Martin Antonenko
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Bloody Confrontation Over Slavery in US Senate
The question of the possible introduction of slavery has been disputed in the US Territory of Kansas since 1855.
After a short time, political arguments are no longer exchanged, but powder and lead!
Opponents and advocates of slavery engage in a regular civil war, in which several massacres of supporters of the other side are carried out and even entire cities are burned down, as here Lawrence in 1856 ...:
While the city was on fire, a massacre was perpetrated on residents of this anti-slave stronghold ...:
The city became a target for advocates of slavery as there were only three newspapers in the entire Kansas Territory and two of them - both of which were anti-slavery! - were made in Lawrence.
The leader of the Murder Burners was, of all people, a law enforcement officer, namely the slavery advocate Sheriff Samuel Jones ...:
In revenge for the attack on Lawrence, the well-known anti-slavery opponent John Brown...
... who defended Lawrence against Sheriff Jones' attack, perpetrated the so-called "Pottawatomie Massacre" in May 1856, in which he and his sons murdered five completely uninvolved men ...:
The clashes in Kansas were a merciless guerrilla war and the names of the irregular militias on both sides have gone down in US history: The "Jayhawkers" fought against the introduction of slavery, the "Bushwhackers" for them!
"Jayhawk" ("moteley bird ") was used both as a positively ironic self-designation by the guerrillas and as a derogatory foreign designation by the war opponent.
The leader of the "Jayhawkers" was US Senator James H. Lane ...:
The "Jayhawkers" joined the Northern States almost entirely during the Civil War! The 7th Kansas Regiment consisted entirely of them and was commonly called "Jennisons Jayhawkers" ...:
The designation of the pro-slavery fighters as "Bushwhackers" is much more direct and means something like "bush thieves" ...:
Their informal leader was John Singleton Mosby, who continued his vigilance during the Civil War as a Colonel on the Confederate side ...:
Many former Bushwhackers followed suit - a large number of them served in General Pickett's division ...:
There were many dead and later many historians described the shootings as "the first skirmishes of the civil war" which - officially - did not begin until April 12, 1861 with the bombardment of Fort Sumter ...
The Kansas conflict also reached the US Senate in Washington in 1856:
On May 22, 1856, Charles Sumner, the Senator from Massachusetts (Forbidden Slavery) ...
... gives a committed speech against the introduction of slavery in Kansas and denounces the prevailing conditions there.
South Carolina Senator (Slavery Allowed) Preston Brooks pounces on him ...
... and brutally beats him up in front of everyone in front of the speaker's gallery ...:
One part of the senators is grinning, the other part is paralyzed with horror - but nobody intervenes!
Even when Sumner stops moving, Brooks hits his victim with his walking stick at least 30 times on the head - until the stick breaks in two!
When the thug finally lets go of him, Senator Sumner is badly injured and - literally - half dead!
While his victim is slowly recovering in the hospital after an emergency operation, Brooks receives hundreds of letters from slavery advocates - most of them always contain the same sentence:
"Hit him again!"
The question of the possible introduction of slavery has been disputed in the US Territory of Kansas since 1855.
After a short time, political arguments are no longer exchanged, but powder and lead!
Opponents and advocates of slavery engage in a regular civil war, in which several massacres of supporters of the other side are carried out and even entire cities are burned down, as here Lawrence in 1856 ...:
While the city was on fire, a massacre was perpetrated on residents of this anti-slave stronghold ...:
The city became a target for advocates of slavery as there were only three newspapers in the entire Kansas Territory and two of them - both of which were anti-slavery! - were made in Lawrence.
The leader of the Murder Burners was, of all people, a law enforcement officer, namely the slavery advocate Sheriff Samuel Jones ...:
In revenge for the attack on Lawrence, the well-known anti-slavery opponent John Brown...
... who defended Lawrence against Sheriff Jones' attack, perpetrated the so-called "Pottawatomie Massacre" in May 1856, in which he and his sons murdered five completely uninvolved men ...:
The clashes in Kansas were a merciless guerrilla war and the names of the irregular militias on both sides have gone down in US history: The "Jayhawkers" fought against the introduction of slavery, the "Bushwhackers" for them!
"Jayhawk" ("moteley bird ") was used both as a positively ironic self-designation by the guerrillas and as a derogatory foreign designation by the war opponent.
The leader of the "Jayhawkers" was US Senator James H. Lane ...:
The "Jayhawkers" joined the Northern States almost entirely during the Civil War! The 7th Kansas Regiment consisted entirely of them and was commonly called "Jennisons Jayhawkers" ...:
The designation of the pro-slavery fighters as "Bushwhackers" is much more direct and means something like "bush thieves" ...:
Their informal leader was John Singleton Mosby, who continued his vigilance during the Civil War as a Colonel on the Confederate side ...:
Many former Bushwhackers followed suit - a large number of them served in General Pickett's division ...:
There were many dead and later many historians described the shootings as "the first skirmishes of the civil war" which - officially - did not begin until April 12, 1861 with the bombardment of Fort Sumter ...
The Kansas conflict also reached the US Senate in Washington in 1856:
On May 22, 1856, Charles Sumner, the Senator from Massachusetts (Forbidden Slavery) ...
... gives a committed speech against the introduction of slavery in Kansas and denounces the prevailing conditions there.
South Carolina Senator (Slavery Allowed) Preston Brooks pounces on him ...
... and brutally beats him up in front of everyone in front of the speaker's gallery ...:
One part of the senators is grinning, the other part is paralyzed with horror - but nobody intervenes!
Even when Sumner stops moving, Brooks hits his victim with his walking stick at least 30 times on the head - until the stick breaks in two!
When the thug finally lets go of him, Senator Sumner is badly injured and - literally - half dead!
While his victim is slowly recovering in the hospital after an emergency operation, Brooks receives hundreds of letters from slavery advocates - most of them always contain the same sentence:
"Hit him again!"