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Sumner Caning

THE ATTACK UPON MR. SUMNER.

Boston Courier
Boston, Massachusetts
5-23-1856
Whig
The member from South Carolina transgressed every rule of honor which should animate or restrain one gentleman in his connections with another, in his ruffian assault upon Mr. Sumner. There is no chivalry in a brute. There is no manliness in a scoundrel.
Sumner Caning

The Sumner Assault.

Boston Courier
Boston, Massachusetts
5-26-1856
Whig
The object of the Atlas is to obtain personal and political capital from the occurrence at Washington