@article{347465,
      recid = {347465},
      author = {Hoffer, Williamjames.},
      title = {The caning of Charles Sumner : honor, idealism, and the  origins of the Civil War /},
      publisher = {Johns Hopkins University Press,},
      address = {Baltimore, Md. :},
      pages = {152 p. :},
      year = {2010},
      abstract = {Charles Sumner was seated at his Senate desk on May 22,  1856, when Democratic Congressman Preston S. Brooks  approached, pulled out a walking stick, and struck him on  the head. Brooks continued to beat the stunned Sumner,  forcing him to the ground and repeatedly striking him even  as the cane shattered. He then pursued the bloodied,  staggering Republican senator up the Senate aisle until  Sumner collapsed. Colleagues of the two intervened only  after Brooks appeared intent on beating the unconscious  Sumner, perhaps, to death. The caning on the Senate floor  embodied just how wide the complex North-South cultural  divide of the mid-nineteenth had become, and explains why  the coming war was so difficult to avoid.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/347465},
}