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May 1856: Southern Reaction to Conflict in Kansas and Congress
… of civil war in Kansas and the caning of Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts. I researched two newspapers from the upper South state of Virginia, the Richmond Enquirer and the Richmond Daily Whig, and two newspapers from the lower South state of Louisiana, the New Orleans Times-Picayune and …
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"The Indignation of Freedom-Loving People": Emotion, Politics, and the Brooks-Sumner Affair
… the northern reaction to the May 1856 caning of Charles Sumner. The study begins by situating indignation in its nineteenth-century cultural context. A respectable type of anger, indignation was deeply tied to sympathy and to moral judgment. Antebellum Americans valued indignation as a social …
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The New England Emigrant Aid Company and the response in Massachusetts to its goals and efforts to create a free Kansas, 1854-1856
… Kansas," and especially after the beating of Charles Sumner. However, Eli Thayer remained the only active politician within the Company's organization. The most vigorous and nearly unanimous support of the Company's goals and efforts was secured from the editors of the Republican, Whig, and …