Wasn’t Calhoun the one the assaulted a fellow congressman on the floor. Typical southern behavior, resort to physical attack rather than due diligence. See Fort Sumter and all the federal depots for reference.
No, Massachusetts Senator & arch-scumbag Charles Sumner got his just desserts from Representative Preston Brooks, who unfortunately didn't finish the job, leaving Sumner alive to slime Robert E. Lee after Lee passed away.
Of course, Charles Francis Adams Jr. repudiated the behavior of his fellow Massachusetts politician in the address that is the subject of this thread.
It should be noted that Adams fought in the Civil War, as a Union colonel, and that Sumner fought by sliming with his mouth.
You may be thinking of Preston Brooks who tried to kill Charles Sumner on the floor of the senate.