CSPAN3 Violence In Congress February 17, 2023
so, lori, can we bring you on to talk about what you have with us today? so i am joining you here today from the council chamber at the old state house to share with you what our treasures from the revolutionary spaces collection. and this item is a cane, which is described as the cane with which represent it of preston esperance assaulted charles sumner on may 22nd. 1856. so this cane played a key part in one of the most violent events in american congressional history. so to give you a little background on may 19th and 20th of 1856, charles sumner, who was a united states senator f...