And that’s why Abe Lincoln won
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Well, it was actually before the Fremont election. But it also helped him - would have helped him more, if Fremont himself hadn't attacked a fellow Senator over an insult 5 years earlier.
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Yup. Brooks was taken over by the opposite of American ideals. Force over words.
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Using violence as political expression is a lesser theme in American political history. People decrying Brooks looked a Brown’s Potawatomi massacre as justified.
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Lord yes, but he was celebrated in South. My hometown renamed itself in his honor. Brooks was celebrated in South Carolina.
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At least the current Congress, as partisan as it is, hasn't devolved into actual physical assault on the floor. At least not yet.
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It was still the age of dueling, and people took things much more personally then than they do today. Sumner's speech a couple days before impugned a Brooks family member directly, and southern sensibilities generally. It's surprising no "satisfaction" was demanded by Brooks.
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Wasn't Sumner a pretty big dude, though?
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Isn’t that the attack where Preston later complained that he broke his walking stick when he attacked Sumner…so in response his constituents sent him hundreds of replacement canes!
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