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Bleeding Kansas... On the Preston Brooks beating of Charles Sumner...
Bleeding Kansas... On the Preston Brooks beating of Charles Sumner...
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May 28, 1856
NEW YORK TRIBUNE, May 28, 1856 Page 5 has: "Kansas Affairs" reporting on the troubles there relating to the slavery issue and whether Kansas would be a free or slave state.
There is also a very brief item from Albany at the bottom of the page: "Mormon Emigration" noting: "The emigrant train which left here today took 700 Mormon emigrants for Salt Lake City...".
But perhaps the most interesting report is that which takes 1 1/2 columns on page 3 concerning the Preston Brooks beating of Charles Sumner on the floor of the U.S. Senate several days prior.
On May 22, the Senate floor became a combat zone. In one of the most dramatic and deeply ominous moments in the Senate's entire history, a member of the House of Representatives entered the Senate Chamber and savagely beat Senator Charles Sumner into unconsciousness.
The inspiration for this clash came three days earlier when Sumner, a Massachusetts antislavery Republican, addressed the Senate on the explosive issue of whether Kansas should be admitted to the Union as a slave state or a free state. Much on this event can be found online.
Eight pages, nice condition.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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