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
Yes he did. He had three. John Charles Fremont, Elizabeth Benton Fremont, and Francis Preston Fremont.
Charles sumnerIn the mind of Brooks, Sumner had violated some code of honor which should be avenged by fighting a duel. But Brooks felt that Sumner, by attacking Butler when he was home recuperating and not present in the Senate, had shown himself not to be a gentlemen deserving of the honor of dueling. Brooks thus reasoned that the proper response was for Sumner to be beaten, with a whip or a cane.
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 SouthRead more: How_did_charles_sumners_views_on_bleeding_kansas_create_conflict
He was born in 1722 the same year as sam Adams
Charles Robert Swart was the last Governor-General of the Union of South Africa and became the first President of the Republic of South Africa from the date of its creation. Source: pages 157-165 Suid-Afrikaanse Geskediedenis in Beeld by Antony Preston - Bison Books Ltd, Kimbolton House 117A Fulham Rd, London SW3 6RL under the original title "Pictorial History of Southern Africa" 1989
(CongressMan Preston Brooks)
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Charles Preston died in 1800.
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Charles Preston Wickham was born in 1836.
Charles Preston Wickham died in 1925.
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Sumner gave an antislavery speech in Congress. In this speech, Sumner insulted a Senator from South Carolina. Preston Brooks, a relative of the congressman, heard of this and went to Sumner and beat him with a cane until he passed out.
Preston Brooks, of South Carolina. Its little understood today that there was a meaning to the method of Brook's assault. Brooks beat Sumner with a cane. If Brooks had considered Sumner to be a "gentleman", he would have challenged Sumner to a duel. By simply attacking and beating him he was saying that Sumner was not a gentleman, and did not deserve the respect one should accord a gentleman.
Preston Brooks was the name of a Democratic Representative who served the state of South Carolina from 1853 until he died in 1857. He was an advocate of slavery and was well known for an incident in which he beat up Senator Charles Sumner using a cane in 1956.