Caning of Senator Sumner, Part Three

Like the Pittsburgh Gazette it celebrated a definition of manhood which called for men to speak only those words they were willing to defend even to the point of fighting. Its implication that abolitionists had a "womanly" lack of courage was a sentiment widely shared in the South and another contributing factor in the movement to war. [H3]The Right View of the Subject. Charleston, South ... ................
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