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100 1  Puleo, Stephen. 
245 14 The caning :|bthe assault that drove America to Civil War 
       /|cStephen Puleo. 
260    Yardley, Pa. :|bWestholme,|c2012. 
300    xvii, 374 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-360) and 
       index. 
520    "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 slave-owners 
       for violence occurring in Kansas, called Stephen A. 
       Douglas of Illinois a "noise-some, squat, and nameless 
       animal," and famously charged Brooks' 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."--|cPublisher's description.
600 10 Sumner, Charles,|d1811-1874. 
600 10 Brooks, Preston S.|q(Preston Smith),|d1819-1857. 
650  0 Assault and battery|zUnited States|xHistory|y19th century.
650  0 Legislators|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Slavery|xPolitical aspects|zUnited States|xHistory|y19th 
       century. 
651  0 United States|xHistory|yCivil War, 1861-1865|xCauses. 
651  0 United States|xPolitics and government|y1849-1861. 
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