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    Preston Brooks

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    But if I had committed a breach of privilege, it was the privilege of the Senate, and not of this House, which was violated. I was answerable there and not here. ↗


    — Preston Brooks

    #breach #committed #had #here #house

    I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account. ↗


    — Preston Brooks

    #calling #countrymen #failed #good #good opinion

    If I desired to kill the senator why did I not do it? You all admit that I had him in my power. ↗


    — Preston Brooks

    #desired #did #had #him #i

    Whatever insults my State insults me. ↗


    — Preston Brooks

    #me #state #whatever






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    Brooks was a fervent advocate of slavery. Brooks was tried in a District of Columbia court for the attack. Family
    First marriage: Caroline Harper Means(1820–1843).

    Sumner was seriously injured and unable to serve in the Senate for three years though eventually he largely recovered. This was in retaliation for an anti-slavery speech by Sumner in which Sumner attacked Brooks' uncle Senator Andrew Butler (Democrat-South Carolina). Brooks was a fervent advocate of slavery.

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