Sumner Caning Incident

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	Sumner Caning A Constitutional Caning. Cleveland Plain Dealer Cleveland, Ohio 6-11-1856 Democratic Brooks declares that, as the constitution provides that no member of either House of Congress shall be held responsible for words spoken in debate, that it would have been to have caned Sumner anywhere else than the place designated by the Constitution.
	Sumner Caning A Lie upon its Face. Cleveland Plain Dealer Cleveland, Ohio 5-29-1856 Democratic Senator Sumner has floored himself much worse than Brooks did by the following foolish and false attempt to drag Senator Douglas into personal difficulty with Brooks.
	Sumner Caning A New Era. Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 5-29-1856 Democratic Was the like of this ever before published in a newspaper in South Carolina?
	Sumner Caning A NORTHERN FREE REPUBLIC: STAND BY THE UNION. Boston Post Boston, Massachusetts 6-3-1856 Democratic Madness rules the hour, in nullification-ridden Massachusetts.
	Sumner Caning All the Courtesy.-- Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 5-30-1856 Republican The South boasts all the Chivalry:
	Sumner Caning An Atrocious Speech and a Disgraceful Assault. Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 5-23-1856 Democratic It was an atrocious speech. But its atrocity did not warrant the personal assault upon him by a South Carolina member of the House of Representatives.
	Sumner Caning Another Richmond in the Field. Cleveland Plain Dealer Cleveland, Ohio 5-26-1856 Democratic Senator Sumner is the man for Fusion Candidate for President.
	Sumner Caning As We Knew He Must. Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 5-28-1856 Republican The Statesman has at last spoken.
	Sumner Caning Assault in the United States Senate Chamber. Illinois State Register Springfield, Illinois 5-26-1856 Democratic Sumner's speech, surpassed in blackguardism anything ever delivered in the senate.
	Sumner Caning Assault in the United States Senate Chamber. Illinois State Register Springfield, Illinois 5-26-1856 Democratic Sumner's speech, surpassed in blackguardism anything ever delivered in the senate.
	Sumner Caning Assault upon Mr. Sumner. Daily Patriot Concord, New Hamphire 5-28-1856 Democratic Sumner's speech was of such a character as to provoke the result which has followed
	Sumner Caning Attack on Mr. Sumner. Boston Daily Bee Boston, Massachusetts 5-23-1856 American An outrage so gross and villianous was neverbefore committed within the walls of the Capitol.
	Sumner Caning Brooks and Sumner. Mobile Daily Register Mobile, Alabama 6-6-1856 Democratic Greeley and his crowd are sharply ridiculous in their remarks, and their attempt to make political capital out of it, is so palpable, as to destroy, in a great measure, the effect of the venom they spit forth.
	Sumner Caning BROOKS AND SUMNER. Carolina Spartan Spartanburg, South Carolina 5-29-1856 Democratic Few in South Carolina will withhold applause from Col. Brooks for his castigation of a man who to a foul tongue adds the crime of perjury.
	Sumner Caning CAPT. BROOKS' CASTIGATION OF SENATOR SUMNER. Edgefield Advertiser Edgefield, South Carolina 5-28-1856 Democratic we have borne insult long enough, and now let the conflict come if it must.
	Sumner Caning Club Law in the Senate! Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 5-23-1856 Republican Read the telegraphic despatches from Washington.
	Sumner Caning COL. BROOKS AND SUMNER Yorkville Enquirer Yorkville, South Carolina 5-29-1856 Democratic If ever a high-minded man can be justified in promptly resenting insult and injury, surely Col. Brooks will receive from the people of his own State, at least, the mead of a most cordial approval.
	Sumner Caning Congress and the Sumner Assault. Sun Baltimore, Maryland 5-28-1856 American Let the root of the evil be aimed at, by a prompt and determined "call to order" immediately on the first digression from the proper parliamentary discourse, and we may then escape any more such scenes as disgrace the body and tend to provoke violence.
	Sumner Caning Congressional Bullyism. Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinois 6-2-1856 Republican All, without regard to political affinities execrate and denounce the assault upon Senator Sumner by Mr. Brooks of South Carolina, as cowardly and unwarrantable.
	Sumner Caning CONGRESSIONAL RUFFIANISM. Albany Evening Journal Albany, New York 5-24-1856 Republican Mr. Sumner was writing unsuspectingly and busily at his desk when attacked by Brooks.
	Sumner Caning Congressional. Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinois 6-16-1856 Republican Senator Butler concluded his remarks, in reply to Mr. Sumner'sspeech, by claiming he had convicted Sumner of error, misrepresentation and calumny.
	Sumner Caning Congressman Brooks' Assault on Senator Sumner. Vermont Patriot & State Gazette Montpelier, Vermont 5-30-1856 Democratic The remarks made by Mr. Sumner, which provoked this assault, were malignant and insulting beyond anything ever uttered in coolness upon the floor of the Senate.
	Sumner Caning Exciting Debate in the Senate -- Senator Sumner Whipped! Weekly North Carolina Standard Raleigh, North Carolina 5-28-1856 Democratic It was a speech full of abuse of his brother Senators -- full of the vilest and most dangerous appeals against the domestic institutions of the South, and calculated only to increase the strife between the two sections and lead to disunion and civil war.
	Sumner Caning Freedom in Debate. Locomotive Indianapolis, Indiana 5-23-1856 Democratic Freedom of speech should be guarantied to all public men in debate on public questions
	Sumner Caning From the St. Louis Evening News: A Difference of Opinions Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinois 6-7-1856 Republican On the whole the Mercury concludes that the negro demonstration is a "spectacle as disgusting as it is novel -- offensive to every sentiment of South Carolina society, and calculated to bring ridicule and disgrace upon the whole movement." We think so, too.
	Sumner Caning Is the Kick Waited for? Portland Advertiser Portland, Maine 6-6-1856 Republican The manner in which the deed has been defended in Congress and its perpetrator so shamefully applauded by the Southern press, has strengthened and prolonged the indignant response of our people.
	Sumner Caning Justifying Club Law Daily Pittsburgh Gazette Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 6-11-1856 Republican the club is to be the substitute for debate
	Sumner Caning LIBERTY OF SPEECH, OF THE PRESS, AND FREEDOM OF RELIGION. Richmond Enquirer Richmond, Virginia 6-3-1856 Democratic A community of Abolitionists could only be governed by a penitentiary system. They are as unfit for liberty as maniacs, criminals, or wild beasts.
	Sumner Caning Meeting at Brooklyn.-- Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 6-4-1856 Republican The indignation meeting held at Brooklyn was an ovation: The Mayor presided.
	Sumner Caning Messrs. Brooks and Sumner. Sun Baltimore, Maryland 5-15-1856 American These two gentlemen have all at once become prominent characters and objects of public sympathy in their respective sections of country.
	Sumner Caning Messrs. Sumner and Brooks. Republican Banner Nashville, Tennessee 5-27-1856 American His assault upon Mr. S., a member of the Senate, upon the floor of the Senate, was a great outrage upon that body, and cannot be justified or excused.
	Sumner Caning More of It. Sun Baltimore, Maryland 6-9-1856 American Senator Wilson, in a speech at Worcester said, that when he and others were conveying Mr. Sumner to his lodgings, Mr. S. remarked: "I shall give it to them again if God spares my life.
	Sumner Caning MOST RIDICULOUS. Republican Banner Nashville, Tennessee 6-6-1856 American We copy the following from the Charleston Mercury:
	Sumner Caning Mr. Brooks's Letter to the Senate Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 6-6-1856 Democratic We copy below the letter of Mr. BROOKS, addressed to the President of the Senate
	Sumner Caning No Title. Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinios 6-21-1856 Republican [pointing finger] P.S.Brooks is talked of as the next Democratic candidate for Governor of South Carolina. And on the same principle, we presume, that Herbert will be the next Democratic candidate for Governor of California.
	Sumner Caning No Title. Louisville Journal Louisville, Kentucky 5-28-1856 American It is monstrous that a member of the House of Representatives should beat a Senator upon the floor of the Senate for a speech made in the Senate
	Sumner Caning No Title. Louisville Journal Louisville, Kentucky 6-5-1856 American The course of a portion of the Southern press is no less reprehensible in applauding the brutal and deadly assault of Brooks upon the person of a United States Senator upon the floor of the Senate chamber.
	Sumner Caning No Title. Boston Atlas Boston, Massachusetts 5-23-1856 Republican the mouths of the representatives of the North are to be closed by the use of bowie-knives, bludgeons, and revolvers.
	Sumner Caning No Title. Boston Atlas Boston, Massachusetts 5-24-1856 Republican The Boston Courier did not see fit to join yesterday morning in the unqualified rebuke which the assault upon Mr. Sumner elicited from almost every Boston newspaper.
	Sumner Caning No Title. Boston Atlas Boston, Massachusetts 6-3-1856 Republican the Democratic party has kindled its flames; that if fanaticism has taken a new lease of life, that life was breathed into it by Pierce and Douglas and their fellow conspirators
	Sumner Caning No Title. Boston Post Boston, Massachusetts 5-24-1856 Democratic The free soil politicians are prompt in their endeavors to make party capital out of this affair.
	Sumner Caning No Title. Portland Advertiser Portland, Maine 6-4-1856 Republican The fault was not with our citizens, but with those who directly and indirectly lent their countenance to the ruffianly conduct of Brooks.
	Sumner Caning No Title. Semi-weekly Raleigh Register Raleigh, North Carolina 6-6-1856 American in censuring the attack, let not the cause be forgotten
	Sumner Caning No Title. Daily Herald Wilmington, North Carolina 5-26-1856 American he has yet given a good handle for the Northern people to seize, in denunciation of his course, and deprived the South of the opportunity of justification
	Sumner Caning No Title. Albany Evening Journal Albany, New York 5-31-1856 Republican As there have been political crimes in all ages, so there have been in all ages Doughfaces to defend them.
	Sumner Caning No Title. Albany Evening Journal Albany, New York 6-5-1856 Republican they take upon themselves the unnecessary odium of being the opponents of Freedom of Debate.
	Sumner Caning No Title. New York Times New York, New York 5-23-1856 Republican The most fastidious reader will search in vain for anything which could give the slightest color of just provocation for the brutal outrage of Brooks.
	Sumner Caning No Title. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 5-23-1856 Republican No meaner exhibition of Southern cowardice -- generally miscalled Southern chivalry -- was ever witnessed.
	Sumner Caning No Title. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 5-24-1856 Republican a more vivid, if not a wholly original perception, of the degradation in which the Free States have consented for years to exist.
	Sumner Caning No Title. Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 5-23-1856 Republican [Pointing Finger] The telegraphic despatches to-day will be read with interest.
	Sumner Caning No Title. Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 5-24-1856 Republican [Pointing Finger] The reader will not fail to look at the Telegraphic head for the latest news from Washington.
	Sumner Caning No Title. Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 5-26-1856 Republican [Pointing Finger] Our exchanges are teeming with accounts of the state of affairs at Washington and in Kansas, and commentaries thereon.
	Sumner Caning No Title. Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 5-27-1856 Republican [Pointing Finger] The Louisville Journal speaks of the disgraceful outrage in the Senate chamber in a spirit of just condemnation, although it thinks Mr. Sumner ought to be punished "for his incendiary harangues."
	Sumner Caning No Title. Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 6-2-1856 Republican [Pointing Finger] If one thing more than another demonstrates the character of the man and the nature of the attack on Senator Sumner by Brooks, it is this -- that he could steal up unsuspectingly and attack his victim, whom he knew to be unarmed, for words spoken in debate, no way applying to him; but resorted to a challenge with Wilson, whom he knew would not accept, for words the most opprobrious directly applied to himself -- and why?
	Sumner Caning No Title. Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 6-2-1856 Republican The committee on Federal Relations in the Connecticut Legislature, recently reported the following resolutions for the consideration of the two Houses of the General Assembly, viz.:
	Sumner Caning No Title. Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 6-13-1856 Republican [Pointing Finger] Senator Butler has been giving the Senate a specimen of his drivel, in reply to Mr. Sumner's speech.
	Sumner Caning No Title. Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 5-28-1856 Democratic SUMNER was well and elegantly whipped, and he richly deserved it.
	Sumner Caning No Title. Republican Banner Nashville, Tennessee 6-4-1856 American They speak of Sumner as a martyr to the Freesoil sentiment of the North.
	Sumner Caning No Title. Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinios 6-3-1856 Republican Brooks declares upon his honor as a gentleman that he had no coajutor in his achievement in the Senate the other day.
	Sumner Caning Political "Non Sequiturs." Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinois 6-13-1856 Republican Mr. Sumner has the mark of Cain on his brow but it don't follow that he was Abel to defend himself.
	Sumner Caning Possuming. Richmond Daily Whig Richmond, Virginia 5-31-1856 American the Abolition wretch, with his Abolition physicians as accomplices in the trick, is playing possum.
	Sumner Caning Public Approval of Mr. Brooks. South Carolinian Columbia, South Carolina 5-27-1856 Democratic Meetings of approval and sanction will be held, not only in Mr. Brooks' district, but throughout the State at large, and a general and hearty response of approval will re-echo the words, "Welldone," from Washington to the Rio Grande.
	Sumner Caning Quid Pro Quo. Cincinnati Daily Enquirer Cincinnati, Ohio 5-23-1856 Democratic Superficial and malevolent writers are attemptingto magnify Sumner into a martyr forfreedom and a victim of slavery.
	Sumner Caning Quid Pro Quo. Cincinnati Daily Enquirer Cincinnati, Ohio 5-27-1856 Democratic gentlemen everywhere will admit that Sumner's general tone was neither parliamentary nor gentlemanly
	Sumner Caning Remove the Capitol Daily Pittsburgh Gazette Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 5-27-1856 Republican The seat of the National government should be where freedom of speech can safely be tolerated
	Sumner Caning RESIGNATION OF BROOKS AND KEITT. Carolina Spartan Spartanburg, South Carolina 7-24-1856 Democratic These gallant gentlemen have done nothing justifying the action of the House, and their constituents will send them back strengthened to battle with the hosts of Black Republicanism
	Sumner Caning Ruffianism at Washington. Buffalo Morning Express and Daily Democracy Buffalo, New York 5-24-1856 Republican The truth is, that slavery, with its southern chivalry and northern doughfaceism, found more than a match in the oratorical powers of Sumner. They had not the ability to cope with him in debate.
	Sumner Caning Ruffianism in Congress. Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinois 5-23-1856 Republican Can the north no longer raise her voice in the halls of Legislation, without being outraged and insulted?
	Sumner Caning Senator Wilson and Brooks. Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinois 6-4-1856 Republican Every one here thought when the stand takenby Senator Wilson was made known that a rencontrewould be the immediate consequence
	Sumner Caning Sermons in Brooks. Portland Advertiser Portland, Maine 6-3-1856 Republican Slavery shows its paternity of the deed by its thorough ratification.
	Sumner Caning South Carolina. Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinois 6-5-1856 Republican The only men in South Carolina who gave their efforts to the country in the Revolutionary war, were poor men, and poor men in South Carolina at this time are denied the right of sufferage, and are incapable of holding office.
	Sumner Caning Sumner and Brooks -- Louisville Journal Louisville, Kentucky 5-24-1856 American A pitched battle has long been raging between the champions of those two States, and generally the harshest and most offensive language has come from the South Carolinians
	Sumner Caning SUMNER CANED BY COL. BROOKS Patriot and Mountaineer Greenville, South Carolina 5-29-1856 Democratic he was abusive of Judge BUTLER and Judge DOUGLAS, and denounced all slaveholders as criminals!
	Sumner Caning Sumner in his Seat. Cleveland Plain Dealer Cleveland, Ohio 6-10-1856 Democratic We see that Senator Sumner is not only in his seat but is engaged in debate with Senator Douglas and others.
	Sumner Caning Sumner's Plagiarism. Cleveland Plain Dealer Cleveland, Ohio 6-17-1856 Democratic We are unprepared to say that a man should be cudgeled over the head for the gross crime of plagiarism, but we believe it is a pretty good rule in the old-fashioned schools to give a youth a good licking for that offence.
	Sumner Caning Supremacy of the Law Boston Post Boston, Massachusetts 5-29-1856 Democratic personal violence is of akin to that higher-lawism Which has been so long urged by fanaticism.
	Sumner Caning The Assault in the Senate. Sun Baltimore, Maryland 5-24-1856 American It is seldom, perhaps, that a more general feeling of disapprobation has been felt and expressed in regard to a circumstance of the kind, than is called forth on all hands by the outrage and descration commited by the Hon. Mr. Brooks, of S. C., in his recent assault upon Senator Sumner, in the Senate Chamber, on Thursday last.
	Sumner Caning The Assault on Hon. W. T. Butler. State Gazette Austin, Texas 6-14-1856 Democratic The most serious offence committed in the American Senate, and one which must be promptly rebuked, is the slanderous and dastardly attack upon the South and one of her proudest patriots, by Sumner, the abolitionist leader in the Senate.
	Sumner Caning THE ASSAULT ON MR. SUMNER. Boston Atlas Boston, Massachusetts 5-24-1856 Republican never before has the sanctity of the Senate Chamber been violated
	Sumner Caning The Assault on Senator Sumner a Pre - Meditated Affair. Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinois 5-27-1856 Republican It seems that the assault upon Senator Sumner, among the Nebraska men, was a pre-meditated affair, and Senator Douglas was doubtless its principal instigator.
	Sumner Caning The Attack on Mr. Sumner.-- Daily Pittsburgh Gazette Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 5-24-1856 Republican If Southern men will resort to the fist to overawe and intimidate Northern men, blow must be given back for blow. Forbearance and kindly deportment are lost upon these Southern ruffians.
	Sumner Caning The Attack on Senator Sumner. Portland Advertiser Portland, Maine 5-24-1856 Republican We hope, for the credit of humanity, that every man in the Free States, without regard to party, will feel this outrage as a personal indignity, no less than an insult to the Free States.
	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 Brooks and Sumner difficulty. Federal Union Milledgeville, Georgia 6-3-1856 Democratic We believe there are some kinds of slander and abuse, for the perpetration of which, no office or station should protect a man from deserved punishment.
	Sumner Caning THE BROOKS MEETING. Laurensville Herald Laurensville, South Carolina 6-6-1859 Democratic The first has been struck, which will be felt keener and longer than all the arguments and warnings ever used in Congress by Southern members
	Sumner Caning The Expulsion of Brooks. Richmond Daily Whig Richmond, Virginia 6-7-1859 American A member of Congress may say what he pleases in his place; but if he publishes his speech, he becomes amenable to the law of libel or the cudgel
	Sumner Caning THE FRACAS IN THE SENATE. Carolina Spartan Spartanburg, South Carolina 6-5-1856 Democratic Intense excitement continues at the North, and the negro worshippers are forging capital from the original occurrence.
	Sumner Caning The Meeting in New York.-- Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 6-2-1856 Republican The meeting on Friday evening, at the Tabernacle, to give expression to the feelings of the commercial capital of the Nation on the outrage at Washington, is among the occurrences of the day to be noted.
	Sumner Caning The Meeting To-Morrow Evening. Albany Evening Journal Albany, New York 6-5-1856 Republican The assault upon Senator Sumner was a National outrage.
	Sumner Caning The News. Portland Advertiser Portland, Maine 5-23-1856 Republican How long will the people of the Free States tamely submit to such outrages?
	Sumner Caning The Post and Mr. Sumner Daily Pittsburgh Gazette Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 5-26-1856 Republican when even Southern papers denounce the attack as atrocious, the Pittsburgh Post, alone among all the papers of the free States, hastes to the defence of Mr. Brooks and justifies his brutal and unmanly assault upon Mr. Sumner.
	Sumner Caning The Privileges of the Senate Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 6-9-1856 Democratic Precedent is the mask which tyranny wears when it strikes its deadliest blows.
	Sumner Caning The Progress of the Revolution. Richmond Daily Whig Richmond, Virginia 6-4-1859 American To speak of feeling an insult as a wound would be to them an unintelligible jargon.
	Sumner Caning The Provocation to the Assault. Portland Advertiser Portland, Maine 5-29-1856 Republican If you would see the sure and unmistakable evidences of MEAN souls, look at the semi-apologies made in some of the Northern administration papers
	Sumner Caning The Right View of the Subject Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 5-30-1856 Democratic The South certainly has become generally convinced that it is by hard blows, and not by loud blustering and insulting denunciation, that the sectional quarrel is to be settled.
	Sumner Caning The Ruffians in the Senate. Albany Evening Journal Albany, New York 5-23-1856 Republican For the first time has the extreme discipline of the Plantation been introduced into the Senate of the United States.
	Sumner Caning The Sumner Assault Sun Baltimore, Maryland 6-3-1856 American Mr. Brooks, of S. C., has been burned in effigy at Cambridge, Mass..
	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
	Sumner Caning The U. S. Senate. Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 6-6-1856 Republican Our leading papers, and letter-writers from Washington, are expressing great surprise and indignation at the action of the Senate on the breach of privilege committed on that body by the ruffianly assault on Sumner.
	Sumner Caning THE WASHINGTON DIFFICULTY. Laurensville Herald Laurensville, South Carolina 5-30-1859 Democratic we can only give our most hearty indorsement of the conduct of Mr. Brooks
	Sumner Caning True. Vermont Patriot & State Gazette Montpelier, Vermont 6-13-1856 Democratic no portion of our people seem to be so much pleased with the Sumner row and the Kansas troubles as our fusion abolitionists
	Sumner Caning Violence in the Senate Chamber. Sun Baltimore, Maryland 5-23-1856 American Scarcely a session of Congress passes in which the public ear is not abused with violence of some sort in one or other of the houses of Congress, or among the members elsewhere.
	Sumner Caning Wade in the Senate.-- Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 5-31-1856 Republican The passage on the floor of the Senate, in which Mr. Butler bore himself so courteously toward Mr. Wilson, and in which Mr. Toombs approved of mob law in regulating debate, has been sketched in our telegraphic dispatches.
	Sumner Caning Was it a Libel? Albany Evening Journal Albany, New York 5-24-1856 Republican The record of the Revolutionary Struggle shows that South Carolina's Slavery, weakened South Carolina
	Sumner Caning We Mean to Subdue You. Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinois 5-26-1856 Republican This outrage is of a piece with those in Kansas, with the additional merit of being bolder and having a more distinguished person for its victim.
	Sumner Caning Why don't they denounce? Cleveland Plain Dealer Cleveland, Ohio 5-28-1856 Democratic Why don't the Democrats denounce the ruffian Brooks?

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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Cleveland, Ohio
6-11-1856
Democratic
Brooks declares that, as the constitution provides that no member of either House of Congress shall be held responsible for words spoken in debate, that it would have been to have caned Sumner anywhere else than the place designated by the Constitution.

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A Lie upon its Face.

Cleveland Plain Dealer
Cleveland, Ohio
5-29-1856
Democratic
Senator Sumner has floored himself much worse than Brooks did by the following foolish and false attempt to drag Senator Douglas into personal difficulty with Brooks.

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A New Era.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
5-29-1856
Democratic
Was the like of this ever before published in a newspaper in South Carolina?

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A NORTHERN FREE REPUBLIC: STAND BY THE UNION.

Boston Post
Boston, Massachusetts
6-3-1856
Democratic
Madness rules the hour, in nullification-ridden Massachusetts.

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All the Courtesy.--

Ohio State Journal
Columbus, Ohio
5-30-1856
Republican
The South boasts all the Chivalry:

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An Atrocious Speech and a Disgraceful Assault.

Detroit Free Press
Detroit, Michigan
5-23-1856
Democratic
It was an atrocious speech. But its atrocity did not warrant the personal assault upon him by a South Carolina member of the House of Representatives.

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Another Richmond in the Field.

Cleveland Plain Dealer
Cleveland, Ohio
5-26-1856
Democratic
Senator Sumner is the man for Fusion Candidate for President.

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As We Knew He Must.

Ohio State Journal
Columbus, Ohio
5-28-1856
Republican
The Statesman has at last spoken.

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Assault in the United States Senate Chamber.

Illinois State Register
Springfield, Illinois
5-26-1856
Democratic
Sumner's speech, surpassed in blackguardism anything ever delivered in the senate.

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Assault in the United States Senate Chamber.

Illinois State Register
Springfield, Illinois
5-26-1856
Democratic
Sumner's speech, surpassed in blackguardism anything ever delivered in the senate.

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Assault upon Mr. Sumner.

Daily Patriot
Concord, New Hamphire
5-28-1856
Democratic
Sumner's speech was of such a character as to provoke the result which has followed

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Attack on Mr. Sumner.

Boston Daily Bee
Boston, Massachusetts
5-23-1856
American
An outrage so gross and villianous was neverbefore committed within the walls of the Capitol.

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Brooks and Sumner.

Mobile Daily Register
Mobile, Alabama
6-6-1856
Democratic
Greeley and his crowd are sharply ridiculous in their remarks, and their attempt to make political capital out of it, is so palpable, as to destroy, in a great measure, the effect of the venom they spit forth.

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BROOKS AND SUMNER.

Carolina Spartan
Spartanburg, South Carolina
5-29-1856
Democratic
Few in South Carolina will withhold applause from Col. Brooks for his castigation of a man who to a foul tongue adds the crime of perjury.

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CAPT. BROOKS' CASTIGATION OF SENATOR SUMNER.

Edgefield Advertiser
Edgefield, South Carolina
5-28-1856
Democratic
we have borne insult long enough, and now let the conflict come if it must.

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Club Law in the Senate!

Ohio State Journal
Columbus, Ohio
5-23-1856
Republican
Read the telegraphic despatches from Washington.

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COL. BROOKS AND SUMNER

Yorkville Enquirer
Yorkville, South Carolina
5-29-1856
Democratic
If ever a high-minded man can be justified in promptly resenting insult and injury, surely Col. Brooks will receive from the people of his own State, at least, the mead of a most cordial approval.

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Congress and the Sumner Assault.

Sun
Baltimore, Maryland
5-28-1856
American
Let the root of the evil be aimed at, by a prompt and determined "call to order" immediately on the first digression from the proper parliamentary discourse, and we may then escape any more such scenes as disgrace the body and tend to provoke violence.

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Congressional Bullyism.

Illinios State Journal
Springfield, Illinois
6-2-1856
Republican
All, without regard to political affinities execrate and denounce the assault upon Senator Sumner by Mr. Brooks of South Carolina, as cowardly and unwarrantable.

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CONGRESSIONAL RUFFIANISM.

Albany Evening Journal
Albany, New York
5-24-1856
Republican
Mr. Sumner was writing unsuspectingly and busily at his desk when attacked by Brooks.

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Congressional.

Illinios State Journal
Springfield, Illinois
6-16-1856
Republican
Senator Butler concluded his remarks, in reply to Mr. Sumner'sspeech, by claiming he had convicted Sumner of error, misrepresentation and calumny.

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Congressman Brooks' Assault on Senator Sumner.

Vermont Patriot & State Gazette
Montpelier, Vermont
5-30-1856
Democratic
The remarks made by Mr. Sumner, which provoked this assault, were malignant and insulting beyond anything ever uttered in coolness upon the floor of the Senate.

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Exciting Debate in the Senate -- Senator Sumner Whipped!

Weekly North Carolina Standard
Raleigh, North Carolina
5-28-1856
Democratic
It was a speech full of abuse of his brother Senators -- full of the vilest and most dangerous appeals against the domestic institutions of the South, and calculated only to increase the strife between the two sections and lead to disunion and civil war.

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Freedom in Debate.

Locomotive
Indianapolis, Indiana
5-23-1856
Democratic
Freedom of speech should be guarantied to all public men in debate on public questions

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From the St. Louis Evening News: A Difference of Opinions

Illinios State Journal
Springfield, Illinois
6-7-1856
Republican
On the whole the Mercury concludes that the negro demonstration is a "spectacle as disgusting as it is novel -- offensive to every sentiment of South Carolina society, and calculated to bring ridicule and disgrace upon the whole movement." We think so, too.

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Is the Kick Waited for?

Portland Advertiser
Portland, Maine
6-6-1856
Republican
The manner in which the deed has been defended in Congress and its perpetrator so shamefully applauded by the Southern press, has strengthened and prolonged the indignant response of our people.

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Justifying Club Law

Daily Pittsburgh Gazette
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
6-11-1856
Republican
the club is to be the substitute for debate

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LIBERTY OF SPEECH, OF THE PRESS, AND FREEDOM OF RELIGION.

Richmond Enquirer
Richmond, Virginia
6-3-1856
Democratic
A community of Abolitionists could only be governed by a penitentiary system. They are as unfit for liberty as maniacs, criminals, or wild beasts.

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Meeting at Brooklyn.--

Ohio State Journal
Columbus, Ohio
6-4-1856
Republican
The indignation meeting held at Brooklyn was an ovation: The Mayor presided.

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Messrs. Brooks and Sumner.

Sun
Baltimore, Maryland
5-15-1856
American
These two gentlemen have all at once become prominent characters and objects of public sympathy in their respective sections of country.

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Messrs. Sumner and Brooks.

Republican Banner
Nashville, Tennessee
5-27-1856
American
His assault upon Mr. S., a member of the Senate, upon the floor of the Senate, was a great outrage upon that body, and cannot be justified or excused.

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More of It.

Sun
Baltimore, Maryland
6-9-1856
American
Senator Wilson, in a speech at Worcester said, that when he and others were conveying Mr. Sumner to his lodgings, Mr. S. remarked: "I shall give it to them again if God spares my life.

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MOST RIDICULOUS.

Republican Banner
Nashville, Tennessee
6-6-1856
American
We copy the following from the Charleston Mercury:

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Mr. Brooks's Letter to the Senate

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
6-6-1856
Democratic
We copy below the letter of Mr. BROOKS, addressed to the President of the Senate

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No Title.

Illinios State Journal
Springfield, Illinios
6-21-1856
Republican
[pointing finger] P.S.Brooks is talked of as the next Democratic candidate for Governor of South Carolina. And on the same principle, we presume, that Herbert will be the next Democratic candidate for Governor of California.

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No Title.

Louisville Journal
Louisville, Kentucky
5-28-1856
American
It is monstrous that a member of the House of Representatives should beat a Senator upon the floor of the Senate for a speech made in the Senate

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No Title.

Louisville Journal
Louisville, Kentucky
6-5-1856
American
The course of a portion of the Southern press is no less reprehensible in applauding the brutal and deadly assault of Brooks upon the person of a United States Senator upon the floor of the Senate chamber.

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No Title.

Boston Atlas
Boston, Massachusetts
5-23-1856
Republican
the mouths of the representatives of the North are to be closed by the use of bowie-knives, bludgeons, and revolvers.

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No Title.

Boston Atlas
Boston, Massachusetts
5-24-1856
Republican
The Boston Courier did not see fit to join yesterday morning in the unqualified rebuke which the assault upon Mr. Sumner elicited from almost every Boston newspaper.

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No Title.

Boston Atlas
Boston, Massachusetts
6-3-1856
Republican
the Democratic party has kindled its flames; that if fanaticism has taken a new lease of life, that life was breathed into it by Pierce and Douglas and their fellow conspirators

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No Title.

Boston Post
Boston, Massachusetts
5-24-1856
Democratic
The free soil politicians are prompt in their endeavors to make party capital out of this affair.

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No Title.

Portland Advertiser
Portland, Maine
6-4-1856
Republican
The fault was not with our citizens, but with those who directly and indirectly lent their countenance to the ruffianly conduct of Brooks.

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No Title.

Semi-weekly Raleigh Register
Raleigh, North Carolina
6-6-1856
American
in censuring the attack, let not the cause be forgotten

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No Title.

Daily Herald
Wilmington, North Carolina
5-26-1856
American
he has yet given a good handle for the Northern people to seize, in denunciation of his course, and deprived the South of the opportunity of justification

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No Title.

Albany Evening Journal
Albany, New York
5-31-1856
Republican
As there have been political crimes in all ages, so there have been in all ages Doughfaces to defend them.

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No Title.

Albany Evening Journal
Albany, New York
6-5-1856
Republican
they take upon themselves the unnecessary odium of being the opponents of Freedom of Debate.

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No Title.

New York Times
New York, New York
5-23-1856
Republican
The most fastidious reader will search in vain for anything which could give the slightest color of just provocation for the brutal outrage of Brooks.

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No Title.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
5-23-1856
Republican
No meaner exhibition of Southern cowardice -- generally miscalled Southern chivalry -- was ever witnessed.

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No Title.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
5-24-1856
Republican
a more vivid, if not a wholly original perception, of the degradation in which the Free States have consented for years to exist.

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No Title.

Ohio State Journal
Columbus, Ohio
5-23-1856
Republican
[Pointing Finger] The telegraphic despatches to-day will be read with interest.

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No Title.

Ohio State Journal
Columbus, Ohio
5-24-1856
Republican
[Pointing Finger] The reader will not fail to look at the Telegraphic head for the latest news from Washington.

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No Title.

Ohio State Journal
Columbus, Ohio
5-26-1856
Republican
[Pointing Finger] Our exchanges are teeming with accounts of the state of affairs at Washington and in Kansas, and commentaries thereon.

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No Title.

Ohio State Journal
Columbus, Ohio
5-27-1856
Republican
[Pointing Finger] The Louisville Journal speaks of the disgraceful outrage in the Senate chamber in a spirit of just condemnation, although it thinks Mr. Sumner ought to be punished "for his incendiary harangues."

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No Title.

Ohio State Journal
Columbus, Ohio
6-2-1856
Republican
[Pointing Finger] If one thing more than another demonstrates the character of the man and the nature of the attack on Senator Sumner by Brooks, it is this -- that he could steal up unsuspectingly and attack his victim, whom he knew to be unarmed, for words spoken in debate, no way applying to him; but resorted to a challenge with Wilson, whom he knew would not accept, for words the most opprobrious directly applied to himself -- and why?

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No Title.

Ohio State Journal
Columbus, Ohio
6-2-1856
Republican
The committee on Federal Relations in the Connecticut Legislature, recently reported the following resolutions for the consideration of the two Houses of the General Assembly, viz.:

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No Title.

Ohio State Journal
Columbus, Ohio
6-13-1856
Republican
[Pointing Finger] Senator Butler has been giving the Senate a specimen of his drivel, in reply to Mr. Sumner's speech.

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No Title.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
5-28-1856
Democratic
SUMNER was well and elegantly whipped, and he richly deserved it.

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No Title.

Republican Banner
Nashville, Tennessee
6-4-1856
American
They speak of Sumner as a martyr to the Freesoil sentiment of the North.

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No Title.

Illinios State Journal
Springfield, Illinios
6-3-1856
Republican
Brooks declares upon his honor as a gentleman that he had no coajutor in his achievement in the Senate the other day.

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Political "Non Sequiturs."

Illinios State Journal
Springfield, Illinois
6-13-1856
Republican
Mr. Sumner has the mark of Cain on his brow but it don't follow that he was Abel to defend himself.

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Possuming.

Richmond Daily Whig
Richmond, Virginia
5-31-1856
American
the Abolition wretch, with his Abolition physicians as accomplices in the trick, is playing possum.

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Public Approval of Mr. Brooks.

South Carolinian
Columbia, South Carolina
5-27-1856
Democratic
Meetings of approval and sanction will be held, not only in Mr. Brooks' district, but throughout the State at large, and a general and hearty response of approval will re-echo the words, "Welldone," from Washington to the Rio Grande.

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Quid Pro Quo.

Cincinnati Daily Enquirer
Cincinnati, Ohio
5-23-1856
Democratic
Superficial and malevolent writers are attemptingto magnify Sumner into a martyr forfreedom and a victim of slavery.

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Quid Pro Quo.

Cincinnati Daily Enquirer
Cincinnati, Ohio
5-27-1856
Democratic
gentlemen everywhere will admit that Sumner's general tone was neither parliamentary nor gentlemanly

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Remove the Capitol

Daily Pittsburgh Gazette
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
5-27-1856
Republican
The seat of the National government should be where freedom of speech can safely be tolerated

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RESIGNATION OF BROOKS AND KEITT.

Carolina Spartan
Spartanburg, South Carolina
7-24-1856
Democratic
These gallant gentlemen have done nothing justifying the action of the House, and their constituents will send them back strengthened to battle with the hosts of Black Republicanism

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Ruffianism at Washington.

Buffalo Morning Express and Daily Democracy
Buffalo, New York
5-24-1856
Republican
The truth is, that slavery, with its southern chivalry and northern doughfaceism, found more than a match in the oratorical powers of Sumner. They had not the ability to cope with him in debate.

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Ruffianism in Congress.

Illinios State Journal
Springfield, Illinois
5-23-1856
Republican
Can the north no longer raise her voice in the halls of Legislation, without being outraged and insulted?

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Senator Wilson and Brooks.

Illinios State Journal
Springfield, Illinois
6-4-1856
Republican
Every one here thought when the stand takenby Senator Wilson was made known that a rencontrewould be the immediate consequence

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Sermons in Brooks.

Portland Advertiser
Portland, Maine
6-3-1856
Republican
Slavery shows its paternity of the deed by its thorough ratification.

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South Carolina.

Illinios State Journal
Springfield, Illinois
6-5-1856
Republican
The only men in South Carolina who gave their efforts to the country in the Revolutionary war, were poor men, and poor men in South Carolina at this time are denied the right of sufferage, and are incapable of holding office.

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Sumner and Brooks --

Louisville Journal
Louisville, Kentucky
5-24-1856
American
A pitched battle has long been raging between the champions of those two States, and generally the harshest and most offensive language has come from the South Carolinians

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SUMNER CANED BY COL. BROOKS

Patriot and Mountaineer
Greenville, South Carolina
5-29-1856
Democratic
he was abusive of Judge BUTLER and Judge DOUGLAS, and denounced all slaveholders as criminals!

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Sumner in his Seat.

Cleveland Plain Dealer
Cleveland, Ohio
6-10-1856
Democratic
We see that Senator Sumner is not only in his seat but is engaged in debate with Senator Douglas and others.

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Sumner's Plagiarism.

Cleveland Plain Dealer
Cleveland, Ohio
6-17-1856
Democratic
We are unprepared to say that a man should be cudgeled over the head for the gross crime of plagiarism, but we believe it is a pretty good rule in the old-fashioned schools to give a youth a good licking for that offence.

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Supremacy of the Law

Boston Post
Boston, Massachusetts
5-29-1856
Democratic
personal violence is of akin to that higher-lawism Which has been so long urged by fanaticism.

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The Assault in the Senate.

Sun
Baltimore, Maryland
5-24-1856
American
It is seldom, perhaps, that a more general feeling of disapprobation has been felt and expressed in regard to a circumstance of the kind, than is called forth on all hands by the outrage and descration commited by the Hon. Mr. Brooks, of S. C., in his recent assault upon Senator Sumner, in the Senate Chamber, on Thursday last.

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The Assault on Hon. W. T. Butler.

State Gazette
Austin, Texas
6-14-1856
Democratic
The most serious offence committed in the American Senate, and one which must be promptly rebuked, is the slanderous and dastardly attack upon the South and one of her proudest patriots, by Sumner, the abolitionist leader in the Senate.

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THE ASSAULT ON MR. SUMNER.

Boston Atlas
Boston, Massachusetts
5-24-1856
Republican
never before has the sanctity of the Senate Chamber been violated

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The Assault on Senator Sumner a Pre - Meditated Affair.

Illinios State Journal
Springfield, Illinois
5-27-1856
Republican
It seems that the assault upon Senator Sumner, among the Nebraska men, was a pre-meditated affair, and Senator Douglas was doubtless its principal instigator.

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The Attack on Mr. Sumner.--

Daily Pittsburgh Gazette
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
5-24-1856
Republican
If Southern men will resort to the fist to overawe and intimidate Northern men, blow must be given back for blow. Forbearance and kindly deportment are lost upon these Southern ruffians.

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The Attack on Senator Sumner.

Portland Advertiser
Portland, Maine
5-24-1856
Republican
We hope, for the credit of humanity, that every man in the Free States, without regard to party, will feel this outrage as a personal indignity, no less than an insult to the Free States.

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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.

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The Brooks and Sumner difficulty.

Federal Union
Milledgeville, Georgia
6-3-1856
Democratic
We believe there are some kinds of slander and abuse, for the perpetration of which, no office or station should protect a man from deserved punishment.

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THE BROOKS MEETING.

Laurensville Herald
Laurensville, South Carolina
6-6-1859
Democratic
The first has been struck, which will be felt keener and longer than all the arguments and warnings ever used in Congress by Southern members

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The Expulsion of Brooks.

Richmond Daily Whig
Richmond, Virginia
6-7-1859
American
A member of Congress may say what he pleases in his place; but if he publishes his speech, he becomes amenable to the law of libel or the cudgel

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THE FRACAS IN THE SENATE.

Carolina Spartan
Spartanburg, South Carolina
6-5-1856
Democratic
Intense excitement continues at the North, and the negro worshippers are forging capital from the original occurrence.

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The Meeting in New York.--

Ohio State Journal
Columbus, Ohio
6-2-1856
Republican
The meeting on Friday evening, at the Tabernacle, to give expression to the feelings of the commercial capital of the Nation on the outrage at Washington, is among the occurrences of the day to be noted.

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The Meeting To-Morrow Evening.

Albany Evening Journal
Albany, New York
6-5-1856
Republican
The assault upon Senator Sumner was a National outrage.

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The News.

Portland Advertiser
Portland, Maine
5-23-1856
Republican
How long will the people of the Free States tamely submit to such outrages?

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The Post and Mr. Sumner

Daily Pittsburgh Gazette
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
5-26-1856
Republican
when even Southern papers denounce the attack as atrocious, the Pittsburgh Post, alone among all the papers of the free States, hastes to the defence of Mr. Brooks and justifies his brutal and unmanly assault upon Mr. Sumner.

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The Privileges of the Senate

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
6-9-1856
Democratic
Precedent is the mask which tyranny wears when it strikes its deadliest blows.

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The Progress of the Revolution.

Richmond Daily Whig
Richmond, Virginia
6-4-1859
American
To speak of feeling an insult as a wound would be to them an unintelligible jargon.

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The Provocation to the Assault.

Portland Advertiser
Portland, Maine
5-29-1856
Republican
If you would see the sure and unmistakable evidences of MEAN souls, look at the semi-apologies made in some of the Northern administration papers

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The Right View of the Subject

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
5-30-1856
Democratic
The South certainly has become generally convinced that it is by hard blows, and not by loud blustering and insulting denunciation, that the sectional quarrel is to be settled.

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The Ruffians in the Senate.

Albany Evening Journal
Albany, New York
5-23-1856
Republican
For the first time has the extreme discipline of the Plantation been introduced into the Senate of the United States.

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The Sumner Assault

Sun
Baltimore, Maryland
6-3-1856
American
Mr. Brooks, of S. C., has been burned in effigy at Cambridge, Mass..

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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

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The U. S. Senate.

Ohio State Journal
Columbus, Ohio
6-6-1856
Republican
Our leading papers, and letter-writers from Washington, are expressing great surprise and indignation at the action of the Senate on the breach of privilege committed on that body by the ruffianly assault on Sumner.

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THE WASHINGTON DIFFICULTY.

Laurensville Herald
Laurensville, South Carolina
5-30-1859
Democratic
we can only give our most hearty indorsement of the conduct of Mr. Brooks

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True.

Vermont Patriot & State Gazette
Montpelier, Vermont
6-13-1856
Democratic
no portion of our people seem to be so much pleased with the Sumner row and the Kansas troubles as our fusion abolitionists

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Violence in the Senate Chamber.

Sun
Baltimore, Maryland
5-23-1856
American
Scarcely a session of Congress passes in which the public ear is not abused with violence of some sort in one or other of the houses of Congress, or among the members elsewhere.

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Wade in the Senate.--

Ohio State Journal
Columbus, Ohio
5-31-1856
Republican
The passage on the floor of the Senate, in which Mr. Butler bore himself so courteously toward Mr. Wilson, and in which Mr. Toombs approved of mob law in regulating debate, has been sketched in our telegraphic dispatches.

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Was it a Libel?

Albany Evening Journal
Albany, New York
5-24-1856
Republican
The record of the Revolutionary Struggle shows that South Carolina's Slavery, weakened South Carolina

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We Mean to Subdue You.

Illinios State Journal
Springfield, Illinois
5-26-1856
Republican
This outrage is of a piece with those in Kansas, with the additional merit of being bolder and having a more distinguished person for its victim.

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Why don't they denounce?

Cleveland Plain Dealer
Cleveland, Ohio
5-28-1856
Democratic
Why don't the Democrats denounce the ruffian Brooks?

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