Posted on 05/22/2017 5:42:14 AM PDT by Bull Snipe
Representative Preston Brooks (D-SC.) beat Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA.) unconscious on the floor of the United states Senate.
Too bad that couldn’t happen today: Chucky, the Head Clown, would have a black eye or two. Maybe thats what needs to happen: Start beating these RATs with our fists.
No one at the time realized how close the Civil War was and how bloody it was going to be...
I’d pay, to see that on Pay-per-view.
LOL! Great mimes think alike.
“I read Charles Schumer...wishful thinking.”
Ditto, except Schumbag is already senseless.
Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara
“War war war. There isn’t going to be any war.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUzNiY0FgVE
Sumner had a biting wit, but he did not deserve the assault that Brooks delivered with a gutta percha cane with a gold head. Brooks also had the assistance of his friend Laurence Keitt, who used a pistol to keep anyone from assisting Sumner.
Sumner never completely recovered.
Brooks was fined $300 (15 ounces of gold at the time).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_of_Charles_Sumner
How about a reenactment on C-SPAN?
There are statues of Sumner in Massachusetts.
Democrats. Resorting to violence for over 150 years.
Biting wit? Where in that speech is any humor?
Sumner mocked Butler's speaking ability, which had been affected greatly by a recent stroke:
“[He] touches nothing which he does not disfigure with error, sometimes of principle, sometimes of fact. He cannot open his mouth, but out there flies a blunder.”
Leroy Pope Walker of Alabama was quoted as saying if war did come he could wipe up any blood that was shed with his handkerchief.
http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-1854
I don’t see that quote as mocking Butler’s mechanical speaking ability at all. In context it is possible that that was his intent, but the words themselves indicate nothing except that believed Butler’s view to fundamentally flawed and thus that he could not speak without his words reflecting the error of his beliefs.
Violence by DemocRATS against those with whom they disagree is nothing new.
LOL that could be interesting.
Nothing has changed in the Seditious Party.
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