Beating of Charles Summer

beats Charles Summer on the floor with a cane
very disliked in the Senate
"The Crime against Kanas" his speech
Brooks was the best liked in the Senate
called for a duel
May 22, 1856
Serious damage to his brain and had to leave the Senate and go to England for very expansive health care
Bully Brooks
first blows of the Civil War

Charles Summer was a senator who gave a speech called "The Crime against Kansas" which infuriated Brooks who took his cane and started to beat Summer with it causing brain damage and other injuries to Summer. Brooks became known as Bully Brooks and some historians believe this to be the first blows of the Civil War.

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