his views were Criticizing and slavery and personally insulted Andrew Pickens Butlers
On March 19,1856 Republican Senator Charles Sumner started a violent speech on the topic "The crime against Kansas". He attacked the pro-slavery establishment and parliamentary representatives in general but he addressed himself particularly against the old Senator Andrew Butler of South Carolina, who, some days before energetically sustained the Kansas had to be admitted in the Union as a slave State.
Indeed, Sumner's attitude and verbal attack against Butler were really excessive and, when the speech was over, the nephew of Butler, Honorable Preston Books,
seized by anger approached Sumner and hit him five or six time on the head with his walking stick, knocking him down bleeding and unconscious.
The happening contributed to worsen further on the tensions and enlarge the furrow already in being between North and South.
Balls.
Charles Sumner was fighting against the Kansas-Nebraska Act and Andrew Butler was one of the authors of this act.
bleeding Texas I think
Charels SumnerSenator Charles Sumner
Charles Sumner
He favored the free-soil constitution of Kansas.
The increasing political conflict between North and South.Congressman Preston Brooks from South Carolina attacked Senator Charles Sumner with his walking cane, at Sumner's desk in the Senate because of a speech Sumner made that blamed Southerners for the pro slavery violence in Kansas. Sumner was beaten and defaced so badly that he did not return back to Senate for three years. When news spread of this event, Southerners supplied Brooks with many replacement walking canes.
The increasing political conflict between North and South ~Apex
The increasing political conflict between North and South. (Apex)
Charles A. Sumner died in 1903.
Charles A. Sumner was born in 1835.
Charles Sumner.