Cartoon of Brooks and Sumner

A political resume portrays a cosmos lashing another man with a take to task. The man on the primer has a quill drop a line in one hand, and a speech in the other. The man with the cane is voice Preston put forwards, from mho Carolina. The man being shell was Charles Sumner, and the speech in his men was, Crimes Against Kansas. In the background of the cartoon, it shows spectators watching, just about with smiles on their faces, and others frowning.\nThe man with the cane, Preston tolerate, was born(p)(p) on August 5, 1819. He was a Democratic re fall inative from in the south Carolina. digest was actually pro- bondage. He believed that white people, enslaving black people, was right and proper. He alike believed that anyone who attacked, or tried to pose restriction on slavery, was attack him, and the social structure of the south.\nDuring Brooks time as a representative, there was large(p) controversy over slavery in Kansas, which was still a territory at the tim e. The get by was over weather Kansas be a free state, or a slave state. tolerate Stated, The fate of the south is to be decided with the Kansas issue. If Kansas lasts a purchasable state, slave property go forth decline to half its present value and abolitionism will become the prevailing sentiment. This was why he felt so powerfully about Sumners speech, Crimes Against Kansas.\n passim his life, Brooks displayed a ferocious episodes. Brooks attended South Carolina College, now known as the University of South Carolina. A a few(prenominal) weeks before graduating, Brooks imperil local police officers with firearms, and was expelled. some other violent episode that occurred was when Brooks fought Louis T. Wigfall in a duel. During this duel, Brooks was shot in the hip, which forced him to use a cane for the rest of his life.\nThe man on the ground, in the political cartoon, was Charles Sumner. Sumner was born January 6, 1811. He was an academic attorney and orator. Charle s was a senator in Massachusetts, and the leade...