This is a good demonstration of the way an unjust mind thinks. You, as a southern secessionist supporter, see nothing wrong with a congressman using physical violence on the floor of Congress, and actually goes as far as showing a bloodlust for murder on the floor of Congress. So, if you see nothing wrong with this action, then what could be wrong with slavery?
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.
So Sumner, being a member of Congress, should never have expressed his opinions? Do you also agree with the Paris cartoonist killers?
I'm not on the record as a supporter of secession.
I just know that Sumner was a scumbag, and Robert E. Lee was not a scumbag.