Speech of Preston S. Brooks, ON RESIGNING HIS SEAT IN CONGRESS. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Full text is unavailable for this digitized archive ...
On the floor of the United States Senate, Brooks beat Sumner with the gold head of his heavy cane as Sumner struggled to free himself from his desk. Finally, blinded by his own blood, Sumner ...
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Bleeding Kansas - John Brown - US HistorySenate 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 ...
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