On may 19 massachusetts senator charles sumner an ardent abolitionist began a two day speech on the senate floor in which he decried the crime against kansas and blasted three of his.
Man beaten on senate floor slavery.
Charles sumner was sitting at his desk in the u s.
Senate chambers when a large nearly apparitional figure appeared behind him.
On the afternoon of may 22 1856 massachusetts sen.
Several users countered this assertion by pointing to an 1856 incident in which the pro slavery u s.
And in kansas news of the savage beating on the senate floor arrived by telegraph and inflamed passions even more.
On this day in 1856 sen.
The speech sumner had given of course had been about kansas.
Charles sumner r mass a fierce foe of slavery suffered major injuries when he was assaulted on the senate floor by rep.