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Bleeding Kansas: When a Senator Was Beaten Nearly to Death on the Senate Floor
In 1856, a pro-slavery congressman walked onto the Senate floor and beat an abolitionist senator unconscious with a metal-tipped cane. The South sent the attacker hundreds of replacement canes.