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WOW. Thank you @ztameez.bsky.social and @jamellebouie.net for introducing me to one of history’s most righteous haters, Charles Sumner.

Is Summer why there are decorum rules in the Senate? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/o...
as "rape of a virgin territory." Then he starts to single out his colleagues. He describes David Atchison as a Roman traitor. He compares President Franklin Pierce to a Roman dictator. He basically calls Stephen Douglas Lucifer incarnate. And then he targets Senator Andrew Pickens Butler of South Carolina. Butler is a slaveholder. Butler also has a speech impediment because he was recovering from a stroke. Sumner makes fun of his speech impediment, makes fun of Butler's hair, makes fun of Butler's home state by saying the state of South Carolina could be blotted out of existence and civilization would look the same. And then he targets Butler by saying that Butler had a mistress, pure in his sight but ugly in the sight of the world: "the harlot, Slavery." What Sumner is doing is he's pointing out the reality that Southern slaveholders were often engaging in rape. I found evidence that's not been reported in any previous Sumner biography that one of Butler's former slaves was interviewed in the 1930s, many decades later, and that enslaved person, now free, recalled that Butler did, in fact, have a - quote, unquote - mistress and sired two children by her. So Sumner is telling the world about Butler's activities as he's pointing out this antidemocratic, treasonous activity in Kansas. The Senate is appalled by this speech. One senator said that Butler should come back and basically beat the crap out of Sumner. A congressman said that Sumner should be hanged.
July 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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I'm looking forward to this free Salem Band concert! I love their outdoor concerts in the summer in Salem Square, too, but this will be a welcome break from the winter blahs. Join me! (salemband.org)
February 12, 2025 at 11:34 PM