Caning of Charles Sumner
Politics -> Political Scandals ... from the research of Miles W. Mathis
Caning of Charles Sumner
May 22, 1856
Washington, D.C.
Representative Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery Democrat from South Carolina, used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner, an abolitionist Republican from Massachusetts. The attack was in retaliation for an invective-laden speech given by Sumner two days earlier in which he fiercely criticized slaveholders, including pro-slavery South Carolina Senator Andrew Butler, a relative of Brooks.
The Sumner Caning Was Fake
by Dennis H.
First published June 4, 2020
http://mileswmathis.com/sumner.pdf
NEW PAPER, added 6/8/20, The Sumner Caning Never Happened. An interesting paper for Civil War history buffs from a new guest writer.