Waleed Shahid

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Southern Democrats applauded Brooks and some threatened Sumner with an even "worse thrashing" if he kept up his rhetoric. The Richmond Enquirer, a leading Southern newspaper, described the assault as "good in conception, better in execution, and best of all in consequences." https://t.co/vMGSXgaKn4 — PolitiTweet.org

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In 1856, Congressman Brooks of South Carolina, bashed abolitionist Senator Sumner in the head with a cane after he delivered a speech stating the expansion of slavery was a "crime." After the attack, members of Congress began arming themselves before venturing onto the floor. https://t.co/bQqWZW8LPc — PolitiTweet.org

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In his home state of South Carolina, Brooks frequently received wooden canes as gifts from admiring white supremacists in the South's pro-slavery Democratic Party. — PolitiTweet.org

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