Republican U.S. Senator Charles Sumner (RMA)
is beaten nearly to death on floor of Senate by U.S. Rep. Preston Brooks (D-SC),
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.
In the pre-Civil War Period of America's history, the famous lawyer and orator and senator, also a "Republican Radical," who was savagely beaten on the Senate floor by a Southern senator was Charles Sumner (1811-1874). In 1856, having two days before given a passionate speech which criticized Southern slave-holding, Sumner was attacked by a congressman from South Carolina, Preston Brooks. While the attack left him with permanent damage, he convalesced and then returned to his mission of absolving the Union of slavery.
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at his desk in the senate building
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.
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.
Charles Sumner
at his desk in the senate building
Charles Sumner.
Preston Brooks believed he "offended" his family so their for a beating was the "proper punishment"
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In the Senate, after the end of the session of March 19,1856, by the the honourable Preston Brooks, as retaliation to the violent speech addressed by Sumner against Brooks uncle, the old South Carolina's Senator Andrew Butler. Indeed the verbal attack was aimed to censor the whole South, because of their politics about Kansas, of which Butler had only been chosen as a random target.