks assaulted Summers in the Senate when few people were there. Summer was almost beaten to death and Brooks was never charged.
at his desk in the senate building
Republican U.S. Senator Charles Sumner (RMA) is beaten nearly to death on floor of Senate by U.S. Rep. Preston Brooks (D-SC),
Senator Charles Sumner was the Massachusetts representative. He wrote a speech against slavery and was beaten by Senator Preston Brooks when he read it to the other senators.
Senator Charles Sumner
Charles Sumner was caning while serving in the senate. He was caned at the Capitol.
Charles Sumner
Charles Summer
at his desk in the senate building
Charles Sumner.
Yes. Charles Sumner was a Radical Republican and abolitionist Senator from Massachusetts. One day, after giving an inflammatory speech against slavery, a Southern Senator beat Sumner with a cane while Sumner was sitting at his desk in the Senate chamber.
On May 22, 1856, abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner, a Free Soil senator from Massachusetts, was beaten with a cane on the Senate floor by Senator Preston Brooks, a Democrat from South Carolina. He needed three months to recuperate. Brooks resigned in July, was re-elected in August and again in the November regular election, but died of croup in January 1857.
Preston Brooks believed he "offended" his family so their for a beating was the "proper punishment"