@YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish • edit-21 year agoMegapost: U.S. Speaker of the House Sagalemmy.worldimagemessage-square181fedilinkarrow-up1327arrow-down19file-text
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minus-square@SCB@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink9•edit-21 year ago Wow what a change from the early days of respect The Caning of Charles Sumner was 13 years before this https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/The_Caning_of_Senator_Charles_Sumner.htm#:~:text=On May 22%2C 1856%2C the,beat a senator into unconsciousness.
minus-square@Krauerking@lemy.lollinkfedilink4•1 year agoLoL what a wild read. But yeah they really beat the shit out of each other occasionally back then but that still seems an outlier and like there was a whole civil war I wouldn’t exactly say showed the best respect for other humans
The Caning of Charles Sumner was 13 years before this
https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/The_Caning_of_Senator_Charles_Sumner.htm#:~:text=On May 22%2C 1856%2C the,beat a senator into unconsciousness.
LoL what a wild read. But yeah they really beat the shit out of each other occasionally back then but that still seems an outlier and like there was a whole civil war I wouldn’t exactly say showed the best respect for other humans