Author: David McKitterickPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521308021
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
The second volume of the history of Cambridge University Press covering the 1690s to 1872.
A History of Cambridge University Press: Volume 2, Scholarship and Commerce, 1698-1872
Author: David McKitterickPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521308021
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
The second volume of the history of Cambridge University Press covering the 1690s to 1872.
The American Bookseller
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1110
Book Description
The Index ...
Author: Benjamin Franklin UnderwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Charles Sumner
Author: George Frisbie HoarPublisher: Scholar's Choice
ISBN: 9781298358950
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
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The Caning
Author: Stephen PuleoPublisher: Westholme Pub Llc
ISBN: 9781594161872
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
A Turning Point in American History, the Beating of U.S. Senator Charles Sumner and the Beginning of the War Over Slavery Early in the afternoon of May 22, 1856, ardent pro-slavery Congressman Preston S. Brooks of South Carolina strode into the United States Senate Chamber in Washington, D.C., and began beating renowned anti-slavery Senator Charles Sumner with a gold-topped walking cane. Brooks struck again and again—more than thirty times across Sumner's head, face, and shoulders—until his cane splintered into pieces and the helpless Massachusetts senator, having nearly wrenched his desk from its fixed base, lay unconscious and covered in blood. It was a retaliatory attack. Forty-eight hours earlier, Sumner had concluded a speech on the Senate floor that had spanned two days, during which he vilified Southern slaveowners for violence occurring in Kansas, called Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois a “noise-some, squat, and nameless animal,” and famously charged Brooks's second cousin, South Carolina Senator Andrew Butler, as having “a mistress. . . who ugly to others, is always lovely to him. . . . I mean, the harlot, Slavery.” Brooks not only shattered his cane during the beating, but also destroyed any pretense of civility between North and South. One of the most shocking and provocative events in American history, the caning convinced each side that the gulf between them was unbridgeable and that they could no longer discuss their vast differences of opinion regarding slavery on any reasonable level.The Caning: The Assault That Drove America to Civil War tells the incredible story of this transformative event. While Sumner eventually recovered after a lengthy convalescence, compromise had suffered a mortal blow. Moderate voices were drowned out completely; extremist views accelerated, became intractable, and locked both sides on a tragic collision course. The caning had an enormous impact on the events that followed over the next four years: the meteoric rise of the Republican Party and Abraham Lincoln; the Dred Scott decision; the increasing militancy of abolitionists, notably John Brown's actions; and the secession of the Southern states and the founding of the Confederacy. As a result of the caning, the country was pushed, inexorably and unstoppably, to war. Many factors conspired to cause the Civil War, but it was the caning that made conflict and disunion unavoidable five years later.
The Literary World
Author: Athenaeum
Author: Bulletin of Books in the Various Departments of Literature and Science Added to the Public Library of Cincinnati During the Year...
Author: Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton CountyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acquisitions (Libraries)
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Annual List of Books Added to the Public Library of Cincinnati
Author: Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton CountyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The True Grandeur of Nations
Author: Charles SumnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fourth of July orations
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description