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A key player in that strengthening was abolitionist Charles Sumner (1811-1874), the lanky, leonine senator from Massachusetts best known for his bloody caning at the hands of a pro-slavery Southerner, ...
If Congress today seems rife with friction, factions, fire, and fury, it’s nothing compared to the chambers’ disposition leading up to the Civil War. Abolitionist Republicans and pro-slavery Democrats ...
Beck Compares Rand Paul To 19th Century Senate Caning Victim, Predicts Launch Of ‘Historic Movement’
Glenn Beck delivered a veritable history lesson to his audience Monday night, telling the story of Charles Sumner‘s “Crime against Kansas” speech in 1856, which led to that Massachusetts senator ...
Charles Sumner is best known as the statesman caned within an inch of his life on the Senate floor for speaking against the expansion of slavery. Sumner counted among his friends Ralph Waldo Emerson, ...
I hate to break it to those mourning the loss of civility in politics, but it died a long time ago. For this week’s Throwback Thursday, I present to you the caning of Charles Sumner. On May 22, 1856, ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Betty Koed, a retired U.S. Senate historian, shared stories from her book "Scenes," including the 1856 caning of Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA). Betty ...
John Adams, a founder of the United States and its second president, privately expressed doubts that the republic would survive its own design flaws. Yet the Constitution, its blueprint, has proved ...
”Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation,” By Zaakir Tameez. Publisher: Holt, 629 pages. $29.59. John Adams, a founder of the United States and its second president, privately expressed doubts that the ...
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