On May 22, 1856, Preston Brooks entered the Senate chamber and repeatedly struck Charles Sumner in retaliation for a speech Sumner had made condemning slavery and insulting a South Carolina senator.
Sumner was so severely beaten he could not return to the Senate for years.
Brooks was fined for the assault (but not imprisoned), and the episode deepened sectional polarization leading up to the Civil War.
There was also another later incident: in June 1866, Representative Lovell Rousseau (then in Congress) attacked Representative Josiah B. Grinnell, striking him with a cane in the Capitol portico. Rousseau was later censured by the House for that assault.
Sumner was so severely beaten he could not return to the Senate for years.
Brooks was fined for the assault (but not imprisoned), and the episode deepened sectional polarization leading up to the Civil War.
There was also another later incident: in June 1866, Representative Lovell Rousseau (then in Congress) attacked Representative Josiah B. Grinnell, striking him with a cane in the Capitol portico. Rousseau was later censured by the House for that assault.
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@Crazywaterspring We’re not even close. The fact that Trump pardoned the Jan 6 insurrectionists who caused deaths yet threatened people for not "mourning" a monster like Charlie Kirk says it all.
Think Gillette will even be censured about calling for lynchings in 2025 ?
Neither do I. 🤬
Think Gillette will even be censured about calling for lynchings in 2025 ?
Neither do I. 🤬
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