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#OTD in 1856, Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts began a two-day speech on the floor of the Senate entitled “The Crime Against Kansas”, forcefully arguing for the admission of Kansas as a free state in which slavery would be illegal. #CivilWar🧵 ImageImage
He denounced slavery as well as the authors of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, including Sen. Andrew Butler of South Carolina, saying he had “chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows..who though polluted in the sight of the world is chaste in his sight—I mean the harlot, slavery.” ImageImageImage
Days later, Butler’s cousin, Rep. Preston Brooks, attacked Sumner on the floor of the Senate, beating him with a cane to avenge the honor of his cousin who he felt Sumner had insulted. The attack further polarized the pro- and anti-slavery factions leading up to the Civil War.
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