Quote of the year , already

[Plane]

I did a lot of websearch and learned that the figures are being played with quite a bit.

What catagory you choose to leave in or out , what date you start or stop, makes a real diffrence.


I think I shall choose to be more cauthious than to invest complete trust in any party made up of human beings.

[Plane]

Source! And if you go back before her were Repubs, it doesnt count. That was a looooong time ago.

Would you accept an incident from when Republicans were new?

http://www.sdreader.com/php/ma_show.php?id=60

How many fights have there been on the floor of Congress?




Charles Sumner was a U.S. senator from Massachusetts (1851-74) who played a prominent role in the U.S. Civil War era, an avid abolitionist who refused compromise on the issue of equal rights for blacks. In 1855 Sumner read an intemperate speech, "The Crime Against Kansas," in which he condemned his opponents, including South Carolina's Senator Andrew P. Butler. Two days later Preston Brooks, Butler's nephew and a congressman from South Carolina, entered the senate chamber and beat Sumner unconscious with a cane. Brooks was a hero to his constituency and was re-elected; Sumner, who took three years to recover from the beating, was a martyr to his constituency and was re-elected. Sumner was one of the most powerful members of the Radical Republicans, whose insistence on immediate equal rights for blacks (and punitive measures against slaveowners) caused him to clash with presidents Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson and Ulysses Grant.

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The conflict in Kansas also spilled into the halls of the United States Senate in 1856. In a speech on the subject of slavery in the territory entitled, “The Kansas Question,” Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner took issue with proslavery senators from South Carolina and Illinois “who have raised themselves to eminence on this floor in championship of human wrongs,” (page 5).
   
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from The Kansas Question. 


Arguments of the Chivalry,
from American Treasures of the Library of Congress   Sumner repeatedly insulted Senator A.P. Butler of South Carolina in his speech, describing him as someone who “touches nothing which he does not disfigure—with error, sometimes of principle, sometimes of fact” (page 29). Two days later, Butler’s cousin, South Carolina Representative Preston Brooks, clubbed Senator Sumner over the head with a cane in the Senate chambers and injured him so severley that Sumner did not return to the Senate for two and a half years.