22 май 1856 г. - Sumner Brooks Affair -

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- 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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