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Showing posts with label Brooks-Sumner Caning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brooks-Sumner Caning. Show all posts
Friday, July 22, 2022

A Good Deed — published May 23, 1856

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As will be seen by telegraph, Mr. Brooks, of South Carolina, after the adjournment of the Senate on yesterday, administered to Senator Sumne...

Mr. Sumner — published June 13, 1856

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Mr. Sumner is improving as fast as could be reasonably expected, after the very severe concussion his brain mug have suffered. The wounds of...
Thursday, July 21, 2022

Quizzing — published June 7, 1856

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The people of Worcester, Mass., have been made indignant at the reception of the following [telegraphic] despatch by the President of the “A...

The Late Case of Assault in the Senate Chamber — published June 7, 1856

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The report of the Hon. Howell Cobb and Hon. A. B. Greenwood, the minority of the committee of the House of Representatives, appointed to inv...
Sunday, July 17, 2022

A few days before he delivered his speech . . .

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 . . . Sumner wrote a letter to Theodore Parker, of which the following is an extract: “The tyranny over us is complete. Will the people s...

Mr. Sumner’s Condition — published June 5, 1856

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WASHINGTON, Thursday, May 29, 1856 Mr. Sumner is more comfortable this morning and the symptoms of erysipelas are subsiding. Drs. Perry, M...

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. ...
Saturday, July 9, 2022

We expressed our regret, that Mr. Brooks did not . . .

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 . . . give notice to Mr. Sumner of his intention to chastise him for his foul defamation of his absent kinsman and the people of his State....

Just as We Expected! — published June 4, 1856

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The Washington Star says that Sumner’s friends have been circulating false accounts about his condition. There has been no consultation of ...
Friday, July 8, 2022

Massachusetts Men to be Defended — published June 2, 1856

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BOSTON, May 30.—The American Council of Worcester has resolved, in case of the commission of any further outrages on Massachusetts men in Co...

The Assault on Mr. Sumner—Indignation Meeting In New York, published June 2, 1856

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NEW YORK, May 30.—A meeting was held this evening in the Tabernacle to express the indignation entertained at the assault on Senator Sumner....

Brooks and Wilson—Dueling, Street-Fights, or Personal Abuse, published June 2, 1856

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The New York Courier has the following dispatch: “WASHINGTON, THURSDAY NIGHT. Mr. Brooks, by Mr. Lane of Oregon, sent today a note to Ge...

Fizzled Out — published June 2, 1856

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“Wilson has fizzled out, contrary to the expectations of his friends.” So writes the Herald correspondent at Washington, in respect to the n...

Sympathy For Sumner — published June 2, 1856

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NEW YORK, June 1.—A very large meeting was held in Brooklyn last night, denunciatory of the assault on Senator Sumner. Spirited speeches wer...
Thursday, July 7, 2022

Cane For Mr. Brooks — published May 30, 1856

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We understand that a very large meeting of the University of Virginia was held on Tuesday evening to take into consideration the recent atta...

Mr. Sumner — published May 30, 1856

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WASHINGTON, May 29.—Hon. Mr. Brooks of S. C., sent a challenge to-day to Senator Wilson of Massachusetts, for having, in the Senate, charged...

Mr. Sumner — published May 28, 1856

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WASHINGTON. May 28.—A change has take place in Mr. Sumner’s condition, and he is now considered in a critical condition. SOURCE: Richmond ...

Sumner’s Blood Shirt Sent To Boston — published May 28, 1856

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This maltreated garment, we learn, has been conveyed by carful hands to Boston. In advance of the august ceremonies which doubtless will mar...

Investigation Of The Sumner Assault — published May 28, 1856

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We find the following in the Baltimore Papers. With regard the Sumner’s statement, we may remark that it disagrees, in important particulars...
Wednesday, July 6, 2022

Mr. Brooks Bailed — published May 27, 1856

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In compliance with the requisition of the warrant of Justice Hollinghead, the Hon. P. S. Brooks presented himself at the justice’s office at...