may 22, 1856 - Sumner Brooks Affair -
Description:
- Republican Massachusetts anti-slavery candidate Charles Sumner gives inflammatory speech to Congress, widely hated by Democrats- South Carolina Democrat House of Representatives member Preston Brooks attacks Sumner with cane on Senate floor, seriously injuring him to the point of not returning to his post for 3 years (post left vacant as a testament to Southern cruelty)
- Breakdown of diplomacy in North-South relations
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Date:
may 22, 1856
Now
~ 169 years ago