I love this story......
“Preston Brooks, a Southern congressman, beat Senator Charles Sumner with his cane until Sumner was bloody and unconscious. Sumner, an abolitionist from Massachusetts, had made a speech a few days before where he criticized Brooks’s uncle, who was also a southern senator. The public responds by sending hundreds of canes to Brooks.”
The public sent hundreds of shovels to a remote dirt road along a creek in the Middle-of-Nowhere IDAHO...
...and FR helped!!!