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Congressional Bullyism. Jun 1856

Congressional Bullyism.

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

All, without regard to political affinities execrate and denounce the assault upon Senator Sumner by Mr. Brooks of South Carolina, as cowardly and unwarrantable.

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A New Era. May 1856

A New Era.

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

Was the like of this ever before published in a newspaper in South Carolina?

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Congress And The Sumner Assault. May 1856

Congress And The Sumner Assault.

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

Let the root of the evil be aimed at, by a prompt and determined "call to order" immediately on the first digression from the proper parliamentary discourse, and we may then escape any more such scenes as disgrace the body and tend to provoke violence.

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Exciting Debate In The Senate -- Senator Sumner Whipped! May 1856

Exciting Debate In The Senate -- Senator Sumner Whipped!

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

It was a speech full of abuse of his brother Senators -- full of the vilest and most dangerous appeals against the domestic institutions of the South, and calculated only to increase the strife between the two sections and lead to disunion and civil war.

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The Assault On Senator Sumner A Pre - Meditated Affair. May 1856

The Assault On Senator Sumner A Pre - Meditated Affair.

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

It seems that the assault upon Senator Sumner, among the Nebraska men, was a pre-meditated affair, and Senator Douglas was doubtless its principal instigator.

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We Mean To Subdue You. May 1856

We Mean To Subdue You.

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

This outrage is of a piece with those in Kansas, with the additional merit of being bolder and having a more distinguished person for its victim.

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Assault In The United States Senate Chamber. May 1856

Assault In The United States Senate Chamber.

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

Sumner's speech, surpassed in blackguardism anything ever delivered in the senate.

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Assault In The United States Senate Chamber. May 1856

Assault In The United States Senate Chamber.

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

Sumner's speech, surpassed in blackguardism anything ever delivered in the senate.

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The Assault In The Senate. May 1856

The Assault In The Senate.

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

It is seldom, perhaps, that a more general feeling of disapprobation has been felt and expressed in regard to a circumstance of the kind, than is called forth on all hands by the outrage and descration commited by the Hon. Mr. Brooks, of S. C., in his recent assault upon Senator Sumner, in the Senate Chamber, on Thursday last.

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Violence In The Senate Chamber. May 1856

Violence In The Senate Chamber.

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

Scarcely a session of Congress passes in which the public ear is not abused with violence of some sort in one or other of the houses of Congress, or among the members elsewhere.

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Messrs. Brooks And Sumner. May 1856

Messrs. Brooks And Sumner.

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

These two gentlemen have all at once become prominent characters and objects of public sympathy in their respective sections of country.

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Passage Of The Nebraska Bill. Sep 1854

Passage Of The Nebraska Bill.

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

The final passage of the Nebraska bill, through the Senate, was publicly announced by the roaring cannon.

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The Clayton Amendment To The Nebraska Bill.-- May 1854

The Clayton Amendment To The Nebraska Bill.--

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

This important amendment, which was omitted by the House of Representatives, reads as follows:

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No Title. May 1854

No Title.

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

The substitute adopted is the Senate (Nebraska) bill, without the Clayton amendment.

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Thos. H. Benton And The Extension Of Slavery.-- May 1854

Thos. H. Benton And The Extension Of Slavery.--

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

To those who, through ignorance or obstinacy, still insist that the passage of the Nebraska bill will extend slavery, we commend the following remarks from the late speech of Col. Benton in Congress:

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The Nebraska Bill. May 1854

The Nebraska Bill.

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

According to a telegraphic dispatch from Washington, which appeared in yesterday's Evening Picayune, the Nebraska bill, divested of the Clayton amendment, passed the House of Representatives, late on Tuesday evening, by a vote of 113 yeas to 100 nays.

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Southern Sentiments And The Nebraska Humbug. May 1854

Southern Sentiments And The Nebraska Humbug.

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

We verily believe that if the struggle on the Nebraska bill could be continued two or three months longer, the real sentiment of the Southern people would become so unmistakably known that most of their representatives would drop the demagoguical abortion as a thing not fit to be touched.

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A Good Deal Of Truth. May 1854

A Good Deal Of Truth.

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

There is a great deal of truth in the following article, which we extract from the New York Tribune, of the 14th inst., and right angry are we at being compelled to admit it.

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No Title. May 1854

No Title.

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

"If a Democratic Member of Congress is led by his judgment and his conscience to vote for the bill, as we hope all Democrats will be led to do, and he returns to his constituents to encounter the clamor of Whigs and Abolitionists, together with disaffected men of his own party, no sensible man who understands and appreciates the character of the Executive, will believe that the President will allow such factious men to wield public patronage to overthrow any man at home who has given to the principles of the bill a cordial and conscientious support."

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The Nebraska And Kansas Bill.-- May 1854

The Nebraska And Kansas Bill.--

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

Our Congressional news of to-day, although it occupies but little space owing to the rule of condensation that invariably prevails in this office, will be found extremely interesting and important.

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Mr. Harris' Speech.-- May 1854

Mr. Harris' Speech.--

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

The Washington correspondent of the New York Express says:

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Senator Douglas -- The Nebraska Bill. Feb 1854

Senator Douglas -- The Nebraska Bill.

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

It is predicted that this report and bill will re-open the slavery agitation, both North and South.

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