Senator Charles Sumner
N 1856, South Carolina Representative Preston Brooks nearly killed Sumner on the Senate floor for ridiculing slaveowners as pimps in his vitriolic denunciation of the "Crime against Kansas."
N 1856, South Carolina Representative Preston Brooks nearly killed Sumner on the Senate floor for ridiculing slaveowners as pimps in his vitriolic denunciation of the "Crime against Kansas."
Senator Charles Sumner gave a speech that Preston Brooks strongly disagreed with. Brooks proceeded to come onto the senate floor and beat Senator Sumner with a cain until he was bloody and unconscious. After an outcry from the North, Brooks resigned is congressional seat, but was re-elected by his district. However, he died of croup before his next term began.
Brooks beat Summers with a cane after Summers criticized slave owners, supporters of slaves, and Preston's cousin. It took Summers months to recover.
Preston Brooks was for slavery. He was a staunch defender of the institution and was known for his violent defense of the practice, including his brutal caning of Senator Charles Sumner, an abolitionist, on the Senate floor in 1856.
Preston Brooks beat Sumner after Sumner made a speech in Senate about senators having sex with their slaves ( that's taboo) and called them out by name. Preston Brooks father-in-law was called out and Preston Brooks heard about it and walked from the House of Representatives and into the senate and beat Charles Sumner with his cane and sent him into a coma. No one helped Sumner. Brooks wasn't arrested. As a matter of fact supporters of Brooks sent him more canes to "keep up the good work".
Republican U.S. Senator Charles Sumner (RMA) is beaten nearly to death on floor of Senate by U.S. Rep. Preston Brooks (D-SC),
The correct name is Charles Sumner. The last name you have is the place were the first shot of the civil war was fired. Many people get the two mixed up, or think they are the same thing, so don't worry!:) The answer to your question is Preston Brooks who was the nephew of Andrew Butler.
When Charles Sumner (Georgia) beat George Brooks (Massachusetts) on the floor of the U.S. Senate with a silver tipped cane. The fight sparked the swelling animosity between the North and the South.
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.
A typical Confederate way of settling arguments, flouting the Rule of Law, making Congress seem redundant.
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