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Wilson's Outburst in Historical and Political Context "In an 1856 Senate debate over slavery, Sen. Preston Smith Brooks used his gold-topped cane to beat the daylights out of abolitionist Charles Sumner."
"Lincoln’s distinguished Cooper Union speech, for example, in which he suggested that disapproval of slavery was inscribed in the Constitution and that the practice should be strictly contained, was hailed by Horace Greeley, the editor in chief of The New-York Tribune, which also distributed copies of the speech: “No man ever before made such an impression on his first appeal to a New-York audience.” But the Democratically aligned New-York Herald described it as “unmitigated trash, interlarded with coarse and clumsy jokes.”
