Senate chambers when a large nearly apparitional figure appeared behind him.
Man beaten on senate floor slavery.
And in kansas news of the savage beating on the senate floor arrived by telegraph and inflamed passions even more.
It is believed that firebrand john brown and his supporters were inspired by the beating of sumner to attack pro enslavement settlers.
Charles sumner was sitting at his desk in the u s.
Several users countered this assertion by pointing to an 1856 incident in which the pro slavery u s.
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.
On the afternoon of may 22 1856 massachusetts sen.
Preston brooks beat a senator nearly to death on the floor of the u s.
The speech sumner had given of course had been about kansas.