You think today’s Congress is splintered on a partisan basis? It ain’t nothing compared to the atmosphere before the Civil War. We were just talking with a friend about the time that Congressman ...
Senate Representative Preston Brooks caning Senator Charles Sumner for his speech on "The Crime Against Kansas" is an event that showed how polarized the nation had become over slavery. An event that ...
In 1856, Charles Sumner (Massachusetts senator, 1851-1874) was beaten viciously, on the floor of the Senate, by Rep. Preston Brooks of South Carolina, because of Sumner's unrelenting opposition to ...
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