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To: epicure who wrote (764)	1/12/2001 4:52:13 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (1) of 82486

Subject 50512 and furthermore... May 1856: Rep. Preston S. Brooks, a State Rights Democrat from South Carolina, used a heavy cane in an attack on Sen. Charles Sumner, R-Mass., in the Senate Chamber. Sumner was beaten unconscious and was not able to resume his Senate duties for more than three years. Brooks resigned from his seat but was re-elected. April 1850: During a debate on the Compromise of 1850, Sen. Henry S. Foote, a Unionist from Mississippi and supporter of the compromise, drew a pistol on Sen. Thomas Hart Benton, D-Mo. and a compromise opponent. Other senators intervened before Foote could fire.

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