Senator Charles Sumner's The Crime Against Kansas

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Senator Charles Sumner was an anti-slavery republican who presented many intense and full emotion speeches during his life time. When he presented his speech called “The Crime Against Kansas”, he gave the speech against the southerner’s effort to cover slavery into Kansas and attacked senator Andrew Butler in a negative sense, for example, calling him "moron." This especially rankled Preston Brooks, a nearby brother of Butler thus he chose to make a move. He trusted that Sumner went past his breaking points as a congressperson in embarrassing Butler. So, he chose to show Sumner a lesson: He went to Sumner when he was caught up with working, and beat him hardheartedly with a stick over and over until the point when the stick really broke. The