[Tired of Taxes]

You wrote: "Charles Sumner *DESERVED* that beating. He was a very nasty man that said unforgiveable things about an elder senator, and it was his nephew, Preston Brooks who beat the sh*t out of Sumner."

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So, you think he deserved a beatdown because he said something that offended someone?

[DiogenesLamp]

So, you think he deserved a beatdown because he said something that offended someone?

For what he said, yes. Insinuating that an elderly member of the senate is having sex with his own slaves, at an assembly in front of Congress, definitely deserves a good beating.

And at a time when miscegenation was not only illegal, but considered repugnant and immoral, doubly so.