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Showing posts with label Andrew Butler. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Andrew Butler. Show all posts
Friday, July 22, 2022

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

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. . . on Thursday, in reply to Mr. Sumner’s now famous speech, Senator Butler promised that he would do so in no spirit of recrimination, bu...
Sunday, July 17, 2022

The Sumner Assault—Mr. Brooks’ Letter — published June 4, 1856

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WASHINGTON, June 2.—The following is Mr. Brooks’ letter to the President of the Senate, referred to in the Senate proceedings of yesterday. ...
Wednesday, July 6, 2022

The assault by Mr. Brooks of S. C., upon Mr. Sumner, of Massachusetts . . .

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. . . is a theme of fruitful and indignant comment in the abolition papers of the North. The Bostonians are quite as furious as their forefa...
Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Senator Sumner Chastised by Mr. Brooks, of South Carolina — published May 23, 1856

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WASHINGTON, May 22.—Immediately after the adjournment of congress to-day, while Mr. Sumner of Mass., was still in the Senate Chamber, he was...
Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Speech of Senator Andrew Butler, March 2, 1854

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I wish to say one or two words at this point of the debate, and to bring the attention of the Senate distinctly to the issue made by the sen...
Saturday, May 26, 2018

Governor Salmon P. Chase to Senator Charles Sumner, June 20, 1859

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I send some papers by this mail. Columbus , June 20, 1859. I mark last Saturday with a white stone, for it brought me, dear Sumner,...