"Radical Northern politicians had a penchant for insulting others as well as cowardice when they were challenged, and feigning injury in order to win reelection. Charles Sumner’s injuries from Preston Brook’s gutta-percha cane were slight according to his Capitol physician, though Sumner’s condition abruptly became life-threatening when an opponent appeared and he needed an edge. Never once initiating a peaceful solution to African slavery in the US, these abolitionists seemed blind to the fact that their own ancestors populated the American South with the object of their sympathy, and that New England’s slave trade should have rightly received their derision"
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