Man Beaten On Senate Floor Slavery

And in kansas news of the savage beating on the senate floor arrived by telegraph and inflamed passions even more.

Man beaten on senate floor slavery. Charles sumner r mass a fierce foe of slavery suffered major injuries when he was assaulted on the senate floor by rep. Senate chambers when a large nearly apparitional figure appeared behind him. The caning of charles sumner or the brooks sumner affair occurred on may 22 1856 in the united states senate when representative preston brooks a pro slavery democrat from south carolina used a walking cane to attack senator charles sumner an abolitionist republican from massachusetts in retaliation for a speech given by sumner two days earlier in which he fiercely criticized. On may 19 massachusetts senator charles sumner an ardent abolitionist began a two day speech on the senate floor in which he decried the crime against kansas and blasted three of his.

On this day in 1856 sen. Preston brooks beat a senator nearly to death on the floor of the u s. The speech sumner had given of course had been about kansas. Charles sumner was sitting at his desk in the u s.