Status Updates From Charles Sumner and The Comi...

"To thoughtful observers it was apparent that something dangerous was happening to the American Union when the two sections no longer spoke the same language, but employed rival sets of cliches to describe the Brooks-Sumner affair."
The year 1856 on line one for 2023.

“ 'Were the whole history of South Carolina blotted out of existence, from its very beginning down to the day of the last election of the Senator to his
present seat on this floor, civilization might lose—I do not say how little, but surely less than it has already gained by the example of Kansas, in its valiant struggle against oppression'"
Damn...not saying it's right Butler caned Sumner but I also kinda get it

"If it was argued that the rights of slaveholders had been settled by numerous laws and precedents, Sumner answered; 'Nothing.. .can be settled which is not right'. If it was argued that insuperable practical difficulties forbade emancipation, he replied simply; 'The Antislavery Enterprise is right; and the right is always practicable'."
The right is always practicable. Wise words no matter the time or place