Friday, July 22, 2022

In giving notice of his intention to speak in the Senate . . .

. . . on Thursday, in reply to Mr. Sumner’s now famous speech, Senator Butler promised that he would do so in no spirit of recrimination, but, while he should confine himself strictly within the record, he should avail himself of all legitimate parliamentary privileges to place in a proper point of view a subject which had been greatly mistaken, as well North and South

SOURCE: Richmond Daily Whig, Richmond Virginia, Friday Morning, June 13, 1856, p. 2

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