We understand that a very large meeting of the University of Virginia was held on Tuesday evening to take into consideration the recent attack of the Hon. Preston S. Brooks on Charles Sumner, in the U. S. Senate chamber.
Several very eloquent speeches were delivered, all of which fully approved the course of Mr. Brooks, and a resolution was passed, to purchase for Mr. B. a special can. The cane is to have a heavy gold head, which will be suitably inscribed, and also bear upon it a device of the human head, badly cracked and broken.—Petersburg Express.
SOURCE: Richmond Daily Whig, Richmond Virginia, Friday Morning, May 30, 1856, p. 4
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